God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story

from Genesis to Revelation. Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's

word daily. Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

Second Timothy, chapter 3, 3 verse 16 says that God's word is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

Now if you've been with us on our journey, you're going to say, but we're not in Second Timothy yet, and you're right about that.

I give you that verse because there's a beautiful order there.

It's actually the order of the epistles found in our New Testament.

Doctrine, reproved, correction, instruction.

You remember that we began with Romans in Paul's letters, and Romans was basically doctrine.

Then you come to Corinthians, and what is Corinthians? It's basically reproved. And now we've come to Galatians and what is Galatians?

Galatians is primarily correction. Now Paul is correcting some perversion of the true gospel.

I can't think of a book that speaks anymore to the great need in churches and in Christianity

today than the book of Galatians because there's so much perversion of truth.

There's so many voices saying so many things.

We need a spiritual reset button, a return to the simplicity of the

gospel, the simplicity that is in Jesus Christ. This particular book was Martin Luther's favorite book

for dealing with the Roman Catholic Church, and you'll find out why shortly. Galatians has been

called the Christian's Magna Carta or Declaration of Independence,

and it's powerful because it's all about the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And lest you think that the gospel is only for lost people, may I remind you that the gospel

is the ground out of which every other good thing in your life grows.

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