Are you afraid to embrace God’s abundance of grace alone, trusting Jesus finished work 1,000 percent? Do you hang onto the law and think grace must be balanced by the law or believers would dive headlong into sin and fall away from grace?

Paul calls the Galatians fools for embracing a gospel other than the gospel of grace he preached. They had been deceived into adding the law back in to be right with God. The deceivers probably preached the same fear filled messages we hear today from so many. “Too much grace will give you a license to sin.” “You must balance grace with the law.” The problem, according to Paul, it just takes a little law to affect the whole, making grace of no effect.

How much yeast do they use to leaven a loaf of bread? Just a pinch. So when we add a pinch of yeast the bread puffs up. When we add just a pinch of the law to grace, we puff up, connotating pride and self-righteousness. Under the law to any degree, the fallen sin nature that still resides in our flesh is aroused and naturally becomes prideful and judgmental. It is the unleavened believer that is humble. 

We understand from Jesus that the leaven Paul is talking about is the teaching of the Pharisee’s who preached the letter of the law.

Jesus poured out His blood for the New Covenant of grace and truth, replacing the Old Covenant letter of the law of Moses. Believers are exclusively under the New Covenant, the last will and testament of Jesus that began after the cross.