Galatians Bible study raises the question, “Why do so many believers experience failure and defeat, when the promise of victory is so prevalent?”  Paul gives insight to that question when he wrote: “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. . . I do not frustrate the grace of God. . .” (Gal. 2:20, 21). Paul did not frustrate grace and the abundance of grace in his life allowed him to prevail in life.

According to Paul, the people who prevail should be the believers in Christ. In the Galatians letter, Paul called the believers in Christ the “Israel of God” (Gal. 6:16).  With the word Israel meaning “God prevails,” the people of God should prevail because “Christ liveth in [them].”  Christ prevails in all those who like Paul “do not frustrate the grace of God.”

Yet,  many Christians struggle to experience the peace, the joy, and the sense of justice that should occur in people who prevail. They started out well, but something happens that prohibits them from experiencing the life they know they should be enjoying.  The believers in Galatia had a similar experience. Charismatic teachers had stirred their emotions and seduced them in to taking their eyes off Jesus.  Becoming religious and zealous in their activities of working for God, they soon found they were in bondage to the very things they were attempting to do. They had lost the joy of their freedom in Christ.

Galatians Bible study warns of the end results of frustrating the grace of God.

This issue of “not frustrat[ing] the grace of God” was such an important issue among the early followers of Jesus that the entire letter of Galatians was written to warn of its consequences. Paul wrote,

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law. . . (Gal. 2:16).

Again, the same emphasis is given when Paul stated, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” (Gal. 2:21). Understanding the phrases “works of the law” and “if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” is to understand the very essence of why so many Christians struggle. It is also the understanding of that which frustrates grace.

Galatians Bible study gives the answer for people who want to prevail in life.

There is only one way to experience all the blessings of God which allows the believer to reign in life. Paul gives it in Galatians 2:20,

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life I now live in the flesh [humanness] I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Paul is stating simply that he does not attempt to live for Christ (frustrating grace). Christ lives in him!

The gospel in Galatians Bible study will set you free from religion and let you enjoy once again the fullness of the life of Christ.

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