Galatians 3:1-14
Paul spends a lot of words to get to his one main point: Does He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith… (v. 5). He clearly lays out his argument – it is the Holy Spirit working miracles in and around them; the works of the law don’t get them anywhere! It is their “hearing by faith” that saves them, not the Law. He goes on to point out the weakness of the Law: “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law… (vv. 10b-11a). Later Paul will tell of the benefit of the Law, how it pointed us to our wrongdoings and the need for Jesus’ salvation. For now he is simply contrasting “hearing with faith” as better than “the works of the law”.
Slava Bohu!