What was the Law like?

Les explains that the Law is a reference to the flesh, and he describes it as fleshly, weak, and beggarly. The Galatians had begun in the Spirit by faith, but they were being asked if they were now made perfect, or right with God, by the flesh—which is the Law. Scripture says it is by faith and not the works of the Law. Faith is taking God at His Word: God said it, we believe it, and God recognizes it, and on that basis He moves in and does everything that needs to be done. The Spirit is received by the hearing of faith, not by the works of the Law. Repetition is the mother of learning, so the argument is repeated.