LESSON VII.-SABBATH, NOVEMBER 17, 1900

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Nov 7, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 45.

LESSON VII.—SABBATH, NOVEMBER 17, 1900

REVIEW.

HAVING studied the whole of the third chapter of Galatians, it will be well to pause and take a comprehensive view of it. As a preliminary step, however, read carefully through the first two chapters, so as to have clearly in mind the foundation of the third. If you can read and think through those chapters without the book in your hand, so much the better. Then read the third chapter through as a whole several times, noting carefully the connection of all the various parts as you pass along. The following questions may serve as a guide to the study, and may be suggestive of many more. Be careful, however, not to wander off into speculation. It is not by wandering, not by dreaming, or fancying, or guessing, that we arrive at an understanding of the Sacred Word, but by meditating upon it. Consider what it says, and the Lord will give you understanding.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

What does the apostle call the Galatians?
What does he indicate has been done to them?
By what question does he remind them of how they had received the Spirit? By what means was it?
In what did their foolishness consist?
How had the Spirit been ministered unto them, and miracles been wrought among them?
With whose experience was this work of faith in harmony?
Whose children, then, are they who hold to faith?
What was foreseen in Scripture?
What proof did God give that He would justify the heathen through faith?
In what words was the Gospel summed up to Abraham?
What, then, do all who are of faith receive? Who are blessed? With whom are they blessed?
What of those who propose to save themselves by the law?
Why are they cursed?
Who are cursed?
Is the curse for doing the law?
Then what would follow if any one did the law?
But is anybody made righteous by the law?
What is the evidence?
Who only can live in the law? Has anybody done it? Then in what condition are all men by nature?
What has Christ done for us?
What is the curse of the law?
How has Christ redeemed us from its curse?
In what way was He made a curse?
Why did He thus redeem us from the curse?
What is the blessing of Abraham?
What have we seen the curse of the law to be?
Since the curse comes from not continuing in the law, to what condition must the redemption from the curse bring us?
Being redeemed from the curse, what do we receive?
What is true of even a man's covenant?
To whom did God make promises?
How explicit is this statement? Who is the Seed?
How was the promise of God confirmed to Abraham?
How long was this before the giving of the law?
Then what could the law not do?
If the inheritance were to come through the law, what would become of the promise?
But how was the inheritance assured to Abraham?
What, then, was the use of the law?
What purpose does it serve? For how long?
In whose hand is it?
Who is the Mediator?
What great comfort do we get from the fact that the law is in His hand?
Is the law then against the promises of God? Why not?
How does it stand related to the promises?
What must that which gives righteousness also be able to give? Who only can give life? Then from whom alone can righteousness come?
What has the Scripture done to all men?
Where has it shut them up? What for?
What is the only door of escape?
What office, then, has the law? To whom does it drive men?
When we accept Christ by faith, what do we find?
What do we become? What about putting on Christ? Who put Him on?
What is it to be baptized into Christ?
What, then, becomes of all national and social distinctions?
If we be Christ's, what are we? If children, then what?
Then who constitute the one Seed?
And when will be the time when the Seed comes to whom the promise was made?