Hello, I'm Michael Barber, and this is my dear friend, Jim Prothro, and we're both professors here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School.

We also have a passion for studying St. Paul. Dr. Prothrow has completed a new book on Paul that will be available very soon. It'll be a wonderful introduction to Paul's letters. He also has an in-depth study of Paul's use of the

terminology of justification. It's a very important book. It gets cited by scholars all the time.

And I've written some on Paul myself. And so we're really grateful to be with you here today

to talk about Paul's letter to the Galatians. And we're going to pick

up in this Bible study in chapter 3, verse 19, Paul says, why then the law? It was added because of

transgressions until the offspring should come to whom the promise had been made

and it was put in place through angels by an intermediary. Now, an intermediary implies more than one,

but God is one. Now, Dr. Protho, we've been looking here at the way Paul is addressing the concerns of those who

believe they need to be circumcised in order to receive the grace of salvation, in order to receive

the grace of Christ, to be fully united to Christ. And so you have these Gentiles, these non-Christian believers in Galicia,

who are being led into observances of the Torah, of the law of Moses, especially circumcision.

And so Paul is addressing here a question that many people would have raised. Well,

okay, Paul, then why did God give us the law in the first place? Right? I mean, why did God

give us the law? And let's unpack some of his answer here. What is Paul saying?

Well, if I could if I could even back up a tiny bit, just maybe one way

to frame this, if you ever had a conversation with somebody who also believes that the Bible

is like the Word of God, but they read it completely differently than you do, right?

Paul is engaging in something kind of like that here, right? So you've got Christians in Galatia

who, you know, have come in, they've received the Holy Spirit, right? They've received life in Jesus Christ and righteousness by believing the gospel that Paul preached in by living in Christ.

But people are coming around and say, well, hey, look,

this is this book in the Bible. That's God's word, just like that gospel is. And it says you have

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