Galatians 1:10-24
Galatians 1:10-24
Paul continues his letter to the church at Galatia. He lets them know that he is not a man pleaser, he is a bondservant of Jesus Christ. A bondservant is a slave. A bondservant's life is not his own. Paul's life is not his own. His life belongs entirely to Jesus. Is our life our own or does it belong to Jesus?God called Paul according to His grace in order that Paul would preach the true gospel to the gentiles. God revealed His Son Jesus to Paul. God revealed Jesus in Paul. And now God would reveal Jesus through Paul. God always works in us that He might work through us.Paul had a dramatic conversion. He also had a great call put on his life from God. However, Paul did not immediately begin to serve. There was an extended time that God worked in the life of Paul, preparing him for what he had been called to do. God called Paul and would send Paul, but first God would prepare Paul. God is always more interested in the servant than the service
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Chapter 1
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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.
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But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
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For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
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But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
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To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
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Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
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But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
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Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
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Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
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And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
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But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
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And they glorified God in me.