Galatians 3:26-4:31 Questions by Stephen Ricker
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All One in Christ
Questions for Study 4

Galatians 3:26-4:31
Memory Verse: 4:28

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I. All One in Christ (3:26-29)

1. How are we sons of God? (26) What does it mean to be clothed with Jesus? (27)

2. How are we one? (28) How is Jesus the key to understanding everything about the life of faith? (29)

II. God Sent His Son (4:1-7)

3. How does human law of inheritance reflect God's inheritance? (1-2) What were we in slavery to? (3) What are they? (Col. 2:8, 20-23)

4. What did Jesus subject himself to so that we may have full rights as sons? (4-5) Being sons how did God enable us to communicate with our daddy? (6) As sons what will we inherit? (7; Rom. 8:15-17; Gen. 15:1)

III. Until Christ is Formed in You (4:8-20)

5. What do the false gods mentioned in verse 8 have to do with special days in verse 10? What was Paul's reaction when he saw this amongst the Galatian believers? (11)

6. How did the Galatians respond to Paul the first time he came to them? (12-14) As a result of accepting the gospel Paul preached, what did they have that they now lost? (15-16) What can we learn about why some who claim to be believers have no joy? (5:22-23)

7. What wrong motives should we watch out for in preachers and teachers even though they are zealous? (17-18) What does Paul compare teaching and preaching the gospel to? (19-20) What does Paul compare teaching and preaching the gospel to? (19-20; John 3:3, 6)

IV. Hagar and Sarah (4:21-31)

8. What illustration from Genesis is sighted to further explain the point? (21-23) How was Isaac's birth extra-ordinary? (Rom. 4:19: Heb. 11:11-12)

9. What happened at Mt. Sinai that is represented by Hagar? (24-25; Ex. 19:3-6) What is the home of the free children represented by Sarah? (26-27; Rev. 3:12-13, 21:1-3; John 14:2-3)

10. What else can we learn about the children of the two women? (28-29) What is the result of those who do not live by faith, that is by the Spirit? (30) Whose child are you? (31)