God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child. . . .

ACCEPT YOUR

UPGRADE

Consequences of Performance-Based Faith:

• Increases alienation

• Breeds hypocrisy

• Confuses new believers

• Disillusions outsiders

• Devalues the Sacrifice of Christ

You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? . . .

Galatians 3:1

I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard?

Galatians 3:2

Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?

Galatians 3:3

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”

Galatians 3:10

Why, then, was the law given at all?

Galatians 3:19

[T]he law was our guardian until Christ came. . . .

Galatians 3:24

Paidagōgós:

a legally appointed servant authorized to train, discipline, chastise, instruct, protect and supervise a child twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week

[P]edagogues are guards . . . they are keepers . . . they are a fortified wall . . . [They are a] protective wall . . . and a prison . . . .

Libanius

[T]he law was our guardian until Christ came that we might be justified by faith. Now that this faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

Galatians 3:24-25

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Matthew 5:17-18

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. . . .

Galatians 3:13-14