Day 31 - Child Not Slave!

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Prayer Suggestion |

Take a deep breath.

We have been at this for a year now.

Please remember to take moments for yourself.

Pray. Rest. Drink water.

Move your body if you can.

Christ is with us.

 

From Diocesan Digest | Episcopal Diocese of Oregon | March 11, 2020

Bible in Time |

Thursday | Third Full Week in Lent |

New Testament Study, Day  |

It’s 50 - 58 CE/a.d

Today - Galatians 4

Next - Galatians 5

Next Assignments Calendar

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Edwards has asked us to pause and read 

the Letter to the Galatians. *


I am using NOAB5, Galatians, text and 

notes as the source of this background for you.

Chapter 4

Paul entreats the Galatians to be an heir and a child of God and not to revert to their old ways. They are not slaves but free in Jesus Christ and heir to God as a child of God.


vs. 2

But when the fullness of time had come,
God had sent his Son,
born of a woman,
born under the law,
in order to redeem those who were under the law,
so that we might receive adoption as children.

[Sorry, Paul tends to write in long sentences]


I broke up the verse to see the individual points of this message to the Galatians.

  • At a point in his/herstory, God changed things.

  • God sent Jesus - God’s Son and beloved.

  • Jesus was human and had a mom.

  • God did this to redeem everyone. Redemption is living with God in a relationship with God in the Spirit.

  • Our status has changed from slave to the law to become a full child of God.

  • You are the beloved of God just as God loves Jesus so God loves you and everyone else in all times and all places. 

  • I am related to everyone whether I like it or not because God loves me and everyone else. We are brothers and sisters in Christ by the action of God in Jesus, my brother.


Paul wants the Galatians not to go back to the old ways of the law but be a child, heir, beloved, and be blessed in life forever. (NOAB5, notes p.2084)


Paul longs to be with them now to repair the relationship with them.


Paul further explains his point by using the allegory of Hagar and Sarah. Hager is the old way, Sarah as the one pointing us to the heavenly home that is shared with all the children of God. (NOAB5, notes p.2085)


We are children of God. We are free and not slaves.


(all above from NOAB5 notes and my thoughts)  


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In Christ,

Dave Eitland

deitland@gmail.com

 

Note: “Revo.”, “Revolutionary”, “Edwards”
refers to our textbook “Revolutionary Bible
Study” by Gene Edwards, ISBN 978-0-97975157-8,
© 2009.

 

Also used notes from the New Oxford
Annotated Bible, 5th Edition, © 2018.
(NOAB5)

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    chapter

Posted to blog - 3/11/2021

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http://www.godisreal.today/pictures-of-jesus/
Greg Olson | Not Afraid

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