Galatians 1:6-9 — What is the ‘different gospel’ in this letter? A look at Colossians 2-4, Romans 5-7

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Who makes us holy? Paul calls his hearers to remember that it is Yeshua who makes us holy. Yeshua makes us holy when He creates in us a new heart. We discover the definition of sin and the remedy for sin in the same text. Paul is not giving the Galatians a new Torah, a new teaching. He is sending them back to the old ways that were there all along yet hidden and ignored. We explore the “new covenant” transformation from “old self” to “new self” in Colossians 2–4 and Romans 5–7.

Thought Questions

Passages: Gal. 1:6-9; Colossians 2-4 (especially, Col. 3:5-11); Romans 5-7 (especially, Rom 6:1-11)

Galatians 1:1-9 notes

What is an “identity marker”? How are we to be identified?

Is the Torah punitive?

Where is the ministry of condemnation?

Where is the ministry of reconciliation?

Why don’t people want to follow the law?

Reader: Bill K. Speaker: Jeff Quackenbush.