Because the church of Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22) trusts in a false gospel, the message to heal her offers the riches of the true gospel. The book of Galatians, therefore, becomes a very important book for Laodicea to understand, as it stands out as the key book of the Bible which distinguishes between the true and false gospel.
A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner, were chosen by God to bring the Laodicean message to the Seventh-day Adventist church, as Ellen White testified:
Letter S-24, 1892:
“The message given us by A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner is a message of God to the Laodicean Church.
Not surprisingly then, they both presented studies based on the book of Galatians. Waggoner was the first to begin opening up the truths of this book, when he was involved in a dispute in 1886 with George Butler, then-president of the General Conference over which law was discussed in Galatians. Waggoner later published his reply to Butler in The Gospel in Galatians: a Review. Then in 1900 Waggoner published The Glad Tidings, a verse-by-verse commentary on the book.
At the same time, Jones published a lengthy series of articles on Galatians in The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (the main church paper) commencing weekly in 1899 and running for about one and a half years. This eventually coincided with a church-wide study of the book as it became the topic of the Sabbath School Lessons sometime in mid-1900.
Those articles by Jones are what comprise this book, along with a few sermons related to the study. 364p
Contents
- Introduction: Two Gospels
- Introduction: The True Gospel as Against a False One
- Introduction: The Works of the Law
- Introduction: Ceremonialism
- Paul’s Apostleship
- The Gospel
- The True Gospel
- Why Galatians was Written
- Eating with the Gentiles
- Ceremonialism
- By Faith Alone
- The Place of the Law
- Rebuilding Sin
- Crucified with Christ
- Righteousness by Christ’s Death
- Christ and Him Crucified
- Faith Is the Only Way
- Father of the Faithful
- Why Was Circumcision Given?
- The Law Reveals Sin
- The Just Shall Live by Faith
- Redeemed from the Curse of the Law
- The Return to the Faith of Abraham
- The Abrahamic Covenant
- Abraham Did Pass Through
- Replacing the Covenant
- Exclusiveness
- The Inheritance by Promise
- The Pharisees Which Believed
- Wherefore Then the Law?
- The Added Law
- Which Law Was Added? (Part 1)
- Which Law Was Added? (Part 2)
- Till the Seed Should Come
- Not Against the Promises
- Kept Under the Law
- Shut Up Unto the Faith
- How the Law Keeps Us Under
- The Law Brings Us to Christ
- Brought to Justification by Faith
- Baptized Into Christ
- Heirs of God
- From the Spirit to the Flesh
- Losing the Blessedness
- The Two Covenants
- In the Family of Abraham
- The Old Covenant
- Ishmael and Isaac
- Breaking Free From the Old Covenant
- How the Covenant at Sinai Was Formed
- Why the Lord Permitted It
- The New Covenant
- Broken Promises
- Putting the Law Above Christ
- A Debtor to the Law
- Waiting for the Hope
- Faith Which Works by Love
- The Liberty of the Gospel
- The Two Ways
- The Works of the Flesh
- The Fruit of the Spirit
- The Spirit of Restoration
- The Law of Christ
- Man Without God Is Nothing
- Self-Examination
- Closing Salutation and Blessing
