Welcome to a year in the Bible with daily grace. My name is Kristen and my name is Katie and we want to spend a few minutes a day with you walking through the New Testament one chapter at a time.

This year we will fix our gaze upon Christ so that we may know

him not only with our minds but with our hearts. Together we will learn that

who Jesus is changes everything. Hello friends welcome back to a year in the Bible with daily grace.

My name is Katie and it is my joy to walk through Galatians with you in our year long

study of the New Testament. Today we are studying Galatians with you in our year-long study of the New Testament. Today we are studying

Galatians 5 and as always you can follow along with the behold studies in the Daily Grace

Co shop or with the reading plan linked in the show notes.

Paul begins this chapter with great news.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.

This is the sentence that serves as a transition sentence. It bridges the gap between Paul's

description of how we are freed in Christ, by grace through faith, in chapters

one through four, to what it looks like to live in light of our freedom in chapters 5 and 6.

Under the law we were attempting to pay off a debt we could never afford on our own.

Our sin is a costly grievance against God, but Christ has paid our debt. He has freed us,

cancelled the debt we owed and adopted us as sons and daughters, co-ears of his kingdom. To Paul, the Judaism's message

belittles the value of Christ's work on the cross, as if it were not enough for

salvation. It is choosing to be burdened again by the yoke of slavery, as Paul says in verse

one. To be justified by our own efforts to obey the law rather than Christ-free gift.

That is why Paul says that if the Galatian choose to be

circumcised, they are obliged to follow the whole law. They are making themselves

as slaves to it. It is their master. Instead, we can take on the yoke of Christ which Jesus

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