Galatians Summary Outline Ch 1-2: Defense of Message and Messenger Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works Ch 5-6: New Life in the Spirit

Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith 3:10-14 The Curse of Works 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

Ch 3-4: Grace-Faith versus Law-Works 3:1-9 The Preeminence of Faith 3:10-14 The Curse of Works 3:15-18 The Precedent of Promise 3:19-25 The Purpose of the Law 3:26-4:7 Sons and Heirs through Christ 4:8-18 The Emptiness of Legalism 4:19-31 Law and Grace Cannot Coexist

The legalizers “gospel” “The Test Question” Believing what was heard “observing the law”? The true gospel The legalizers “gospel” 3:6-9 Faith (“Abraham”) 3:15-18 Faith (“covenant”) 3:23-29 Faith (“heirs”) 3:10-14 Law (“the curse”) 3:19-22 Law (“transgressions”) 4:1-7 Law (“bondage”)

eidotej de oti ou dikaioutai anqrwpos ex Galatians 2:16 eidotej de oti ou dikaioutai anqrwpos ex and knowing that is not justified a man by ergwn nomou ean me dia pistewj Cristou works of law except (but) through faith of (in) Christ Ihsou( kai hmeij eij Cristou Ihsoun Jesus, even we in Christ Jesus episteusamen( ina dikaiwqwmen ek believed, in order that we might be justified by pistewj Cristou kai ouk ex ergwn nomou( faith in Christ and not by works of law, oti ex ergwn nomou ou dikaiwqhsetai pasa because by works of law no will be justified all sarx flesh

kata,ra KATARA (n) evpikata,ratoj EPIKATARATOS (v) “Curse” kata,ra KATARA (n) evpikata,ratoj EPIKATARATOS (v)

kata,ra KATARA (n) evpikata,ratoj EPIKATARATOS (v) avna,qema ANATHEMA “Curse” kata,ra KATARA (n) evpikata,ratoj EPIKATARATOS (v) avna,qema ANATHEMA

Interpretation EXEGESIS Greek compound word lit. “out from to guide or lead”

Interpretation EXEGESIS EISEGESIS Greek compound word lit. “out from to guide or lead” EISEGESIS lit. “into to guide or lead”

Galatians 3:10 Donald Campbell “Contrary to what the Judaizers taught, the Law could not justify; it could only condemn….The breaking of only one command even once brings a person under the curse; and since everybody fails at some point, all are under the curse. The proposition that a person can gain divine acceptance by human effort is therefore totally destroyed.”

Galatians 3:11 James Boice “One must not think that the law did nothing but condemn during all the centuries between the giving of the law through Moses and the coming of Jesus. On the contrary, the law itself showed the way of salvation.”