Welcome to Chapel City Church! We are so glad that you’ve joined us for worship this morning. We would love to know how we can be in prayer for you and your family. Please take the time to update one of the connection cards in your bulletin, and drop it off in the offering box or hand it to an usher. After a brief break for Good Friday and Easter, we are back in the book of Galatians. As we come to the end of chapter 3, Paul is anticipating some of the questions that he might get from his readers and even his opponents there in the Galatian churches. He has called on them to abandon their efforts to earn righteousness through obedience to the law. He has made it clear that they can only find salvation through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. But then, what is the point of the law in the first place? God gave his people the law, so it must have a good and necessary purpose. But if it isn’t to save people, then what is it? Paul closes chapter three by outlining the limitations of the law, and then contrasting them with the freedom that comes through faith.
But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.
Galatians 3:23-24
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