# Week 2: Sons and Heirs Through Christ

**Title:** <span class="text Gal-4-1" id="bkmrk-sons-and-heirs-throu">Sons and Heirs Through Christ</span>

**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](https://catenabible.com/gal/1)
- [HEMY Bible Study(Includes material)](https://www.suscopts.org/diocese/bishop/bible-study/epistle-to-the-galatians/)
- [Fr Dawoud Lamie's Bible study (Easy Arabic)](https://youtu.be/BCftto2A3UQ)
- [Fr Tadros Y Malaty commentary](https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=67000DBCF3EF5901&id=67000DBCF3EF5901%21887&parId=67000DBCF3EF5901%21540&o=OneUp)

**Reading:**

- <span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":12865,"3":{"1":0},"9":1,"12":0,"15":"Calibri","16":9}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"1 Samuel 1-3"}">General</span>
    - 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?

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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?”