Christ Might Rescue Us out of the Present Evil Age

Let's Pray:

O Lord, we pray that You will deliver us from this religious age that we may truly enter into the state which You are after in Your economy.

Hymn: 475

Today's Verses and Footnotes: Gal. 1:1-14

Key Verse:

Gal. 1:4 Who gave Himself for our sins that He might rescue us out of the present evil age according to the will of our God and Father.

Filling the Blanks:

The books of Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians form a cluster of Epistles that make up the ( ) of the divine revelation in the New Testament. The essential subject of these four books is ( ) and the ( ) . Galatians reveals that Christ is versus ( ) with its law; Ephesians reveals the church as the ( ) of Christ; Philippians concerns the ( ) , the living out, of Christ; and Colossians unveils the all-inclusive and all-extensive Christ as the ( ) of the Body.

Here the apostle emphasized that the purpose of Christ's giving Himself for our ( ) was to rescue us, to pluck us, out of the ( ) religion, the present evil ( ) . (See Gal. 1:1 note 1, 4 note 2)