"Crucified with Christ""Lesson  Five:  Children of Promise""Galatians 

-20""1.   According to Galatians 4:8-9,what state were the Gala­tians in before they encountered God?  Now that they know God, what are they wanting to do?  Why is this""strange?  Can this be a problem for us?  How?""2.   What Galatian practice does Paul note in Galatians 4: 10?""According to Galatians 4:11,what does this make him fear?  Why would this be true?""3.In Galatians 4:12-14, what does Paul ask of the Galatians?""How does he describe their relationship to him?  Did they have the chance to wrong him?  When?  What did they do instead?  Why is this important?"",.""4.   What does Paul ask the Galatians in Galatians 4:15?  How did this special sense manifest itself?  Can we encounter a similar problem as Christians today?""5.   What other question does Paul ask in Galatians 4:16?""What answer is implied?  What should we take from this?"  "6.In Galatians 4: 17, what description does Paul give of the Judaizing teachers?  What was their motive?  What""constrasting statement does Paul make in Galatians 4: 18?  What should all of this teach us?""7.    How does Paul describe the Galatians in Galatians 4: 19?  What is his state because of them?  According to""Galatians 4:20, what does Paul want?  Why?  What does his example teach us about concern for brethren?""Galatians 4:21-31""1.   What rhetorical question does Paul ask in Galatians 4:21?  Why is this question relevant here?""2.    What two people are described in Galatians 4:22-23?  Where do they appear in Scripture?  According to this""text,how are they alike?  How are they different?""3.    What'does Paul reveal about the mothers of these two sons in Galatians 4:24?  According to Galatians 4:24-""25, who is first mother?  What are her children?""4.In Galatians 4:26-27, whom does Paul say the second mother is?  What are her children like?  How does""Paul support this statement?   How does the verse he cites provide support?"",.""5.   According to Galatians 4:28, what are Christians like?  How is this true?  Accordi ng to Galatians 4:29, what""was the relationship between the original child of flesh and child of promise?  When did this occur?  Why does Paul think this is significant?""6.   What Scripture does Paul cite in Galatians 4:30?  Why is this passage relevant?  What does it reveal about""God's attitude?""7.   What conclusion does Paul reach in Galatians 4:31?  What are the implications of this conclusion?"

160907 Galatians Lesson 4-3 Lack Of 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