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GALATIANS
Paul's Letter to the Galatians
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OUTLINE
of Galatians
I. INTRODUCTION: The Rightness of Paul’s Gospel Asserted, 1:1-10
A. Greeting, 1:1-4 (NKJV)
B. Loyalty to the Gospel
1. No Other Gospel, 1:6-10 (NIV & NABRE)
II. JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH DEFENDED: Paul’s Authority, 1:11 – 2:21
A. Paul Defends His Ministry: His Authority Acquired Through Revelation, 1:11-24 (NIV(*) & NASB)
1. Paul Called by God to Apostleship, 1:11-17 (NKJV & NIV)
2. Contacts at Jerusalem, 1:18-24 (NKJV)
B. The Council at Jerusalem: His Authority Approved by the Church in Jerusalem, 2:1-10 [NASB & NIV(*)]
C. His Authority Acknowledged in the Rebuke of Peter, 2:11-21
1. The Jewish-Gentile controversy: No Return to the Law, 2:11-21 (CEB & NKJV)
a. Peter’s Inconsistency at Antioch, 2:11-14 (NABRE)
b. Faith and Works: Justified by Faith in Christ, 2:15-21 (NABRE & LEB)
III. FAITH AND LIBERTY: Justification by Faith Explained: Paul’s Gospel, 3:1 – 4:31 (NABRE & NIV(*)
A. The Argument from Experience: Works versus the Spirit, 3:1-5 (NIV(*) & (CEB)
B. The Argument from Abraham, 3:6-9 (NIV(*)
1. Abraham: an example of righteousness (CEB)
C. The Argument from the Law, 3:10-4:11 (NIV(*)
1. The Law Brings a Curse, 3:10-14 (NKJV)
2. The Changeless Promise: The Promise to Abraham and His Descendant, 3:15-18 (NKJV & LEB)
3. The Addition of the Law, 3:19-29 (LEB)
a. Purpose of the Law, 3:19-25 (NKJV)
b. Sons and Heirs, 3:26-29 (NKJV)
4. No Longer Slaves But Sons and Heirs, 4:1-7 (LEB)
5. Do Not Be Enslaved Again, 4:8-12 (LEB)
D. The Argument from Personal Testimony, 4:13-20 (NIV(*)
1. Paul’s Personal Appeal to former loyalty, 4:13-20 (LEB & NABRE)
E. The Argument from an Allegory, 4:21-31
1. An Allegory on Christian Freedom, 4:21-31 (NABRE)
a. Hagar and Sarah Represent Two Covenants (LEB)
IV. EXHORTATION TO CHRISTIAN LIVING
A. Justification by Faith Applied: Paul’s Ethics, 5:1 – 6:10 (NIV(*)
1. In Relation to Christian Liberty, 5:1-15 (NIV(*)
a. Live in Freedom and Love One Another
2. In Relation to the Flesh and the Spirit, 5:16-26 (NIV(*)
a. Live by the Spirit and Reject the Deeds of the Flesh
a’. Two different ways of living: God’s Spirit and Our Own Desires, 5:16-25 (CEB & CEB)
3. In Relation to a Sinning Brother, 6:1-5 (NIV(*)
a. Bear and Share the Burdens (Carry One Another’s Burdens), 6:1-5 (NKJV & LEB)
4. In Relation to Giving, 6:6-10 (NIV(*)
a. Be Generous and Do Good (Do Good to All People), 6:6-10 (NKJV & LEB)
V. CONCLUSION: The Substance of Paul’s Instruction, 6:11-18 (NIV(*)
A. A Final Warning, 6:11-16 (LEB)
1. Not Circumcision but the New Creation: Glory Only in the Cross, 6:11-16 (NIV & NKJV)
B. Conclusion and Benediction, 6:17,18 (LEB)
(*) Bible. English. New International. 1986. The Ryrie study Bible.
GALATIANS, Chapter 3
1. Some Bible Verses
Justification by Faith
a. The Prophecy
Abraham
Genesis 12:1-3; 15:3-6 ; Romans, Chapter 4; Galatians 3:6-9
Genesis 12:1-3 King James Version (KJV)
1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I
will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 15:3-6 King James Version (KJV)
3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo,
one born in my house is mine heir.
4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him,
saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine
own bowels shall be thine heir.
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward
heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto
him, So shall thy seed be.
6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for
righteousness.
b. The Fulfillment of Prophecy
Romans 4:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Galatians 3:6-9 King James Version (KJV)
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
The Law Brings a Curse
Deuteronomy 21:22,23
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 King James Version (KJV)
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Christ Cursed for Us
Galatians 3:10-14
Law of Moses
The Purpose of the Law
Galatians 3:19-25 King James Version
(KJV)
19 Wherefore then serveth the law?
It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the
promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
20 Now a mediator is not a
mediator of one, but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the
promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have
given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
22 But the scripture hath
concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be
given to them that believe.
23 But before faith came, we were
kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
24 Wherefore the law was our
schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come,
we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
2) Sermons
01. English
Galatians 3:3
02. Español
03. Português
3) Notes
Galatians 3 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
Footnotes:
a. 3:1–14 Paul’s
contention that justification comes not through the law or the works of the law
but by faith in Christ and in his death (Gal 2:16, 21) is supported by appeals to Christian experience (Gal 3:1–5) and to scripture (Gal 3:6–14). The gift of God’s Spirit to the Galatians came from the gospel
received in faith, not from doing what the law enjoins. The story of Abraham
shows that faith in God brings righteousness (Gal 3:6; Gn 15:6). The promise
to Abraham (Gal 3:8; Gn 12:3) extends to
the Gentiles (Gal 3:14).
b. 3:1 Stupid:
not just senseless, for they were in danger of deserting their salvation.
c. 3:2 Faith in
what you heard: Paul’s message received with faith. The Greek can also mean “the
proclamation of the faith” or “a hearing that comes from faith.”
d. 3:3 On the
contrast of Spirit and flesh, cf. Rom 8:1–11. Having received the Spirit, they need not be circumcised now.
e. 3:4 Experience
so many things: probably the mighty deeds of Gal 1:5 but possibly the experience of
sufferings.
f. 3:6 Abraham…righteousness:
see Gn 15:6; Rom 4:3. The Galatians like Abraham heard with faith and experienced
justification. This first argument forms the basis for the further scriptural
evidence that follows.
g. 3:7–9 Faith is
what matters, for Abraham and the children of Abraham, in
contrast to the claims of the opponents that circumcision and observance of the
law are needed to bring the promised blessing of Gn 12:3; cf. Gn 18:18; Sir 44:21; Acts 3:25.
h. 3:10–14 Those who
depend not on promise and faith but on works of the law are under a
curse because they do not persevere in doing all the things written
in the book of the law (Gal 3:10; Dt 27:26) in order to gain life (Gal 3:12; Lv 18:5; cf. Rom 10:5). But scripture teaches that no one is justified before God by
the law (Gal 3:11; Hb 2:4, adapted from
the Greek version of Habakkuk; cf. Rom 1:17; Hb 10:38). Salvation,
then, depends on faith in Christ who died on the cross (Gal 3:13), taking
upon himself a curse found in Dt 21:23 (about
executed criminals hanged in public view), to free us from the curse of
the law (Gal 3:13). That the
Gentile Galatians have received the promised Spirit (Gal 3:14) by faith
and in no other way returns the argument to the experience cited in Gal 3:1–5.
i. 3:15–18 A third
argument to support Paul’s position that salvation is not through the law but
by promise (Gal 3:1–14) comes from legal practice and scriptural
history. A legal agreement
or human will, duly ratified, is unalterable (Gal 3:15). God’s covenant with Abraham and
its repeated promises (Gn 12:2–3, 7; 13:15; 17:7–8; 22:16–18; 24:7) is not
superseded by the law, which came much later, in the time of Moses. The
inheritance (of the Spirit and the blessings) is by promise, not by law (Gal 3:18). Paul’s
argument hinges on the fact that the same Greek word, diathēkē, can be
rendered as will or testament (Gal 3:15) and as covenant (Gal 3:17).
j. 3:16 Descendant:
literally, “and to his seed.” The
Hebrew, as in Gn 12:7; 15:18; 22:17–18, is a
collective singular, traditionally rendered as a plural, descendants, but
taken by Paul in its literal number to refer to Christ as descendant
of Abraham.
k. 3:17 Four
hundred and thirty years afterward: follows Ex 12:40 in the Greek (Septuagint) version,
in contrast to Gn 15:13 and Acts 7:6, for chronology.
l. 3:18 This
refutes the opponents’ contention that the promises of God are fulfilled only
as a reward for human observance of the law.
m. 3:19–22 A
digression: if the Mosaic law, then, does not save or bring life, why was
it given? Elsewhere, Paul
says the law served to show what sin is (Rom 3:20; 7:7–8). Here the
further implication is that the law in effect served to produce transgressions.
Moreover, it was received at second hand by angels, through a mediator,
not directly from God (Gal 3:19). The law
does not, however, oppose God’s purposes, for it carries out its function (Gal 3:22), so that righteousness comes
by faith and promise, not by human works of the law.
n. 3:19 The
descendant: Christ (Gal 3:16). By angels: Dt 33:2–4 stressed
their presence as enhancing the importance of the law; Paul uses their role to
diminish its significance (cf. Acts 7:38, 53). A mediator:
Moses. But in a covenant of promise, where all depends on the one God, no
mediator is needed (Gal 3:20).
o. 3:23–29 Paul adds
a further argument in support of righteousness or justification by faith and
through God’s promise rather than by works of the law (Gal 2:16; 3:22): as children of God, baptized into
Christ, the Galatians are all Abraham’s descendant and heirs of the
promise to Abraham (Gal 3:8, 14, 16–18, 29). The
teaching in Gal 3:23–25, that
since faith (Christianity) has come, we are no longer under the
law, could be taken with the previous paragraph on the role of the Mosaic law,
but it also fits here as a contrast between the situation before faith (Gal 3:23) and the
results after faith has come (Gal 3:25–29).
p. 3:24–25 Disciplinarian:
the Greek paidagōgos referred to a slave who escorted a child to
school but did not teach or tutor; hence, a guardian or monitor. Applying this to the law fits the role
of the law described in Gal 3:19–25.
q. 3:26 Children
of God: literally “sons,” in contrast to the young child under the
disciplinarian in Gal 3:24–25. The term includes males and females (Gal 3:28).
r. 3:27–28 Likely a
formula used at baptism that expresses racial, social-economic, and sexual
equality in Christ (cf. Col 3:11).
s. 3:27 Clothed
yourselves with Christ: literally, “have put on Christ”; cf. Rom 13:14; Eph 4:24; Col 3:10. Baptismal imagery, traceable to the Old Testament (Jb 29:14; Is 59:17) but also
found in pagan mystery cults.
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