The believers in the church in Galatia, as I assume to be true of most Christians, actually wanted to grow in their new found faith, but thanks to the influence of “some people,” commonly known as the Judaizers or circumcision party, they were going about it the wrong way. If truth be told, their experience would not have been all that different to getting involved in a legalistic movement which says: no movies, no dancing, and no use of dice because of the association with gambling, or, one that insists that men should always wear a jacket and tie to church, that no Christian man should have a beard, and that no woman should wear lipstick or pants. They’d been deceived into thinking that keeping certain aspects of the Law of Moses would make them better Christians. The appeal was that the Law enabled them to do things with very apparent external results. As they measured themselves and their accomplishments, they felt a certain sense of superiority or spiritual pride. They imagined they were making progress, but in reality, they were going backwards. The apostle Paul took three approaches in Galatians 4:1-18 in an attempt to convince the Galatians that they did not need the Law in order to live the Christian life.