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?”