Book Of Galatians
Galatians, more than any other single book, became the manifesto of freedom and revival of Biblical truth of the Reformation era: “the Magna Carta of spiritual emancipation.” Few books have had a more profound influence on the history of mankind than has this small tract, for such it should be called. Christianity might have been just one more Jewish sect, and the thought of the Western world might have been entirely pagan had it never been written. Galatians embodies the germinal teaching on Christian freedom which separated Christianity from Judaism, and which launched it upon a career of missionary conquest. It was the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation, because its teaching of salvation by grace alone became the dominant theme of the preaching of the Reformers. — Merrill Tenney
Galatians, more than any other single book, became the manifesto of freedom and revival of Biblical truth of the Reformation era: “the Magna Carta of spiritual emancipation.”
Few books have had a more profound influence on the history of mankind than has this small tract, for such it should be called. Christianity might have been just one more Jewish sect, and the thought of the Western world might have been entirely pagan had it never been written. Galatians embodies the germinal teaching on Christian freedom which separated Christianity from Judaism, and which launched it upon a career of missionary conquest. It was the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation, because its teaching of salvation by grace alone became the dominant theme of the preaching of
the Reformers.
— Merrill Tenney
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· No. Then what is God doing today? He is visiting the Gentiles to take out of them a
people for His name. We learn in Revelation that standing before the throne of God
there will be those of every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
15] And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,
16] After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen
down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
17] That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom
my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.
Acts 15:15-17
11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the
breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by
my name, saith the LORD that doeth this. Amos 9:11,12
Confirming the ultimate fulfillment of the Davidic Covenant (Luke 1:32 He shall
be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David:).
18] Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
· That’s James wrapping up his quote from Amos 9:12.
Amos 9:12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My
name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
19] Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the
Gentiles are turned to God: 20] But that we write unto them, that they
abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things
strangled, and [from] blood. 21 ] For Moses of old time hath in every city them that
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