Why Connect To The Useless?

The word “elemental” in Gal.4:3 means “an element, first principal; the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds.” It is like taking a fuse and never putting it down into the powder so that the cannon can be fired. The fuse is such an elemental part of the whole process. It would be something like holding the fuse and showing people the fuse, even lighting the fuse but never realizing the power of the powder and power of the cannon. The fuse would just burn down to nothing with no result for having held it or having lit it. It would be just the futile waste of one good match. By the time we get to v.9 Paul is referring to those elemental things as “weak and beggarly” and pleading with the Galatians to know why they have connected themselves once again to such useless legalistic exercise.

(This is the seventh excerpt from Marty’s article “Operator, Operator, I’ve Been Disconnected!” which was published in Volume 11 Issue 5 of their ministry magazine SEEC Magazine. Excerpts will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.)

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