In this week's passage from Galatians, the Apostle Paul moves from defense of the true gospel to application of that gospel.  He argues that the freedom from condemnation and fear that Jesus gives necessarily leads those who come to faith in Christ to live lives of free obedience to God.  

“The great paradox of the Bible is that the commands of God make spacious places of our lives. They don’t limit our freedom so much as they make true freedom really possible.”—Jen Pollock Michel

“Freedom is not being turned free to be whatever we want (i.e., egocentrism); nor is it some kind of "self-discovery" or "self-authentication" (that, too, is egocentrism); rather, it is being incorporated into the life of God, which he mediates to us through Christ and allows us to enjoy in the Spirit.”—Scot McKnight

“The gospel therefore neither leads us to live a guilty life (since God has lovingly accepted us), nor an unholy life (since the God who has accepted us is perfectly holy). To forget the first is to … lose our freedom; to forget the second is to… abuse our freedom. Both mean we lose grasp of the gospel.”- Tim Keller

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