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Gal 1:11-17

Paul Defends His Apostleship

11 Now I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel preached by me is not based on human thought. 12 For I did not receive it from a human source and I was not taught it, but it came by a revelation from Jesus Christ.

13 For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I persecuted God’s church to an extreme degree and tried to destroy it. 14 I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. 15 But when God, who from my birth set me apart and called me by His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son in me, so that I could preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone. 17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to those who had become apostles before me; instead I went to Arabia and came back to Damascus.

Context

The ministry and apostleship God called the Apostle Paul had come under sever attract after leaving the area of Galatia by false teachers. So shortly , the congregation lost sight of the gospel by which they were saved, being convinced that they needed additional requirements to complete their salvation. The first chapter, the Apostle Paul revels how astonished he was, how he marvel as to how soon they were move to the reception of another gospel.

to Paul had come under sever atact after leaving the area of Galaia by Jewdeizers

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Called to serve

Paul is a volunteer salve to the people God called him to

The Abuse of A God Called Man

We witness the extreme physical abuse of a prophet

We witness the mental abuse of a man of God

What abuses does the man of God experience?

The Two Witness will suffer abuse

Paul suffered abuse

You will suffer abuse if you haven't

Paul declared that he bore the marks in his body

You are Called by Grace

You are called by grace?

You will endure by grace

You will be exhausted by grace