Galatians 5:4 NLT For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.

Some people think that fallen from grace is when we backslide, publicly miss the mark, or have strayed from God. The biblical understanding of fallen from grace is when we attempt to be made right by keeping the law. Grace has been made available through Christ, but those who choose to reject it have fallen from grace.

Keeping the law doesn’t make us righteous or more righteous than those who don’t. We’re only made righteous by one thing: Our belief in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior who died on the cross for our sins makes us righteous.

If you’re keeping the law to earn righteousness, you have fallen away from God’s grace. Believe in the Lord Jesus and be made righteous through Him.