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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David explains how Paul’s letter to the Galatians is not relevant, in one sense, to modern readers.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:19
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Paul’s words, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free,” are often quoted out of their context and twisted into a misapplication that is a grand modern deception. David explains.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 4:29-5:4
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If the Law couldn’t ultimately save people, why was it given? Paul reveals the answer, and David offers an elaboration.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:19-20
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Was the “yoke of slavery” against which Paul warned his readers the commandments of Christ?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 5:1-2
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The Law of Moses didn’t succeed at imparting eternal life, but it did succeed in one thing. What was that?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:21-22
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Paul continues to explain why God gave the Law, comparing it to a temporary tutor.
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:22-27
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When in the Old Testament God promised righteous people they they would “live and not die” did He mean that they would never die physically?
Todays Scripture: Galatians 3:11-12
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