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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 5
Old Testament Progress: Introducing Paul
Come back to Galatians Chapter 1, where Paul has defended his apostleship. We explained in the last lesson what Paul’s Gospel is. That it’s all centered on the death, burial and Resurrection of Christ, the Son of God, Israel’s Messiah. And then in verse 12:
Galatians 1:12
"...neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ." We can see that everything Paul teaches and writes, came directly from the ascended Lord in glory. I’ve had people kindly say, "Wait a minute Les. Everything that Paul writes, is what Jesus said ( By revelation). Paul’s revelations are from the ascended Lord, whereas the Gospels are talking about Christ during His earthly ministry. Galatians 1:13
What does Paul think of the Jews religion? It made Paul a hater of The Messiah, The Christ.
Galatians 2:14
What’s the key word? Tradition. We have to rest on the Word of God.
Galatians 1:15
"But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace...."
Now, that was Grace. And Paul recognized that all through his writings.
Galatians 1:16
"To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen (Who?...The Gentiles and Heathen, not amongst the Jews so much, but among the Gentiles.); immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:..." Galatians 1:16
"Neither went up I to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus."
Into Arabia. Paul tells us in Ephesians that we Gentiles have what we have, because he (Paul) gave it to us.
Galatians 1:18
After three years: that’s where I get that Paul must have spent about three years at Mount Sinai, where God revealed the tremendous truths of this Age of Grace.
Galatians 2:1
Then Paul goes down for three years to Sinai. Saul was consenting unto Stephen’s death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the assembly at Jerusalem: and they were all, every Jewish believer. Come down to verse 19. Now, when he speaks of "preaching the Word," which Word did they have? The Old Testament, that’s all. And so they preached that Christ was The Messiah from the Old Testament; and they preached the Word to (and look at the next word) "...none but unto the Jews only." Now, they’ve come to Antioch and they’ve scattered away from Jerusalem and all through parts of the Mediterranean. Some have come to Antioch, where they spoke unto the Grecians, or Greeks. Now read on: "...preaching the Lord Jesus." Now, what do you suppose the Jewish people of Jerusalem thought? When Barnabas saw the Grace of God, he was glad. Paul. "Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul. And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. Not Jerusalem.
I’m so amazed that every writer that I read, even great men all over; they all refer to those Jewish believers at Jerusalem as Christians. The Bible never does. The Bible never calls those Jewish believers Christians, from the time of John the Baptist, all the way up until Paul. The Christians there at Jerusalem. If you’ll come down to Chapter 15, you'll see Paul and Barnabas have now come back from their first missionary journey up in Asia Minor, and they’ve established churches. Gentiles have been saved. Now, before we go to Chapter 15, let’s jump over to Romans Chapter 11. Here in Romans Chapter 11, these three little chapters in the middle of the book are dealing with the Nation of Israel. And now look at what Paul says in verse 11:
Romans 11:11
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.'"
Is God all through with the Jew? What’s his next statement?..."GOD FORBID (or banish the thought): But rather through their fall..." The Gentiles! Israel rejected it, crucified Him, and by so doing, they brought about God’s plan of Salvation by Grace.
The Jerusalem believers are all shook up that Gentiles are supposedly being saved up in Antioch. Paul and Barnabas had this big argument with these Jews from Jerusalem, saying the Gentiles could not be saved unless they were circumcised after the manner of Moses, as stated in verse 1. And then you come over to verse 5 of the same chapter. Look what these Jews in Jerusalem (including the Twelve), are saying:
Acts 15:5
Most people don't know this chapter in The Bible! But see, this was still the setting of the Jerusalem church. The Gentile was based on the Grace of God, and so the Jerusalem church had to reconcile it. So they called Paul down on the carpet. Had it not been that God providentially took Peter up there (in Chapter 10), to the house of Cornelius, he would have never come to Paul’s defense here.
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