To turn back to the law and try to earn what Christ has already given mocks his sacrifice. Paul’s command to the Galatians who wanted to return to legalism was to keep on standing firm in their God-given, blood-purchased freedom, refusing to submit again to a yoke of slavery to the law (see 1 Peter 5:9). The Jews of Paul’s day spoke of “taking the yoke of the law upon oneself”; to them this was a noble effort, the essence of their religion. Undoubtedly the Judaizers had used this sort of language