We ended on this verse last Friday, but today we will look at it from a different perspective. Paul reminds us that freedom is both the means and the end of the Christian life. Everything about the gospel message is freedom. Paul though shows us that freedom is fragile and can slip from our grasp. This leaves us with two implications. The first is to keep our freedom we must stand firm. We need to be vigilant and responsible. Standing firm mixes together the ideas to be alert, strong, resist attack, and stick together. We need to continually remember, preserve, rejoice in, and live in accord with our salvation. We never want to be enslaved to fear again. The second implication is along the same line. The law-keeping religion that they were practicing is a religion of slavery. In Judaism, when one would talk about the study and practice of the whole law of Moses it was referred to as being under a yoke. So seeking to keep the law puts them under a yoke. The wild word in this passage is again. Because these Galatians before knowing Paul were pagans. They weren’t keeping to be under the law at all. So what is Paul saying? Paul is making the radical claim that pagan idolatry and biblical moralism (in order to gain salvation) are basically the same things. Both trying to do it on our own and living like none of it matters are problems in and of themselves.