"Crucified with Christ""Lesson Seven :  What  Will  I  Reap   "Galatians 

-6:10""1.   What exhortation does Paul voice in Galatians 5:25?  What does this mean?  According to Galatians 5:26, what is the opposite?  How does this relate to the previous discus­""sion?  Galatians 5:16 may prove useful.""2.   What situation does Paul describe in Galatians 6:1?  What""should our goal be in this situation?  How should we pur­ sue this goal?  What concern do we need to have as we do this?  What similar idea is expressed in Galatians 6:2? What is the connection between these two ideas?""3.   What observation does Paul make in Galatians 6:3?  How""does this relate to the discussion of Galatians 5:25-6:2?"",.""4.   According to Galatians 6:4,instead of picking apart the""behavior of others, what should we, o?  What could hap­ pen if we do?  Will this actually happen?  What further warning does Paul give us in Galatians 6:5?  What is this""talking about?""5.   What command does Paul give in Galatians 6:6?  How do""we need to apply this?" "Crucified with Christ:  Lesson Seven""6.   What basic principle does Paul state in Galatians 6:7?  Why is this true?  What two applications does Paulmake from this in Galatians 6:8?  How can we work on sowing to the spirit, not the flesh?""7.   What does Paul exhort us to do in Galatians 6:9?  Why?  Because of this, what action does Galatians 6:10""press upon us?  Who should our especial target be?  Who is the doer in this verse?  Who is not the doer? Why is this important?""Galatians 6:11-18""1.   To what does Paul draw the attentions of the Galatians in Galatians 6:11?  What does this mean?  Why is it significant?  Romans 6:22 and 2 Thessalonians 3:17 may help you answer.""2.   What people are under discussion in Galatians 6:12?  What are they attempting to do?  Why?  What is this talking about?""3.   Who is Paul talking about in Galatians 6:13?  What do they not do?  Why is this strange?  What do they want to see the Galatians do regardless?  Why?  What's really going on here?"""4.  In contrast to the  behavior of the circumcised, what does Paul say he never wants to do in Galatians 6:14?""What exception does he make to this?  Why?  What does he mean by this?'""5.   What statement does Paul make in Galatians 6:15?  Has Paul made a similar statement before?   If so,""where? In context,what does he want to tell us by this statement  here?""6.   Who is under discussion in Galatians 6:16?  What is ""this rule""?  What blessing does Paul pronounce upon""them?  Whom else does he bless here?  What is this group?""7.   What warning does Paul give in Galatians"     One Another's Burdens  God loves to present truth through paradox and contrast. The most glorious man ever to live came to earth not as the pampered child of a king, but as the son of a carpenter.He chose to send His message to the world not through philosophers and wise men, but through fishermen and tax collectors. As we hear this message and obey it, we learn that dying to ourselves is the only way to live.    We see another such paradox presented in the early part of Galatians 6. Although each one of us must bear our own load (and give account for the way we bore it), we are still commanded to bear the burdens of our brethren. This is one of the defining tensions of Christianity. Our faith is at once strikingly individualistic, yet strikingly communal There will be no group admissions into heaven. Each one of us will be judged for the things that we have done, without reference to the excuses provided by the conduct of others.   continued on page 15

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