Re:Verse passage – Galatians 4:21-31 (day three)
“Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law?”
Paul’s question here presupposes a crucial point: it is not the law that is the enemy of the gospel, but rather an abuse of the law. The law is the word of God. It proceeds from the mouth of God. It is altogether lovely. It is God’s revelation to human beings. But what is the law’s rightful function? It takes us to Christ who fulfills it. There is then nothing left for the law to do because Christ has done all that the law requires —and he is the only one who could do so. The law’s magnificence and brilliance now emanate from its wonderful accomplishment of having heralded the Christ. To declare that it has any other purpose is to misread it. Its work is done.
I was under the impression that the law was the 10 commandments and that there is no life in the law.
For we walk by faith and not by sight