Freedom From the Bondage of Works-Righteousness

To be righteous is to be right with God. It means that God judges one to be guiltless and worthy of everlasting life and glory. God forgives one's sins, adopts that person as His own child and makes that person an heir of eternal life. This, in brief, is the plain teaching of Scripture in Galatians 4:4-7. This passage presents the good news that God in the fullness of time sent forth His son, made of a woman and made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, "that we might receive...