1. Romans 56AD?
The Controversy
Lesson 2
4th Quarter
2017

2. AA p During his sojourn at Corinth, Paul found time to look forward to new and wider fields of service. .. To prepare the way for his labours among these brethren, many of whom were as yet strangers to him, he sent them a letter announcing his purpose of visiting Rome and his hope of planting the standard of the cross in Spain
While tarrying at Corinth, Paul had cause for serious apprehension concerning some of the churches already established. Through the influence of false
teachers … were rapidly gaining
ground among the believers in
Galatia. ..
The situation was critical. ..
He immediately wrote to the deluded believers, exposing the false theories
that they had accepted and with great severity rebuking those who were departing from the faith. AA p383

3. John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ. 
If men and women would but receive Him as their personal Saviour, He promised to restore to them the image of God, and to redeem all that had been lost through sin.
He presented to human beings the truth, without one thread of interwoven error. BLJ p224

4. But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry,
Sunday
Hebrews 8:6 
But now hath He obtained a more excellent ministry,
by how much also
He is the mediator
of a better
covenant, which
was established
upon better
promises. 
How?

5. What was Jesus tryig to teach him?
Matthew 19:17 
‘And he said unto him,
Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.’

6. Ceremonial Laws
Civil Laws
Health Laws
Blessings for Obedience
Curses for Disobedience
Jubilee laws
What went?
What stayed?
Was the law of God and those written by Moses treated differently? Deuteronomy 31:26
Deuteronomy 10:2
Monday

7. The Feast of First Fruits
Feasts of the Lord
The Sabbath
The Passover
The Feast of First Fruits
The Feast of Weeks
The Feast of Trumpets
The Day of Atonement
The Feast of Booths
Colossians 2:14+16, 17
Deuteronomy 31:24+26
Why don’t we keep them today?

8. Acts 15:1  And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 
V2..they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Tuesday

9. 51AD Distance Jerusalem-Antioch About 600km X2 1,200km How?
We are not told,
Most likely
Walk
150km
Boat
450km
Time?
Month x 2
51AD
Acts 15:3 walked

10. Acts 15:28  For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things
  That you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood,
and from things
strangled, and
from fornication:
from which if you
keep yourselves,
you shall do well.
Fare you well. 
Wednesday
Were they still keeping the Sabbath?
Acts15: ‘… in the synagogues every Sabbath day.’ 

11. ‘I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.’ Galatians 1:6, 7 
56AD?
Thursday

12. ‘…false teachers were mingling Jewish traditions with the truths of the gospel. Ignoring the decision of the general council at Jerusalem, they urged upon the Gentile converts the observance of the ceremonial law.
The situation was critical.
The evils that had been introduced threatened speedily to destroy the Galatian churches.’
Acts of the Apostles p383