Welcome to Offscript, a Southland Christian Church podcast. Each week, we sit down with our teacher to talk through what didn't make it into Sunday sermon. Thoughts, stories, or questions that got left off the manuscript, but still matter. Thanks for being with us. Let's jump in. Well, hey, everyone, and welcome to Offscript. My name is Neil. I forgot my name for a second.

And your name is Scott. Scott, thanks for being here today, man. It's, I'm excited about this series, especially coming off of Easter.

Yeah, it's a, I don't know if we talked about this last week. Everything's such a blur. But Galatians is one of my favorite letters, basically because it's like a smaller version of Romans. And it's just super explosive. You know, we're going to get to a point where Paul tells people to emasculate themselves. He calls them dogs at one point. You know, so it's fun and explosive and confrontational. I love Paul. I think because he's so confrontational in his writing, like he's, he's just very much, he tells it like it is, here it is, and he doesn't give anyone an out. No. Like, I love that piece of his writing. I think it's easy. Like, I tried to paint this picture a little bit today. Like, he had to be this crazy combination of head and heart. So, yeah, I mean, you can't read Romans or really Anna's writing without concluding,

like even atheists who give an honest look at Romans in particular go, that is a brilliant document.

But also, like, the things that he did required so much courage and fortitude, even for evil.

Yeah, I mean, what he did before his conversion.

Yeah, like to think about physically dragging men out of their house to arrest them and their wives, like,

dude, I would fight you to the death over that.

So Paul had to be willing to flat out fistfight with grown men all the time in order to ravage the church the way that

he did. And so all that intensity and all that passion, Jesus redeemed for his purpose and his glory.

What a story of redemption, too, to go, I mean, when he really says, God came to save sinners of whom I am the foremost. He meant it, man. He meant it.

If you look at what he actually did and how he persecuted the early church, he was the foremost.

He was the worst. And I think maybe that's why I like his writing so much, because I know that

comes from a place of like, no, no, no, I have been saved by grace. Like, this is, there's

nothing I could have done because I was so evil.

Yeah.

Like, that is such an exemplification of God's grace.

Yeah, I mean, he is such an example to us of the line I said was there's more grace in Jesus than there is sin in you.

Like, if Paul can be saved, anyone can be saved. And that's Paul's point in writing that.

Like, if God can take his life, save him, redeem him, who are you to say that he couldn't reach you?

And that's, I may have gone a little hard in the pain around that idea of the pride of the person who says, well, actually, I've gone too far.

I've done too much. There's no way grace could

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