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Free in Christ: The Message of Galatians is unavailable, but you can change that!

Paul’s epistle to the Galatians can be summarized by one simple question: What is the gospel? What is the real gospel, as opposed to false gospels, or (to use Paul's own terminology) perverted gospels? One recent commentator has written, “Historically, Galatians has been foundation for many forms of Christian doctrine, proclamation, and practice. And it remains true today to say that how one...

Does this mean that the believer is free to murder, commit adultery, steal and so on? Of course not. ‘How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?’ (Rom. 6:2). The believer in Christ will avoid sin, but he will do so, not out of submission to the old covenant, but because he has died and risen again with Christ (Rom. 6:3–7). Christ died, says Paul, ‘that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who … walk … according to the Spirit’ (Rom. 8:4). Walking according to the
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