Galatians 5:1-15 - "Stand Firm" - Brent Stephens / December 1, 2024

What does it look like to live in the freedom of the gospel? Galatians 5 answers that question for us. Paul begins chapter 5 with a powerful truth: “Christ has set us free,” followed by an urgent appeal: “stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery” (v. 1). In continuing his defense of the gospel, Paul emphasizes that if the church in Galatia insists on adding circumcision as a necessary requirement for justification before God, then the work of Christ will be of no advantage to them. They will be falling back into slavery, back into legalism. Walking in freedom means resting in the finished work of Christ and loving others well as a result.