Galatians 1 – 3

In looking at verse 1:4, I wish there was more of this in the church today:

Frankly I am stunned. I cannot believe that you have abandoned God so quickly—even after He called you through the grace of the Anointed One—and have fallen for a different gospel.

We see many led astray by people preaching a gospel that is not pure. I pray to have the ability to know the difference if this ever happens. I have only experienced it a few times and it’s spooky. The most memorable was watching Joel Osteen who quoted scripture that to this day I have not found. This has concerned me since the message was focused on “beginning again”. Not going to lambast Osteen for being a false prophet, but it concerned me that he may be corrupting the word of God.

Verse 1:12 reminds me of what we are facing today:

It is not a legend I learned or one that has been passed down from person to person, ear to ear. I was gifted with this message as Jesus the Anointed revealed Himself miraculously to me. 

Today there is a huge push to say the story of Jesus is not real. After 2000 years people are saying it’s a myth and if there was a Jesus, He was just a man. Funny how there is no evidence to suggest Jesus was not who the stories claim. The early Christians who were killed are not considered fake. So if Christians were being martyred for a fake story, that no one of that time every claimed was fake. The only claims were that Jesus was NOT the Messiah, and not that He did not do all that was written. But 2000 years later, we suddenly have the insight to tell when something is a story and when something is truly history.

Think about it, if the story was a fraud one would think it would have been squashed by people early on. Those who knew Jesus or were there could provide first-hand accounts of what happened. The only ones are from people who confirm what Jesus did. Also, you cannot dismiss what’s happening in the church today.

Verse 3:10 is something I struggle with often:

Listen, whoever seeks to be righteous by following certain works of the law actually falls under the law’s curse. I’m giving it to you straight from Scripture because it is as true now as when it was written: “Cursed is everyone who doesn’t live by and do all that is written in the law.”

Do we follow the Law or not as a Christian? This is a big dilemma for many. Paul makes it clear there is no way we can follow the Law, and if we try we are held to its standards and not Jesus’. Yet take the food Laws, they are for our health but if you think it’s a sin for eating pork then there is a problem. So it becomes a quandary, if you follow the food Laws are you then judged by the whole Law?