Imperishable Inheritance

After urg­ing the Gala­t­ian Chris­tians to not live as though they were under the Mosaic stip­u­la­tions, Paul then warns them of using their lib­erty as a license for an immoral life. He fur­thers his dis­course on the supremacy of life in the Spirit then life under the Mosaic Law. The Spirit brought us into true freedom, […]

Paul’s let­ter to the Gala­tians is often seen as hav­ing three divi­sions: biog­ra­phy (chps. 1–2), the­ol­ogy (chps. 3–4), and finally ethics (chps. 5–6). We are start­ing to look at Paul’s prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tion of the pre­vi­ous four chap­ters. We begin to see more of Paul’s robust the­ol­ogy of jus­ti­fi­ca­tion by faith alone in Christ alone by […]

What fol­lows is Paul’s con­tin­ued plea that the Gala­tians not live under bondage to the Mosaic Law at the insis­tence of the Judaiz­ers. He does so by tak­ing the his­tor­i­cal story of Abraham’s two sons Isaac and Ish­mael and alle­go­rizes1 the his­tor­i­cal event to con­vey to the theme the free­dom they now enjoy and to […]