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Recap: Last week we set up the book of Galatians.
We talked about it’s origins.
it’s author.
It’s purpose
We saw how Paul was astonished at the Galatians for how quickly they deserted the true gospel of Jesus
And we saw that the gospel plus or minus anything is not the gospel
It can not have something taken away from it
It can not have something added to it
It is perfect and it is complete
This week we will finish chapter 1
We will see Paul expound on the source of the gospel he is preaching
We will see a little bit about Paul and his journey to Christ
And we will see Paul’s introduction into the early church and evangelical revolution
So let’s read and then we will begin to pick it apart
Galatians 1:11–24 (NIV)
So now Paul will begin to answer a very important question.
What is the origin of Paul’s gospel?
This gospel that Paul is so passionate about, where did it come from?
It is good news without doubt
But did he receive it from his own thoughts?
Did he make it up?
Did he get it secondhand from someone else?
The answer to these questions are found in verse 11 and 12
The first phrase in verse 11 in the greek signifies that what Paul is about to say is very important
He says “the gospel I preached is not of human origin.”
So we talked about last week in verse one how Paul got his apostolic authority and position divinely
Now he is making the case that he also got his apostolic message and mission divinely
Essentially what Paul is saying is yes I preached it and I was given the authority to do so but I did not invent.
Nor did I receive it from a man.
So what the Galatians are learning is that neither Paul’s mission nor his message was derived from man
Let me say this clearly for us this morning.
When you surrender your life to the Lordship of Jesus, man will not be the source of your mission or message.
When we look to mom, dad, spouse, pastor, church, to give us our mission and message we will always fall short and always feel less than
The plans and purposes of your life are imparted by God, possible by Jesus, and empowered by the Spirit
They can not be accomplished any other way
No man has the authority or ability to do it
So Paul here is telling the Galatians: “Look, the gospel that I preached, that you so quickly deserted, that is being called into question is not an invention nor a tradition but a revelation
Paul’s answer to the doubters is our answer to the doubts
And it’s this: It’s all God’s!
My message, my gospel, my words, my life, it belongs to God and comes from God and God alone.
Then what Paul does next is proves his point by using his conversion or his testimony
There is power in your testimony
When you don’t know what else to say.
Share your testimony.
And this is what Paul begins to do.
And he gives us an outline of how to do it
And here’s an easy way to remember it.
The wrong (before), the revelation (but), and the result (because).
Paul starts with the before.
To understand the condition of the good you must first feel the weight of the bad
So Paul, formerly known as Saul, was an evil man.
He was an evil man and didn’t even know it
He was a Pharisee and spent his early life protecting the Jewish customs and Judaism
He thought that it was the only way and everyone else was wrong and he went to great lengths to protect it
He would imprison people, have people killed and sought out to destroy the church
Acts 8:1 tells us that Paul approves of the stoning of Stephen
Acts 8:3 tells us he threw Christians in prison
Acts 9 tells us that he was on his way to persecute the church before he had his conversion
Here in Galatians he states that his intent was to destroy it!
And Paul wasn’t just evil, he was really good at it.
Essentially he says he was the best at being evil
In 1 Tim 1 Paul refers to himself as blasphemer, a persecutor, arrogant man, and the chief of sinners.
The worst of the worst.
Or the best at the bad
Here’s where I would interject - Jesus isn’t scared of your mess
He hasn’t disowned you because of what you’ve done
You are not without hope
I hear it a lot, and it often goes something like this....
You don’t know what I’ve done
How could God still love me?
The answer is, because love is not something God does, it’s who He is
He can not depart from it, He can not take it off, He can not decided to act out of it
He would then be acting outside of Himself and that’s impossible
You are not too far gone, you have not done too much bad, you have not separated yourself from the love of Jesus
If we can learn anything from Paul’s testimony it’s that if Jesus can save someone like Paul, He can save you too
So, Paul covers the bad.
And it’s really bad!
Then vs 15 comes the but.
The gospel hinges on this
good news always does
Hope always does
We use it often
My kids will do it to me all the time
They’ll say ok daddy I didn’t clean my room like you asked me to, but I did clean the bathroom
We may say something like I had a really rough day, but it’s good to be home with you
We may have hear words like you have cancer, but it can be treated
I was headed down a very dark path, but Jesus saved me
I was on the verge of committing suicide, but Jesus kept me alive
The gospel gives us the opportunity to interject a…(but God) in the middle of our story.
In every good redemption story there’s a but
There are many that are scattered throughout the Scripture but to name a few....
rom 5:6-8
rom 7:5-6
Every good redemption story has a but in the middle of it and the gospel makes way for our stories not to end in gloom and wrath but to have a turning point that we can point back to and say “but God.”
And there are 3 major buts that Paul covers here in verse 15 and 16
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