Under Law, You Cannot Grow Up

Under law, we cannot grow up:

"Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;

"But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.

"Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:" (Galatians 4: 1-3)

What is the tutor that creates this bondage? The law:

"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." (Galatians 3: 24)

What brings us out from under the law? Faith!:

"But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3: 25-26)

Faith is the means to become a child of God:

"That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." (Galatians 3: 14)

and

"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" (Ephesians 4: 13)

The law makes us weak once again:

"But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" (Galatians 4: 9)

Under law, you cannot grow up. In grace through faith, you grow in knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3: 18) and you grow to know all that you have in Him (Philemon 6).