In verse 11, it is clear he says that no one is justified before God by the law. And the reason is that the just will live by faith. And he then goes on to say in verse 13 that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law and he did so by becoming a curse for us. So the wonderful news in a sentence is this that Jesus has done for us on the cross what we could never do for ourselves.

This is at the very heart of the Christian story that when we look upon the cross and we see Jesus hanging there, he is doing something for us that is necessary and that is voluntary. and he takes his place where we ought to be in order that we might enjoy the benefits that he in his curse bearing provides. Now when he talks Paul that is of being disobedient he is referring not only to those who were his initial readers but he is referring to all of us because all of us have not kept the law.

We have not done everything that the law requires. And there is a curse in 10b which is resting upon those who do not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. Now the question is how then can the Lord Jesus liberate us from our predicament? How then can the Lord Jesus uh alleviate the curse that is upon us because of our rebellion against him? And the answer is given very clearly there in verse 13.

How has God accomplished this? Well, he says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. In other words, what should have come to us went to him. This is a cross reference in many ways to uh one of the verses that I hope to spend the rest of my life wrestling with and trying to understand in its fullness, namely two Corinthians 5:21.