God did not eliminate physical death but spiritual death, eternal death—that is, eternal separation from God. Now Christ has abolished that, so that no sinner need go to a place where you'll be eternally separated from God. Because today He's the Mediator, one Mediator between God and man. You can be reconciled to God; God's reconciled to you. Man cannot be saved by perfect obedience, he cannot render it, he cannot be saved by imperfect obedience because God will not accept it. And that leaves only one solution to the dilemma, and that is the one who said, “I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.”
Get ready to fight the good fight against legalism in Galatians. When this letter was written, it defended the gospel of Christ from people who wanted to reduce it to rules. Not surprising, Galatians has provided the backbone for several great spiritual revivals around the world. Freedom, we learn, is a serious fight. Allow grace to revolutionize your own life through these seven lessons from Dr. J. Vernon McGee.