Study 5 From The Book of Galatians Is:
Galatians 4:8-5:1
1. According to this passage, what
does Christian freedom imply?
2. In what way is Paul’s reaction
to the Galatians’ condition indicative and illustrative of pastoral concern? Do
we know any similar concern for the spiritual well-being others?
3. Verses 21-31. Paul uses Gn. 16 as an allegory. In this
picture, what is the position of those ‘under law’, and what, in contrast, that
of believers? What is the point of Paul’s quotation of (a) Is. 54:1, and (b)
Gn. 21: 10-12?
Note 4:17, 18. A reference to
the new teachers, who were eager to win the favour of the Galatians believers in
order to cut them off from Paul and his gospel so that they would have no-one
to turn to but themselves. If these teachers had really come to do good. Paul
would have raised no objection (verse 18).
