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Introduction

Well this morning as we gather around the Word to Worship the Lord, my thoughts on these passages have really taken to the depths of where we left off last week.

I had a lot of things left to say concerning the introduction last week that I really felt needed to be included.

Yet there was also a reality setting in my mind that we do have limitations on time.

Not that you all wouldn’t allow me to preach for an hour by any means but that often times we can only take so much in one sitting.

So as we move through this text today, some more vital background information will be coming in but I really would like to get into the text a little more than last week.

So without giving much more of an introduction, please turn with me to and we will get right into the Word this morning.

Authorized Version Chapter 1

1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: 5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Pray

As we were going through some of our background data last week, I found myself getting immersed into merely one side of what needed to be introduced and not getting into all that is truly here.

Going through this epistle what generally sticks out to most people is it’s nature of pointing to salvation by grace alone.

And not this Epistle doesn’t do that as it very clearly does.

But what is often overlooked is the manner in which God sets apart His chosen people for the tasks He has called them to.

We get a full measure of recognizing Paul’s aim of cutting through the thickets of works tied to ones salvation.

Yet the fact that from 1:4-2:21, Paul defends his own calling to those people who might bring about a charge against him.

He takes the time to walk through the providentially orchestrated events that took place to bring the Apostle Paul unto the Lord.

All of these things point back to the clarity and the beauty of the divinely called Apostle bringing the true Gospel to the people of Galatia.

So as we get

English Standard Version Chapter 14

27 And when they arrived and gathered the church together, uthey declared all that God had done with them, and vhow he had wopened xa door of faith to the Gentiles. 28 And they remained no little time with the disciples