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Boy with a Basket (the Porter) - (c. 1745)
Giacomo Ceruti (1698-1767)
Baroque Style
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Galatians 1, Paul wishes grace and peace upon his readers from God and from the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, to deliver us from this present evil world (1-5).
He was astounded that the Galatians had so quickly adopted a gospel so a different from the gospel which Paul had taught them. It was not another gospel of the same kind, but another of a different kind. He says that anyone who preaches a different kind of gospel should be accursed, whether it would be him and his fellow ministers or even an angel from heaven (6-9).
He said that if he became a man-pleaser he would not be a servant of Christ. In that regard, he noted that the gospel did not come from man. It came from a revelation by Jesus Christ. This revelation came to him in the midst of his efforts to persecute the church. It was Jesus who told it to him, not man, and not even the apostles in Jerusalem (10-17).
It was three years after Jesus revealed himself and the gospel to Paul before Paul even saw Peter. He spent 15 days with him and saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother. Afterwards he saw some of the churches but was unknown to them by face. They glorified God's work in Paul because he preached the faith which he had once destroyed (18-24).
[Sermons: Hywel Jones. C J Mahaney. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's painting depicts a boy who appears to be overburdened. That was the case spiritually with the Galatians in today's chapter. They chose to accept moral burdens from which Christ had already relieved them. For them, their burdens were spiritually dangerous, and Paul devoted his whole epistle to warn them away from the potentially fatal consequences of turning from Christ and his gospel to a different kind of gospel -- turning from grace to works. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES:
Galatians 1:1-5: Romans 1:1-7; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3; 2 Corinthians 1:1-2; Ephesians 1:1-2; Philippians 1:1-2; Colossians 1:1-2; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 2 Thessalonians 1:1-2; Philemon 1:1-3.
Galatians 1:6-12: Romans 16:17-20a; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; 2 Corinthians 5:11-13; 2 Corinthians 11:1-6; 2 Corinthians 11:1-6; 2 Corinthians 11:12-21a; Colossians 2:4-7; 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8; 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15; 2 Thessalonians 3:14-15.
Galatians 1:13-14: Romans 2:17-24; Romans 9:1-13; Romans 10:1-4; Romans 11:1-6; 2 Corinthians 11:21b-29; Philippians 3:2-11.
Galatians 1:15-24: Romans 15:14-21; 1 Corinthians 1:10-17; 1 Corinthians 9:1-14; 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Ephesians 3:1-13; Philippians 3:2-11; Philippians 3:12-16; Colossians 1:24 - 2:3. ]
NOTE: The parallels above are based in a very small part on my own research but principally on the following sources:
Fred O Francis and J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, Second Edition. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1984).
Most of the material on Hebrews is from an online article titled Pauline parallels in Hebrews taken from Charles H. Welch and Stuart Allen Welch, Perfection Or Perdition? An Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews, (London: Berean Publishing Trust, 1973). ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
Book Outline:
1. Do not Turn From the Gospel Which is From God (Galatians 1:1 - Galatians 2:21) - 49 A.D. Rome
2. This Gospel is the Instrument By Which You Received the Spirit (Galatians 3:1 - Galatians 4:31) - 49 A.D. Rome
3. The Spirit Enables you to Live Holy, the Law Does Not (Galatians 5:1 - Galatians 6:18) - 49 A.D. Rome
Galatians 1
1. Do not Turn From the Gospel Which is From God (Galatians 1:1 - Galatians 2:21) - 49 A.D. Rome
1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)
2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever [into the eons of the eons]. Amen.
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
24 And they glorified God in me.
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