Galatians 4:11 11I am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain. Truth to Learn Someone was faithful and diligent in preaching the gospel to you when you got saved. You should be grateful to them and to God. Behind the Words “I am afraid” is...

  Galatians 4:10 10You observe days and months and seasons and years. Truth to Learn Our relationship with God is based on faith, not on the observance of special days and events. Behind the Words The word translated observe is “paratēreisthe,” which is made up of “para” meaning close or...

  Galatians 4:9 9But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage? Truth to Learn Once you are truly saved through faith in Christ,...

    Galatians 4:8 8But then, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods. Truth to Learn Before we were saved we may have thought that we were serving God, but we weren’t. We were merely performing ritualistic practices. Behind the Words...

    Galatians 4:7 7Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Truth to Learn Because we have been adopted as a child of God we now have all the rights of inheritance, permanently. Review Before the...

    Galatians 4:6 6And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" Truth to Learn Through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ we can know the most intimate fellowship with the God of all creation. Behind...

    Galatians 4:5 5to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Truth to Learn Through faith in Christ we have been adopted by God into His family with all the rights of inheritance. Behind the Words The word “redeem” is from...

    Galatians 4:4 4But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, Truth to Learn All of mankind was under the bondage of religious practices and observances until God’s exact timing for the coming of Jesus...

  Galatians 4:3 3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. Truth to Learn Spiritually we have been kept in bondage by the ritualistic practices and observances from which Christ came to free us. Behind the Words The word translated “children” is...

Galatians 4:2 2but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. Truth to Learn The Law of Moses served as a guardian and as a decision maker for all who were under the law until the coming of the Messiah who freed all from the confines...