What is the believer's status according to Galatians 5:1?
Galatians 5:1 declares the believer's status as liberty: Christ has made us free, and we are not under bondage. The admonition is to stand fast, unmovable, in that freedom, refusing to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage, which the Law represented as a legal yoke.
Les explains that Galatians 5:1 is an admonition to stand fast, unmovable, in the liberty, the freedom, wherewith Christ hath made us free. He stresses that believers are not under bondage; they have liberty and have been set free. The warning is not to be entangled again with the yoke of bondage, which is what the Law was—a legal yoke of bondage. He also notes Judaism's roots were the pure Mosaic and Levitical Law.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.