"Crucified with Christ""  Walk  by the Spirit""Galatians 

-12""1.   What does Paul state about the Galatians in Galatians 5:1? What should they not do as a consequence?  How does this relate to the previous discussion?""2.   According to Galatians 5:2, what consequence do the Ga­latians face if they receive circumcision?  What further consequence does Paul address in Galatians 5:3?  Accord­ing to Galatians 5:4, what's the basic problem here?""Should this teach us anything?If so, what?""3.   By contrast, how does Paul describe true Christianity in""Galatians 5:5?  How does he support this statement in Galatians 5:6?  How is this different from what the Gala­tians are doing?   Paul is so worked up about circumci­sion,why does he say here that it means nothing?""4.   What does Paul ask in Galatians 5:7?  How does his statement in Galatians 5:8 show what prompted the question? How has Paul proven Galatians 5:8 to be true?""5.   What does Paul reveal in Galatians 5:9?  What is he refer­ring to?  What should this principle teach us?" "6.   What does Paul reveal about his confidence  in the Galatians in Galatians 5:10?  What is he equally confident of concerning the one who is troubling them?   How aware does Paul seem to be of the identity of this teacher?   Why?  What does this tell us about these men?  Galatians 2:4 may shed some light on this.""7.   What does Paul ask in Galatians 5:11?  Why would he ask this?  What ironic statement does Paul make about what would happen if he did this?  Instead, what does Paul say he wishes for the troublers of the  Galatians?  What does this mean?  Why is this a strange thing for Paul to say?"

160921 Galatians Lesson 5-2  Wak by The Spirit

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