The title that I chose for today's teaching is in the form of a question.

I don't do this very often, but this was one of the places in God's word where I deemed it necessary to ask the question by way of a title.

And the question is this.

You see it on the screen. Is this of God? Let me take it further and also ask

this question in addition. Not just is this of God. Are they from God? And that's the question that I'm hoping to answer as we look at this

text in verses 1 through 12 as the Apostle Paul turns a corner of sorts in our text today.

I like how the book of Galatians is organized. I like how one commentator

noted it. He said that chapters one and two are personal. Chapters three and four are doctrinal,

and now chapters five and six are practical, and certainly this is the case in terms of

its application. Maybe I can say it this way, for lack of a better way of saying it, it's about to get

real. The Apostle Paul is going to get real and we're going to see true to form how blunt and harsh he's going to be and rightfully so.

It's been a couple weeks since we were in Galatians and I think I would do well to mention a couple of things that are happening here in this church and in these

churches in that region. They were riddled with false teaching and this false teaching was coming

from these Judaizers as they were, legalists, if you prefer.

And what they were doing was they were creeping into the church, as Paul mentions,

prior, unaware, stealth, kind of under the radar.

And what they were bringing to these churches was this false teaching that Jesus Christ and

the finished work on the cross isn't enough. That it's Jesus and, it's Jesus and. It's Jesus if.

It's Jesus when. and it was namely in the requirement of which for us today is really inconsequential, but what they were doing was saying that when you come to Christ,

you also have to be circumcised according to the law.

Now, again, this is important to understand what was happening

because it will better explain why Paul takes the posture that he takes.

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