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?