In Scripture God made it clear that the old covenant he made with the Jews would one day be over and a new covenant would replace it (Jer. 31:31-34; Ezek. 36:26-27; Gal. 3:24a, 25). Instead of people maintaining their relationship to God through a variety of practices (circumcision, law, diet), they would do that through Christ alone! This new covenant was enacted through his death and resurrection, which brought an end to all these practices. And while that seems so obvious to you and I, leaving those old practices behind for Jewish Christians was not easy at all. In Gal. 2:15-21, Paul reminds Peter what happens when anyone believes into Jesus: they are accepted or approved (justified) by God; they enter into a new relationship with God! What, then, are we to do to maintain this relationship? Simply keep a daily walk in Christ, even if it means that some think that we are “sinning.” But what we shouldn’t do is rebuild the very things that God tore down through Christ’s death and resurrection, that separate people from one another.