NEXT BIBLE STUDY on August 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM on Number 20.
Overhead 1: Text-for-Numbers-20.pdf
SHOWCASE: Children's Genesis Study - 2022 and 2023
SHOWCASE: Adult Genesis Study - 2021 & 2022
Class #17: St. Paul continues to emphasize the contrast between righteousness by(διά) faith in Christ and righteousness by (διά) law. The Scriptural teaching of justification by faith cannot allow the introduction of even a drop of works-righteousness otherwise grace is frustrated and Christ died for nothing. The law has no place in the doctrine of […]
Class #16: St. Paul declares that Jews know—because of the teaching of the Old Testament—that no flesh is justified by keeping the law(Ps 143:2). Therefore, in order to be justified according to the promise of the Gospel(Mk 16:16), Christians have believed in Jesus Christ. With Galatians 2:17-18, St. Paul shows the logical result of what […]
Class #15: Concerning those things which are neither commanded nor forbidden by the Scriptures (called adiaphora), we are free to do or not do. However, when St. Peter by his pretense began to compel the Gentiles to keep the ceremonial food laws in order to be saved(2:14), the principle doctrine of Christianity was at stake. […]
Class #14: St. Peter had been taught by a revelation (Acts 10-11) that “God does not show favoritism” and “everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins through His name.” Later Peter had proclaimed that same Gospel message at the Apostolic Council (Acts 15:7-11) which Sts. Barnabas, Titus and Paul had attended (Galatians 2:11-21). […]
Class #13: When it comes to “the truth of the gospel” (Galatians 2:5, 2:14, 3:1) St. Paul is not willing to budge even a little. In matters of life and weakness, he shows forth great love and bears all things(1 Cor 13:7). He was not critical of St. Peter eating with the Gentiles (2:12), for […]
Class #12: In Gal. 1:20, St. Paul swears for the sake of the Gospel (Heb 6:16). He transitions from his defense of his immediate divine call to a defense of the content of “the faith” (Gal. 1:23)—“the truth of the gospel” (2:5). The gospel which St. Paul preached among the Gentiles was presented to the […]
Class #11: St. Paul defends both his apostolic office and the gospel message which he had preached to the Galatians. The message of the gospel is that man is saved by grace through faith alone apart from works. The ultimate proof that salvation is apart from any merit or worthiness in man is the Scriptural […]
Class #10: The false judaizing prophets, who were troubling the Galatians, had denied St. Paul’s apostolic call and perverted the Gospel. St. Paul’s response was to defend his call and to intricately connect it with the true Gospel message. St. Paul was called immediately by Jesus (not by or through men) and the Gospel of […]
Class #9: The work of a faithful pastor over many years can be ruined by a heretic so quickly. Though we should rightly be concerned about falling into the gross outward sins(Jude 4) of immorality, there is a sneakier way in which we can fall away from the true Gospel. In Galatians, the Judaizers are […]
Class #8: St. Paul makes a distinction between the Galatians and the false teachers. In attempting to restore (6:1) the people of the congregations, he is gentle even while he reveals their error. However, when St. Paul speaks about the false teachers(1:9, 5:10, 5:12), he is rough and even condemning of those who are troubling […]