When Paul Preached In Galatia

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Lesson 1

Introduction

Galatia

Who Is Paul Writing To (1:1-2)?

Paul does something in Galatians that he doesn’t do with any other epistle. It involves who he is writing to and is found in 1:2. What is this unique characteristic or fact?

Galatia

Galatia

When Did Paul Write This?

There Are Three Dates

The Early Date = Before The Jerusalem

Council

The Middle Date = Just After The Jerusalem

Council

The Late Date = After Paul’s 3 rd Journey

Gal. 1:13-14 = Paul As A Zealous Jew

Jesus Killed and Resurrected (Passover)

The Church Started (Pentecost)

Gal. 1:15-17 = Paul’s Conversion (A.D.34)

Gal. 1:15-17 = Paul’s Conversion (A.D. 34)

Paul Goes To Arabia and Back To

Damascus (How Long? Why?)

• 2 Cor. 11:32-33; Acts 9:23-25

3 Years Later To Jerusalem (A.D. 37)

• Gal. 1:18-20; Acts 9:26-30

Paul Goes Home (Syria and Cilicia)

• Gal. 1:21-24; Acts 9:30

Barnabas Brings Paul To Antioch

• Acts 11:19-26

2 nd Jerusalem Visit – Famine Relief

(A.D. 44)

• Acts 11:27-30

1 st Missionary Journey – Galatian

Churches Started (A.D. 47-48)

• Acts 13

Early Date

14 Years Later Paul Returns To

Jerusalem a 3 rd Time (A.D. 48-49)

• Gal. 2:1-10 Middle Date

• Appears To Be The Jerusalem Council

The Date of Galatians

The Middle Date Is Best

Has To Be Soon After Their Conversion (Gal. 1:6).

Paul Describes The Jerusalem Council Visit In Gal. 2.

Paul Mentions Barnabas Who Was Only With Him For

The 1 st Journey (2:1,13).

The Book Is About The Same Problem As The Jerusalem

Council.

Best Argument For Early Date = Paul Does Not

Mention The Jerusalem Council Letter.

The Purpose Of Galatians

Why Did Paul Write This Letter? In Other Words,

There Was A Problem. What Was The Problem?

Major Problem = Judaizing Heresy

1:6-9

3:1-5

3:23-25

Similar To 2 Corinthians, Romans, Hebrews

Lesson 2

Ch. 1:1-9

Ancient Letter Writing

What Comes First In Ancient Letter Writing?

The Author = Paul

 An Apostle

Paul’s Companions = ?

Cephas (1:18)

 James (1:19)

 Titus (2:3)

 John (2:9)

 Barnabas (2:13)

Ancient Letter Writing

Audience = Churches of Galatia

Greeting

Grace = Charis

Gentile Greeting

Peace = Shalom

Jewish Greeting

From God and Jesus Christ

Paul Begins The “

Subject

” of the Letter

What Is The First Problem Paul

Addresses?

Who Were These “Gospel Changers?”

Taught Gentiles Could Not Be Christians.

They Had Their Own Apostles (2 Cor. 11:13).

They Would Try To Take Over Churches After

Paul Left (Gal. 2:4-5; Col. 2:4, 8, 11,16,; 2 Cor.

11:4ff).

They Would Make False Charges To Discredit

Paul (2 Cor. 10:10; 12:12-13, 19).

Paul Begins The “

Subject

” of the Letter

What good lesson(s) do you learn from

Paul’s answer to this problem?

If a man claimed to be a prophet or a church claimed to be a revealer of God’s word, how could you tell that they are telling the truth?

Changing The Gospel

Rev. 22:18-19

Deut. 4:2; 12:32

Prov. 30:5-6

Eccl. 12:13

Gal. 3:15

1 Cor. 4:6

1 Pet. 4:11; Jude 3

Matt. 15

Lesson 3

Ch. 1:10-24

Paul’s Gospel

(1:10-12)

What made Paul different from the

Judaizers?

Possible Charge: Paul is a Man-pleaser. Proof:

Paul Doesn’t Make The

Gentiles Obey The Law.

Paul’s History

(1:13-24)

CHALLENGE QUESTION:

What is Paul’s main purpose in relating some of his personal history?

How many trips to

Jerusalem does Paul record in his personal history?

Paul’s History

(1:13-24)

Why is Paul emphasizing that he only saw Cephas when he went to Jerusalem and that he was unknown by the brethren in Judea?

Is There Anything Wrong?

Paul Was Converted IN Damascus.

Paul Left Damascus For Arabia.

Paul Then Went To Jerusalem.

Paul Went To Tarsus of Cilicia.

Paul Went Back To

Damascus

Barnabas Brought Paul To Antioch (Syria).

Paul Went To Jerusalem a 2 nd Time To Discuss

Paul Went Back To Antioch and Then Began His 1 st

Journey.

Paul Went To Jerusalem a 3 rd Time To Discuss Circum.

Lesson 4

Ch. 2:1-10

Paul’s Jerusalem Trip (2:1-10)

Why did Paul go to

Jerusalem? (there could be more than one answer)

2:2 = A Revelation

2:4 = The False Brethren

Paul’s Jerusalem Trip

Paul says that Titus was with him when he went to

Jerusalem. Do we know when and where Titus joined Paul? What do we know about Titus?

Titus

1 st Mention of Titus.

He Was A Greek Gentile.

Was Sent To Corinth By

Paul During His 3 rd Journey

(1 Cor. 8:16ff; 2 Cor. 7:6-7).

Later Paul Sent Him To

Crete (Titus 1:5).

Then To

Dalmatia (2 Tim 4:10).

Never Mentioned

In Acts

A Contradiction?

Gal 2:3

“But not even Titus who was with me, though he was a

Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.”

Acts 16:3

“Paul wanted this man (Timothy) to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.”

Paul’s Jerusalem Trip (2:1-10)

Who did Paul talk to in

Jerusalem?

2:2, 6-9

What was Paul asked to do at the end of his time there?

Lesson 5

Ch. 2:11-21

Paul Rebukes Peter

Why did Paul rebuke

Peter? In other words, what was wrong with Peter?

Paul Rebukes Peter

What was the motivation for Peter doing this?

Paul Rebukes Peter

CHALLENGE QUESTION: What did Paul mean when he asked

Peter, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like

Jews?” How was Peter living like a Gentile?

Paul Rebukes Peter

CHALLENGE QUESTION:

Why did Paul rebuke Peter in public rather than trying to correct him in private like Jesus taught in Matt

18:15ff?

Paul Rebukes Peter

Gal. 6:2; 1 Cor. 9:21

The Law

No Justification

Made Sinners.

Requires Death To

Itself.

If Salvation

Comes…Then Why

Did Christ Die?

Faith

Justification

Saved, Not Perfect.

Requires To Live For

Christ.

This Is What Was

Needed For

Salvation.

Lesson 6

Ch. 3

Paul Rebukes The Galatians

Who Bewitched The Galatians?

Foolish = Luke 24:25

The Judaizers

Paul Continues The Diatribe He Started In

Chapter 2.

The 4 Diatribe Questions

Question 1 = Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith (3:2)?

Question 2 = Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh

(3:3)?

The 4 Diatribe Questions

Question 3 = Did you suffer so many things in vain — if indeed it was in vain (3:4)?

Question 4 = Does He then, who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith (3:5)?

Abraham (6-12)

What makes you a son of Abraham?

When God told Abraham that all nations would be blessed through him, He said this to indicate He was going to justify who?

Abraham (6-12)

Those Who are of Faith are BLESSED with Abraham.

Those Who are of the (works) Law are CURSED.

Why is everyone cursed who tries to be justified by the Law?

Christ (13-14)

How was the curse removed?

Deut. 21:23

Jesus Removed the Curse by Becoming a

Curse.

This Happened so that the Blessing of

Abraham Could Come to the Gentiles.

The Covenant (15)

CHALLENGE QUESTION (15-18) – What is the apparent charge that Paul is answering concerning the promise to Abraham and the

Law of Moses?

The Covenant (15)

The Covenant With Abraham Was Made Before or

After Circumcision?

The Covenant With Abraham Was Made Before or

After the Law?

Judaizers = The Law Changed The Previous

Covenant With Abraham.

Not Even Man Changes A Ratified Covenant.

The Seed (16-18)

The Promise of Blessing Came Through One

Seed − Christ!

Interpretation = Those Blessed in Abraham are

Those in CHRIST!

The Blessing is Based on a Promise Not on the Law.

Why the Law? Is It Contrary To The Promise (21-29)?

The Law CHRIST

• Kept Jews In Custody

• Shut Jews Up To Faith

• Brought Faith (Fulfilled the Promise).

• Became the Jew’s Tutor

• When Christ Came

There Was No Need

For The Tutor (Law)

• Made the Gentiles Sons of Abraham…Through

Faith!

The Promise

“Beforehand”

To Abraham

(8)

Because of Faith

(6)

Works of Faith

(5)

Sons of Abraham

Jews and Gentiles

Vs. 8-9, 26-29

The Law

Nullify

(19-20)

Works of the Law

(5)

Jews Only

What is Still Practiced in the “Church” Today

From the O.T.?

The Sanctuary

The Priesthood & Garments

Music

Mediation

Incense

The Altar

Lesson 7

Ch. 4

The first illustration Paul uses in this chapter is of slaves and children. Before Christ came, men (children) were held in bondage under what?

How did men go from being slaves to sons?

Before becoming sons, the Galatians were slaves to what?

4:1-12 - These Verses Illustrate the Point Paul

Made at the End of Chapter 3.

Illustrations:

 Tutor/pupil

Sons/slaves

3:22 = “Shut up all men under sin”

3:23 = “Kept in custody under the Law”

3:23 = “Being shut up to faith”

4:2 = “The son is kept under guardians”

4:3 = “Held in bondage to the elemental things”

4:7 = “A slave”

We Have the Same Temptation Today. What

Do We Turn Back To That is Weak and

Worthless?

Eph. 4:22ff

Col. 3:5

1 Pet. 4:3

“You Observe Days, Months, and Seasons, and

Years.”

Under what circumstances did Paul preach the gospel to the Galatians the first time? How did the Galatians react to Paul’s condition?

“Educated Guesses”

The After Effects of Stoning (Acts 14:19-21).

An Eye Disease (Gal. 4:14; 6:11).

Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh (2 Cor. 12:7-9).

Paul Brings This Up Because Something Had

Changed. Paul Was Now Their Enemy.

What Caused This Change?

In verse 17, Paul mentions “them.” Who do you think he is talking about and what are they doing?

Paul’s Reputation Was Unjustly Damaged By

The Judaizers. We Need To Be Careful We

Don’t Do the Same to Others!

Prov. 22:1

James 3:5

Paul ends the chapter with an allegory of Hagar and Sarah. What does…

Hagar represent?

Sarah represent?

Bondwoman

Not Barren

Son = Ishmael

Born of the Flesh

Old Covenant

Mt. Sinai

Present Jerusalem

Slaves (Bound)

Free Woman

Barren (Isa. 54:1)

Son = Isaac

Born of the Promise

New Covenant

Canaan

(Land of Promise)

New Jerusalem

Free

Ishmael Persecuted Isaac (Gen. 21)

Likewise

The Jews are Persecuting The Children of

Promise.

Ishmael and Hagar were Cast Out and Not to be Heirs with Isaac.

Likewise

The Law Needs to be Cast Out.

Lesson 8

Ch. 5

How would the Galatians subject themselves to a yoke of slavery again?

Binding the Law Upon Themselves as The Law of

Salvation.

This Verse Appears To Be A Closing Remark of the

Hagar/Sarah Analogy.

The Law = Slavery (Bondage, Custody)

Faith = Freedom

We are not tempted to be enslaved to the

Law today, but what are tempted to be enslaved to?

Look at verse 19.

Paul Makes It Personal…“I Paul”…“I Testify

Again”

What does it mean to receive circumcision?

If a man receives circumcision then he has to do what?

When you receive circumcision the following happens…

1.

2.

3.

4.

Christ Is No Benefit To You.

You Are Obligated To Keep The Whole

Law…To Be Justified By It.

You Are Severed From Christ.

You Fall From Grace (So It Is Possible).

Instead, We are to be Waiting for the

Hope of Righteousness…

We Wait…

Through The Spirit .

By Faith .

Circumcision means nothing in Christ.

What does have meaning in Christ?

Faith Working Through Love.

Who Can Have That? Jews and Gentiles.

Paul Talks About The Judaizers As One Man.

CHALLENGE QUESTION : Looking at the first

10 verses, Paul is basically telling the

Galatians that they should do what to the

Judaizers.

Question = Who Was Accusing Paul of

Preaching Circumcision Still?

Possibility # 1 = The Judaizers Were Accusing

Paul of Inconsistency.

Possibility # 2 = The Judaizers Were

Claiming That Paul Does Preach Circumcision.

Proof?

 He Had Timothy Circumcised

The whole Law can be summed up how?

What is the new problem Paul brings up now?

Paul talks about them biting and devouring one another. We all know that it takes two to Tango.

It is most likely that which two parties were involved in fighting one another?

What is the source of their fighting and quarrels? What can keep us from fighting with others?

5:18, Paul talks about the Galatians being led by the Holy Spirit.

What can you conclude about being led by the

Holy Spirit from this context?

It is one’s choice to be led.

Being led is the same thing as

“walking by the Spirit.”

Requires you to crucify the flesh.

Deeds of the Flesh

They Are

Evident…Visible.

They Are Opposite

The Fruit of the Spirit.

Those Who Practice

Them Will Not Inherit

The Kingdom.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

Deeds of the Flesh

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

Immorality

Impurity sensuality, idolatry,

Sorcery

Enmities strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger

Disputes

Dissensions factions,

Envying

Drunkenness

Carousing and things like these.

The Fruit of the Spirit

1.

Love

2.

3.

4.

5.

Joy

Peace

Patience

Kindness

6.

7.

8.

9.

Goodness

Faithfulness

Gentleness self-control

Lesson 9

Ch. 6

Fighting

Bear Burdens

(2).

Do Good To All

Men (10).

Boasting

Don’t Think

Highly (3)

Examine Your

Work (4)

Bear Your Own

Load (5)

Sin – Flesh

Forgive &

Restore (1)

Sow To The

Spirit (8).

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