Paul on the SCHOOLMASTER

"Paul in Galatians 3:24-25: “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.”

The law can show us our sinfulness and bring to us such conviction of sin that we shall be driven to Christ, who can free us from our sins. 

When we receive Christ we are no longer under the domination—the condemnation—of the law. 

--But we are not freed from obedience to God’s law, for in accepting Christ we receive divine power for obedience to that law, as is explained in the passage just quoted from Romans 8. 

--Thus Galatians 3:24-25 gives no support to the claim that the law is abolished. 

In the light of these facts there is no difficulty in the text: “The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17).

Both law and grace came from heaven. 

How happy are we as Christians that we are not called upon to reject one in order to have the other. 

By the power of God’s grace we no longer dwell under the condemnation of the law, but are in Him raised up to the lofty plane of complete obedience to this divine code."
F.D. Nichol/F7