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:

Who was the first person to get the promise that God will justify the Gentiles? What was the
condition for that?
2. What was the role of the law?
CHAPTER 4
1. What happened in the fullness of time?
2. What is sometimes the result of telling the truth? Give verse.

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?
2. Why was the law given?
CHAPTER 4
1. What is the fullness of time?
2. What do Hagar and the freewoman (Sarah) symbolize?

Homework:

The law came how many years after Abraham? A) 30 b) 50 c) 430
2. Therefore the law was our________ to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by _____.
CHAPTER 4
1. But when the fullness of the ________ had come, God sent forth His ___________
2. And because you are ________, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,
"____________ _________!"

Who is the seed St. Paul is talking about?
2. What is the time difference between God’s promise to Abraham and the law?
CHAPTER 4
1. When did God send forth His son?
2. Who cries out “Abba, Father?”