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Welcome & Opening Prayer
Welcome & Opening Prayer
Turn to Galatians Ch. 1..
🙏!! Open in Prayer !! 🙏
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Introduction 🎤
Introduction 🎤
Opening: 📜 MODERN CELL PHONE— WRAUGHT MUCH EVIL — GREAT BLESSING = NICE PICTURES WHENEVER, WHEREVER…
😅FIRST CELL PHONES— POTATO PICTURES 🥔😅
Illustration 🖼️ BUT NOW, IT’S CRAZY GOOD…
LANDSCAPE PICTURES
or BASIC PICTURES of FAMILY
—IT’S HARD to BEAT because YOU ALWAYS HAVE IT WITH YOU.
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Wonderful Thing: PICTURES HELP YOU RELIVE EVENTS — GOOD for ME,, BAD MEMORY…
Focus 📸 CONSIDER the BENEFITS of REFLECTING BACK in LIFE…
💡NOT JUST WHAT YOU LOOKED LIKE PHYSICALLY
BUT WHO YOU USED to BE—SPIRITUALLY. 💡
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Transition ➡ Keep this IDEA in the BACK of your MIND as we jump into Galatians 1:18-24.
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Passage Reading 📖
Passage Reading 📖
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.
19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.
20 (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)
21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
23 They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
24 And they glorified God because of me.
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Church this is God’s Word for us this morning…
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Context Recap: Sent from Heaven 🛡️
Context Recap: Sent from Heaven 🛡️
Recent Weeks: PAUL is BUILDING a LARGE ARGUMENT for the VALIDITY of HIS GOSPEL message.
1st Week: HE WARNED that THERE IS NO OTHER “GOOD NEWS” than THE MESSAGE of CHRIST-CRUCIFIED.
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Last Week: PAUL DEFENDED HIS MESSAGE in THREE WAYS:
Last Week: PAUL DEFENDED HIS MESSAGE in THREE WAYS:
HIS AIM is NOT PEOPLE-PLEASING.
HIS MESSAGE CAME THROUGH DIVINE REVELATION STRAIGHT from JESUS.
HIS CALL wasn’t from MAN; CHRIST COMMISSIONED HIM.
Passage Idea Recap: A heaven-sent message and heaven-sent call are not for man’s approval.
Focus 📸 LEFT OFF: Paul DIDN’T CONSULT W/ PEOPLE… after his revelation; he went immediately to ARABIA & DAMASCUS
His gospel didn’t come from men. 💡
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Transition ➡ TODAY — SEE the PROOF THAT PAUL DIDN’T RECEIVE HIS GOSPEL from JERUSALEM APOSTLES…
LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 18-20
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Passage Exposition 🔍
Passage Exposition 🔍
Thought 1: Paul’s Brief Visit to Jerusalem (v18-20) 🏛️
Thought 1: Paul’s Brief Visit to Jerusalem (v18-20) 🏛️
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.
19 But I saw none of the other apostles except James the Lord’s brother.
20 (In what I am writing to you, before God, I do not lie!)
Focus: PAUL 📸CONTINUING HIS ARGUMENT— GOSPEL WASN’T WATERED DOWN JERUSALEM GOSPEL… 📸
Context: PAUL RECAPS HIS FIRST ENCOUNTER with the JERUSALEM APOSTLES (ACTS 9:26-30).
AFTER 3 YEARS that HE WENT to JERUSALEM.
**SAME CHAPTER in ACTS**
Takeaway: 🎒HE SPENT 3 YEARS PREACHING BEFORE HIS MESSAGE was VETTED!🎒
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Background: PAUL IMMEDIATELY PROCLAIMED JESUS.
📜20 And immediately he proclaimed Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is the Son of God.”📜
Apologetic:🛡️ His FAITH COST HIM IMMEDIATELY—ESCAPED DAMASCUS in BASKET! 🛡️
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Setting: 3 YRS LATER— HE GOES to JERUSALEM to MEET CEPHAS
Explanation 📖 CEPHAS = PETER…
JESUS RENAMED “SIMON” — PETER (ROCK)
PETER— ROCK (GREEK)
CEPHAS—ROCK (ARAMAIC)
Background: THIS = FISHERMAN, EAR-CHOPPER, DENIER-TURNED-PREACHER “PETER”
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Focus: 📸PAUL SOUGHT OUT PETER—NOT EVERYONE 📸c
Background: Apostles as Eyewitnesses
Background: Apostles as Eyewitnesses
REMEMBER, APOSTLES WERE SPECIALLY CHOSEN WITNESSES to CHRIST’S RESURRECTION
📜21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
22 beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”📜
LUKE— JESUS SPENT 40 DAYS W/ APOSTLES AFTER RESURRECTION
Apologetic: 🛡️WASN’T a VISION of ONE GUY—or HOPED FOR THING
**EVEN MORE—500+ SAW HIM @ ONE TIME**🛡️
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Back to Text: PAUL SOUGHT OUT PETER—MEET HIM
SPENT 15 DAYS TOGETHER
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ONLY MET 1 OTHER APOSTLE— JAMES
ONLY MET 1 OTHER APOSTLE— JAMES
“LORD’S BROTHER”
JESUS’ HALF-BROTHER JAMES,, LED CHURCH in JERUSALEM
AUTHORED LETTER of JAMES
MARTYRED for HIS FAITH
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Powerful Apologetic: James’ Faith
Powerful Apologetic: James’ Faith
🛡️JAMES’ FAITH = POWERFUL TESTIMONY to TRUTH of RESURRECTION🛡️
📜5 For not even his brothers believed in him.📜
IMAGINE GROWING UP in THAT HOUSEHOLD!
C.C. 😅YOU THINK YOUR PARENTS HAD FAVORITES! 😅
Exhort: JESUS WAS LITERALLY PERFECT!
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JAMES CAME to FAITH—BELIEVING HIS BROTHER = MESSIAH
Illustration 🖼️**MY BROTHERS = NICE-GUYS, BUT NO.**
THEY’D SAY SAME for ME
Ethan: “YOU REMEMBER THAT?!”
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Back to Text:
Back to Text:
PAUL DIDN’T GET HIS GOSPEL FROM PEOPLE
SPENT 2 WEEKS W/ PETER — 3 YRS AFTER HE WAS SAVED!!
BARELY SAW JAMES
💡Conclusion: HIS MESSAGE WAS from HEAVEN💡
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APPARENTLY—THIS = CONTESTED BY GALATIAN JUDAIZERS
(v20) PAUL = ADAMANT — “I’M NOT LYING!!”
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Transition ➡ TO FURTHER DEFEND HIMSELF—
— PAUL SHARES MORE TRAVEL HISTORY
LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 21-22
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Thought 2: Paul, Unknown to the Churches of Judea (v21-22) 🗺️
Thought 2: Paul, Unknown to the Churches of Judea (v21-22) 🗺️
21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.
22 And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Context: PAUL SHOWING INDEPENDENCE from JERUSALEM APOSTLES…
HE SPENT TIME in SYRIA (DAMASCUS, ANTIOCH)
W/ BARNABAS in ANTIOCH
CILICIA (HIS HOMETOWN, TARSUS).
APPROX. 8 YRS in TARSUS
**15 DAYS in JERUSALEM**
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(v22) Conclusion: PAUL STILL LARGELY UNKNOWN in JERUSALEM
NOT THERE BEING TRAINED BY APOSTLES
NOT STAR of SHOW in JERUSALEM
Takeaway: 🎒His gospel was a heaven-sent message that was truthfully God’s gospel. 🎒
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Transition ➡ COOL FACT…
PAUL = UNKNOWN BY FACE
…BUT NOT UNHEARD OF…
BEST PART: LOOK W/ ME @ VS. 23-24
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Thought 3: The Glory of God in Paul’s Salvation (v23-24) ✨
Thought 3: The Glory of God in Paul’s Salvation (v23-24) ✨
23 They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”
24 And they glorified God because of me.
PAUL’S REPUTATION PRECEDED HIM…
PERSECUTOR TURNED PREACHER.
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Background: PAUL’S CONVERSION
Background: PAUL’S CONVERSION
CONVERSION = SO RADICAL—THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE HE WAS a GENUINE DISCIPLE
Background: BARNABAS STOOD UP FOR HIM
DAMASCUS ROAD CONVERSION
PROCLAIMING JESUS in SYNAGOGUES of DAMASCUS…
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**AGAIN,, PAUL ALREADY SUFFERED THREATS for HIS FAITH**
Apologetic: 🛡️PAUL WOULDN’T HAVE SUFFERED FOR SOMETHING MADE UP. 🛡️
IF YOUR TESTIMONY = MADE UP —
— YOU GO HOME WHEN HARDSHIPS COME
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PAUL’S SALVATION = REAL.
HE WENT from WREAKING HAVOC—STRIVING to PILLAGE the CHURCH — TO BUILDING CHURCH…
HE WAS a SEEMINGLY UNSTOPPABLE FORCE—
— UNTIL HE HIT an IMMOVABLE OBJECT — CHRIST’S CHURCH
📜18 I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.📜
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HE USED to PERSECUTE
BUT NOW HE PREACHED
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Transition ➡ THING in BETWEEN—JESUS CHRIST.
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Gospel Presentation: The New Operating System 📣
Gospel Presentation: The New Operating System 📣
Exhort 📢 PAUL’S LIFE is THE BEST EXAMPLE:
JESUS DOESN’T LEAVE YOU UNCHANGED.
📜17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.📜
Takeaway: 🎒JESUS DOESN’T SIMPLY UPDATE the OLD—BUT BRINGS a WHOLE NEW OPERATING SYSTEM. 🎒
FROM DOMAIN of DARKNESS ➡ KINGDOM of HIS BELOVED SON
FROM SPIRITUALLY DEAD ➡ ETERNAL LIFE
FROM SINNER ➡ SAINT
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Paul’s Conversion & Call
Paul’s Conversion & Call
**SOME CALL “CONVERSION” a “CALL”
**IT’S JUST a “CALL”**
=> NOT WHAT PAUL SAYS…
HE SAYS HE WAS CHIEF of SINNERS—LEAST of the APOSTLES…
📜13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.📜
Takeaway: 🎒PAUL BECOMES an EXAMPLE— GOD CAN SAVE EVEN the MOST WRETCHED SINNER…🎒
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📢Encourage: NO ONE is BEYOND the REACH of GRACE!!📢
GRACE = WHOLLY UNDESERVED, UNMERITED — NO ONE COULD EARN IT!
SAINTS AREN’T FOUND—THEY’RE MADE.
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✝️JESUS CAME to SAVE SINNERS, SEPARATED from GOD… ✝️
THAT is GOOD NEWS…
✝️CHRIST DIED for OUR SINS— BY TRUSTING in HIM WE’D BE FORGIVEN. ✝️
📜21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.📜
📜9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.📜
THROUGH FAITH in CHRIST—WE ARE RECONCILED to GOD, SAVED, MADE NEW...
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🤝Invitation: TALK to ME AFTER SERVICE**
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Transition ➡ NOW ALL in ALL—WHAT’S THIS PASSAGE TEACHING US…
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Application: What is your "Used To"? 🛠️
Application: What is your "Used To"? 🛠️
Passage Idea:
Passage Idea:
God receives great glory from a transformed life.
PAUL = DEFENDING HIS GOSPEL…
HEAVEN-SENT
GREAT DEFENSE of the GOSPEL = IT’S a LIFE-CHANGING MESSAGE.
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PAUL “USED TO” PERSECUTE
NOW HE PREACHED
Result: PEOPLE GLORIFIED GOD
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ANOTHER PLACE: PAUL DETAILS ALL KINDS of SINS (1 COR. 6:9-10).…
Powerful Conclusion:
📜11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.📜
**& THAT’S the CORINTHIANS**
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OTHER EXAMPLES:
OTHER EXAMPLES:
PETER “USED TO” BE a FISHERMAN— JESUS TURNED HIM to FISHER of MEN
JAMES “USED TO” NOT BELIEVE — HE DIED for HIS FAITH in CHRIST
PAUL “USED TO” PERSECUTE—NOW HE PREACHED...
❓Bringing it Home: WHAT is YOUR “USED TO?”❓
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CHRIST DOESN’T LEAVE a MAN or WOMAN UNCHANGED…
***Clarification: NOT RELIGIOUS SELF-IMPROVEMENT***
📜26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.📜
IT’S a SUPERNATURAL WORK of GOD’S SPIRIT...
📜12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,
13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.📜
📢Exhort: YOU WORK OUT—WHAT GOD HAS ALREADY WORKED IN.📢
HE GIVES DESIRE
HE GIVES POWER
NOW—BALL is in OUR COURT
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PETER HIMSELF WROTE: 2 PET. 1:3
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness...
IT’S NOT JUST a CHANGE of OUTWARD ACTION—BUT of INTENTION
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❓CHURCH WHAT is YOUR “USED TO?”❓
❓ && WHAT is YOUR “NOW?”❓
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LOOK BACK OVER the PICTURE of YOUR LIFE— SEE the CHANGE HE WRAUGHT…
**PERHAPS RAISED in CHURCH—NOT AS DRASTIC**
— ALL of US HAVE a “NOW” THAT OUGHT to BRING GOD GLORY…
Testimony: I’M NOT PERFECT—BUT I’M NOT the PERSON I USED TO BE…
💡I’M NOT WHO I USED to BE...BUT I’M ALSO NOT WHO I’M GOING to BE… 💡
JOURNEY of SANCTIFICATION W/ JESUS…
GOD SAVES US for HIS GLORY—HIS PURPOSE— OUR GOOD.
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Conclusion:
Conclusion:
LET YOUR TESTIMONY BRING HIM GLORY,, SHARE IT WHEN YOU CAN.
IF HE BRINGS the CHANGE
HE GETS the GLORY
AMEN?
🙏!! Close in Prayer !!🙏
