Paul talks about how trying to be good enough for God is bondage. LIving under a thousand rules is a type of captivity, but being released from all that legalism is freedom. Why go back to that? But the Galatians were trying to go back, and it made no sense. Join David Alley as he reads Galatians 5 and then discusses the chapter and these issues.
Paul compares Abrahams experience with Hagar having a son, and his experience with Sarah having a son and shows how one was by faith, and one was by human effort. But only one of these two ways worked how God intended. What do we learn from this? Join David Alley as he reads Galatians 4 and then discusses the chapter and these issues.
Paul loved the Christians in Galatia, but after leaving they came under the spell of strange ideas - they were bewitched. Paul writes to sort that out. Join David Alley as he reads Galatians 3 and then discusses the chapter and these issues.
The issue about the negative Jewish influence on Christian faith was influential and not always easy to discern, so much so that Peter himself was led astray, and then challenged by Paul. Join David Alley as he reads Galatians 2 and then discusses the chapter and these issues.