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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into the Jewish system. They taught that a person was saved by faith and by keeping the
Law.
· These teachers had visited the Gentile churches in Galatia and were upsetting the
people (Galatians 1:6-9; 3:1; 4:8-11; 5:7-9; 5:12; 6:12-13).
· They wanted the believers to follow the Jewish laws and customs of religious holidays,
circumcision, etc. This was the “other Gospel” that Paul condemned (Galatians 1:6-9).
· The only Gospel that God approves and blesses is the Gospel of the grace of God,
justification by faith in Christ Jesus alone. We are not saved by making promises to God
but by believing His promises.
Numbers 15:32-36 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a
man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33 And they that found him gathering
sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. 34 And they
put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. 35 And the
LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall
stone him with stones without the camp. 36 And all the congregation brought him
without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded
Moses.
· Does that bother you? Boy it should, now why do you suppose God did that? Part of
the point here is that God takes that seriously. God means what He says and says what
He means.
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and [that], when they have chastened
him, will not hearken unto them:
· When we get to The New Testament a.k.a. The New Covenant, what happens to the
prodigal son? He was welcomed home, wasn’t he?
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