Hope Sabbath School

Not only was Paul, a former Christian persecutor, going to preach Jesus as the Messiah, he was going to do it among the Gentiles!

Contrary to the accusations of Galatia's false teachers, Paul's apostleship and message were both God-given. 

Should unity be preserved at the cost of truth?

A close look at a key passage of scripture, one that introduces several words and phrases that are foundational to understanding the gospel as well as the rest of Paul's letter to the Galatians.

"Know from whence you came." For Paul, the Old Testament scriptures were not dead texts but the authoritative and living Word of God.

In this week’s lesson, Paul directs our attention to the relationship between God’s promise to Abraham and the law given to Israel 430 years later.

Many people try to seperate the law from the gospel. The fact is, though, without the law there would be no gospel.

We do not earn our salvation, or our peace, through our works.

Paul, in reaching out to the Galatians, wasn't just correcting theology; he was seeking to minister to those whom he loved.

Salvation was never by obedience to the law; biblical Judaism, from the start, was always a religion of grace.

What does it mean to be free in Christ?

“Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love.”—Robert Robinson

As believers we possess two natures, the flesh and the Spirit, and they are in conflict.

Those who have experienced God's saving grace must extend that same grace to other people.

Nowhere do our “glorious” human wisdom, our riches, and our might appear more clearly in all their futility and vanity than before the Cross of Christ—the focus of Paul’s letter to his erring flock in Galatia.