Week 45 Galatians
Yesterday Paul wrote to the Corinth church about a Different Jesus. And so right away today I noticed that Paul said it was looking like the Galatian churches were deserting the Lord for what he called: a different gospel.
So…a Different Jesus yesterday in Corinth; a Different Gospel today in Galatia.
Yesterday I was wondering how you could fictionalize the real Jesus and make him into a Different Jesus (that was a crazy guess).
Today I’m wondering what a Different Gospel looks like (I’ll wait and see what else Paul says).
But I thought Paul’s opening greeting was pretty interesting: may grace and peace be yours from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. He died for our sins, just as God our Father planned, in order to rescue us from this evil world in which we live.
I don’t know if Paul was sneaking in a preview of key elements of the Real Gospel right out of the chute. But these sound like gospel-ideas…
The Lord died for my sins.
His death was planned by his father.
The reason he died was to rescue me from an evil world.
These three basic ideas sound pretty consistent with what I already read in Matthew-Mark-Luke-John-Acts.
So as of today I’ll keep them in mind as potential parts of the Real Gospel. And I’ll try to stay focused on where Paul takes it from there.
Note: quotes from Galatians 1:6 (NASB) and 1:3-4 (NLT).