New Testament: Gal 1.1–5

To read the Bible in a year, read Galatians 1 on September 23, In the year of our Lord Christ 2023

By Don Ruhl 

Once Paul got past his greetings to the churches of Galatia, he had a strong rebuke for them. Nevertheless, he still spoke peaceable words to them at the beginning. 

After introducing himself to them and explaining the origin of his apostleship (Galatians 1.1–2), he then wrote, “Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen” (Galatians 1.3–5). 

He still desired God’s grace upon them, but Paul wanted them to see the connection between grace and glory. So, as he began to speak to them, he began with grace and ended with glory. 

Later in the epistle, he shows how they abandoned the grace of God, and if they continued on that course, they would have no glory from God. 

Therefore, my friends, we must always live in the grace of God, lest we lose everything, and the greatest of those losses would be not living in the glory of God forever. 

Questions: 

• Do you think of the grace of God? 
• Do you think of how you can glorify God? 

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Don preaches with the Savage Street Church of Christ in Grants Pass, Oregon. 

Listen to his sermons here: GrantsPassChurchOfChrist.com