And welcome back to our Bible study on Galatians. I'm Michael Barber. This is my dear friend,

Jim Prothrow. We're both professors here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School. And we share

affinity for St. Paul. Dr. Prother has a great book coming out that introduces Paul's letters.

I've co-written a book with Brant Petrie

is also a professor here and John Kincaid on Paul. And so we spend a lot of time thinking

about Paul, sharing each other's books that study Paul. So it's really great to just have an opportunity to sit with you and work through Galatians.

Now, when we left off, Paul was talking about how he does not nullify the grace of God.

For if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

And so then he goes on to say in chapter three,

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was

publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this. Did you receive the spirit by works of the law or by hearing

with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun with the spirit, are you now being perfected by the

flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain? If indeed it was in vain. Does he who supplies the spirit to you and works

miracles among you do so by works of the law or by hearing with faith? All right. So what's,

what's Paul getting out here? Why does Paul say, it was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

How does that fit what Paul's talking about here?

Yeah. So all of a sudden we've jumped from Paul talking about his interaction with Peter at Antioch, right?

He says, look, we're Jews, right? Not Gentile sinners,

but even we knew that we're not justified just by being circumcised, by works of the law.

So even we put our faith in Jesus, right? We knew that God's mercy and love and his life within us,

right, to justify us and give us the Holy Spirit,

we know that that comes through Jesus.

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