Galatians 1:11-12

"But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me (now be careful how you read this. When Paul says "The Gospel which was preached of me," he's referring to the Pauline message of I Corinthians 15:1-4, and that message ) is not after man. 12. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, (by other men) but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."


Well what's Paul saying? At his conversion on the road to Damascus when the Lord spoke to him and said, "I'm going to send you far hence to the Gentiles" Paul didn't immediately head back to Jerusalem and check in with Peter and the eleven. But instead the Lord sends him in the opposite direction down to Mount Sinai in Arabia, and evidently for three years the Lord just laid on this man the whole revelation of all of these things that were never hinted at in Scripture before. And this is what I try to emphasize to people, do you realize that all the way up through the Old Testament, all the way up through the Four Gospels, and the early chapter of Acts, that you never once see the term "The Body of Christ?" You don't see that term until you get to Paul.


Now once Paul begins his ministry never does he use the term, "The Gospel of the Kingdom as Jesus and the Twelve did." Why? Because that gospel was associated with the Twelve. Just as they couldn't use the term the Body of Christ, Paul can't use the term the Gospel of the Kingdom. Do you see that? As I showed you before there is this fork in the road in the Bible, and that fork starts with the apostle Paul at his conversion on the road to Damascus. God comes up to the point where Israel rejected everything of the Covenant promises, and when that happened God says, "I'll do something totally different." So with the apostle Paul, He went to the Gentile. Now Paul lays this out so beautifully here in these verses. We've covered them lots of times on the program, and I know this is repetition to a lot of you.


Galatians 1:13a