Last Will and Testament

 

Last Will and Testament

Comments on Galatians with an ear to Luther’s commentary

Scripture Text: Galatians 2:19 and John 8:48-59

Series: Comments on Galatians

Today's Scripture Jigsaw

Paul does not here mean that he is lawless. Indeed, his character indicates that he held to the highest ethics. What he means is that those ethics, the law, had no claim on his eternal soul. His assertion goes further. When his moral principles would condemn him, he declares that he is not condemned by that ethical code. Ethics could not kill him because he was dead to morals and alive by the grace of God. 

The apostle’s great desire was that we would not consider ourselves enlightened or spiritually alive because we are not able to keep a great moral code, but because we keep Christ’s word. His word is that he is the Light of the World and that if you continue to follow him, to walk in the light, though stumbling along the way, you will have the Light of Life. This is the will of Jesus: that we keep walking in the Light, in him.

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