Paul is trying to make the point that a works-based faith is unnecessary. He says of those who are trying to earn their salvation that “they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge.” (v.2) The Israelites tried to establish their own path to righteousness. (v.3) They refused to believe that their religious practices had all been turned on their head because of Jesus.
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But Jesus did not come to the earth to show us everything we have done wrong. That’s a false picture of who God is.
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I know from personal experience that adoption is hard and sometimes messy. It doesn’t always look the way we want it to look or think it should.
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