1. Paul’s wish
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1. Paul’s wish
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Our Sabbath afternoon introduction to this weeks’ lesson has: Hymn 518, “Standing on the Promises”, and Hymn 610, “Stand Like the Brave” ringing in my ears. To these we may add: Hymn 618, “Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus!”. Martin Luther stood firm and as Ellen White says “his unwavering firmness was the means of emancipating the church, and beginning a new and better era.” The study of unity this week brings a little-sung hymn to mind – a hymn that has unity throughout its lyrics: Hymn 400, “I Come With Joy”. We are reminded on Monday that we are to be ‘stripping away our confidence in ourselves and to have a faithful dependence on God instead’: Hymn 517, “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”
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Read Galatians 2:1-10 . Paul says that the false brothers “slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery” ( Gal. 2:4 , ESV ) . What are Christians free from? Read John 8:31-36 ; Rom
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Read 1 Corinthians 1:10-13 . What does this passage tell us about how important Paul believed unity in the church was? Having refuted the allegations that his gospel was not God-given, Paul directs his attention in Galatians 2:1-2 to another charge being made against him. Image © Stan Myers from GoodSalt.com The false teachers in Galatia claimed that Paul’s gospel was not in harmony with what Peter and the other apostles taught. Paul, they were saying, was a renegade.
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Image © Pacific Press from GoodSalt.com Read for This Week’s Study: Gal. 2:1-14 , 1 Cor. 1:10-13 , Gen. 17:1-21 , John 8:31-36 , Col
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