How is a person saved according to this teaching?
A person is saved by faith plus nothing in what God has said. Once the faith way has come, the believer is no longer under a schoolmaster. This salvation is by faith, not by the tutor’s demands; it rests on God’s progressive revelation.
Les teaches that after the faith way has come, being saved by faith plus nothing in what God has said, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. He explains that the schoolmaster Paul refers to is not in the Jewish economy but in the Greek and Roman world. There, a hired slave or servant was instructed under the father’s demands to raise, tutor, and teach the child until a designated point—whether 16, 18, or 21—when the tutor could say, 'Master, this young man is now ready to come in and work right with you in your business. He’s got everything he needs to know. He’s been well tutored, and he’s well prepared.'