Getting Back to Where We Belong
(Evening Service)
Text: Galatians 1:1-10
The apostle Paul is a straight-talker and that aspect of his character hits you as soon as you start reading the book of Galatians. This evening we’re going to be starting our sermon series by looking at the first ten verses of chapter one and discovering why Paul felt it was so important, so urgent, for him to get straight to the point with the believers he was writing to. Paul’s message was a command to the Galatian church to return to Jesus Christ and accept the good news of the gospel, and he still calls to us today and urges us to get back to where we belong.
“Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—and all the brothers who are with me,
To the churches of Galatia:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
(Galatians 1:1–10 ESV)”