Life-Study of Galatians

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The Background and Subject of the Book _{msg. 1}

I. The background
A. The churches in Galatia bewitched by the Judaizers
B. The churches in Galatia distracted from Christ to law
1. Brought to nought from Christ
2. Fallen from grace
3. To be justified by law
4. To practice circumcision
5. To be perfected by the flesh
II. The subject
A. To rescue the distracted believers out of the evil religious age
B. Paul becoming an apostle
C. Grace and peace to the churches from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

The Apostle's Gospel _{msg. 2}

I. The gospel of grace
II. The unique gospel
III. Not according to man
IV. Not received from man
V. Not taught by man
VI. Received through the revelation of Jesus Christ
VII. Preaching this gospel as a slave of Christ

God's Son Versus Man's Religion _{msg. 3}

God’s pleasure to reveal His Son in us
The living Person of the Son of God
Treasuring traditions in place of Christ
The Son, the Father, and the Spirit
The embodiment of the Triune God realized as the all-inclusive Spirit
God’s unique intention
The living Person revealed
The living Person versus all things

The Revelation of God's Son in Us _{msg. 4}

Veils keeping us from knowing Christ
Unbelievers blinded by the God of this age
The need to drop our concepts
Turning our hearts to the Lord
God’s pleasure
An inward revelation
A subjective revelation
In our spirit by the Spirit
Making us a new creation

The Formation of Paul's Apostleship _{msg. 5}

I. Set apart by God from his mother’s womb
II. Called by God through His grace
III. Having the Son of God revealed in him
IV. Not conferring with flesh and blood
V. Not going up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before him
VI. Going away to Arabia away from other Christians and returning to Damascus
VII. After three years going up to Jerusalem to see Cephas and James
VIII. Going to Syria and Cilicia of the Gentile world
IX. Unknown by face to the churches of Judea
X. The churches in Judea hearing that the former persecutor now preaches the faith which once he ravaged

Paul's Faithfulness and Peter's Unfaithfulness to the Truth of the Gospel _{msg. 6}

I. Paul’s faithfulness
A. Going up to Jerusalem according to revelation
B. Privately laying the gospel which he preached before those of reputation
C. Not even Titus compelled to be circumcised
D. Not yielding in subjection to the false brothers
E. Keeping the truth of the gospel
F. Receiving nothing from those of reputation
G. Having been entrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision
H. Opposing Peter to his face
II. The unfaithfulness of Peter
A. Having eaten with those of the uncircumcision
B. Shrinking back and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision
C. The rest of the Jews joining him in hypocrisy
D. Barnabas carried away by their hypocrisy
E. Not walking straightforwardly in relation to the truth of the gospel
F. Compelling those of the nations to live like Jews

Freedom in Christ Versus Slavery Under Law _{msg. 7}

I. Slavery under law
A. The law, typified by Hagar, having no position in God’s promise and grace
B. The law unable to give life
C. Slaves under law striving to keep the law by the flesh
II. Freedom in Christ
A. Christ, being the life-giving Spirit, imparting life by grace
B. Life, imparted by Christ, producing sons like Isaac to inherit God’s promise
C. Sons of promise participating in God’s grace of life, enjoying freedom of life

The Truth of the Gospel _{msg. 8}

I. Man not justified by works of law
II. Law being the custodian to keep God’s chosen people until Christ came
III. Law being over after Christ came
IV. Under God’s New Testament economy
A. Man justified by faith in Christ
B. Man having life and living by faith
C. Man being dead to law that he might live to God
D. Man having Christ living in Him
E. Man being a new creation

Dead to Law but Living to God _{msg. 9}

Organic union
Cutting and joining
By faith in Christ
Living to our own laws
Living in the organic union
Presenting Christ in His loveliness

No Longer I, But Christ Living in Me _{msg. 10}

Not an exchanged life
The old “I” and the new “i”
Living with Christ
One life and one living
Dead to the law
Living Christ
Christ and the Son of God
The faith which operates in us
Appreciating the Lord Jesus
A revelation of God’s economy
The vision of Christ living in us

Not Nullifying the Grace of God _{msg. 11}

Grace in the New Testament
Greater than the law
The Son of God living in us
What grace does for us
Enjoying grace
God’s economy
Standing in grace

Christ Crucified _{msg. 12}

I. To give Himself for our sins that he might rescue us out of the present evil age
II. To give Himself for us that he might impart life to us and live in us in resurrection to free us from the bondage under law
III. To redeem us out of the curse of the law
IV. To fulfill the requirement of the law that we may have righteousness in Him
V. To make us dead to law that we might live to God
VI. To have us crucified with Him that we may be able to crucify our flesh
VII. To have the world crucified to us and us crucified to the world

Christ and the Spirit _{msg. 13}

I. Christ and the Spirit being one
II. Christ crucified on the cross
III. Christ entering as the Spirit into the believers
IV. The saved ones believing in the crucified and resurrected Christ, but receiving the Spirit
V. Christ in the revelation of God’s economy and the Spirit in our experience of life
VI. The believers receiving the Spirit as the all-inclusive and ultimate blessing of the gospel

Hearing of Faith Versus Works of Law _{msg. 14}

Supplying and receiving
The contrast between faith and law
Faith and grace
The objective and subjective aspects of faith
The hearing of faith in the meetings of the church
God’s intention in His economy

The Spirit — the Blessing of the Gospel _{msg. 15}

The contrast between faith and law
Twelve crucial subjects
The processed Triune God
The blessing of Abraham
Receiving the Spirit as the blessing
Receiving the Spirit by faith
A testimony to the proper experience of the inner life
The development of the organic union
The compound Spirit

The Spirit Versus the Flesh _{msg. 16}

Definitions of the flesh and the Spirit
Satan’s misuse of the law
The way of faith
How Satan frustrates the development of the organic union
Walking according to the Spirit in our spirit

The Gospel Preached to Abraham _{msg. 17}

I. The gospel by faith through man’s believing
II. Not as the law by works through man’s working
III. Preached before the giving of the law through Moses
IV. As a promise given to Abraham

The Promise Versus the Law _{msg. 18}

The fall, the curse, and the promise
God dealing with His people according to the promise
According to the law and through the tabernacle
Christ fulfilling the promise
Grace and faith

Faith Replacing Law _{msg. 19}

I. Law
A. God’s principle in dealing with man in the Old Testament economy
B. To expose man’s fallen condition
C. To keep man in its custody for Christ
D. To conduct man unto Christ
E. Related to the flesh
F. The works of law being under the curse
II. Faith
A. God’s principle in dealing with man in His New Testament economy
B. The principle by which God dealt with Abraham
C. Our believing in Christ, taking His Person and redemptive work as the object of our faith
D. Replacing law
E. Bringing us into the blessing promised to Abraham
F. Ushering us into Christ
G. Characterizing the believers in Christ and distinguishing them from the keepers of law

The Seed of Abraham and the Sons of Abraham _{msg. 20}

I. The seed of Abraham
A. Only one — Christ
B. Including all the believers who have been baptized into Him
C. To whom the promise was made before the law was given
D. The unique seed being the good land
II. The sons of Abraham
A. Of faith, based upon the principle of faith
B. Blessed with believing Abraham
C. Sons of God through faith in Christ
D. Baptized into Christ and putting on Christ
E. All one in Christ
F. Included in Abraham’s only seed

Baptized Into Christ, Putting on Christ, and All One in Christ _{msg. 21}

I. Baptized into Christ
II. Putting on Christ
III. All one in Christ

The Spirit of Sonship Replacing the Custody of the Law _{msg. 22}

Believing into Christ and being baptized into Him
Putting on Christ and one in Christ
Some crucial points
The time appointed of the father
Sonship — the focal point of God’s economy
The Spirit of the Son
The fullness of the time
Two sendings
The Spirit in our hearts
No longer slaves, but sons
Heirs through God

The Need for Christ to be Formed in the Heirs of Promise _{msg. 23}

Enslaved and deceived
Religious observances
Becoming as Paul was
An opportunity to minister Christ
Their blessedness
An appeal to the believers’ affection
The aim of the Judaizers
Paul’s travail
Ministering Christ
Paul’s perplexity
The need to be pure in motive

Two Covenants and Two Kinds of Children _{msg. 24}

Permeated and saturated with Christ
Occupied by the all-inclusive Spirit
The full enjoyment of the blessing of the gospel
Two sons
TWo women
Abraham’s descendants
ISHMAEL’S PERSECUTION OF Isaac
Sons of Abraham and children of the free woman
Five positive matters
The unveiling of God’s desire
The coming of Christ and of grace
The life-giving Spirit
Children according to Spirit
Our choice

Not Brought to Nought from Christ _{msg. 25}

I. Not entangled with a yoke of slavery
II. Not brought to nought from Christ
III. Expecting the hope of righteousness by the Spirit by faith

Getting Rid of the Leaven and Not Turning Freedom Into an Occasion for the Flesh _{msg. 26}

I. Getting rid of the leaven
A. Not dissuaded from obeying the truth
B. Not allowing a little leaven to leaven the whole lump
C. In nothing otherwise minded
D. Not letting the stumbling block of the cross be done away
E. Letting the troubling and upsetting ones bear the judgment and cut themselves off
II. Not turning freedom into an occasion for the flesh

Walk by the Spirit, Not by the Flesh _{msg. 27}

I. Walking by the Spirit
II. The war between the flesh and the Spirit
III. The works of the flesh
IV. The fruit of the Spirit

Crucifying the Flesh to Walk by the Spirit _{msg. 28}

The experience of the cross
Living and walking by the Spirit
A practical test
God’s purpose
Sonship made real and practical
Applying Christ’s crucifixion to experience the Spirit
Vainglory, provoking, and envying

How to Restore the Fallen One, How to Fulfill the Law of Christ, and How to Sow _{msg. 29}

I. How to restore the fallen one
II. How to fulfill the law of Christ
III. How to sow

Crucified to the Religious World to Live a New Creation _{msg. 30}

I. Paul’s large letters in writing
II. The boast of the Judaizers
III. The boast of the apostle
A. Only in the cross of Christ
B. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new creation
C. Walking by this rule
1. Peace and mercy
2. The Israel of God

The Brands of Jesus and the Grace of Christ _{msg. 31}

I. The brands of Jesus
II. The grace of Christ

Born of the Spirit to Receive the Spirit (1) _{msg. 32}

The miracle of regeneration
The meaning of regeneration
Receiving the all-inclusive Spirit
The constant receiving of the Spirit
Two extremes
Practice and enjoyment

Born of the Spirit to Receive the Spirit (2) _{msg. 33}

God’s ultimate intention
Two gifts and two tragedies
An intimate, organic relationship
Receiving the processed Triune God
Spiritual breathing
The proper use of the Bible
Healed through the supply of the Spirit
Not religious teachings, but receiving the Spirit
Pray-reading the word in Spirit
God’s purpose in regeneration
Turning from doctrine to the Spirit

Live and Walk by the Spirit _{msg. 34}

Sow Unto the Spirit to Reap Eternal Life _{msg. 35}

The focal point of Galatians
The contrast between flesh and Spirit
Two kinds of sowing
Taking the Spirit as our goal
The household of the faith
A glorious goal

Sow Unto the Spirit for the New Creation _{msg. 36}

Sowing unto the flesh
Aiming at the Spirit and reaping eternal life
A new creation
The reason for sowing unto the Spirit
The need for a governing vision
Fulfilling our need to love
Constituted of the Spirit and made new
Walking by this rule

Receiving and Enjoying the Grace of the Lord in Our Spirit _{msg. 37}

Peace and grace
Grace with our spirit
The Spirit of grace
Turning to the spirit, exercising the spirit, and enthroning the Lord

Two Kinds of Walk by the Spirit _{msg. 38}

Living by the Spirit
Walking about and walking in line
The compound Spirit
The ultimate consummation of the Triune God
The processed God
Receiving the Spirit
One spirit with the Lord

Walking in the Divine Rules and Steps by the Spirit _{msg. 39}

Two kinds of walk
Calling on the name of the Lord
Walking toward the goal
Walking by the Spirit as the rule
Walking by the new creation
Pursuing Christ and gaining Him
Practicing the church life
In the steps of Abraham and Paul

Walking by the Spirit as the Essence of Our Life and as the Path for Our Way _{msg. 40}

The Son of God versus religion and tradition
The Spirit
Two essences — the flesh and the Spirit
The essence and the path

Walking by the Spirit to Live Christ _{msg. 41}

A hidden love for the law
Four kinds of laws
Our failure to live Christ
A change of economy
Dead to the law
One life and one living
Receiving the Spirit
Baptized into Christ
Born of the Spirit to become sons of God
Christ formed in us
The fruit of the Spirit
Living according to the Spirit to express Christ

Walking by the Spirit According to the Elementary Rule to Live a New Creation and the Israel of God _{msg. 42}

Two kinds of walk by the Spirit
The principle of the new creation
A mysterious living
The Israel of God representing God

Walk by the Spirit in the Enjoyment of Christ in Our Spirit _{msg. 43}

Peace upon the Israel of God
Sons of God and the Israel of God
Two kinds of living
A new constitution
A walk with impact
Grace with our spirit
Enjoying the Lord by calling on His name

Walking by the Spirit as Sons of God (1) _{msg. 44}

God’s goal in redemption
The Spirit
The walk of God’s sons
Born of God to be His sons
Walking according to the Spirit
Conformed to the image of God’s firstborn Son
Redemption for sonship
What God is seeking today

Walking by the Spirit as Sons of God (2) _{msg. 45}

Sonship — the goal of God’s economy
After God’s kind
Redemption and regeneration
God’s creatures and God’s sons
A creature life or a son life?
Experiencing the Triune God
Walking by the Triune God
Three kinds of teachings

Walking According to the Elementary Rules _{msg. 46}

Elementary principles
Living a new creation
Holding to our own rules and principles
Taking the new creation as our basic principle
Walking by the Spirit as the elementary rule

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