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Thank you for joining us in this
time where we read together. The word

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of God on this occasion will be
in the Letter to Galatians, Letter of

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Paul to Galatians, to the Churches
in Galatia. Chapter one, I repeat,

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the biblical quotation Galatians first says the
word of God, Paul Apostle,

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not of men or by man,
but by Jesus Christ and by God,

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the Father, who raised him from
the dead and all the brethren who are

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with me to the churches of Galatia, grace and peace, be to you

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from God, the Father and our
lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for

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our sins to deliver us from the
present evil world, according to the will

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of our God and Father. To
whom is the glory for ever and ever

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of the children amen. I am
amazed that as soon as you have turned

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away from him who called you by
the grace of Christ to follow a different

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gospel. Not that there is another, but there are some who disturb you

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and want to pervert the Gospel of
Christ More and even us or an angel

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from heaven. I will proclaim to
you another gospel other than that which we

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have preached to you is anathema,
as we have said before also now I

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repeat it. If anyone preaches to
you a different gospel from that which you

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have received, let him be anathema, for now I seek the favor of

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men or of God. Or I
try to please men, for if I

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still please men I would not be
a servant of Christ but you. I

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make it known, brethren, that
the gospel preached by me is not,

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according to man, for I neither
received it nor learned it from any man,

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but by revelation of Jesus Christ,
because you have heard about my conduct

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in the past, in Judaism which
persecuted the Church of God exceedingly and ravaged

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it, and in Judaism overcame many
of my contemporaries in my nation, being

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much more zealous of the traditions of
my parents. But when it pleased God

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that he separated me from my mother' s womb and called me by his

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grace to reveal his son in me
that I might preach him among the Gentiles,

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I did not immediately consult with flesh
and blood, nor went up to

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Jerusalem to those who were apostles before
me, but went to Arabia and returned

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again to Damascus after three years I
went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and

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stayed with him for fifteen days,
but I saw no other of the apostles,

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but James, the lord' s
brother. In this which I write

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to you, behold, before God
I lie not. Then I went to

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the regions of Syria and Silicia and
was not known in view of the churches

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of Judea which were in Christ.
They only heard the one who once pursued

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us. Now he preaches the faith
that once ravaged and glorified God in me.