Galatians (Nasb) (Notes From Www.biblegateway.com)

Defense of apostolic and personal authority / ministry / proof of Paul’s letter

8 doctrines (c/o of Marilyn Hickey Ministries)

1. Christians can fall from grace and return to legalism.

2. Paul’s gospel was a revelations direct from God.

3. Justification is by faith alone without the law.

4. Christians can live victoriously over sin.

5. The Holy Spirit places us into the Body of Christ.

6. The law of Moses in completely abolished. TOO STRONG?

7. Backsliders must return to grace and can be removed (restored).

8. All who go back to law-keeping are under obligation to observe the whole law. (The tension is we need to try to follow the 10 commandments, etc. We will sin.)

1 Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), CLARIFIES HIS CALL

2 and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia: ((Turkey)

3 Grace to you and peace from [a]God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,

4 who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil [b]age, according to the will of our God and Father, WE ARE STILL IN AN EVIL AGE.

5 to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen. I WANT TO SEE HIS GLORY.

Perversion of the Gospel

6 I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you [c]by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN FALSE GOSPELS.

7 which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. THINK ABOUT LDS, JW, ETC.

8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel [d]contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be [e]accursed! IGNORE WHAT I WRITE, DREAMS, ANGELS, ETC. IF THEY AREN’T BIBLICAL.

9 As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel [f]contrary (ANATHEMA) to what you received, he is to be [g]accursed! (ANATHEMA) HE REPEATED HIMSELF.

10 For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ. PETRA WARNED ABOUT BEING A MANPLEASER COMPARED TO BEING A GOD PLEASER.

Paul Defends His Ministry

11 For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.

12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. AGAIN HE CLARIFIES HIS WORDS ARE OF GOD.

13 For you have heard of my former manner of life in Judaism, how I used to persecute the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it; ACTS 22: 4 "I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and

women into prisons”

14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my [h]countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. (HE WAS A FAMOUS RABBI.)

15 But when God, who had set me apart (sanctified) even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased HE WAS CALLED. WE ALL HAVE ONE.

16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with [i]flesh and blood, (HE MET JESUS ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS AND WAS BLINDED BY THE LIGHT.)

17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to (SAUDI?) Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus (SYRIA).

18 Then three years later I went up to Jerusalem to [j]become acquainted with Cephas(PETER), and stayed with him fifteen days.

19 But I did not see any other of the apostles except [k]James, the Lord’s (older) brother. THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING.

20 (Now in what I am writing to you, [l]I assure you before God that I am not lying.) (HE IS CLARIFYING HE WROTE IT AS ISN’T LYING.)

21 Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia (Turkey)

22 I was still unknown by [m]sight to the churches of Judea which were in Christ;

23 but only, they kept hearing, “He who once persecuted us is now preaching the faith which he once tried to destroy.” PRAYERFULLY WE ARE TURNING OUR LIFE AROUND, TOO.

24 And they were glorifying God [n]because of me. DO PEOPLE THANK GOD FOR US?

Footnotes

a. Galatians 1:3 Two early mss read God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ

b. Galatians 1:4 Or world