1. In last week’s lesson how is strength and weakness defined by those of the world and the false brethren compared to Paul and the Galatians when they received Paul?
2. How do those of the world treat those who are weak? How did the Galatians treat Paul when they received him?
3. Who does Paul refer to as being persecuted in Gal 4:29? Who did the persecuting?
4. According to Paul in this passage, who is born of the flesh? Who is born of the Spirit?
5. Who does Paul allegorically associate to the flesh and to the Spirit? What do these women represent?
6. Upon what was the covenant at Sinai based on?(Gal 4:25) Upon what is the Jerusalem above based? (Gal 4:26)
7. Which covenant enslaves, which one frees?
8. How do flesh and Spirit correspond to Law and Promise in regard to the two covenants?
9. Who are we children of? Who is sent away?
10. Upon what do we rest our hope, our trust and our destiny? Law or Promise?
11. What will be fulfilled at the end of the age? Law or Promise?
12. Who fulfills it, man or God?
13. What does this reveal concerning the nature of Adam and Eve in Eden before the Fall?
14. Can an asserted sovereign human will exist to accomplish the promises of God? Why or why not?
15. Ishmael represents Abram’s use of the flesh to accomplish the promise of God. How do we re-insert the Law into God’s work of sanctification, atonement, and the second coming? Is this application based on Law or Promise? Flesh or Spirit?
16. If sanctification is based upon Law restored by humanity at the end of the age then doesn’t Grace end since it is no longer required? Did Grace exist in the beginning or was it created in response to man’s fall?
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