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Week 2: Sons and Heirs Through Christ

Title: Sons and Heirs Through Christ

Objective: 

  • Salvation is made true by the Lord Jesus not buy the Law
  • The purpose of the law according to St Paul
  • Therefore you are no longer slaves but a sons
  • St Paul fears for the church in Galatia and reasons with them 
  • Abraha's sons as a symbol of the two covenants 

Resources:

Reading:

  • General
    • Galatians 3
    • Galatians 4

Key verse(s):

  • "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:27

Comments:

Review questions:

Chapter 3

  • Who was the first person to get the promise that God will justify the Gentiles? What was the
    condition for that?
  • What was the role of the law?
  • What is the “law” mentioned many times in this Epistle? And what is the curse of the law that the
    Lord Jesus Christ redeemed us from?
  • Why was the law given?

Chapter 4

  • What happened in the fullness of time?
  • What is sometimes the result of telling the truth? Give verse.
  • What is the fullness of time?
  • What do Hagar and the freewoman (Sarah) symbolize?
 

Homework:

Chapter 3

  • Who is the seed St. Paul is talking about?
  • What is the time difference between God’s promise to Abraham and the law?
  • The law came how many years after Abraham? A) 30 b) 50 c) 430
  • Therefore the law was our________ to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by _____.
  • Who is the seed St. Paul is talking about?
  • What is the time difference between God’s promise to Abraham and the law?

Chapter 4

  • But when the fullness of the ________ had come, God sent forth His ___________
  • And because you are ________, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "____________ _________!"
  • When did God send forth His son?
  • Who cries out “Abba, Father?”