Just to delve into it a little; Hendriksen reminds us: “ ‘The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine.’ Thus spoke Luther, who considered Galatians best of all the books in the Bible. It has been called ‘the battle cry of the Reformation,’ ‘the great charter of religious freedom,’ ‘the Christian declaration of independence.’ It is important because in any age it answers the basic question asked by the human heart: ‘how can I find happiness?’”
Tim Keller says; “The book of Galatians is dynamite. It is an explosion of joy and freedom which leaves us enjoying deep significance, security, and satisfaction – the life of blessing God calls His people into.”
And finally, Martin Luther wrote; “I hope you are not ignorant of the meaning of grace and peace, seeing that these terms are common in Paul and are not now obscure or unknown. We have undertaken to explain this letter not because it is necessary or because there is anything very hard in it, but so our consciences may be strengthened against heresies yet to come, and so we will keep on repeating things that at other times we teach, preach, sing and write about, for if we neglect the truth of justification, we lose everything...These two words, grace and peace include all that belong to Christianity. Grace releases sin, and peace makes the conscience quiet.”
How would it even be possible to not be excited? As Paul writes in Chapter 1:3-5...
Grace and Peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen!
Grace and Peace!
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