What does God require regarding the finished work, and why do people resist it?

Les explains that the little letter to the Galatians is appropriate today because we are under the same kind of bombardment from Judaizers trying to bring people back under the Law. Paul had to write to those congregations before it would be too late. Les notes a letter saying most people hate Paul's doctrines of grace; he says they do not like it because most people want to do something and want to feel they have merited favor with God, but God will have none of it. God says, “either you believe that I've finished it, or it'll profit you nothing.” This runs contrary to human thought. So Galatians gives the apostle's constant warning: you are not under Law, you are under Grace; do not let people pervert the Gospel by adding something to it. Les also notes Galatians was written probably a couple of years before the Corinthian letters, and Paul's books in the New Testament are not in chronological order.