"Galatians 1" KJV Bible Preaching - New Testament Verse by Verse Study

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Galatians chapter number one .
Beginning verse number 1 the Bible reads Paul an apostle not of men neither by man but by jesus christ and god the father who raised him from the dead and all the Brethren which are with me unto the churches of Galatia gray speedy you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ the book of Galatians is an epistle written from the Apostle Paul unto the churches of Galatia which is obviously a geographic location now he starts out by saying Paul an apostle and the word apostle is related to the word epistle you can tell that they almost sound the same and they both come from the same root word as the word that we would use for like the post office right he pissed soul or apostle and basically an apostle is a messenger and an epistle is a message.
Ok that's why it's related to like posting something to somebody so he says Paul an apostle not of men neither by man but by jesus christ and god the father who raised him from the dead so in the first verse he's making it real clear that he's not a messenger of man he's not just repeating stuff that he learned from other people he's claiming to be a messenger from God bringing god's word and of course there are many other places where the Apostle Paul affirms that the word that he's bringing them is the word of god it's not just the word of a preacher and so forth and even Peter himself sanctions the epistles of Paul as God's Word and second Peter chapter 3 when he talks about as our beloved brother Paul has written any you and he calls those the scriptures and he talks about how the people who are struggling with them are the same people who struggle with the other scriptures and so forth so this is paul bringing god's word to the churches of Galatia now there are three things that come up in this chapter and really these three things are the themes of the whole book of Galatians and they all kind of are brought out in chapter one and then the rest of Galatians he emphasizes these things over and over again number one this thing of the fact that he's not there to please men.
He's there to please God he's bringing a message from God he doesn't care what people think about it that's real clear in all the chapters all the way up to chapter six number two he strongly emphasized that salvation is by faith alone not by works and then number three he's teaching against the Judaizers you know basically people are coming in and trying to bring in a lot of the Jewish customs and the jews religion and so what all those things are dealt with in chapter one and their expounded throughout the rest of the book now right away just from verse number one we see here Paul an apostle not of men neither by man but by jesus christ and god the father who raised him from the dead jump down to verse number 10 it says for do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I yet please men i should not be the servant of Christ that's a powerful verse here saying look if you're going to go into the ministry to please men you don't belong in the ministry you you don't you shouldn't even be a servant of Christ if your goal is to please people and there are way too many preachers today that will censor the message and kind of tone things down because they're afraid of what people are going to think instead of just faithfully preaching the whole word of god and letting the chips fall where they may and there are a lot of things in the Bible that if you preach them today in 2015 America they're gonna make people mad but if you seek to persuade men and to please men you shouldn't be the servant of Christ you know before you even decide to be a preacher you have to decide that you're going to preach everything that the Bible says without regard for whether people like it or not it's not relevant.
Look what the Bible says in verse number 15 it says but when a please God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace to reveal his son and me that I might preach him among the heathen immediately i conferred not with flesh and blood.
Neither when I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me but I went into Arabia and returned again into Damascus then after three years i went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and bold within 15 days but other the Apostle saw I none save James the Lord's brother so again the thing that he's emphasizing in these verses here is that he's not just repeating stuff that he heard from other people but that these are things that were directly revealed to him by God and they were things that he got from his own personal study of the Old Testament not just a reputation of just getting up and and just repeating what he learned from men that's what he keeps emphasizing with that now in verse number two it says and all the Brethren which are with me unto the churches of Galatia and I just want to start by pointing out the fact that churches is plural there and so many people today they think that the church is this sort of ethereal institution that's made up of every person who saved any believer is the church whereas the Bible use the term churches with plural meaning that these our congregations of people and there's not just one in Glacier there are multiple churches in that area so it's being addressed to the churches of Galatia says grace pd you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of god in our father to whom be glory forever and every meant so what does the Bible mean here when it says that he gave himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil world will keep your finger here and flip over to 1st John chapter 5 the thing that popped into my mind when looking at Galatians chapter one is in Acts chapter 2 when Peter is preaching at the day of Pentecost he's speaking to all the Jews that were present there and the development from all nations and he says to them save yourselves from this untoward generation save yourselves from this untoward generation and what's being applied there is that you know that generation of people were somehow trying to stop them from being saved.
Ok because Peter is preaching in acts 2 21 you know that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved and he's preaching about how Jesus died for their sins and rose.
Again for the day's preaching the gospel a nice and save yourselves from his untoward generation he's saying these people that are around you in this generation of the Jews were people that were trying to hinder them from being safe which makes perfect sense when you think about how jesus said in Matthew 23 the Pharisees who were the religious leaders of the Jews at that time that they shut up the kingdom of heaven against man neither did they enter in themselves but they also stop those from entering that would have entered in so he's saying save yourselves from the Sun toward generation look at first John chapter number 5 it says in verse 1 whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone that love with him that begat love with him also that has begotten of him by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and his.
Commandments are not grievous for whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith who is he that overcometh the world but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God so the Bible talks about the fact that we overcome the world by faith by believing in Jesus by believing that Jesus Son of God.
Now why would believing that Jesus the Son of God be overcoming the world.
Well the reason why is that the world is out there to stop you from believing that Jesus is the Son of God and you have to overcome that in order to believe you know you have to be saved from this present evil world all their teachings all their philosophies and all the stuff that's put into you and brainwashed into you from your youth you know you have to cut through all that garbage because it's designed to stop you from teaching from believe in the bible that's the goal I mean if you go to public school the goal is to indoctrinate you in a certain way i think it's not just to teach you math teach you English you know teach you computer skills are things that you're actually going to use in the real world it's partly that but a lot of it is to indoctrinate you in a way of thinking it truly is a religious education because.
They teach you the beliefs and the philosophies of atheism that's religion and people say well earthy is not a religion because they don't believe in God you know Buddhism doesn't believe in God either it's still a religion Buddhism says that there is no god but yet i don't think that most people would argue that Buddhism is not a religion because it is a religion because it has to do with their faith what they believe about things that can't be proven and that's exactly what you learn down at the public full system they're going to teach you.
Their doctrine their beliefs their philosophies and it's not a Christian perspective that you're getting you're getting an atheistic perspective whether you're in the science class whether you're in the history class.
Whatever the class they're always going to put in their indoctrination to brainwash you and here's the thing the people they don't think they're being brainwashed they think that they're thinking for themselves but it's funny how they all think the same stupid things that don't make sense and it's funny how it's all the same stuff that's on TV all the time it just happens to be that everybody's quote common sense is just always in lockstep with what's on TV and what's being taught in school but it's just like well yeah of course we believe that course nobody believed that 50 years ago and what you believe is in lockstep with what the media tell you but that's just a coincidence i mean it's ridiculous I mean I went down a perfect example of this is I went down to the community college and I spoke to a class at the Community College I can't remember whether it was a religion class or philosophy class but I spoke this class and the subject was a homosexuality you know that's what they wanted to talk about because there again brainwashed that's the most important thing in the world.
So that's what they always want to talk about so we're down there talking about this and basically you know the question was asked how many people agree with pastor Anderson on this subject and like out of this class of you know 30 students or whatever.
There were two people who said I'm I'm neutral like maybe pastor Anderson is right i don't really know and.
There were basically like 28 people that were just strongly opposed to what i was saying and just and even just outraged couldn't believe it you know just blown away that I would have the gold the audacity to teach whitey and they were just a strongly against me and then to people that are like I'm neutral translation i agree with pastor Anderson and I'm afraid to admit it.
Ok but you know be that as it may the vast majority of the students were strongly against when I was saying but then i started explaining it to him showing him what the Bible said explaining to them how the media is that this agenda and everything and literally I was able to turn around most of the class on the subject and I got one of the guys who was strongly against me.
He even said wow this is like an hour.
He's like wow it's scary how much we've been brainwashed it's what but it there's a reason why there's a reason why 50 years ago you know everybody thought homosexuality was gross and perverted and disgusting and then now everybody thinks it's normal and it's wonderful I mean but is that just an accident no there's been an agenda where people with millions of billions of dollars are making all these movies and TV shows and putting out all kinds of publication magazines just pushing it pushing it . and people don't want to see it there i know i don't know what is keep pushing it and they get used to it and they get used to it and then a generation just grows up where that's all they've ever even know and somebody comes along start sprinting what the Bible says and they can't even wrap their mind around it.
Why because the world today in the world is determined the Bible use over and over again just talking about the agenda you know of the rulers of the darkness of this world who have an agenda to basically get you to believe everything contrary to what the bible says and these people think that they're these independent young free-thinking people that they just came to the conclusion all on their own that you know being a hoe most normal or if they didn't get that on their own they got that from just a bombardment of propaganda in the TV the movies school everybody's been training them a teaching that otherwise how do you explain its different 50 years.
Go for now y'all it's progress yeah you know it's really it's really wonderful progress to get to where we are now you know condoning an activity that basically spreads a horrible disease isn't that wonderful isn't that a great progress I mean yeah AIDS is progress yeah and AIDS was spread in the early 1980s by homos they were having 500 partners each even a secular worldly book will tell you that but the problem is people don't open a book no they go to school they go to the TV they go to the movies and they don't even learn about the fact that even today if you go on the Center for Disease Control website i'll tell you that if you're homosexual your 50 times more likely to get aids today right on the government's own website cdc.gov but here's the thing people are visiting cdc.gov you know they're visiting netflix you know you know what they're visiting you know they're visiting TV shows and that's where they're getting what they believe they're not actually doing real research on these things so they're just going to say oh yeah it's totally normal.
I mean they see all this stuff on TV about them getting married in state monogamy doesn't exist amongst these people but you know what that's what TV tells us every day so that's what people believe what am I saying here you know the Word of God will save us from this evil generation and their.
Philosophies and there lies and their agenda to get us to believe that everything came from nothing that basically things just come to life by themselves that there's no God even though there's no evidence of anything ever coming to life by itself ever life begets life so what I'm saying is that you know in order to be saved you you overcome the world's brainwashing you ever got and here's the thing today we're dealing with the brainwashing that centered around atheism you know that centered around you know.
Hey sodomy is wonderful that centered around you know all these teachings of science falsely so called but in in Christ day there was an agenda to that was against the true gospel and it was Judaism you know was the Pharisees it was the Sadducees it was their false religion and there have always been all these.
Teachings of the devil that would oppose the true Word of God so that's what he's saying here about being delivered from this present evil world overcoming the world saving ourselves from this untoward generation through the knowledge of the word of God through the Bible it says in verse number 6 i'm Marvel because verses 1 through 5 are pretty much an introduction to the book it's just kind of a greeting telling you who it's from who is riding too but it says in verse number 6 i'm marble that you're so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ onto another gospel which is not another but there'll be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of christ so now we get into the second major theme of the book of Galatians which is the fact that salvation is by faith and it's not by works it's not by the deeds of the law that were saved or justified and this is something that he teaches very well all throughout this book in literally every chapter and he says here that there are people out there that are perverting the gospel of Christ now what does it mean to pervert something means to twist it to corrupt it to change it into something else that's why he says they're preaching another gospel it's not another but there's just people out there that would pervert the gospel so he's saying it's not just a completely different gospel know it's a gospel that started with the true gospel and then just twist it so the question is what is the twisting that he's referring to what is the other gospel we know that the true gospel is that Jesus died for our sins was buried and rose again and that if we believe in him will have eternal life so what's this other gospel that he's that he's warning about well if you notice the wording that he uses there he says in verse 7 that there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ well if we go later in the book of Galatians he actually uses that word trouble you go to Galatians chapter 5 just because then you can kind of compare and see he's saying look there's people that are troubling you with a false gospel so if we find where he talks about them troubling him you can get an idea of what the false gospel is it says in verse number 12 of chapter 5 he says I would they were even cut off which trouble you okay so these are the people that were talking about and then he continues the thought in verse 13 for brethren ye have been called on to Liberty so he's looking i wish that they were cut off that trouble you because brethren you've been called on to liberty and then he says this only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another now let's back up to get the context okay look at verse number one.
Stand fast therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
So according to chapter 5 the people that are troubling the Galatians are people that are trying to bring them back into bondage and he's saying look I wish these people would be cut off because you've been called on the Liberty so let's learn about that Liberty in the first few verses he says stand fast therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage behold I Paul sandy you that if you be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing.
Now what is this bondage what is this attack on their liberty what is this thing of you know.
Hey these people are troubling you with another gospel you know what it is it's teaching that people have to also keep the law to be saved and that believing in Christ is not enough so he said look you know if you believe that you have to be circumcised also he says Christ shall profit you nothing and by the way this is one of the best passages to prove that a person who is trusting faith + works is not saved this is one of the best ones because he flat out says look if you be you nothing why because the people in Galatia are Gentiles right so these people didn't get circumcised as babies they're Gentiles so people are coming in and telling them hey you need to get circumcised and these people that are coming in we would refer to them even though the Bible doesn't use this term this is a good term to explain it Judaizers you know basically these people who are trying to bring in quote the jews religion and impose that on these Galatians that's the third theme as i mentioned of the book of Galatians and these three themes are pretty much covered in every chapter you know anyway he really hits them from all angles and obviously there's a lot of other good things that are taught but here he says in verse 34 i testify again to every man that is circumcised that he's a debtor to do the whole lot he said look if you're going to say well you have to believe and be circumcised to be saved you know you might as well say you have to believe in and do everything that the Bible had commanded in the old testament to be safe he say your debtor to do the whole law why stop there at circumcision he says in verse for Christ has become of no effect unto you whosoever if you are justified by the law ER fallen from grace for we threw the spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith so our righteousness our salvation is by faith but these peoples is through the law and he says look if you're justified by the law.
Christ is of no effect unto you Christ shall profit you nothing look how could somebody be saved and then you'd say well Christ profit you nothing no these are people that are not saved I mean if Christ profiting you nothing if you're if he sits there and says that you know your your fallen from grace and that's pretty much saying you're not saved it's pretty clear and he's saying if your truck and by the way you could apply this to anything you could say you know if you believe in salvation by faith plus getting baptized or faith + joining the church or faith + doing good deeds faith + circumcision faith plus whatever the ritual whatever the teaching of the law you know it's all going to basically stop salvation from being for by grace because if it's of grace and it's no more works otherwise grace is no more grace but if he works there is no more grace otherwise works is no or works i mean it is it can only be one of the other either it's a hundred percent faith it's a hundred percent grace or it's not a gift anymore it's not free anymore you know I mean how much you have to pay for a gift before it's not free i mean if you pay one cent it wasn't free and the Bible's real clear that there are no works involved in salvation there's there's nothing that we do to earn our salvation.
It's all by greats are given us freely we just have to believe we just have to have faith in Jesus Christ.
So this is clearly the other gospel that he warned about and just in case there's any doubt he hammers it in every single chapter look at Galatians 2 16 quickly relations 216 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ even we have believed in Jesus Christ that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified is just saying the same thing like five different ways in one verse i mean how could you read that verse and walk away still thinking that you have to obey the law to be saved.
Unbelievable when he hammers it and nails in that verse you know of course chapter 3 confirms that chapter 4 sep five will get into those chapter 6 it's over and over again but back to chapter one is we talk about those three themes you know Paul makes it clear that he's really not interested in what man thinks he's not trying to impress the other apostles he's not trying to to impress the Jews he's not trying to beg you know get people to approve of his preaching he's just gonna pre sort of God secondly he wants to firm the true gospel of christ and say it's it's by faith.
It's by grace it's not by the deeds of the law it's not of works lest any man should boast and then thirdly he's preaching against this Judaizing the fact he covers it all throughout the book he talks about for example in chapter 4 flip over to chapter 4 and verse 9 is this something that he brings up he says in verse 9 of chapter four but now after the eve known God or rather are known of God how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements we're in need liar again to be in bondage and again keeps using these words liberty and bondage he says you observe days and months and x + years I am afraid of you les I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
So in chapter 3 he's talking about look we're all the children of Abraham by faith in Christ Jesus in chapter 2 he's talking about where those brethren from James are separating themselves from the Gentiles and trying to get them to live as do the Jews he talks about in chapter 4 how you know that the Israelites are Hagar today because they don't believe in Christ and that the saved Christians whether they be junior the Gentile there Isaac they're the chosen people there the Israel of God he hammers this over and over again he warns about them bringing in circumcision he warns about them bringing in workspace salvation he warns about the jews religion and now he excelled in it in the past but he first took that when he got saved when he believed on Christ and here he's talking about them you know observing days and months and times in years.
This is this whole recognition of the Jewish holidays ok and today we're seeing a resurgence of this in 2050 I mean look we've all been hearing all the hype about September of $MONTH 2015 and there's all these Judaizing type teachers the Zionists like for example you know john hagee Rabbi Jonathan Cahn and their their teachings have all been pointing toward September as like some kind of a doomsday you know I've heard different dates in September some of them had said hey its September 13-4 hey its September 23rd or 7 i'm here in all these different dates from different branches of this whole Hebrew roots Judaizing type movement you know and i'll tell you this one of the things that they keep saying is well there's going to be a big financial collapse.
Well you know what here's the thing about that if you ever heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A self-fulfilling prophecy is where somebody says something is going to happen and then they go make it happen or somebody makes it happen or it happens because they said it was gonna happen okay that's called a.
Self-fulfilling prophecy that doesn't mean that somebody is a prophet of God ok so one of two things are gonna happen in September okay either number one there really is going to be some major financial collapse which I don't think there's going to be I think it's all just a bunch of of hype but here's the thing let's say there is well that shouldn't really surprise you anyway since the Jews are the ones who control Wall Street anyway you know the Jews control the new york stock exchange all these different things so if they wanted to they can make it crash whenever they want they could sell out their stocks and do whatever they want to make it plummeted to end to create grass so the fact that these Jewish teachers are are predicting this or whatever is meaningless since they have the power to make it happen whenever they want since they control the wealth in New York.
Ok so that's number one but number two the other option would be that just nothing happens in September in September is like any other month.
Ok which is that would be my guess 80 they're going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy where they bring all this stuff to pass or it's just a bunch of hype and that's what I think but what I want to know is whether john hagee and jonathan cahn are going to eat crow at the end of this month and say hey by the way everything we wrote those books was a bunch of crap i manage that what they're gonna say they gonna admit that and you say well don't call it that okay done it's garbage you know what that's what the Apostle Paul called that Judaizing religion that that Ferris vehicle and we're not talking about that the truth of the Old Testament we're talking about the religion of the Pharisees religion of the Sadducees it's wicked and I wonder if these guys are going to eat crow at the end of this month or people are just going to keep on buying their books and and buying all this garbage because of the fact that there have been so many other teachers in the past who predicted you know.
Oh Jesus is going to come back this month or that and then it doesn't happen and people still follow these people and it's just mind-blowing it didn't happen and the Bible talks about it there.
Somebody who who's a prophet who claims that something's gonna happen and then it doesn't happen it says they're false prophet you know kind of a no-brainer there but these people are constantly making these predictions hype and things out because they sell millions and millions of books they make a lot of money new york times bestseller you know the shmita by reveled Reverend not Reverend rabbi kahn and you know the four blood moons you know what when the Bible talks about the Sun being turned into darkness and the moon into blood it's not talking about any clips.
It's not just talking about some reflecting you know optical illusion that makes the moon look red.
You know it's talking about cataclysmic major fence that are not going to be something where you could look at a Adam eclipse chart and figure out when it's going to happen then how could Jesus sit there and say well no man knoweth the day or the hour and at such a time as you think not the Son of man coming if all you have to do is just pull out some chart that john hagee is gonna show you of when the moon turns red and you know what the moon's been turning red for years and and their been eclipsed read that's not what he's talking about talking about some different than that ok talk about somethings worldwide not just in certain places or whatever so anyway don't be deceived by this stuff and you know I'm just living my sep tember as normal you know I'm not getting in the bunker or anything you know that mean this sep tember i'm just going to go about my normal business you know I'm not really worried about it because people can I get an email you say why don't I get an email every day every day what do you think about September and what do you think is going to happen if you read the blood moons look why would I listen to anybody who said that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah look who is a liar but he denied that Jesus is the Messiah he's Antichrist tonight the father and the Son and so you know what do I want to hear anything that the NY won't listen to anything that a guy who calls himself rabbi says when the bite when Jesus said be not called rabbi.
Case closed end of story but back in Galatians chapter one you know it says here you know she's not another but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ you know by studying the rest of the book it's clear what that perversion is it's bringing in the works of the law as part of ok now let's keep reading it says in verse a but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you let him be a curse as we said before so say I now again if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received let him be accursed.
These are strong words saying even if I by myself come back and teach you another gospel he's just trying to emphasize not to listen to anybody who teaches another gospel ok and what other gospel we're talking about workspace salvation now this whole thing up an angel from heaven coming and teaching another gospel paul warns about in 2nd Corinthians 11 when he talks about the fact that the devil himself is transformed into an angel of light and it's no great marvel of his ministers are transforming the ministers of light you know there are two big religions that were started by an angel coming and preaching another gospel ok.
One of them is a lot bigger than the other.
Ok one of them is about low 700 times as big as the other so you know it's almost a thousand times bigger than the other and that would be Islam and mormonism now.
Mormonism is sort of like Islam for white people.
Ok but it's pretty much the same thing basically joseph smith was a big admirer of Muhammad and he wanted to basically see if he could pull off the same deal that that Muhammad pulled off okay.
The difference is that you know Mohammad just want a lot of military victories and and so he was able to take over a lot more territory and get a lot more people under his influence and and kind of you know get off to a big booming start and for the religion to spread like wildfire be spread by the sword and conquest not just through evangelism ok but Joseph Smith was never really able to you know get that off the ground you know he lost some of those shootouts you know with the with the Federal Home that the federal government everything so they weren't able to do it but I mean you know what Joseph Smith wanted to be to let the next Muhammad . and you can even find quotes from some of the early mormon profits praising mama ok and there are so many similarities it's mind-boggling but they were both started by an angel coming to them and here's what the angel came and told him everybody's wrong you know what I mean all the day basically came.
According to joseph smith an angel appeared to him and told him that all religions are wrong every denomination is wrong all churches are false and that's why he needed to start this new religion now this right there is is is is total foolishness to think that everybody in the world is wrong ok and you run into people like this today and I want to say that you know they are like the next Joseph Smith or Muhammad when they have this idea everybody's wrong and I'm right it doesn't make any sense because if you think about it God is real God created the world god has manifested himself unto mankind in every generation he spake in time passed by the mouth of the prophets he spoken us in these latter days by his son but what we believe is that there have always been people on this earth at all times who are always worshiping the true God and that always believed correctly and we're always on their way to heaven and there have always been lots of people and that the gospel has been known throughout the world throughout generations throughout time and it's never just disappeared.
I mean think about what Jesus Christ said upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it but Joseph Smith wanted to believe is gone by the time he's born then how did the gates of hell not prevail against if it's gone and you have to reinstitute it okay it doesn't make any sense and then you know muhammad's teachings real similar you know basically an angel comes and reveals him.
Oh by the way the Bible's all corrupt the books of Moses are corrupt the Psalms are corrupt the Gospels are corrupt and it's funny because if you actually read.
The Quran he says over and over again the chron oh the books of Moses of the word of God all the four Gospels of the word of God oh the Book of Psalms is the word of God but then when you try to point out anything in those books to a Muslim they just say oh it's corrupt so basically Muhammad wanted to ride on the coattails of Moses ride on the coattails of Jesus right on the coattails of David but reject what they actually taught and believed in their words right so he comes up with this convenient thing up oh yeah i'm going to keep name-dropping you know dropping the name John Moses David yeah jesus to ride on their coattails all the while rejecting everything they said and taught just claiming oh we don't really have the real books of Moses we don't really have the real song we don't really have the real Gospels it's all been corrupted it's all how could you change it when there's so many thousands of copies of it when somebody go around change them all you know all these thousands and thousands and thousands of copies it doesn't make sense but that's what they claim oh it's all changed even though in other parts different parts of the world is preserved by different people all the places it's all corrupt you know but just trust me and my.
Nine-year-old wife and my other 10 mi other ten wives me and this nine-year-old trust us forget forget you know what's written by Moses forget what's written by David forget the four Gospels of Christ because it's all corrupt but it's this cold like whenever somebody is a cult leader this is what they teach like hey everybody's wrong except me every church is wrong every religion is wrong that's what Muhammad said he's saying look all the scriptures are wrong except the Quran here's this new thing now is that what Jesus said when he came on the scene did Jesus come along and say hey all the Old Testaments wrong.
Here's something new no jesus said think not that I've come to destroy the law or the prophets I came not to destroy but to fulfill for verily I say to you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law to all people.
He said.
The Old Testament was preserved he believed it he confirmed it he said that what we had today and his day was the same thing that they had back in Moses day he didn't pull out this thing I've like oh I'm following in the footsteps of Moses but by the way everything that you think Moses says wrong trust me to change everything but that's how Joseph Smith was to all Creed's are corrupt alternates are corrupt this is why he did not get baptized in any Church he wouldn't get baptized by any denomination because they're all corrupt so he baptized himself you know just you know I mean look when you're baptized at and look I talk to people that baptized themselves before my whoa you're trying to be another Joseph Smith you all the churches are corrupt i baptize myself or and then later later the Mormons change the story because they changed their story many times about how their religion started one of the changes is they change it to where.
Well him and his body baptized each other you know because it kinda I guess it just seemed kind of stupid that he baptized himself so then they you know it's like ok they baptized each other and then they start baptizing everybody into their in their false religion but the thing about that is that you know whenever you see that mentality that's a scary mentality because the Bible teaches that basically God's word has always been on this earth.
It's always been preserved he said that his word will be preserved unto all generations Isaiah chapter 59 flip over there real quick just because it's such a great verse on preservation and it's one that not everybody necessarily knows because we all know the verse Matthew 24 having an earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away found mark 13 and Luke 21 as well but in Isaiah chapter 59 look at verse 21 it is as for me this is my covenant with them stay at the Lord my spirit that is upon the and my words which I put in my mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seed seed say that the Lord from henceforth and forever.
So what's he promising to preserve the word of god that was spoken by Isaiah.
He said this will be preserved you know of course psalm 12 the words of the Lord are pure words and silver tried in a furnace of Earth purified seven times now shot keep them O Lord thou shalt preserve them from this generation and forever heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away man does not live by bread alone jesus said but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God how can we live by every word if we don't have every word but these cult leaders come along and say we're right and everybody else is wrong and that's not true you know that's not what Baptist have ever talked Baptist have never said you know hey just this church right here we're the only ones that are going to heaven and I'm the only one who's teaching trip you know what there's not a single doctrine that I'm the only one who teaches it . in fact there's not a single doctrine that only Baptist teach you can't really point to one true biblical doctrine say this is only coming from practice name the belief and even if people think all summer pastures believer so radical.
Yeah but all my beliefs are shared by millions of people even if you named my most radical belief you know whatever that is for you you know with the thing about the reprobates yeah I guess what I'm not the only one who thinks that there are millions of people who believe that.
And by the way I just want something Lord this afternoon that wasn't going to accept the gospel until I explained to them about reprobates and then they got saved so so much for me turning everybody away with this horrible doctor because she's like wait a minute when you're saying you can lose your salvation or you could never lose your salvation and that's all by faith her she had a hang-up about like pedophiles and stuff so I explained or their reprobate i showed in the Bible the vile affections and and she's like okay and then it made sense that you got it I've had tons of experiences like that that's why God sends me to that door campaign you know this girl you don't be because he ate it's not an accident like God knew well pastor Anderson is gonna get through her because she has this hang-up about this so God uses us all in our own way but the bottom line is anytime anybody is teaching something that no one else is teaching okay that is a red flag right there.
Ok that's a cult-like teaching and there's nothing.
Now I'm not saying if you if you find someone little interesting verse or no nobody's ever seen that verse or something you know I thought of it that way but I'm talking doctrine i'm talking like believes doctrines look if if we all have the same Bible if the Bible's bronzer for thousands of years and every believer is in weld by the same Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is said to guide us into all truth then how could we be the only ones who are right when there's all these other people who are also involved by the spirits are reading the same Bible that's why you'll find the same beliefs amongst all kinds of people so you know this Mohammad and and Joseph Smith are both saying hey forget everything has been preserved forget the written word forget the tradition of the fact that there's people all over that already believe the gospel and that are already saved their just basically trusting an angel over all that evidence of the preservation of God's Word of the fact that the gates of hell would not prevail against the church that there would be all kinds of churches and people that would pass it down and that they're saved people in every but people have been calling upon the name Lawrence's Genesis 4 and every generation has been you know the the remnant there's always been a remnant there's always seven thousand men who have about the need a veil so basically you know Mohammad command in and it's funny because when you read the life of Muhammad at first he wondered if it was a demon that was talking to him and he even wondered am i demon possessed because he was saying stuff and he couldn't control everything and then some woman that he knew told him you're not and he's like okay and then I was just said form seriously read it so that's why I think that God put this in here for us in Arizona yeah we're surrounded by mormons but there really aren't that many Mormons in the world they only claim that there's 14 million and they inflate their number and they claim that there's 40 minutes actually less than that.
Whereas my.
X 1.6 billion people who claim me muslim so this is mainly for the Muslims but will you know the white Muslims also aka the the latter-day saints so right here he says look even if an angel from heaven preach any other gospel you let him be accursed.
Here's what here's what blows me away that there are even some Baptists who teach that like Paul preached a different gospel than Jesus taught he's sitting there saying favorite preachers anything different they're curse so how can you say Jesus died for gospel when jesus clearly taught salvation is by faith in the book of John 90 times it says believe in the book of John one book of the Bible John which is all about the life of Christ which is has the most-read letters of any of the four Gospels you have the red letter edition and 90 times it's believed same gospel that Paul taught faith faith look even as David also described at the blessedness of the man to whom God and Peter's righteous without works saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin so let's keep reading here he says let them be a cursed as we said before so say I now get if any letter because the message is the Bible teaching respect all religions say let these people be a curse that are teaching these lies or do I now persuade men or God or do I seek to please men for if I yet please man i should not be the servant of Christ back to that first theme that we talked about verse 11 but i certify you brethren that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man fri neither received it of man neither was i taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ for you have heard of my conversation in time past in the jews religion have that beyond measure.
I persecuted the Church of God and wasted it now this is what people will twist where he says my gospel the gospel which was preached of me.
It's by the revelation geez he's not saying it's a different gospel though he's just saying that he actually got things directly from God directly from the inspirational goes directly from his face to face encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ he's not saying hey everybody's wrong let me come in and start a new cold that's not what he's saying he says here also that in time pass watch this in verse 13 for you've heard my conversation time pass in the jews religion ok and then in chapter 1 verse 14 it says and profited in the jews religion above many my equals in my own nation be more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my father's notice what he calls it the jews religion now he's not claiming that as his own he's contrasting the jews religion with Christianity now a lot of people say oh you know.
Christianity is just a completed form of Judaism or Christianity is picking up where Judaism left off wrong.
Christianity's pick up with the Old Testament left off and there is a massive difference being the old testament and Judaism Judaism is the religion of the Pharisees Judaism is a rotten false religion whereas the Old Testament the Word of God but you say well how can you believe the Old Testament knocked Judaism because Judaism denies the Old Testament now they inward they say oh yeah we believe the Old Testament until you start asking what they believe because if they believe the Old Testament they believe things like say creation or they believe things like the flood or they believe things like you know the fact that Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights you'd expect him to believe that right they scoff at the story they market these stories they don't believe them and and the biggest example is just you read the first five books of the bible and over and over again it's teaching them to do an animal sacrifice they don't do that at all.
It says that the blood is enough is an atonement for their souls on the altar you know he said when I see the Blood I will pass over you hear Jesus is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world but they don't believe that so why aren't they doing that we know that jesus is our ultimate sacrifice but if they don't have Jesus then what that's why jesus said if you believed Moses you believe me we speak to me but if you believe not his writings how she believed my words so don't confuse the two.
Judaism is the jews religion and paul is talking about in a derogatory way Christianity on the other hand is the religion of both old and new Testament the New Testament building upon the Old Testament ok that's the difference.
So he says here that you know he persecuted the Church of God back when he was in the jews religion and he profited in the equals in my own nation being more exceedingly zealous of the old testament of the word of God that what he says now he says he was more exciting zealous of the traditions of his of his father's and in Colossians eat he calls those vain traditions these are the traditions that Jesus said made void the Old Testament avoid the word of God ok but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace to reveal his son of me that I might preach him among the heathen immediately i conferred not with flesh and blood now what this is teaching is that Jesus God always had a plan of using the Apostle Paul to write the new testament basically this is something that God who knows all things who foresaw all things.
Who knew the word of god from the beginning you know the in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
So this was all for known that Paul would be the instrument that God would use to write the New Testament it says in verse 16 to reveal his son and me that I might preach him among the heathen he then meaning the Gentiles immediately i confer not with flesh and blood and returned again to Damascus and after three years i went up bold within 15 days but other of the Apostles sign unsaved James the Lord's brother and other things which I write unto you behold before god I'll I not afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia yeah and was unknown by face under the churches of Judea which were in Christ but they had heard only that he was persecuted us in times past now preaches the faith which once he destroyed and they glorified God in me.
So what he's saying here is that he had been spending his time in his ministry not in Judea but rather traveling the world preaching the gospel and all of these foreign places that's what he'd been doing and he didn't feel that he needed to go to the former apostles in order to be able to accurately preach the Word of God didn't feel like you need to confer with flesh and blood because he got direct revelation from God himself and because he had the Old Testament Scriptures himself so he had the word of god he had the spirit of god and as an apostle he received divine inspiration divine revelation and so he didn't need to confer with flesh and blood to verify that somehow you know what he was saying was true now the reason why the Apostle Paul is constantly making statements like this and talking about these things is because of the fact that there were many people who did not consider him a real apostle they considered him to be a fraud and he was constantly under attack and you know of course that's what the Muslims will say they'll say oh well jesus and the apostles were great but then Paul came along and changed everything and corrupted everything and you know all this stuff so Paul was called into question in his day of whether he really was an apostle or not and even today with it with the Muslims it's still called into question with the hebrew roots movement some of them will call into question whether Paul was was legit and the reason why is that the Apostle Paul was not one of the original twelve disciples he was not following Jesus before he was crucified and buried and rose again if you remember in acts chapter one when they were choosing a replacement for Judas Iscariot they said somebody who was with us.
Beginning from the baptism of John on to that same day that he was taken up from us that was the criteria that they had when they wanted to replace Judas Iscariot as one of the one of the 12.
Flip over the last place tonight first Corinthians 15 i'll close on this but first Corinthians 15 and we kind of see what the Bible teaches as the definition of an apostle and what that means that if you remember when the apostles were originally ordained and with that term was first used we read about in the four Gospels where he takes the 12 that he had chosen and he says he gives them power against unclean spirits to cast the mounted to heal all manner of sickness and to do all these different miracles and and so forth so he gets these 12 and he gives them special power and also then later it says your date 70 others also any gives them these powers and so forth to be able to perform miracles and and do all this stuff so that was the Apostles well the Apostle Paul obviously wasn't there so he received his commission after the death burial and resurrection of jesus christ the resurrected Christ appeared unto him on the road to Damascus and ordained an apostle so it says in Chapter 15 it's talking about all the people that had seen Jesus after he rose from the dead and it says in verse 5 or look at verse 4 it says that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures and that he was seen of Cephas Cephas is peter then of the 12 after that he was seen of above 500 brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present meaning when the book was written but some are falling asleep after that he was seen of James then of all the apostles so notice all the apostles saw him after he rose again right then it says this and last of all he was seen of me also as of one born out of due time for I and the least of the Apostles and I'm not me to become an apostle because I persecuted the Church of God by the grace of god i am what i am it's over so basically Paul was the last apostle because Jesus appeared unto all the apostles and then last of all he appeared under paul ok so the criteria biblically for being apart soul would be someone who was specifically sent out literally by Jesus in the flesh ok given power by Jesus sent out literally by G's in the flesh and have seen him in his resurrected form this is true of all the apostles and it was true the Apostle Paul however this is not true of anyone today but yet there are people today they called himself an apostle but notice what Paul said last of all he was seen of me so there are not apostles it you'll find all these churches where people just self proclaim that they're an apostle apostle so and so you know it's just some kind of a title of you know that so we should listen to but however they have not seen the resurrected quite the next time anybody sees him is when every eye shall see him you know when you coming with clouds so he was well as one born out of due time so you say well pastor Anderson and be born out of due time he's saying he's a late comer you know here all the other pasta or date he's ordained later still you know very close to the events in question you know still very near after the resurrection of Christ but it's a little bit later than the rest he's the last one.
Ok so you say well then pastor Anderson how do we know that the Apostle Paul is legitimate how do we know that he really isn't a possible well that's one of things that Paul brings up a lot of his epistles and one of the things he brings up he says the signs of an apostle were done among you and the Bible talks about in the book of Acts special miracles were performed by the hands of Paul ok now the author of the book of Acts is Luke you know so Luke is basically sanctioning him and saying look I saw the miracles and so forth but you say well pastor Anderson we didn't see the miracles we weren't there why should we believe that he's an apostle and the truth of the matter is because of the power of God's Word that's the answer because look half the New Testament is pinned down by Paul so if half the New Testament spin down by Paul then if we were to reject Paul we'd be rejecting a hundred chapters a hundred chapters ok hundred out of 260 better pan down by the Apostle Paul.
And here's the chapters that we be rejecting amazing powerful scriptures that we know are the word of god because of the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit says we read the Bible and we'd we don't here's the thing.
Let's say Paul were an imposter then we read Matthew we read mark we'd read luke we read John and there's so much power in God's Word every page powerful right then we get to romans and we be like huh where the power or get to axe and you know exact is mostly about Paul whoa where the power go.
Who turned off the power we get the first and second Corinthians and say wow some is that this is weak but you know what when we get to Roman's we find some of the most beloved scriptures in the whole Bible I mean think about when missionaries go to bring the Word of God what are the two books they translate first into these foreign tongues John and Romans what why because of the power of the book of Romans we find out i mean what's one of the most famous ok forget that not one of the most famous what the most famous chapter in the New Testament first Corinthians 13 written by Paul number one most famous chapter if he was a fraud why does he have the outstanding chapter of the New Testament and doesn't make any sense does it the power is there however pick up the Apocrypha the power shuts off pick up the book of mormon the Quran yeah.
The power is is off okay that's how we know.
Look why do we even believe any of the Bible because the power of God's Word that's why right and Paul even said he said hey get your face should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of god it's the Word of God that has power is quick and powerful sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to dividing asunder of soul and spirit of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and 10 * oh yeah that was written by paul stevens fortner I'm sorry Hebrews 4 12 Hebrews 4 12 when the most famous verse in the New Testament all Scripture is given by inspiration of God Paul I mean you for all have sinned and come short of the glory of god i would go on and on.
First that diversity tap the New Testament so that's how we know that he's an apostle because of the power of God's Word and because of the fact also that Peter sanctioned his work description if you throw him out then you have throughout Peter throughout Peter you know what are you left with you know it's it's crazy.
So the bottom line is that the book of Galatians is a is a powerful book it is the best book for proving that salvation is by faith and not of works i mean he runs it into the ground in this book and it's also a very powerful book against the Judaizing element and it's the most powerful proof that we're all God's chosen people who believe on Christ regardless of ethnicity Galatians 3 is the most powerful teaching that we are the children of Abraham not the so-called Jews ok but it's us as believers they have replaced the Jews as God's chosen people in the New Testament believers in christ and you know amongst believers other Jews sure but they were Jews and they became Christians ok and so that's why it's not necessary to always give that caveat so Galatians is a powerful book in the Word of God that drives in these truths and I think it's a book that has more relevance today than ever is very relevant why because we're dealing with Islam today more than ever and what you know so we need these scriptures here warning us and we're dealing with this hebrew roots movement in this resurgence of Judaism more than ever and we're dealing with people bringing in work this is the book that we need to know like the back of our hand if we're gonna be able to combat this stuff we need to know the book of Galatians guards and water / father thank you so much for this book Lord and and help us in the next few weeks to get as much as we can out of it Lord to understand it and to truly hide it in our hearts Lord that we will not be deceived by the cunning craftiness and sleight of men whereby they lie in wait to deceive Lord Jesus name we pray amen.


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