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All right, the end of Galatians. Chapter 6, beginning in verse 17.

Paul says, from now on, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit brothers amen all right this whole thing

has been about a mark to show that you're saved this is another jab at the judicers

the judicizers said that you had to have the mark of circumcision if you really wanted to be a

follower of jesus and be a Christian and Paul is no, no, I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

What that means is that Paul did not, he knew, man, he got saved radically.

He's on the road to Damascus.

He's on his way to terrorize Christians, men, women, and children to put him in jail.

And yet the resurrected Christ appears to him as a bright light thumps him off of his horse and says,

Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

And Paul says, who are you, Lord?

And in that very moment, the scales fall off of Paul's eyes and he surrenders his life to the Lordship of Jesus.

And then for the rest of Paul's life, he lived with a grace-driven effort.

And the marks of Christ on his body that he's talking about were the marks that he endured

because he was a faithful follower of Christ, that he was not ruled by fear, he was ruled

by faith, that he would take the gospel into the hardest places, that he would go to places,

even though he knew it was dangerous. I mean, heck, one time in the book of Acts, Paul is preaching,

and the religious leaders grab him out of the city and they stone him

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