The apostle Paul gloried in the freedoms Christ won for us. He boldly preached that believers were free from the condemnation of the law, and he sharply rebuked the Galatians for mixing law-keeping with the gospel of grace. But he was also resolved that the law is holy, just, and good. The law exposes sin, upholds righteousness, establishes guilt, reveals corruption when it is ruling the heart, and thus in every way is vindicated and innocent of any charge of evil. What the law does, it does very well. But if the believer has been freed from the law and Paul warns us against returning to the law, then what good does it do in the life of a believer? Remember, we were freed from the law’s penalty— but not because the law itself was the problem. Our problem is and always has been sin. In Christ, the problem of sin has been solved through the grace of God. But grace is not a license to live as you will, it is enlightenment and enablement to live as God wills.