One in Christ Jesus

Saturday, May 16, 2015
Galatians 3:23-29 KJV 

23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What kept us from transgressing the law when we were spiritual babes in Christ and before we came to a mature faith in the Lord Jesus? (v.23)
2) What is the law to spiritual babes in Christ and why else was it necessary? (v.24)
3) When are spiritual no longer under the law, as children of God? (v.25)
4) Are spiritual babes the children of God as are the spiritually mature? Why? (v.26-27)
5) Who are the heirs of the promise given to Abraham? Are spiritual babes included in that inheritance? (v.28-29)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
6) Are you a spiritual babe, spiritual adolescent, or spiritually mature? How do you know?
7) If you are a spiritually underage in Christ, are you entitled to the same inheritance as the spiritually mature? Why?

LIFE LESSONS
8) When we have faith in Jesus to save us, we become children of God.
9) Just as children in the natural must grow to adulthood, spiritual children must grow in their faith in God to spiritual adulthood.