How the Gospel Transforms
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Turn your Bibles to: Galatians 1:11
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Those of you that were here for my first message on Galatians may remember that Paul was asserting his credibility. The early church leaders in Jerusalem had sent their own teachers to rectify what they perceived as a grave error in Paul’s gospel message and attacked Paul’s credibility by basically saying he was just a disciple of the disciples. These teachers if you remember are called Judaizers, because they were teaching that salvation was Jesus plus Judaism. The Gentiles had to convert to Judaism and be circumcised to gain salvation.
In verse 10 Paul made a major shift in focus away from the false teachings and placed it directly on his own motivation. Paul continues to keep himself in the spotlight with an autobiography or testimony of sorts to remove all doubt that his authority to present the gospel is of divine origin.
11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
11 For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel.
Galatians “For I would have you know, brothers,”
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“For I would have you know, brothers,” Wow Paul just did a complete 180! If you remember in the first few verses of this letter Paul was really calling the Galatians fools for so quickly turning to another gospel. Now he calls them brothers, just like his reference to “the brothers who are with me” in verse 2, he is saying listen I have something important I want to make clear and his use of brothers here is significant. He is trying to bring them back to the gospel so he says, yes I’m angry with you, but you are still a part of God’s family, we are still brothers in Christ, and I love you and want to rescue you from the destructive path you’re on.
12 For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
“that the gospel that was preached by me is not man’s gospel.” The gospel I preached to you wasn’t conceived by some human mind. For further clarification Paul adds two additional denials of human authorship of the gospel. “For I did not receive it from any man,” his initial reception of the gospel was not presented to him by any man “nor was I taught it,” meaning his further understanding of the gospel didn’t come through normal means of study. I didn’t come to understand this gospel because rabbi so-and-so said this or disciple so-and-so said that. “but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.” It was a unilateral and vertical revelation he received from the risen Lord Jesus Christ. It was a revelation of who Jesus Christ really is. Paul met the resurrected Jesus, which had a profound effect on his belief and his gospel message, but in another way we also get that revelation of who Jesus Christ really is through the word and as we spend time in prayer and through meditation on the word the development of our own personal relationship with him.
George, T. (1994). Galatians (Vol. 30, p. 109). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.
Galatains 1:13-14
13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. 14 And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.
The best way for Paul to remove any doubt that he received the gospel by revelation of Jesus Christ was to tell his conversion story, his testimony. “For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people” Paul mentioning in Judaism twice here draws an importance to it and explains his stance on the difference between Judaism and the gospel. Paul says hey look I was a religious zealot in this same Judaism religion you are being taught by the Judaizers. So extreme was my belief in this religion that I was advancing in the pharisaic ranks in Judaism much faster than any of the others my age. “so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers” I was in love with the same laws you are now being taught and I would stop at nothing to preserve those laws and the traditions of the Judaism to the extent of eradicating the believers of the same gospel I now teach you. I believed in the Laws of Moses so much that anyone that would teach anything different had to be dealt with even if it meant sentencing them to death.
Paul points out two specific characteristics of his life in Judaism, his intense persecution of the church and his zealous devotion to the traditions of Judaism. The gospel Paul now teaches, the message of the church he was persecuting, completely contradicted the traditions of Judaism. A messiah on a Roman cross contradicted what Judaism expected from a messiah on David’s throne. Judaism believed Salvation was only found within the law-observant Jewish nation. The implications of all of this lead the readers to only one conclusion and that is nothing could have changed his mind so it had to be God himself.
There is another important theme that is somewhat hidden that I want to point out. Paul’s pre-conversion former life in Judaism story about himself is filled with self-centered ego where Paul is the central focus of it all. “I persecuted and tried to destroy it”, “I was advancing” and “so extremely zealous was I”, but as we can see in the next verses after his conversion that focus switches off of Paul.
15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
Now we see God as the central focus “he who had set me apart”, “who called me by his grace”, “pleased to reveal his son to me” which alludes to him dying to self and becoming a new creation in Christ. We all go through that transformation of giving everything to Christ, dying to ourselves, leaving our own ambitions behind, and living out the life Christ has called us to.
“But when he who had set me apart before I was born,” Paul understood God knew before he was born that God would call him to ministry and everything that Paul had done up to the point of his conversion was all in preparation for his ministry. “ and who called me by his grace,” This is pointing to Paul’s moment of salvation and that his salvation is only by the grace of God.
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15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone;
16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with anyone; 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
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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!)
Galatians 1:18
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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