References:

• Quick Review
  • Gal 2:11-21
    • Confrontation
      • Clarifying and righting the Gospel
      • Spiritual battle for the Body of Christ (including Peter and Barnabas)
    • Justification by faith
      • Mnemonic - justified = “just as if I’d” never sinned.
      • By grace through trusting God’s Word of promise
  • Going forward - hang on
• Gal 3:1-14
  • Vs 1a&b - “You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a spell on you?” MSG
    • ἀνόητος (an-o'-ay-tos) 6x in NT - foolish, unwise
      • Luke 24:25 - the guys on the road to Emmaus
      • Paul’s admonition to Timmothy 1 Tim 6:2b-10
    • βασκαίνω (bas-kah'-ee-no) - a hapax legomenon
      • to speak ill of one, to slander - Demosthenes
      • to bring evil on one by feigned praise or an evil eye, to charm, bewitch one - Aristotle, Theocritus
        • Consider Acts 17:18-34 (esp. v 28)
        • In him we live and move and have our being - Epimenides of Crete
        • For we are indeed his offspring - Aratus in Phainomena
  • Vs 1c-4 - the picture of God’s gracious Gospel and question
    • προγράφω (prog-raf'-o) - προ: before & γράφω: writen - a way of saying that everything they had come to know about Jesus was coming from God’s Word
      • Gen 12:3, 15:6, 18:18, 22:18
      • Lev 18:5; Deut 21:23, 27:26
      • Hab 2:4
    • The question of order
      • Upon trusting the picture painted by the Word
      • The Spirit is given
  • Vss 5-9 - faith before works
  • Vss 10-14 - the curse and the removal of the curse
    • Trying to become right with God by works - curse
    • The way of faith is different
    • Jesus becomes our curse
    • Blessed like Abraham, through faith