Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning everyone,

Before we begin i want to state that our theme is one that everyone has been struggling for a long time.

The world and Christianity and how it affects us?

I am trying something different and wont be putting the verses on the screen so fasten your seat belts and grab your bibles

Galatians 1:1-2 “Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— and all the brothers who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:”

There is definitely no denying that the Apostle Paul is writing this letter because he has put his stamp of approval.

We don’t have to worry about someone messing with Scholars disagreeing because the Apostle Paul figured that out for us.

However, before we go any farther we have to dive deep into a word that he uses.

The word Apostle has many meaning.

However, the meaning that we need to understand and worry about is what it means for the Apostle Paul.

Apostle or like we have called it in the past Big A means in Greek a messenger or someone commissioned to carry out the instructions of God.

I am not going to try and say the Greek word because it would be like a train wreck with no chance of brakes working.

The Apostle Paul was apart of the original 12.

Of course i am excluding Barabbas that betrayed Jesus but this was a select group of individuals that God chose to spread the Gospel and do his work.

What we need to gather is that God has tasked Paul with the job of being the messenger or a modern day amber alert or silver alert to tell us about something important that we need to know.

For example, a few weeks ago we had the massive group of torandos that hit southwest Florida Sunday morning.

We recieved notifications via text message, amber alerts, emails, phone calls and television.

there was every possible way to get our attention and to spread the information to the citizens of lee county.

It almost drove some of us crazy that were here for Sunday School.

The Apostle Paul is exactly the same thing because he is trying to tell us something so important that God has chosen him to get the message out.

There is no hiding that human-beings are stubborn individuals that do what they want instead of what is right or what we are told.

If you don't believe me and your a guy i want you to ask your significant other?

There is a reason why God has given us individuals to help us in this life and for us to listen to them.

A few weeks ago i worked a really long day and wasn't feel very good but i got up like normal to spend some time with my family.

My lovely wife said honey i love you but take your meds and go back to bed.

I could of fought it but i didn't because she was there to help me.

What i am trying to convey is that the Apostle Paul is like our spouse or mentor that is trying to help us as the reader and the citizens of Galatia.

They are not trying to belittle us or make fun of us but they are trying to help us.

The apostle Paul is doing the same thing.

We don’t even get into the second verse and he says that he is not saying this directly but the message is from our Heavenly father and the trinity.

Our Creator is trying to save us from ourselves and from each others sins and transgressions.

You cannot go five minutes into the outside world without being faced with massive amounts of sin, evil and flifth that plagues the streets.

And i have to be honest some of that even comes from indivudals that call themselves Christians.

Yes i said it even Christians can sin and yes we know this but are we willing to admit it?

The Apostle Paul was speaking the message that God inspired and has inspired with the entire Bible.

All 66 books of the Bible came from the many individuals that were the instruments of writing the scripture that we carry in our pockets on our phones and the paper copies that we have on our book shelves.

He was not simply stated that he was saying something to the Galatians but everyone that reads the letter.

The letter that we are going to go over is almost 2,000 years old but it has so much relievence (Re-live-ence) and critical information for us to understand.

Now we see something that is very interesting and fascinated me when i was diving deep into the meaning of our Apostle Paul.

We see it in the 3rd verse so let us dive deep into it.

Next we see in verse 3

Galatians 1:3

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,”

Of course we think that this is a simply greeting like whats up dawg or how are you doing?

But there is so much more depth and understanding that we need to grasp from the context of this.

We as a church know the meaning of Grace our fellowship is called the Charis fellowship or Grace in Greek.

However, we must take a step back and understand that the people of Galatia were told and lived with the concept that they could give themselves salvation and grace.

They believed in Salvation by works and by something you earn.

Sounds Familiar with what many modern day Christians are told that they must do x amount of things no matter what so they can party in heaven with Jesus.

Right off the bat the human author is telling us that

we add nothing to the equation and we are merely nothing compared to our heavenly father and Jesus who died for our sins.

The world has almost always been wicked except for the small period of time before Adam and eve ate from the tree of knowledge.

The Bible has nothing but scandal, murder and sin throughout the pages but there is another message in how we all deserve no mercy, no saving, no life boat but we have someone that loves us so much that he had a plan.

God knew that we were going to mess it up and provided a plan A to give us a way to become clean with no transgressions.

White as snow and the whitest white known to man.

He doesn't forget them but he has forgiven us of them.

We as human beings and as Believers give noting , nota the situation or the equation.

We think that in the year 2022 things are evil and getting bad but they always been bad and even when the letter to Galatia was written they were doing with wicked and morally wrong things that would make our sin crawl.

What are some thing that are wicked or evil in this world?

Murder, greed, lying, lust, deceitful thoughts and actions.

This is just a small list but think about a your favorite murder mystery show.

Kaitlyn and I love the show Castle where there is a writer that tails a NYPD detective and they solve crimes and get themselves into trouble constantly.

Anyone that has seen this type of stuff in real life or on TV knows that people are not good.

We kill each other over money, we back-stab for a promotion, we lie, we cheat and do whatever we want because we can and it is ours for the taking.

The world owes us nothing and God owe us nothing.

YOu are not special and do not deserve a participation trophy Just for showing up.

But we have to ask ourselves internally did we create ourselves ?

Did we give ourselves life or did we depend on someone else?

We didn't give birth to ourselves- we had a mother who went through hours of labor with pain and agony to bring life into this world.

We did not decide one day that we would create the sky, heavens and the dirt but instead we had a supreme amazing being that created everything before even the concept of time !!!

Jesus didn't save us from a physical death but saved our soul from a spiritual death.

God sent his son to to take our transgressions so that we did not die spiritually.

What is the health of your spiritual health and what are some of your struggles?

These are the things we have to face in this book as we start.

We Continue in our Passage by moving on to Verse 6 and 7.

Galatians 1:6–7

“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.”

The Apostle Paul dives right in and calls out the Believers of Galatia for something that we would be shocked that happened.

These are very early believers and still learning.

You could call them baby Christians because they are still learning but this doesn't take the blame but gives us an explanation.

They almost are instantly leaving our Heavenly Father that has saved them from grace and given us mercy by sending his son to die on a wooden Roman cross.

The aspect of false teachers and doctrine is introduced.

The truth was replaced by someone that was spreading the false word.

How many churches have we had in our past that they are preaching the false doctrine or something that goes completely against God word and what he is teaching us.

If you ever get bored do a web search of different types of false doctrine.

For example some types of false doctrine being taught is legalism , believing that if you just say a prayer or get baptized you are saved even if there is no transformation in your life.

One that shocked me was that some churches are teaching that Jesus is not actually God.

They discredit the entire Trinity even though it is in black and white in Scripture.

And the last one i am going to mention is the added requirements to be saved.

Jesus and something else is needed to be saved.

Those that Believe in Jesus and send 20 dollars to my church every week or buy my new book that is going to open your eyes and earn your Salvation.

The concept of False Doctrine and the wrong type of teaching is not something that is two thousands years ago but is right in our backyards.

One of the most dangerous things in my opinion for Christians is someone that just accepts the fact of what is being said without, using critical skills to dive deep into the scripture.

If you are not having that walk with God every day than i could twist the scripture to say whatever i want.

I could take something out of context on purpose and we would have another James Town or even worse.

It is your job in those seats to keep us in check because yes we make mistakes and we need to be called out.

One Hardest things for any guy is to admit that he was wrong or he rushed in his teaching but this is critical for anyone that is teaching God’s word.

Believers think that if you are a pastor that you know everything that is happening in the Bible and why it is happening.

But here is the thing you are always learning and there are just things that you wont know until you have died and asked the author that wrote those inspired words.

Lets move on in the journey