This sermon from Galatians 2:15–21 confronts the subtle but dangerous drift from living by God’s grace to relying on our own performance. Pastor John Murphy highlights that no one can be made right with God through effort or obedience; justification is a finished verdict received by faith in Jesus, not a status we earn. When we return to performance, we rebuild what Christ already tore down, placing ourselves back under a law that can expose sin but never save. Through our union with Christ, our old identity rooted in striving for approval has died, and we now live by faith in the One who loved us and gave Himself for us. Ultimately, to depend on our performance is to diminish the cross itself, as if Christ’s sacrifice were unnecessary. The call, then, is to continually rest in and return to grace, living not for acceptance, but from it.