Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects

the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this episode, Paul continues through his Bible study, the gospel one chapter at a time,

with the next four New Testament books, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians.

In this first segment, Paul summarizes the book of Galatians, which he entitles,

the gospel's greatest enemy. Here's Paul.

Well, as we've been summarizing these books of the Bible,

I've, it's really impressed me that the zeal of God

for giving us His Word is so that we would know the God of the Word

and that we would know His son, the Lord Jesus.

The Bible is way more than a religious, formerly religious book or a theological book. It is the narrative of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And we've seen that literally in every book of the Bible so far.

While we're in Galatians,

and I would entitle this,

the gospel's greatest enemy.

Galatians is a powerful reminder that the greatest dangers to the church

of Jesus Christ are never outside of the church. They're always inside of the church. And the

greatest danger is that there would be some kind of pollution of the gospel of the Lord

Jesus Christ that would weaken the life and ministry and message of the church. And the greatest

of those pollution dangers is legalism. And the reason it's so dangerous is legalism plays to our pride.

It plays to the self-righteousness of sin. It plays to that belief that somehow, some way, by my performance, by my obedience, I can achieve

acceptance with God, that I could be that good. I could be that wise. I could be that faithful.

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