GALATIANS CHAPTER ONE
OBSERVATIONS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The purpose of the
observation
stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand in accordance with the
framework
in which it was written: a framework which is defined by the normative
rules of
language, context and logic - rules which do not impose undue,
unintended
meanings to the text 
,
and which largely limit
the observer to the content offered by Paul's epistle to the Galatians
and his
other writings. In order for any passage from elsewhere to be
considered, it
must have a relationship with the context at hand, such as a Scriptural
quotation or a specific cross reference in the passage at hand by the
author.
This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and
more
importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective
comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture. Remember that
something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be
in view.
I) [Gal 1:1]:
A) (Gal 1:1)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:1]:
B) PAUL
IMMEDIATELY AND
EARNESTLY DECLARES HIMSELF TO BE AN APOSTLE NOT FROM MEN, NOR
THROUGH
MAN, BUT THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND THROUGH GOD THE FATHER WHO RAISED HIM
[CHRIST] FROM THE DEAD
C) PAUL'S
APOSTLESHIP WAS
APPOINTED BY THE RISEN LORD TO BEAR THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST BEFORE THE
GENTILES AND KINGS AND SONS OF ISRAEL
ON THE WORD APOSTLE
1) [Acts 9:15]:
2) [1 Cor 9:1]:
3) [Ro 1:1;
11:13]:
4) [Gal 2:6-8]:
5) [1 Cor 15:7-9]:
6) [2 Cor
12:1-21]:
7) [2 Cor
5:11-21]:
8) [Compare Acts
22:12-15]:
9) [2 Pet
3:15-16]:
II) [Gal 1:1-2]:
III) [Gal 1:3-5]:
A) (Gal 1:3)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:3]:
B) (Gal 1:3)
[Grace And
Peace To You From God Our Father And Lord Jesus Christ]:
C) (Gal 1:4-5)
[Grace And
Peace To You From God Our Father And Lord Lord Jesus Christ - The One
Who Did
Give Himself For Our Sins, That He Might Deliver Us Out Of The Present
Evil
Age, According To The Will Of Our God And Our Father To Whom Be The
Glory
Forevermore. Amen]:
IV) [Gal 1:6-9]:
A) (Gal 1:6)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:6]:
B) (Gal 1:9)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:9]:
C) (Gal 1:6-9)
Paul Is
Astonished That The Believers In Galatia Are So Quickly Deserting God
Who
Called Them By The Grace Of Christ - Astonished That They Would Believe
In A
Different Gospel Which Is Really Not Another Gospel At All. But There
Were Some
Who Were Troubling Them, Who Wanted To Pervert The Gospel Of Christ.
Paul Then
States That Even If We - Himself And Those With Him - Or An Angel From
Heaven,
Should Preach To Them A Gospel Contrary To What They Did Preach To
Those In Galatia,
Let
Him (Them) Be Accursed. Whereupon Paul Repeated Himself: So Now I Say
Again, If
Anyone Of You Preaches Any Other Gospel To You Than What You Did
Receive, Let
Him Be Accursed
D) (Gal 1:9)
[Eternal
Condemnation Is Not Necessarily In View For Those Who Preach A False
Gospel]:
1) [Compare Jn
3:18]:
a) [What Is The
Anathema
Of Galatians 1:8-9? Are All Who Preach A False Gospel Eternally
Condemned?" by Bob Wilkin]:
V) [Gal 1:10-12]:
A) (Gal 1:11)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:11]:
B) (Gal 1:10-12)
[Paul
Begins To Provide More Detail That Corroborates His Claim That What He
Taught
Was The Truth From Jesus Christ. He Begins With Two Questions And An
Answer:
"For Am I Now Seeking The Favor Of Men, Or Of God? Or Am I Striving To
Please Men? If I Were Still Trying To Please Men, I Would Not Be A
Bond-Servant
Of Christ. Whereupon He Stipulated, "For I Neither Received It [The
Gospel] From Man, Nor Was I Taught It [By Man], But I Received It
Through A Revelation Of The Risen Jesus Christ]:
1) [Compare Acts
22:12-21]:
2) [Compare Acts
26:12-18]:
3) [Compare Gal
1:15-18]:
4) [Compare 1 Cor
11:23;
15:3-8]:
5) [1 Thes 4:15]:
VI) [Gal 1:13-14]:
A) (Gal 1:13-14)
[Paul
Stipulates That The Believers In Galatia
Had Heard About His Former
Way
Of Life In Judaism When He Persecuted God's Church To An Extreme Degree
And
Tried To Destroy It; And That He Advanced In Judaism Beyond Many Of His
Contemporaries Of His Own People, Being More Exceedingly Zealous For
The
Traditions Of His Fathers]:
1) [Compare Acts
26:9-11]:
2) [Compare Phil
3:4-6]:
3) [Compare Acts
8:1-3]:
4) [Compare Acts
9:1-2,
13-14]:
5) [Compare Acts
22:3-5;
19-20]:
6) [Compare Acts
9:21]:
7) [Compare Gal
1:23]:
8) [Compare 1 Cor
15:9]:
VII) [Gal
1:15-20)]:
A) (Gal 1:15a)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:15a]:
B) (Gal 1:15b)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:15b]:
C) (Gal 1:17)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:17]:
D) (Gal 1:18)
[Manuscript
Evidence For Gal 1:18]:
E) (Gal 1:15-20)
[Paul
Continued His Defense Of His Apostleship And The Gospel Of God Which
Was Taught
Him By The Risen Christ, And Which He Preached To The Galatians. He
Declared He
Was Called By God To Do This Before He Was Even Born, Not Through
Anything God
Foresaw In Him, But Solely Through God's Grace - To Reveal His Son In
Paul,
That He Might Preach Christ Among The Gentiles. Paul Did Not
Immediately Confer
With Flesh And Blood]:
1) [Ref Acts
9:19b-20]:
2) [Acts 9:22-30]:
3) [Compare 2 Cor
11:32-33]:
F) (Gal 1:11-12;
15-16;
16b-17; 17-18; 20) Paul Carefully And Repeatedly Made The Point That He
Had Not
Received His Training From Flesh And Blood, I.E., From Mortal Man
VIII) [Gal
1:21-24]:
A) (Gal 1:21-24)
[After
Paul's Travel To Jerusalem, He Went
Into The
Regions Of Syria
And Cilicia. Although He Was Unknown
By Face To The Churches
Of Judea Which Are In Christ, They Were Hearing That 'He Who Is
Persecuting Us
Then, Does Now Preach, The Faith That Then He Was Destroying' So The
Churches
In Syria And Cilicia Were Glorifying God Because Of The
Preaching Of
Paul]
1) [Compare Acts 9:30;
11:25-26]:
