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LESSON 2 * PART 3 * BOOK 32
GALATIANS 1:1 - 1:14
It's just the vast difference between Law and Grace. Jesus, during His earthly ministry, speaking to the Nation of Israel, the Jews under the Law said:
"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15. But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."Now the Holy Spirit revealed to the apostle Paul under Grace why we should forgive:
Ephesians 4:32
"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath (already) forgiven you."
So Israel came under the Law. Not the rest of the world, just Israel.
A Jew today can be saved under Grace as well as a Gentile. But it is primarily God's time of calling out Gentiles from among the unbelieving world. So now let's begin in verse 7.
Galatians 1:7
"Which is not another; (Gospel) but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ."
Remember the Gospel for the Body of Christ was only revealed to Paul so we need to turn to I Corinthians Chapter 15, and look at those first four verses. This is the clearest explanation of Paul's Gospel that you can find anywhere. Now he will refer to it as the Gospel of the Grace of God, the Gospel of God, my Gospel, the Gospel according to the revelation of the mysteries, but regardless how he refers to it, it's this Gospel.
I Corinthians 15:1-4
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel (not a Gospel, not a perverted Gospel, not a corrupt Gospel, but the Gospel) which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, (remember Paul even addressed the carnal believer at Corinth as saints.) and wherein ye stand; 2. Now come back to Galatians Chapter 1, verse 8. Oh the horrors that are going to befall people who are guilty of what Paul is talking about in verse 8. Galatians 1:8
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, (and I just showed you that Gospel which was, that Christ died for you, was buried, and rose again, and if they preach any other than that unto you for salvation) let him be accursed."
Paul is talking about an eternal separation from God, an eternal doom to these people who are corrupting and are perverting the pure Gospel of Grace. Now verse 9. Galatians 1:9
"As we said before, so say I now again, `If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, (from the lips of this apostle) let him be accursed.'"
What is apostasy? Is that something that the apostles taught? Now remember the time element (1971) That man made the statement that he could never envision the apostasy of the Church at that time. Galatians 1:10
"For do I now persuade men, or God? (who is Paul serving? Paul didn't have to be beholden to anybody. So Paul didn't have to worry about losing his pay, so he didn't have to serve men.) for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
Hey, you can't serve both, you cannot please God and man. Ephesians 3:1,2
"For this cause (what he had just written in Chapter 2 especially) I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for (what people?) you Gentiles, (now back in the Old Testament everything was for Israel's benefit. But this mans apostleship is for our benefit as Gentiles.) 2. If ye have heard of the dispensation (this period of time when God is calling out primarily the Gentile Body of Christ, the Church in this administration) of the grace of God which is given me (and then from me ) to you-ward:"
God revealed to the apostle Paul these doctrines of Grace, and what did Paul do with them? Moses took it to Israel and Israel alone. But the apostle Paul takes these revelations of the doctrines of Grace to everyone. Now coming back to Galatians Chapter 1, let's read verse 10:
Galatians 1:10
"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ."
It would be utterly impossible to be a servant or bond slave of Christ if Paul seeked to please men. Now verse 11. Now verse 11:
Galatians 1:11
What is the apostle Paul claiming? Now verse 12:
Galatians 1:12
"For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, (by man) but by the revelation of Jesus Christ."
I Corinthians 15:5
Now verse 6:
I Corinthians 15:6-8
You won't see the word `Cross' in those little Jewish epistles. Paul says, "We preach Christ crucified." 21. And he (the resurrected ascended Lord) said unto me, `Depart: (from Jerusalem) for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.'" Now if you will come back to Galatians again and verse 12.
Now verse 12:
Galatians 1:12
Now verse 13:
Galatians 1:13a
Why did the Holy Spirit inspire the apostle Paul to use that term for Judaism? There was no saving power in the Judaism of Christ's day.

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