Galloping through Galatians in 17 days! Day 1 - Galatians 1:1-10

This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead.

2 All the brothers and sisters here join me in sending this letter to the churches of Galatia.

3 May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. 4 Jesus gave his life for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live. 5 All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.

6 I am shocked that you are turning away so soon from God, who called you to himself through the loving mercy of Christ. You are following a different way that pretends to be the Good News 7 but is not the Good News at all. You are being fooled by those who deliberately twist the truth concerning Christ.

8 Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. 9 I say again what we have said before: If anyone preaches any other Good News than the one you welcomed, let that person be cursed.

10 Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.


Tori's Comments:

Verse 10 is really the one that convicts me... we serve Christ alone, and that's enough!

Terrie's Comments:

Wow there is so much in this passage.  Paul begins by reaffirming what the true gospel entails.  Then gets right to the heart of why he is writing this letter.... to call them back to the true gospel message because they have been led astray by those preaching a twisted gospel message.  

In the last part of today's passage Paul makes it clear that if we are Christ's servants we will not please people.  Fear of man needs to go at all cost so we can preach the pure gospel message.  Fear of man will corrupt the gospel message that we have been sent to preach!


BTW - Welcome to our Galloping Through Galatians Challenge!  We invite you to join us as we work our way through Paul's letter to the Galatians over the next 17 days.  CLICK HERE to find your FREE copy of our PDF file which is made to be folded and tucked into your Bible while you are going through this challenge with us :-) 

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