Galatians 4:20 (KJV)
I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

In a previous verse to the believers in the churches in Galatia Paul wrote,
Galatians 4:16 (KJV)
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

It was not his desire to alienate anyone. His only concern was the truth and imparting it to them. He was their friend. He wanted their best. He wanted their affection and their companionship in the Lord. But his primary concern had to be with the truth. Were they really willing to spoil that over the doctrines of those Paul knew to be false teachers?

Now here is the truth that so risked his friendship, New Testament Christianity and Old Testament law cannot co-exist. We do not mean that no truths of the Old Testament have application today. Those things were written for our example. But they are the shadow of the truth. All truth is to be discovered in the New Testament. The Old Testament serves to give illustration and life to those truths. Never should the Old Testament be taken in exclusion of the New Testament. The concept that righteousness in any manner may be obtained by obedience to Old Testament law must be:

• Cast out
• Abandoned
• Forsaken 

Galatians 2:21 (KJV)
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain

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Galatians 4:20 (KJV) The Concern Is Truth

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