The Book of Galatians is little known among us. It's only six chapters, in 149 verses,

with a total of 3,084 words. Can we glean some eternal lessons from this brief letter

of the Apostle Paul? We certainly can. In today's lesson, we will draw out some of

Paul's teachings that we think will bless all of our lives.

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Let's now talk about the Book of Galatians, and more importantly, the teachings of Paul

to the Galatians. Who were the Galatians, and where is Galatia? The Galatians were made

up of no less than three tribes, one of which was comprised of ancient Gauls, who had been

there since about 278 BC. The Gauls were a Celtic tribe from what would now be modern

day France and small parts of Belgium, western Germany, and northern Italy. As a Celtic race,

the Gauls lived in a Grarian society and certainly had a landed class. The Celts were known

for their believing in a higher power, and many of them in Galatia had been converted

by Paul in his first mission through this area.

I'm going to have to tell you where Galatia is located, because I lived in the heart

of Galatia for two years. It's in north central Turkey, much of which is the Anatolian Plateau,

and the heart and capital of Galatia was Ankara, the very city where we lived as a family.

This is the capital city of modern Turkey. It would seem natural that the enormous city

of Istanbul, with her 15 million citizens, would be the capital of Turkey. But after Mustafa

Kemal Ataturk was instrumental in the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and then began serving

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