The Laodicean Message - E.H. “Jack” Sequeira

can see.
Let me give you another text. I’ll give you a
couple in Galatians — Galatians 2:16 — and you
will notice that Paul uses the phrase “works of the
law” [“observing the law” in the NIV translation]
more than once:
Know that a man is not justified by observing
the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too,
have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be
justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the
law, because by observing the law no one will be
justified.
If you turn to chapter 3, the next chapter, verse
10, we have a very important verse there:
All who rely on observing the law are under a
curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who
does not continue to do everything written in the
Book of the Law.”
What did Paul mean by that phrase “observing
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