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All right, welcome back to the Daily Blade. This week, we are going to do a deep dive in Galatians

chapter one. No theme, just we're going to walk through the verses. So chapter one, verse one of

Galatians, Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God

the Father who raised him from the dead

and all the brothers who are with me to the churches of Galatia. So just in case you're brand new to

Bible study, the guy that writes this is known as the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul grew up as Saul,

Saul of Tarsus. Tarsus was the home of the largest law school in the area.

He became a Pharisee of Pharisees. He was a staunch believer in the Old Testament, but he wasn't

necessarily looking for the coming Messiah as much as he became righteous in his own eyes.

He memorized the whole thing.

When he became a Pharisee, he took it to such an extreme that when Jesus begins to show up on the

scene and teach this gospel, he was anti-gospel. And he began to persecute followers of the way.

He began to persecute Christians. We seen him show up on the scene

that he gets the paperwork in order to go to Damascus to wipe out these followers of the way

and on his way to Damascus, to kill people who are following after Jesus. Jesus himself saves him.

Shows up as a bright light, kicks him off of his horse,

changes his name from Saul to Paul, and then later calls him into the full-time ministry to take

this good news of the gospel to the Gentiles. Paul ends up planting churches all over the place,

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