Welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, part of the Come Follow Me team. And today we get to talk about the

wonderful book of Galatians. This is one of Paul's authentic books. He has the same vocabulary. We find a lot of

continuity between these authentic early books. And there's a wonderful message here that Paul was called by

Revelation. The challenge with the book of

Galatians is we are coming into the book like in the middle of a second act and we don't know

what happened in the first act, but something has gone wrong and everyone is mad and angry

and Paul is sharing some experiences when he was having a really bad day. In addition to talking

about Paul's authority, the text also talks about the Savior's sacrifice and resurrection.

You know, Paul always refers to Christ, and his atonement is usually central to that theme.

The book of Galatians was probably written during Paul's third mission, which makes

it possibly the first letter or the second or third letter, but very early, probably before he's

imprisoned in Caesarea and in Rome. There's enough evidence in the text that give us some clues on when

these things happened. It also appears that he's writing this from Macedonia. In the book of Acts, if you want to follow

along, just go back to chapters 13 to 16 and you can see where it falls in. But Paul is probably

writing this at the end of his third mission as he's going to spend the winter in Corinth. Remember,

he's leaving too late in order to go by boat across from Ephesus directly west to Corinth.

And so he has to walk because the winds are so bad in the wintertime, in the water.

So he's starting to walk across into Macedonia, northern Greece, and as he comes down,

he stays for a while in Philippi, and this is where we think this letter was written.

He refers

that he's writing it to all the brothers and sisters with me as co-authors. So the saints there are

part of his joint work. And instead of this just being to one church, it looks like it's a circular

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