Galatians 3:1-6 - Foolish Galatians

As Paul is speaking to Peter at the end of Galatians chapter 2 the screen fades out and when it comes back into focus we see Paul talking to the Galatian readers (or hearers). The transition is seamless. We've left the narrative portion of the epistle and entered the didactic. Here begins his argument for the superiority of his gospel to the law-gospel of the Judaizers. His first argument is an argument from experience:

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.--Galatians 3:1 (ESV)

This is followed by a series of rhetorical questions:

Let me ask you only this: 

(1) Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? 

(2) Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 

(3) Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? 

(4) Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—

Then Paul concludes this portion of the argument by quoting from Genesis 15 and talking about the faith of Abraham.

just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?

What I did in this Bible study was cover these verses thoroughly. We look at the argument Paul is making and what it has to say to us about how we are made right with God. There are implications here for the ministry of the church as well as how we interpret the scripture. I hope you will take the time to listen, to learn, and to grow in your faith. Just click the link below and you can stream the audio. God bless.



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