Galatians | October 5, 2025

 

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Galatians 3

1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? 3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? 4 Did you suffer so many things in vain--if indeed it was in vain? 5 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 - 6 just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?

Talk Sheet Questions

  1.  What is the tone that Paul uses to raise his questions (1)? What about the situation justifies his tone?

  2.  Why does Paul call the Galatians “foolish”? What is so foolish about trying to be perfected by the flesh after beginning with the Spirit? (1-3)

  3.  How does Paul argue that relying on the law or works contradicts the way God has actually worked in their lives? Why does he bring up Abraham?

  4. Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Tell the story of your hearing with faith.

  5.  In what ways do you try to perfect yourself by the flesh? 

  6.  What are practical ways you can remind yourself and others to begin and continue the Christian life by faith and not by works?

     

Prayer

Pray that we would trust in the spirit for our perfection rather than ourselves.

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Scott Reavely