2020 10 09 Law Versus Faith, Fri Of 27th Week In OT
Rev. Paul A. Hottinger
The power of grace and faith is the basic power that renews us and transforms us into being more like Christ. The Law in itself is impossible to live out in its total details without some higher power we would call grace or even faith. So Jesus, Paul is saying, submitted to a curse in order to open up salvation to more than the Jews, to the Gentiles, to the people heretofore unaffiliated with the call of God. We can let the Spirit live out the Law within us in the Spirit’s own power. St. Paul is urging the Galatians to understand and appreciate so they will leave behind the life that they have known and embrace the life God has intended for them.