Not only is Jesus necessary, but He is enough! Our previous paragraph walks us into our present passage. Jesus frees us from enslavement. He saves us from sin and death and for joy and glory.

You can make the choice but you cannot change the outcome. Jesus frees His people from all things that enslave. Now, His people are to stand fast and hold firm to Him. Anything else or anyone else leads to spiritual slavery and soul destroying bondage.

Despite all Paul has said, they still are turning back to their idolatrous ways.

In chapter 3, Paul explains to the Galatians that righteousness   is not a matter of following the Law, and it never was. Righteousness has always been about faith   in God and His Promises. Paul now   expands on his point with an Illustration of God’s “Big Picture” plan of   Redemption… Adoption into His Kingdom.

In the doctrine of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone we become the very children of God. As such we are the heirs according to promise.

Context matter [1:10-24; 2:1-10, 11-14; 3:1-6]

Paul is most definitely speaking to the Church, to Christians. The aspect of justification referenced is NOT just the front end, but the middle part as well.

No one can be justified by the works of the Law. Our justification is only by faith in the faithfulness of Christ Jesus. The entire LAW finds its   fulfillment in Jesus. He does for us what we could never ever do for ourselves.

Paul’s Autobiographical Defense: The Divine Origin of Paul’s Gospel is proven by His confrontation with Peter. Hypocrisy manifested in partiality destroys the integrity of the gospel. When we forsake the unconditional acceptance of God and live under the conditional acceptance of law we are being hypocrites.

Of all that can be said, there is only one thing that must be said. The Gospel must be preserved.

Paul’s conversion was the single greatest support for the divine origin of the message he preached.