David returns to Galatians 3:11-12 to define how Paul twice uses the word “live” in order to unpack the major message found in the wider passage.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:11-12
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Paul’s words in Galatians 4:13, “it was because of a bodily illness that I preached to you the first time” have been variously interpreted. David goes into the Greek!
Todays Scripture: Galatians 4:9-13
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Is Abraham’s blessing, of which Paul writes in Galatians 3:14, a promise to be prosperous like Abraham, as is so often taught?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:13-14
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Clearly, there was something about Paul’s body when he was in Galatia that could have caused the Galatians to despise him. What was it?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 4:13-14
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Setting up another proof that God is not requiring Gentiles to keep the Mosaic Law, Paul points out that no one arbitrarily adds terms to human contracts after they’ve been signed.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:13-16
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Some say that Paul’s words to the Galatians, “you would have plucked out your eyes for me,” indicates that he had an eye disease. True?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 4:14-19
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God promised that the Gentiles would be blessed, not through Abraham’s “seeds,” but rather through his “seed,” indicating a singular person. Paul identifies that person.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:16-17
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Using the story of the birth of Abraham’s two sons, Isaac and Esau, Paul draws a parallel between his contemporaries who were seeking to be justified by keeping the Mosaic Law and those who were receiving God’s gift of righteousness by faith in God’s promise.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 4:21-26
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God’s promise to the Gentiles that He would bless them through Abraham’s seed was made hundreds of years before He gave the Law of Moses. So God would not have given the Mosaic Law as a requirement for the Gentiles whom He had already promised to bless through another remans.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:17
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In his complex analogy involving Abraham’s two sons, Paul mentions a different Jerusalem, which is not the city by that name located in Israel. He refers to that Jerusalem as “Jerusalem above” and “our mother.” What did he mean?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 4:25-29
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