Galatians chapter number five beginning verse number one the bible reads stand fast
therefore in the liberty where with Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the
yoke of bondage behold I Paul say unto you that if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing
for I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole
law Christ has become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law you're
fallen from the grace for we through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith now
this passage starts out with very powerful proof that if you are trusting in salvation through
Jesus Christ but you're trying to add works to that that you're not saved okay because he's
saying that those who are going out and getting circumcised in order to be justified by that work
of the law he says these people Christ is of no effect unto them I mean that's pretty clear that
these people are not saved and if he says you're fallen from grace they're clearly not saved by
grace here they're not saved because they're trusting in faith plus works at the end it says
in verse five for we through the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith see a lot of
people think that because faith is all that is necessary for salvation that basically everyone
who believes in Jesus is saved even if they think that they have to do works also so just as long as
they believe in faith and maybe they're just doing the works kind of just in case you know go out and
do the works just to kind of cover all their bases but wait a minute Paul's saying look if you're
circumcised if you're going out and getting circumcised that shows that you're not trusting
in Jesus Christ by faith alone you think you need to add that work of the law