Galatians and Thessalonians

1. Paul usually used political divisions.
2. References to Barnabas implies that he was well known to the readers.

1. Undermined Paul's apostleship.
2. Tried to degrade the gospel of grace.

Paul defends his apostleship and authenticity of his message

Justification

Personal Defense (1:1-2:21)
Polemical Argument (3:1-4:31)
Practical Exhortation (5:1-6:10)

Christian liberty from law.

1. writer
2. readers
3. word of greeting

Only through grace that we are released from the law.

1. Paul gives preference to divine sanction over human sanction.

soon or rapidly

No, only a reproof.

Turning to a different Gospel.

ετεροσ- different kind
αλλοσ- another kind
(Galatians 1:6)

1. This age will always be an evil one.
2. When a person forsakes grace, he abandons his only means of contact with God.
3. God is jealous of His grace, and so should we be.
4. We must warn people about false teaching. (1:8-9)
5. If we try to please people, we are excluded from devoted service to Christ.

Immediately

Person and work of Christ
Gospel is a person.

1. Church is precious to God.
2. Will cost you much to be a servant of God
3. God is sovereign in calling people to Himself.

To clarify his thinking. He did not go to Jerusalem.

1. Paul's conduct before his conversion
2. Peter and James agreed with Paul.
3. Syria and Cilicia are so far from removed from the apostles, couldn't have had contact with Paul.
4. In Judea so short a time that church would not have recognized Paul.

Jews

The Jews abandoned the Law as a method of justification.

Whenever Paul says "God forbid" in answer to a question, he is DENYING A FALSE CONCLUSION TO ARRIVE AT CORRECT PREMISE.

justification by faith

False

Verse 2 - "He" God

Gal 3:5

1. Method of justification determines method of sanctification. (If began in grace, remain in faith Gal 3:2-3)
2. False teachers attempt to bring people under their spell.
3. God is generous and supplies spiritual blessings (3:5).
4. All suffering would be in vain if they abandoned grace.
4. When God's Word is attested by experience, experience becomes a valid evidence.

Gen 15:6 - "Abraham believed and it was credited to him as righteousness."

In your seed, all nations would be blessed.

Deut 21:23 ' "Cursed is everyone who hands on a tree" (Gal 3:13)

1. Paul's Personal Defense (1-2)
2. Doctrine (3-4)
3. Application (5-6)

The cross

1. Bodily substance (Luke 24:39)
2. Humanity (1 Pet 1:24) - flesh is as grass
3. Weakness (Rom 8:3-4)
4. Sin Nature (Disposition to evil that we all have. Flesh fights against the HS.)

Mature Christian

1. Vanity causes a person to look on another with envy or judgment
2. Accept where you are (Ps 75). Promotion comes from the Lord.
3. Work of restoring a brother is for mature believers.
4. While restoring, keep a sharp eye on yourself, lest you be tempted. (6:1)
5. Conceit keeps you from bearing one another burdens.
6. There is a place for exalting what God has done in your life.

1 Thess 4 and 1 Cor 5

Paul and Silas

1. Tribulation (definite articles, restrictive articles)
2. Expression is coming wrath in Tribulation (Rev 3:10, 11:18; 16:19; 19:15)
3. Resurrection of Christ and the believer's deliverance are closely associated.
4. Present tense of "wait" with the idea of deliverance; implies imminency
5. "Delivers out from" the tribulation; 2 Cor 1:10; 2 Tim 4:17;

Anti-Christ signs peace covenant with Jerusalem (Dan 9:27). Rapture, then tribulation soon after that. Tribulation goes from signing of peace covenant with Jerusalem to Christ's return.

1 Thess 2:18
Perhaps this is the security that Jason had to pay at Thessolonica. (Not sure)

To set apart. This is daily sanctification.

Your sanctification

1. The body of the believer. 2 Cor 4:7; 1 Pet 3:7 Weaker vessel means weaker body.
2. Wife
3. To marry someone
Ruth 4:10; Eccleisasticas 36:24 (You know how to obtain a wife.)

1. Only used of believer's body (only body sleeps, not souls - no soul sleep)
2. Only used by believers.

Knew about the rapture; misinformed about the dead

Jesus died that we might sleep. (Jesus will bring all who have souls with Him)

imminency

After Tribulation (not at rapture)

sequence... Living saints must wait for the dead saints to be resurrected first.

1 Thess 4 - Rapture
1 Thess 5 - Tribulation (1 Thess 5:3 - People will say "peace and safety!" at the signing of peace covenant at beginning of Tribulation)

Wrath

No

End of Tribulation

1. Only refers to believers, not unbelievers
2. Only refers to believer's bodies (bodies sleep, while spirit lives with Christ)

1 Thess 5:23 (supported by article is with each; every part is listed)

1. Correct some misunderstanding regarding the Day of the Lord (2:14-7; and 2 Thess 2:1-2 - False teachers were saying that we were in the day of the Lord.)
2. Correct disorderliness in the church.

1. Comfort - 1:1-12
2. Caution - 2:1-17
3. Command - 3:1-18

The statement is assumed to be true.

After the tribulation. (Affliction and rest are the same word.)
1. In Revelation, it covers both affliction and relief.
2. Rest is a term used of the millenium (Heb 3-4; Isaiah 11:10)
3. Both affliction and rest are objects of