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Discussion Questions:

1. What is an heir?

2. Explain Paul's illustration in verses 1 and 2?

3. Explain the significance of verses 4 and 5.

4. What is the importance of the Spirit? What does Abba mean?

5. Why all the talk about sons and inheritance is the first 7 verses?

6. What is Paul getting at by using the dashes in verse 9?

7. What is so sadly ironic about the way the people in Galatia are living? Can you equate this with anything in U.S. history? How about in society today?

8. Verses 12 through 16 tell of an interesting story, what is going on here. What theory about Paul is giving weight by these verses?

9. Who are "those people" from verse 17?

10. Again, why is Paul agonizing over the people in Galatia?

11. What is Paul's point in the illustration of verses 21-31?

12. Are you the child of a slave woman or a free woman?