NEXT BIBLE STUDY on July 21, 2024 at 9:00 AM
No Live Stream on July 14, 2024.
Handout 1:
Class #29: “God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts” (Galatians 4:6). All who believe and are baptized have been given the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38), so that they know they are saved through faith in Jesus Christ and thus call God their Father. On account of our great weakness, it is […]
Class #28: The child-heir owns everything, but until he reaches the time set by the Father, he isn’t any different from a slave. The child-heir is under guardians and stewards until the age of majority. This example applies to the Old Testament Jews who were placed under the law until the coming of the […]
Class #27: The purpose of the law was to reveal sin. The purpose of the promise(gospel) was to give life. The purpose of the law and the purpose of the gospel are not against each other. The law prepares us to receive the gospel. The law functioned like a παιδαγωγος (paidagogos, “tutor” NKJV, from […]
Class #26: When God Himself spoke the law to the Jews at Mt. Sinai, the people trembled with fear and ran away. Their reaction showed that the law certainly didn’t justify or give life. The people cried out to Moses for a mediator, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not […]
Class #25: Sinful human reason wrongly assumes that God gave the law so that by keeping it people would become righteous and thus be saved. When told that the law and the works of the law do not contribute to our salvation, the usual response is to assume an antinomian (against the law) position. Slanderously […]
Class #24: In Galatians 3:15-18, St. Paul uses the example of the unchangeability of a probated last will and testament to teach about the divine covenant which God made with Abraham and Christ (Genesis 3;15, Galatians 22:18). The introduction of the law 430 years later cannot annul the promises made to Abraham and received through […]
Class #23: When St. Paul teaches “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us” (Gal 3;13), he is uniting the fulfillment of the Law and the promise of the Gospel in one Person, Jesus. Our Savior, who had led a perfect life of keeping the law, was […]
Class #22: In Galatians 3:11-12, St. Paul cites two Scripture passages, one gospel and one law. Surprisingly both law and gospel speak of the promise of giving life. The gospel in Habakkuk 2:4 shows that God has always intended to declare a sinner righteous and give eternal life through faith. The law in Leviticus 18:5 […]
Class #21: Galatians 3:10 teaches that those who seek to be justified by the law are under the curse of the law. St. Paul cites Deuteronomy 27:26, which leaves no loopholes from which we could escape from that curse. The curse is the divine verdict/pronouncement of wrath, death and destruction by God against lawbreakers. The […]
Class #20: Abraham “believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Galatians 3:6, Genesis 15:6). All of the Old Testament upholds the Scriptural doctrine of justification by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. The promise given to Abraham was not that he was to be the father of the Jewish nation. God’s […]