OUR FATHER WHO REVEALED JESUS TO US BY HIS GOOD PLEASURE

Continuing in chapter 2 verses 11 - 17 of his letter to the believers in Galatia, the apostle Paul explained his apostolic credentials.

He let them know that the gospel that he delivered to them did not come from another man by teaching or impartation but rather was revealed to him through Jeus Christ.

Paul uses his history of being a zealous enemy of the church to highlight how profoundly he was altered when the Son of God was revealed to him.

Paul writes of how he had been separated unto Godˋs pleasure and purposes even while in his motherˋs womb. This calling was to preach the gospel to the gentiles and he did not verify this with the other apostolic leaders of the church but rather went to Arabia on a spiritual journey of revelation and even when  he returned, went to Damascus and not to Jerusalem where the original apostle congregated.

11 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

The Apostle Paul had an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ that instantly changed him into a fierce and tenacious advocate for the faith in Christ.

Amen.

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