"Crucified with Christ""Lesson  Four :  Son s of  God Through  Faith""Galatians 

-29""Under a Tutor""1.   What explanation does Paul give for the law in Galatians 3:19?  What does this mean?  What is revealed about the mediator in Galatians 3:20?  Why does Paul say this?""2.    What question does Paul ask in Galatians 3:21?  What""answer does he give?  How does he explain this answer? Why would this be true?""3. Instead of having that effect, what does Galatians 3:22""reveal about the effect that the Law actually  had?  What happened as a result?  Why was the Law necessary to this process?"",.""4.    What description does Galatians 3:23 give of the actions of the Law?  According to Galatians 3:24, what was the Law's responsibility during that time?  What  does Gala­tians 3:25 tell us about the role of the Law now that faith""has come?  Why is this important?""5.   According to Galatians 3:26,what status have we reached""if we are Christians?  How have we reached that status? According to Galatians 3:27, what action must we have taken to get there?  What does this reveal about the con­nection between faith and baptism?""As   we  consider  the  denominational  world around   us,  we  very  often  are  moved  to shake our heads as we consider the vast gap between  their  practice  and  what  the  word requires.    Why do  the members  of one de­ nomination  allow  its  leadership  to supplant the inspired word with thousands of years of human  tradition?     Why  does  another  de­ nomination   reject   the   idea   that   baptism saves, even though it is stated in Scripture a""dozen times?""In many cases, the problem is simply failure""to study the  Bible.   It  is  a  lack  of  under­ standing of what the Scripture teaches, com­bined  with inability  or  unwillingness to con­nect the meaning of several different Scrip­tures into  a  complete understanding  of  the ordinances of God.""Perhaps nowhere is  this more  evident  than in the widespread failure to separate the two covenants.    Most  believers  today  venerate the  Ten  Commandments.    They affirm  that they are the bedrock not just of Judaism, but of  Christianity.    They  fight  legal  battles  to post  them  in  courtrooms  and  classrooms. Men and women like this are quite often sin­cere,  and  they  would  be  appalled  to  hear""that  the  Ten  Commandments,  per  se,  are""not apart of the Christian system at all.""However,  that  is  precisely  what  the  Bible""teaches.   As  Galatians  3 makes  clear,  the Law of Moses, including the  Ten Command­ments, no longer binds us in any way.   Cer­tainly, nine of those commandments are in­ corporated in the teaching of Christ, but the  • disciple treats them no differently than any­ thing else Jesus has said   This startling truth about Scripture transforms the way  we con­sider issues from instrumental music to ho­mosexuality.   However, it is a truth only ac­cessible to those who study the word""Crucified with Christ:  Lesson Four""6.   According to Galatians 3:28, what things do not exist in the Christian realm?  What does this mean?In­""stead, what is true of all Christians?  Why is this important?  Colossians 3:9-11 may help you answer.""7.   What does Galatians 3:29 tell us about ourselves if we belong to Christ?  What from the previous discussion""shows this to be true?  Why is it significant?""Galatians 4:1-7""1.   What's the connection between Galatians 3:29 and 4: 1?  In what  position does Galatians 4: 1 find the heir?""What is true of him then?  Why is this surprising?""2.   According to Galatians 4:2, what is the position of the heir?  How long does he remain in this position?    s""this a legal practice with which we are still familiar today?""3.In Galatians 4:3, to what does Paul compare us?In what sense is this true?  To what were we held in""bondage?  What is all of this talking about?""4.    According to Galatians 4:4, what did God do?

160824 Galatians Lesson 4-1 Sons of God Through Faith

Both Galatians and Colossians are part of the body of writings by the apostle Paul contained in the New Testa-ment.  Although the process of dating Scripture is always an imprecise one, it appears most likely that Galatians was written about A.D. 50, between his first missionary journey and his visit to Jerusalem in Acts 15, in an effort to  help  the  Christians  he  converted  in  the  cities  of  Lystra,  Derbe,  Iconium,  and  Antioch  of  Pisidia.    Colossians was most likely written 10 or 15 years later, at the behest of the evangelist Epaphras when he and Paul are in captivity together in Rome.  It is a companion letter to the book of Philemon.At first glance, Galatians and Colossians appear very different.  Underneath these apparent differences, though, both  books  sport  the  same  basic  message.    Both  books  are  meant  largely  as a rebuttal  of  false  teachers,  and some of the same problems appear in both.  Even more fundamentally than that, however, both books are oriented squarely toward Jesus.  Galatians emphasizes the Christ as the Redeemer from the curse of the Law; Colossians portrays Him as the transcendent Son of God in whom all true knowledge is hidden.  Paul argues that the child of God must reject all false doctrine in order to maintain his connecti