Book of Galatians
Chapters 1 and 2 are Personal
Chapters 3 and 4 are Doctrinal
Chapters 5 and 6 are Practical
The subject of the letter is “Law and
Grace.”
Chapters 1 and 2 are Personal. Paul is largely dealing with his own personal experiences. He shows how he, at one time a rigid, legalistic Jew, had been brought into the knowledge of the grace of God, and how he had to defend that position against legalists.
Chapters 3 and 4 are Doctrinal. In these chapters, the very heart of the letter, he opens up, as in the Book of Romans, the great truth of salvation by grace alone.
Chapters 5 and 6 are Practical. They show us the moral and ethical considerations that result from a knowledge of salvation by free grace.
PERSONAL
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Chapters 1
and 2
Lesson
1
1:1-5 Paul’s Salutation or Introduction
Lesson
2
1:6-9 No Other Gospel
Lesson
3
1:10-24 Paul’s Conversion and Apostleship
Lesson
4
2:1-10 The Gospel As Ministered to Jew and Gentile
Lesson
5
2:11-21 Peter’s Defection At Antioch
DOCTRINAL – Chapters 3 and 4
Lesson 6
3:1-9 “Who Hath Bewitched You?”
Lesson 7
3:10-18 Redeemed
from the Curse of the Law
Lesson 8
3:19-29 The Law as Child-Leader Until Christ
Lesson 9
4:1-7 The Adoption of Sons
Lesson 10
4:8-20 The Elements of the World
Lesson 11
4:21-31 A Divine Allegory
Practical -
Chapters 5 and 6
Lesson 12
5:1-6 Falling from Grace
Lesson 13
5:7-15 Faith Working by Love
Lesson 14
5:16-26 Liberty Not License
Lesson 15
6:1-10 Grace In Action
Lesson 16
6:11-18 Glorying in the Cross
Habakkuk 2:4 “The
just shall live by his faith.” Rom. 1:17, Gal. 3:11, Heb. 10:38
Bible themes: Romans (The just), Galatians (shall live), and Hebrews (by faith).