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    God's Mighty Acts in Salvation
    God's Mighty Acts in Salvation
    God's Mighty Acts in Salvation
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    God's Mighty Acts in Salvation

    By Starr Meade

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    Long before we reach adulthood, the gospel ought to be shaping our lives. Paul taught the core truths of the gospel in his letter to the Galatians, and this collection of interactive readings for preteens applies those truths in understandable ways.
    Each reading begins with a key verse and then highlights one element of the gospel in everyday terms, followed by questions and activities that reinforce Paul's teaching. Meade guides young readers to a full picture of God's saving work, as well as a real understanding of other doctrinal concepts such as justification by faith alone, the priority of Scripture, the requirements for apostleship, and the relationship between the old and new covenants.
    For parents and teachers who want to awaken young hearts to a lifelong commitment to the gospel, God's Mighty Acts in Salvation is a great resource. This is a companion volume to God's Mighty Acts in Creation. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateAug 12, 2010
    ISBN9781433524325
    God's Mighty Acts in Salvation
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    Starr Meade

    Starr Meade served as the director of children’s ministries for ten years at her local church and taught Latin and Bible for eight years at a Christian school. She is a graduate of Arizona College of the Bible and has authored a number of books. Starr lives in Arizona with her husband, where she currently teaches homeschool students and is mother to three grown children and six grandchildren.

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      God's Mighty Acts in Salvation - Starr Meade

      God’s Mighty Acts in

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      God’s Mighty Acts in Salvation

      Copyright © 2010 by Educational Publishing Concepts, Inc.

      Published by Crossway

      1300 Crescent Street

      Wheaton, Illinois 60187

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, except as provided for by USA copyright law.

      Typesetting: Educational Publishing Concepts

      Cover design: Amy Bristow

      Cover illustrations: iStockphoto

      First printing 2010

      Printed in the United States of America

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Trade Paperback ISBN:    978-1-4335-1401-2

      PDF ISBN:                       978-1-4335-1402-9

      Mobipocket ISBN:           978-1-4335-1403-6

      ePub ISBN:                      978-1-4335-2432-5

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Meade, Starr, 1956–

            God’s mighty acts in salvation / Starr Meade.

                   p. cm.

            ISBN 978-1-4335-1401-2 (tpb)—ISBN 978-1-4335-1402-9 (pdf)—ISBN 978-1-4335-1403-6 (mobipocket)—ISBN 978-1-4335-2432-5 (ePub)

            1. Bible. N.T. Galatians—Children’s sermons. I. Title.

            BS2685.54.M43 2010

            227'.4077—dc22

      2010009996

      Crossway is a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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      Contents

      1. Introduction: From Whom, to Whom, and Why? (Gal. 1:1–6)

      2. The Authority of the Messenger (Gal. 1:1)

      3. Rescue! (Gal. 1:3–5)

      4. The Gospel: Using the Proper Tool (Gal. 1:6)

      5. Galatians: The Angry Letter (Gal. 1:6–10)

      6. Love Tells the Truth (Gal. 1:6–24)

      7. What Can You Add to Perfect? (Gal. 2:1–16)

      8. Rules for Hurting Someone’s Feelings (Gal. 2:1–16)

      9. Before the Judge: Condemned or Justified? (Gal. 2:15–16)

      10. A Substitute (Gal. 2:15–21)

      11. Grace Given or Merit Earned? (Gal. 2:15–21)

      12. A Portrait of Christ (Gal. 3:1)

      13. Faith Is God’s Gift (Gal. 3:2–5)

      14. The Gospel Is for Christians Too! (Gal. 3:2–5)

      15. How to Read a Book (Gal. 3:2–6 with Gen. 15:1–6)

      16. Blessed with Abraham (Gal. 3:7–9)

      17. All We Can Earn: A Curse, Not a Blessing (Gal. 3:10–14)

      18. The Right Use of a Mirror (Gal. 3:15–22)

      19. Unacceptable! (Gal. 3:21–22)

      20. Grown-ups Don’t Need a Babysitter! (Gal. 3:23–29)

      21. Adopted by God (Gal. 4:1–7)

      22. Return to Slavery? (Gal. 4:8–11)

      23. Choose Wounds, Not Kisses (Gal. 4:12–20)

      24. What We Do, or What God Does? (Gal. 4:21–31)

      25. Legalism (Gal. 5:1–12)

      26. Freedom From Is Freedom To (Gal. 5:13–15)

      27. Hope for the Fight (Gal. 5:16–18)

      28. Faith Produces Fruit (Gal. 5:16–23)

      29. Different Trees, Different Fruit (Gal. 5:16–23)

      30. Fake Fruit (Gal. 5:22–23)

      31. Cultivating Fruit (Gal. 5:16–26)

      32. Good Soil Required (Gal. 5:16–26)

      33. Kill It! Mortifying Sin (Gal. 5:24)

      34. A Deadly Enemy (Gal. 5:24)

      35. When to Exercise and When to Avoid Exercise (Gal. 5:16–26)

      36. Keep in Step with the Spirit (Gal. 5:25–26)

      37. Love Bears Burdens (Gal. 6:1–10)

      38. Sowing and Reaping: The Consequences of Wrong Ideas (Gal. 6:6–10)

      39. What Do You Boast About? (Gal. 6:11–18)

      40. Things Worth Boasting About (Gal. 6:11–18)

      A Note to Parents

      Nothing is of greater value to Christians and to the church than the gospel. Each succeeding generation must clearly understand the gospel, must faithfully preserve it, and must diligently contend for it. In every era, voices will argue against the gospel, some stridently, others subtly. Christian adults have a responsibility to pass on to the generation following them both the content of the gospel and an understanding of the importance of resisting any alterations to it.

      God’s Mighty Acts in Salvation takes as its springboard Paul’s epistle to the Galatians. This epistle is Paul’s angry letter. He wrote it to people who had accepted the gospel when he had preached it to them, but who were now entertaining changes to it suggested by false teachers. Paul’s main point in the epistle is that justification comes by faith alone. To require anything at all in addition to faith is to lose the gospel, which alone provides the way to eternal salvation.

      This book is not intended as a commentary for children on the book of Galatians. Rather, it is a revised collection of talks I gave to children during the weeks that their pastor preached a series of sermons on the epistle. My goal in the talks for the children, as well as in this book, was not to explain everything in Paul’s letter, but to highlight main teachings from Galatians that children can understand. The readings in God’s Mighty Acts in Salvation give references from the epistle, but these passages do not necessarily need to be read in their entirety to your children. Whether or not you choose to read those passages will depend on their ages and comprehension levels.

      May God open the minds of our children to understand his gospel, and may he awaken in their hearts an undying love for it and commitment to it. May God’s blessing rest on your efforts as you use this book to seek to cultivate such a mind and heart in your own children or grandchildren.

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      Introduction

      From Whom, to Whom, and Why?

      Galatians 1:1–6

      I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.

      Galatians 1:6

      Bible means books. The Bible is one big book, made up of sixty-six smaller books. One group in the sixty-six books is the group of epistles, or letters. Some New Testament epistles were written to one person, but most of them were written to whole churches. This book will help you look at several big ideas from one of those epistles, the epistle to the Galatians. Galatians" were people who lived in Galatia, like Americans are people who live in America or Russians are people who live in Russia.

      If you want to understand any book of the Bible, there are three things you need to find out about that book. First, who wrote it? Second, to whom did he write it? And third, why did he write it?

      The first verse of the book tells us who wrote it: the apostle Paul. The second verse tells us to whom he wrote it: the churches at Galatia. Paul was the one who had taken the gospel to the Galatians in the first place. He had come to Galatia and told people there that they were sinners in danger of God’s anger because of their sin. He had told them that God had provided a Savior in Jesus Christ. Paul had urged the Galatians to repent of their sin and put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, so they would no longer be under God’s wrath and could enjoy his love. Many of the Galatians had believed the gospel and had become Christians. Paul had gone on his way, and now he was writing the Galatian Christians a letter.

      Our key verse shows us why Paul was writing. Some people had come to the Galatians preaching a gospel different from the one Paul preached. These people taught that there were things Christians must do in addition to trusting in Christ to be sure they were right with God.

      This made Paul angry. Paul knew that if the Galatians believed this lie, they would not be right with God at all. So Paul wrote this letter, the letter we now know as the epistle to the Galatians.

      The message of Galatians is just as important today as it was when it was written. Today, too, some people try to say that what Jesus has done to save us is not enough. They say that, if we want to be completely acceptable to God, we must keep certain rules or do certain things to add to what Jesus did for us. This part of God’s Word warns us very sternly against listening to such ideas. The gospel tells us that Jesus’ life of obedience to God and his death on the cross were in the place of his

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