Galatians: Defending the Truth (Reading the Bible Today)
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Overview
The Apostle Paul’s earliest surviving letter, Galatians gives its readers an insight into Paul’s life as a Pharisee and persecutor, and the change brought about through his amazing conversion. Paul Barnett’s enlightening commentary shows readers the apostle Paul’s defence of the truth he now held to at any cost, and his heartfelt desire to protect the Galatian church from false teachers who sought to impose the old law-driven perspective on new Christians, both Jew and Gentile.
- Explains the message of the letter centered in three realities
- Provides an overview and explanations thought out the passages of the book
- Designed for ordinary church people to read as individuals but also to study together in small groups
- Who were the Galatians and when did Paul write to them?
- Greetings and purpose (1:1-9)
- The independence of Paul's gospel (1:10-24)
- 'Fellowship' in Jerusalem (2:1-10)
- Crisis in Antioch (2:11-21)
- Paul's challenge to the Galatians (3:1-25)
- Arguments from sonship (3:26-4:31)
- Freedom—Life in the Spirit (5:1 6:10)
- Conclusion (6:11-18)