The work of Christ is not to patch up our old try our best life, but to gift us with a perfect life His life. We cannot mix our performance with Christ’s and think that “I will do my best and Christ will do the rest”. ![]() ![]() In both cases the incompatibility of the Old with the New will lead to damage. Jesus declared this truth in Luke 5:36-39, when He warned that it is not possible to patch a new piece of cloth unto an old garment, nor put new wine in an old wineskin. The liberty we are to stand fast in, is liberty from the oppression of the Old Covenant.Įven a little of the Old mixed in with the New, results in the liberty of the New being stolen from us, which is why Paul warns in v9 “ A little leaven, leavens the whole lump”. We must resist every temptation to be drawn back into self-effort. The fact that Paul gives this instruction, shows that our freedom in Christ will be challenged and one of the enemy’s greatest weapons is legalism. “Stand fast” is an expression of the Greek word “steko.” (“to hold one’s ground”). To understand this more fully, please go to We are blessed not because of our natural pedigree, or our performance, but simply by our Position in Christ. God’s people are blessed by virtue of their acceptance of the free gift of Christ’s life as their life. What brought the blessing of God was their Performamce.ģ. (Obey and you will be blessed, disobey and you will be cursed). Under the Mosaic covenant, God’s people were blessed by virtue of their obedience to the Law. What brought the blessing of God was their Pedigree, the fact that they were a natural member of Abraham’s family.Ģ. Under the Abrahamic covenant, God’s people were blessed simply by virtue of being a descendant of Abraham. We see in the scriptures that there are three main covenants referred to.ġ. Without a clear understanding of what Jesus accomplished, we end up living in guilt when we should be living in joy. Still today, most of the disagreements in the modern church stem from confusion about the difference between the old and the new. The recurrent theme throughout this letter to the Galatians is Paul’s warning of the dangers of trying to mix the two covenants. Those born of the flesh always persecute those born of the Spirit (Gal.4:29) ![]() The first giving birth to slavery, the second to freedom and the offspring of these two mothers, Ishmael and Isaac, cannot mix together in the same house. There he clearly speaks of the two covenants, old and new, as like two mothers, Hagar and Sarah. The word “therefore relates to what Paul has just stated in the previous chapter. 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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