asked: "Do we then make void the law through faith"? Then he (Paul) answers: "God forbid" yea, we establish the law".

In James chapter one verses twenty-three to twenty-five (James 1: 23 --25) we read: "For if any be a hearer of the word (commandments), and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass (mirror): for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straight away forgetteth what manner of man he is. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty [Ten Commandments], and continueth therein (continues in the law of liberty), he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed". Notice that the law is referred to as: "the perfect law of liberty" and is like a mirror which reflects one's condition. In Rom 7: 12 we read: "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good". Notice again, Paul says: "The law is holy, just and good". In Rom. 7: 25 Paul says: "I thank God through Christ Jesus our Lord. So then with the mind I myself (Paul) serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin". In the previous verses (Rom7: 15 -24), the apostle Paul lamented the fact that the flesh and the desires of the flesh were at war with his desire or his will to live according to the spirit. Contrary to his will, he found himself doing things which were sinful. Yet in the mind, his will was "to serve the law (do the commandments). Yes folks, Paul kept the commandments of God. He says, in verse twenty-two (Rom. 7:22): "For I delight in the law of God after [according to] the inward man".

Galatians chapter four is not understood by many. Paul's writing is truly difficult to understand. Your Bible says that the "unlearned and unstable" wrestle with it (Paul's writings), to their own destruction. And so, also, is all of God's Holy scriptures (2 pet.3:15 -- 16).

Gal. 4: 9 reads: "But now, after that you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

This passage is so often used to suggest that we have been freed from the law, and to "return" to the law after being "saved" is to return to bondage. This is far from the truth. It is important to begin reading from verse one through to verse eleven (Gal 4: 1 -- 11) if we are to understand what Paul is saying! So, get your Bibles and let us begin reading.

In Gal. 4: 1 -- 11 we read: "Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, dirffereth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors until the time