In a set of one of the famous composers that he had a rebellious son, who used to come in late at night after his father and mother had just, you know, gone to bed.

But before going to his room, he'd always go down to the piano in the living room of their big, you know, home there in Europe.

And the son would go and sit down at the piano and just play very slowly and loudly the C major scale.

He would just bong, dong, dong, dong, down, really loud, but he would play all the way up and

then all the way down, but he'd leave the last note undone. And then he'd get up and go to bed,

and the father would hear this, the composer, and he would sit there and writhe in bed, just frustrated knowing that that note had been unplayed.

And it drove him so angry, he'd put on his house shoes and his robe and go down the stairs and play the last note.

And the son just got a kick out of that. His rebellious

son liked getting his dad out of bed. And it really is the epitome of frustration. Well, Paul's going to

use this idea of frustrate and something that he doesn't want to do. Paul doesn't want to frustrate

something. And it's something that I hope you and I would learn today from Paul to say, well, man, I sure don't want to do. Paul doesn't want to frustrate something, and it's something that I hope you and I would

learn today from Paul to say, well, man, I sure don't want to frustrate this either. Because frustrating

this topic that Paul's on is going to be a problem, and it starts here in Galatians chapter 2,

right in verse 21. Let's take a look at our text.

We'll look at the whole chapter on Wednesday night, but verse 21 says,

I do not frustrate the grace of God.

For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

If you remember Paul's on an argument with the Galatian church that we began last week,

and that is that the church, he was so amazed and marveled last week,

that the church was so soon removed from the good news of the gospel of grace.

And they left it for another gospel, which wasn't a gospel, but it was a contorted, tweaked out,

you know, perverted gospel. And we talked about how that's a problem today. We have a lot of

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