Sometimes in life we must choose. We can be one thing or the other but not both. For example, we can’t be married and single at the same time. We can’t be saved and lost at the same time, and we can’t be saved by grace through faith and saved by works at the same time. The Judaizers taught salvation was a combination of faith and works, which, Paul explains, results in a curse. Beginning with Abraham (3:6), Paul has already proven God’s way of saving people and of avoiding a spiritual curse has always been exclusively by grace through faith. In this section, Paul reveals three actions required to avoid this curse.
