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Thanks for listening. Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Hello, friends. Welcome back to

today's episode of Everyday Truth. We are in Galatians

three talking about the Old Testament law, and it's incredible purpose. The law of God is good.

I love how the Apostle Paul explained that to Timothy in 1st Timothy chapter 1. We know that the law is good and

holy and just if a man use it lawfully. In other words, understanding that the law of God,

the Old Testament law, is a very beneficial thing if we are correctly applying its purpose. But the law can be a very detrimental

thing when it's being used for the wrong purpose. And that's what was happening with the

Judaizers. And those false teachers in Ephesus in 1st Timothy chapter 1, they were not

using the law for its intended purpose. They were making it a

standard of acceptance with God. They were actually taking the purpose of the law and turning it

upside down because the law was never made as an achievable standard whereby you and I can gain acceptance and righteousness with

God. No, that's a man-made righteousness that will never be achieved. Only Christ fulfilled the law.

And it's because of Christ and his identification with us that we can receive his righteousness as a gift

when we come to him by faith. So really important that we understand these differences.

Look at verse 21. We'll jump right into the passage that we left off yesterday, where Paul again asks a question that would be a

natural question from an objector, somebody that he's trying to teach this to, that's steeped in

religiosity, that steeped in Judaism, maybe one of the spokespeople for the Judaizers.

So then, so what's the purpose of the law then?

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