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:

• Catena Bible Commentary
• HEMY Bible Study(Includes material)
• Fr Dawoud Lamie's Bible study (Easy Arabic)
• Fr Tadros Y Malaty commentary

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?”