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For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.Eph 2:9 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, November 7, 2025
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Source of the Gospel (Galatians #6) Bible Verse: Galatians 1:11,12 (DP Bible) "For I make known to you, brothers, a gospel that is not of men; 12 for I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught about it by man, but through the revelation of Jesus Christ. " Message:
These verses strongly reinforce the preceding verses, i.e., that Paul did not seek to please men by modifying his Gospel, but sought to please God by always speaking the truth. Here, then, he gives the reason underlying and supporting his refusal to compromise his teachings.
Paul is not writing his understanding, much less his opinion, of the good news given to humanity by God. He is writing and speaking thoughts which were given to him by God Himself. Paul’s epistles are the Word of God, not the word of Paul. They are written in Paul’s style — and we deal with two meanings of the word “word” in English, unfortunately. Paul’s “words” are Paul’s; Paul’s content and meaning are the “Word” of God.
Conversion of Saint Paul
What has been written by one person can always be criticized, improved upon, disputed, or ignored by another. What has been revealed as the will of God cannot. And so Paul cements his position by this, the topic of the rest of Chapter 1 of Galatians: evidence that the Gospel he teaches was not written by him, nor taught to him by men, but revealed to him directly by Christ.
On the road to Damascus, when Paul was converted — and if you are not familiar with it, please read the account of Paul's conversion in Acts 9:1-19, because you will need to know this to understand Galatians — he experienced Christ. He did not see a human Jesus, but rather a flash of light; whether the voice he heard sounded like Jesus, the man, is unstated. But Christ had, by this time, been glorified; his body had ascended.
This was not an appearance of the resurrected body of Jesus, such as we see on the road to Emmaus. This was a “theophany”, a physical manifestation of God to a human being. Paul saw and heard Christ, the ascended person of God. Yes, Christ showed Himself in a peculiar form, but this is not unusual for theophanies. For example, God appeared to Moses as a burning bush.
Meditation : Our fundamental goal, as Christians, is to correct our own conduct and leave Christ in control of the outcome. Prayer : I pray that I may be blessed every step of my path this day by the great God of light. May your sun shine upon me; as the moon moves the tide, may your Spirit move my emotions with every grace and magic; may my heart sing with the voice of your angels and my hearth be warm; and may this and every blessed day You have given me be filled with joy. Amen. |
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