“Grace Enables Believers To Be Heirs In God’s Family” Lesson Text: Galatians 4:1-7: Series: Galatians the Gospel of Grace:

Key Verse: Galatians 4:7:

Interlinear Translation: “So no longer thou art a bondman, but son; and if son also thou art no longer bondman, but son; and if son, also heir of God through Christ.”

Strong’s Concordance Translation: “WHEREFORE THOU = thus, therefore, in various relation of consecution as follows, in so much as, so that, then, that therefore. ART NO MORE = not yet, not still, not also, not ever, not any further, not henceforth, not hereafter, not any longer, not any more, not now, not still. A SERVANT = a slave, bondman, to bind, be in bonds, knit, tie, wind. BUT A SON = immediate kinship, child, foal. AND IF A SON, THEN = having a copulative or cumulative force, also, even, too, also, both, but, for, if, indeed, likewise, moreover, therefore, when, yea, yet. AN HEIR OF GOD = sense of partitioning, getting by apportionment, a sharer by lot, a possessor. THROUGH CHRIST = by the means of, denoting the channel of an act, local, causal, after, always, among, to avoid, because of, briefly, by, for cause, by occasion, by reason of, for sake.

Lesson focus: Galatians 4:1-7:

V1: The Sameness.

V2: The Subjection.

V3: The Stoicheion.

V4: The Summation.

V5: The Sons.

V6: The Spirit.

V7: The Solution.