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THE SABBATH SCHOOL

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

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THE SABBATH SCHOOL

By Editor

LESSON XIII.—SABBATH, DECEMBER 29, 1900.

REVIEW.

NOTE.—The length of time we have been studying the first four chapters of Galatians, gives us an average of four verses of the Epistle each week. Since it is the book itself that we have been studying, and our attention is supposed to have been riveted to the text first of all, it surely ought not to be too much to expect that even those with the least time, and who are the least accustomed to study, should have these four chapters firmly fixed in their minds. It is these weaker ones that have been constantly kept in view in the preparation of the lessons. The aim has been to have them so short and simple that none could have any reasonable excuse for not learning them. Yet the book is so deep, so rich and full, that the most active minds can find an abundance of material for study in every lesson. It is not what we have been over, but what we retain and can carry with us, that does us good; so all earnest students will welcome a halting-place, where they can take a brief survey of the work done. The following questions, which are not designed to take the place of any questions the live teacher may ask, will suggest more topics than can be gone into in detail in an hour, but it is taken for granted that the details have already been sufficiently considered to enable the student to summarize. The answer to every question may be found in the text, or in some portion of Scripture that has been given a prominent place by the side of the text.

SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.

  1. Under what circumstances did the Galatians receive the Gospel?
  2. How vividly was it set before them?
  3. What was their early experience?
  4. What change had suddenly taken place?
  5. How had it been brought about?
  6. From what were they turning away? To what?
  7. Whom were they forsaking? Then whom were they then accepting?
  8. Were they consciously apostatizing from the faith?
  9. How had they begun their Christian life?
  10. How were they now seeking to carry it forward?
  11. With whose experience was their early experience identical?
  12. What were they therefore to know?
  13. How did God from the beginning propose to justify the heathen?
  14. What proof of this did He give?
  15. In what words was the Gospel preached to Abraham?
  16. Who, then, and only who, are blessed?
  17. Who are under the curse? Why?
  18. What is the curse of the law?
  19. How and by whom has redemption from the curse been wrought?
  20. Upon whom does the blessing come? Whose blessing do the Gentiles get through Jesus Christ?
  21. To whom were the promises made? How were they confirmed?
  22. What about the unchangeableness of the covenant?
  23. What was promised in the covenant?
  24. Could the giving of the law affect the terms of the inheritance? Why not?
  25. Why, then, was it given?
  26. What is the relation of the law to the promises made to Abraham and his seed?
  27. How long will it have this office to fulfil?
  28. Why will it no longer have that office when Christ comes and establishes the inheritance?
  29. In what condition does the Scripture—the law—hold all men?
  30. Then what hope is there for them? For what purpose does the law so emphatically remind men of their bondage under sin?
  31. How is freedom obtained?
  32. What do we put on? How? What do we all then become?
  33. Whose freedom do we then obtain?
  34. How do we then stand related to Abraham and the inheritance?
  35. Give a summary of the fourth chapter.
  36. What two states are presented?
  37. In what condition were we all by birth?
  38. What is it to be in bondage to the principles of the world?
  39. How does the world stand as regards God?
  40. How are we delivered from the bondage?
  41. What case is given as an illustration of the two classes?
  42. If we believe and accept the Spirit, whose children are we?
  43. Who is our mother?
  44. What was the only thing the old covenant could ever do for anybody? In what did it consist? Whence did it originate?
  45. Whence does the new covenant proceed?
  46. What place did Abraham look to?
  47. Where do we come if we believe God's Word?
  48. What must first be cast out? What is the bondage?
  49. What comfort is there in the command, "Cast out the bondwoman and her son"?
  50. What, then, is the exhortation given?
  51. Have you the freedom of Christ?