The last message, in the last part of chapter one, we saw the Apostles Paul way of combating this satanic gospel that came in and infiltrated the Church of Galatians.

That says that Christ is not enough for salvation.

That you have to keep some ceremonial rituals.

They misled these beloved friends of Paul whom he led to Christ and brought them salvation.

In the way he was combating these miserable legalists is by telling his testimony,

by giving his spiritual biography. And he started in the latter part of chapter

one and he continues here in chapter two. He basically gives more details about his testimony.

He gives more details about how God worked in his life, how the Lord Jesus worked in his life,

how he handled the relationship with the other apostles, how he himself

was behind the bars of conformity and man-pleasing. But then Christ came into his life and he set him free.

And so here in chapter two, as Paul continues the details, in first 10 verses, verses 1 to 10,

he said that I received the gospel and my apostleship, not from anybody. I received them

directly by revelation from the risen Lord Jesus Christ when he confronted me on the road to

Damascus. And so what does God do? He raises up a man who was a tough persecutor of

Christians. He raises a zealously anti-Christian man. He converts a man who was renowned for his

stubbornness and stubborn faithfulness to the wrong cause.

He transformed the life of a man who would be willing to die for his convictions wrong

as they were.

He takes a man who was passionate enemy of Christ and Christianity and Christians tried and true,

and he turns him into the Apostle Paul.

Think about this with me. Had it not been for the tenacity and the stubbornness of the Apostle Paul making sure that everyone and every church that he went to and that disciples themselves understood

what grace is all about, what liberty in Christ was all about.

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