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[00:00:00] Welcome, welcome, welcome to a brand new and beautiful, beautiful, beautiful program that we have for you, which is called Bible Commentary. This is our Bible commentary from what the Word says, where we get to look at the Bible, we get to study the Bible verse by verse. And here I do like a commentary where I go through every verse of the Bible with you, and you can go along and also use it for personal study purposes. And it will be available here on the what the Word Says platform. So we just added a new addition to our programs, and this one is more a Bible study teaching program where I go through every verse of the Bible. So what we're going to start with today, you know, as a teacher, as a teacher of the Word of God, I would like to start with mostly doing this Bible commentary with the Epistles. All right, okay. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Galatians. Okay. I'm going to read. I'm going to go through the whole chapter first. I'm going to read out the whole chapter first, and then I'll go through the key points that, you know, that we will look into in this study. All right. So that's the format, and I'll probably look at some other different translations that, you know, we can actually get into to understand better, you know, the language, you know, because sometimes the King James language, or sometimes a lot of the times if you're not. Because for somebody like me, I've been. I've acquainted myself with the King James Version language, all right, for such a long time that it's now easier for me to pick up, you know, but for somebody else, you know, or somebody else, maybe you can work with the new King James Version. That is also. That is quite decent. The new King James Version. Version is very decent.
[00:02:02] But, you know, I'll be using the King James Version a lot. All right.
[00:02:06] As the primary version for this study. Okay.
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[00:02:25] The Epistle of Paul, the Epistle of Paul, the Apostle to the Galatians. Okay. Chapter one, verse one. Okay. Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead, and all the brethren which are with me unto the churches of Galatia. Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us this present evil world. From this present evil world to the will of God and our Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Verse 6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you to the grace of Christ unto another gospel which is not another, but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
[00:03:15] Okay. But though we, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach another gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, O God, or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after men. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ. For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jewish religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it, and profited in the Jews religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
[00:04:15] But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, but went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus. Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James, the Lord's brother. Now, the things which I write unto you, behold, before God I lie not. Afterwards I come into the regions of Syria and Cilicia and was unknown by the face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ. But they had heard only that he which persecuted us in time past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me. That is chapter one. That is what we're going to be looking at in this. In our first.
[00:05:17] On our first chapter of.
[00:05:21] In our first chapter of Bible Commentary. All right, so now you can see, like this is kind of like an introductory letter, all right, of Paul trying to introduce himself, his history, his background, and how he got into the gospel, how the gospel came to him. And he's trying to, you know, because at this time People were still battling. People were still battling with the idea of this now man of God who was persecuting and killing Christians, was now preaching that same message that he was so zealously persecuting and having Christians arrested. You know, so you have to understand that, you know, the first couple of years of the Church of Jesus Christ Christianity was illegal, all right? It was illegal. So there were always. The church was in hiding, all right? So the church was. There were secret churches, okay? They had underground churches, all right? So it was a very trying time. And the Apostle Paul was one of the people that were in charge of arresting Christians, killing Christians, you know, because in that time, it was deemed as illegal. So now we're going to get back into the Word, the letter that the Apostle Paul was writing, and we're going to pick some of the important and key messages that he gave to us from this chapter, Galatians, you know, so I might not. I won't go through everything, but some of the things that stick out to me as I read the chapter that can. I can also share with you, that could probably help you, and I trust that they will bless you. All right, so it says Paul, and he introduces himself as an apostle, the boldness, all right? After, you know, when everybody is probably speaking against him, when everybody is probably unsure about him, okay? People aren't sure about who he is. People aren't sure about, you know, because people are scared, because Christians were being. Were being.
[00:07:13] Were being killed. So people are unsure. Do we trust this guy? Do we not? What is. Do you understand? And then even after that conversion of his, that supernatural conversion of his, the boldness with which he now, he comes out and declares that I po. He writes this, and then he titles it that he's an apostle. Hallelujah. An apostle. You know, God has called you. God has separated you unto his gospel, all right? And God has equipped you, and God has given you a grace, all right? And you need to be bold and be confident about that calling that God has called you and the calling that God has put inside of you, okay? So that's something that, you know, jumps out for me as I study the Galatians, you know, also bearing in mind the background from which the Apostle Paul was coming at the time, all right, this guy, he was a persecutor of the. Of the. Of the church, okay? So he understood that not everybody was going to accept him, not everybody was going to like him, okay? But he still came out boldly and affirmed his calling in Christ. Then it says, Paul, an Apostle. And then he says, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead. Hallelujah.
[00:08:34] Hallelujah. So do you have that boldness to acknowledge and to know that you were called by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead? Okay, this is a confidence that you have to have if you're going to be a child of God, especially in this generation. Okay? So that is very striking to me. Okay. All right, so, you know, there's this thing when you go to Acts chapter one, you know, he calls himself an apostle here. Okay? So when you go now to Acts chapter.
[00:09:16] Acts chapter one, you know, because remember, there were 12 apostles, all right? There were 12 apostles. And one of them, you know, one of them was Judas, who betrayed. Who betrayed Jesus. And now here in Acts chapter one.
[00:09:33] Okay, let's just go through it so I can give you some.
[00:09:42] Okay, this is the apostle Peter.
[00:09:52] Let's read from verse. Acts chapter 1, verse 1. Acts chapter 1, verse 12, says, Then, then return they unto Jerusalem. Okay? This is Acts chapter one, because I want to show you that the apostles, this. This apostle Matthias, right, Matthias, who was chosen to replace Judas, okay, was not actually, when you go to the credentials of apostleship, or when you go. When you. When you follow how somebody is assigned unto the apostleship, you know, or to be an apostle of Jesus Christ, to be one of the 12 apostles, all right, There is something.
[00:10:35] There are certain. There's certain criteria that has to be met, all right? So you find that all these 12 apostles, all of them, they met Jesus and Jesus called them personally, okay? And then he said, follow me. And that's how he picked his 12 apostles. But now Matthias, it didn't happen like that with Matthias, okay? So I want to show you something very beautiful, okay? And which also would now tell you and reveal to you who the Apostle Paul is. Okay? All right? It says, then they returned unto Jerusalem from the Mount of Olivet, which was. Which is in Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey, okay? And when they were come in, they went up into the upper room where abode both Peter, James and John and Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon, Zealots and Judas, the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication with the women Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. And in those days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said, the number of names together were about 120. This is about 120 disciples. At the time verse 16 says, Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled which the whole. Oh, my gosh. Okay. When I read the scriptures, I see so many things, so many things just jump out. So, you know, so you better get used to, you know, some of my responses as I go through this. But now pay attention to the communication here. All right? Verse 16 says, Men and brethren, the scripture must needs have been fulfilled which the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spake says the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spake this scripture. Oh, my goodness.
[00:12:15] Okay, so before, concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. Okay. Judas, the one that betrayed Jesus. Okay, all right, so it says the Holy Spirit spoke. This was the scripture.
[00:12:29] He says that David spoke the scripture as the Holy Spirit spoke through him about Judas betraying Jesus. Okay, great.
[00:12:43] Imagine, for he was numbered with us and had obtained part of this ministry. Now this man purchased the field with the reward of iniquity. And falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst and all his bowels gushed out. And it was known unto all the dwellers Jerusalem in so much that the field is called in their proper tongue Akeldama, that is to say, the field of blood, for it is written in the book of psalms. Let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein. And his bishopric Let another take.
[00:13:16] Ah, so now this is the scripture he's bishopric, his apostleship. All right, let another take. Okay, so what is this scripture saying? So now this is this. This is the one. That is the scripture that the Holy Spirit spake concerning Judas and his apostleship through David says the scripture says that the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David says the scripture that the Holy Spirit speak through the mouth of David. Hi. Okay, so now we have the privilege to have the scripture written to us in this written form. And we can also in the same way speak that scripture from our own mouths. Hallelujah. Oh, glory to God. Okay, but that's not where I'm going with it. I just want to show you that, you know, the scripture has said that the bishopric of Judas had to be replaced according to the scripture. Okay, but how did.
[00:14:08] How now the Holy Spirit. How did the Holy Spirit accomplish this? I just want to show you something amazing here about Matthias and the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Matthias and the Apostle Paul. Okay, so you can compare. So these are things that you can see when you study that you can compare and see. Oh, wow, this is so interesting. It's interesting to know. Okay, so he says, let his habitation be desolate. Acts 1:20. Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein. And his bishopric let another take. So now who is this another that should take the bishopric of Judas? Is it Matthias Question, Did Matthias fulfill this scripture or did. Did the apostle Paul fulfilled. That was the question that came to me, okay. As I was studying.
[00:15:00] Okay. All right, so let's find out. Okay, let's find out. All right, so what happened?
[00:15:08] Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein. And his bishopric let another take. Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time, that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from the baptism of John unto the same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be witness with us of his resurrection.
[00:15:30] Okay, this is Peter.
[00:15:35] And they appointed two.
[00:15:37] All right? And they appointed two Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus and Matthias. Okay? So remember also, this was before the Holy Spirit had come to start the church, okay? So the Holy Spirit had. The church hadn't really started because in chapter two, that's when actually the church starts, when the Holy Spirit comes and they're sitting. It's in this same upper room where they were doing this thing that the Holy Spirit now came, you know, and filled them, and they began to speak in other tongues. All right? So this is where they now decided to replace Judas. Judas, Bishopric, Judas apostleship. So Peter and the other apostles and the other disciples of Jesus, about 120 of them that were in the upper room decided to replace.
[00:16:35] Decided to replace the 12th apostle.
[00:16:40] So is that a credential of an apostle, of an apostleship according to the Scripture, Okay. That the other apostles will appoint you, or is the calling of an apostle the one that the Lord Jesus Christ has to do himself? So, which is why I asked the question is, was Matthias the replacement of Judas or was it the Apostle Paul? Okay, but when you study the Scripture, you actually figure out, you actually find out that the Apostle Paul.
[00:17:19] The Apostle Paul was the replacement of Judas.
[00:17:25] So the Apostle Paul was the 12th apostle, not Matthias. Okay, let's continue to read. I'll show it to you from the. From the Word. So that's what studying the Word and spending time in the Word will do for you. And the Holy Spirit will guide you, and it will show you these things. Okay, let's read it. And they are pointing. This is before the Holy Spirit came, okay? And remember what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit. Says the Holy Spirit will take of mine and will reveal it unto you.
[00:17:51] So clearly the Holy Spirit was not involved here in disappointment of Matthias, because Jesus said that you must wait, you know, for the promise of the Father says, wait in Jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high. Right. That's in the first, the beginning part of Acts, chapter one. Right. So he told them to just wait. And then when the Holy Spirit comes, but, you know, they got ahead of themselves. They're waiting, you know, they're probably bored. Jesus is gone. He's ascended up. Okay. There was 11 of us. Okay, okay. Let's, you know, complete, you know, this bishopric of the 12. And let's replace, you know, let's see what they did. Okay.
[00:18:30] And they appointed two. So they. So they picked two. Okay. And then. And they prayed and said, thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show whether of these two thou has chosen.
[00:18:44] Then he may take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
[00:18:56] And they gave forth their lots, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was numbered with the 11 apostles. Hi.
[00:19:09] Jesus was not involved here.
[00:19:11] Okay? So you see, like, even in the early church, even this is even before the church had started, because the church starts here and on the verse two and on the day of Pentecost, because Jesus told them to wait for this one first before they did anything. But they didn't wait. Okay? So the appointment of Matthias into apostleship as a replacement of Judas is questionable because only Jesus, remember what the apostle Paul says is no man, you know, gives this honor unto himself. You have to be. Jesus is the one that appoints the apostles.
[00:19:49] So the apostles cannot replace themselves.
[00:19:52] You cannot just call yourself an apostle. There are credentials that have to do with apostleship.
[00:20:00] Men don't call apostles men, you know. Okay, let's. Let's stick to this. So now, then they replaced Judas in this way by casting lots. They cast lots.
[00:20:17] And Matthias accepted the apostleship and he continued in it, but he was not God's choice. Why? Because there was another man that God had chosen, and his name was Saul. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And you will see, like, as you continue to read the book of Acts, you know how that happened with him being struck blind? All right, okay. And then listen to what he says here. Right? So now he calls himself, says I'm an apostle.
[00:20:46] Says, I'm an apostle. Hey, I'm an apostle. Okay, let's continue to read. Oh, we haven't even gone through so this is just how the commentary is going to go. We haven't even gone through part of a lot of these scriptures that he said, because there's so much that I want to look into. It says, and all the brethren which were with me, verse two, Galatians, chapter one, verse two. And all the brethren which were with me unto the churches of Galatia, grace be unto you and peace from God and the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, who gave himself for our sins that he might deliver us from this present evil world according to the will of God and our Father. He says, this present evil world. So he calls this present world evil. Okay? To whom be glory forever and ever says, I marvel that you are soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Why? Because there was at the time, you know, there were contentions about, okay, should the Gentiles be a part of the church? Have the Gentiles actually.
[00:21:50] So it was not yet clear whether the Gentiles were to be partakers of the salvation, which is of Jesus Christ, which is of the faith of Jesus Christ, right? And those that were in Galatians, you know, some of them, the Jews were like, nah, we can't, we can't, we can't. There's a mixture, right? Because, you know, those that were of the church of Jesus Christ in Judea were keeping themselves separate, and they didn't really. They thought that this message was just for the Jews. The salvation of Jesus Christ was only just for the Jews. So the Apostle Paul came in and this was his battle with this epistle to say, okay, the Gentiles have also been accepted. Okay, let's continue to read it. Okay? So now he's calling them that here, who gave you another Gospel? What is it talking about? Because now they're saying, no, even though we have received Jesus Christ, we need to continue with the customs, you know, of Judaism. We cannot throw that away. Okay? But Paul is coming with a different. With a message that was saying that that is now Old Testament, this is now a new one, so you need to do away with the old one. You can't carry, you know, both of them, you know, in that way. So that is a lot of what the Apostle Paul is addressing, apart from his introduction to the churches and the Jews that were in Galatia, that I am an apostle.
[00:23:10] And he also kind of like boldly declared that he is.
[00:23:17] He didn't say it in many words, but you could hear in his tone that he's the One that Jesus chose to replace Judas. Okay? And I'll show it to you in some other verses here as we continue to read. It says, which is not another, but there be some that trouble you. Some that trouble you. So there were some Jews who were threatening, you know, were threatening Christians in Galatia. But, okay, does that mean that, you know, these Gentiles, these non Jews now must they fellowship with us? Must they come to church with us? Okay, they eat things that are offered to idols, you know, they're unclean and all these things, you understand? And you find that, you know, even the Apostle Peter, if you're reading in the book of Acts, you find that how the Lord appeared to Apostle Peter and he saw in a vision and he went and he ministered to the centurion was a Gentile. And the Bible says, while Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the Word and they that were with them witnesses. So that, ah, even the Gentiles have received the promise of the Spirit, okay? So God had to actually override a lot of the limitations that the apostles had or were facing as the church was beginning in that time, okay?
[00:24:34] Says, but though we or an angel from heaven preach another gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Okay? So now he's, now he's giving these threats, okay, to attack these people that are saying, ah, you know this, you know, we must be careful. Let's keep on. Yes, we must believe in Jesus Christ, but we must keep, you know, sacrificing in the temple, doing all those things, you understand? All right, so the Apostle Paul was giving stern warnings regarding this, says, for do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men? For if I yet please men, I should not be the servant of Christ. The servant of Christ says, but I certify you. So now he begins to now tell people, because some people are like, ah, no, we don't really know where Paul is at right now because it's still early days. This is his first epistle, still early days, okay, of his ministry. So it's not everybody that is bought that he's legitimate, okay, so you find that a kind of aggression, right, in this letter where he's trying to like really strengthen, all right, and convince, you know, the, the Christians and some of the Christian Jews that were in Galatia that he was the real deal, okay? So for I neither. Now listen to this now, okay? So it says, but I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after men.
[00:26:04] He says, this gospel that I preached to you, says I didn't hear it from a man, says I wasn't taught it by human beings. I wasn't taught it by a man, okay, verse 12 says, For I neither received it of man. He said that I never. So now he's telling. Now here he's trying to prove to them, because the people here, a lot of the Christian Jews, the apostles that he was addressing here, a lot of them, they knew that this message and this letter would get to the church that is in Judea, to the church, to the Ming church, the first church, where there was Peter, James and where there were apostles, where they were, you know, running the underground church there.
[00:26:48] Okay, so he knew. So they know, because Peter, he's the one that championed the replacement of Judas with Matthias by casting lots without any involvement of the Holy Spirit.
[00:27:03] Okay? So now he says, listen, the gospel that I received, okay, yes, you are having doubts about me and my calling and the things that I'm doing. But let me tell you about this message. The gospel that I received says, I did not receive it from man, neither was I taught it. Okay, let's read verse 12 says, For I neither received it of man, says, neither was I taught it. Says, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, that is a very, very profound statement. It says, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ, okay? And that word, revelation of Jesus Christ is what? It is apokalupsis, okay? So when you study, you need to find out that there are two very. The main teachings of apokalupsis, all right? That the scriptures that the Apostle Paul spoke of, all right, Are these ones? Are these ones? Are these two? And some people have misunderstood what the Apostle Paul meant there. He says, but by revelation of Jesus Christ. So when some people read this, the Apostle Paul read the law and the prophets, and he got revelation of Christ, and that's where he got the gospel message. That is not what he's saying here. He's not talking here. So now you need to understand that there's number one, there's the revelation. It says, but by revelation. But by apokalypsis of Jesus Christ. So there is something specific that the Apostle Paul was communicating here. Says, I received it by the apocalypsis of Jesus Christ. Now you need to understand that the apocalypsis of Jesus Christ is different with the apocalypsis in the knowledge of God. These are two different experiences. So he's saying that, no, nobody taught me this thing, right? Nobody Taught it to me. It was not from a study that I did of the Bible, all right? But I received it by apocalypsis of Yeshua meshiach.
[00:29:07] What is apocalypsis of Jesus Christ? Now he's saying that this apocalypse of Jesus Christ is different to the apocalypses in the knowledge of God. So the apostle Paul here is now solidifying his apostleship to say that it was Jesus Christ, all right, who taught me this gospel, the gospel that I preached unto you.
[00:29:32] So now he's saying that Jesus Christ appeared. So apostleship, right? And these Jewish Christians and the one that were in the leadership of this first Jewish church understood, all right, the significance of an apostle being appointed by Jesus himself. So this is the. This is what Paul is arguing here, that I was not appointed by man. I was not chosen by man, like Matthias says, I was appointed by Jesus Christ. That's why he said that Paul, an apostle not of men. What is he attacking? He's attacking the apostleship of Matthias. He's trying to tell them, listen, I'm the guy. It's not Matthias.
[00:30:14] So he put. Puts it there in bracket that Paul, an apostle. Yeah, yeah, you gotta love Paul. Paul knew who he was.
[00:30:25] Not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus. He says, listen, I was appointed an apostle by Jesus Christ himself. You need to understand the communication, what he's saying here in this. In this letter. That's.
[00:30:36] It was very important that we started with the first letter that he wrote because it will give you a context and understanding and an idea of where Paul is coming from. From the time he wrote this letter, the Epistles to the Galatians, and then he went to first and second Thessalonians, and then 1 and 2 Corinthians, and so on and so forth. And he went on to write. So this was here he was announcing his apostleship to the first Church. And he was saying, no, Matthias is not the guy. I am the one that Jesus appointed as a replacement. That the Scripture. The scripture might be fulfilled, that the apostles that. Not the apostles that David, that the Holy Spirit speak by the mouth of David.
[00:31:18] So he's saying that I'm the fulfillment of that scripture, not Matthias, I'm the fulfillment of the scripture.
[00:31:25] Oh, glory to God.
[00:31:27] But I certified to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after men says, for I neither received it of man says, neither was I taught says, but by apocalypses, but by revelation of Jesus Christ. There's a difference between apocalypses of Jesus Christ and apocalypses in the knowledge of God. Okay, what am I talking about? The Apostle Paul didn't receive revelation.
[00:31:52] The things that the Apostle Paul taught and wrote in letters were not through revelation that he had from the Scriptures. Although, yes, he did make reference to the Scriptures. What he's saying here is that the things that I'm going to communicate to you about the Gospel and about the church of Jesus Christ says that I received it from Jesus Christ himself personally. That is the apocalypsis of Jesus Christ says, I was not taught. Jesus came to me. He appeared.
[00:32:22] How did Jesus appear? How did Jesus appear? Some people ask, did Jesus really appear to Paul? Did Jesus appoint Paul? Yes, he did.
[00:32:30] All right. Because after his resurrection, remember Acts chapter one. If you go back there at the beginning, Acts chapter one. Let's read. It says the former treatise, Acts 1:1. The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began to do and teach until. Until the day which he was taken up. After that he through the Holy Spirit gave. Had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen. The apostles whom he had chosen, not the apostles whom Peter and the other 10 chose to replace Judas as of and replacing Judas with Matthias, not that one. He says they are the ones that he had chosen.
[00:33:20] And now the Apostle Paul now comes that I'm the one that Jesus chose, says, not this one that is appointed by man. Matthias says, I'm the one that Jesus chose. I'm the one that fulfills the scripture that the Holy Spirit spake from the mouth of David, saying the bishopric must be taken up by another.
[00:33:41] Okay, so now this here says until the day which he was taken up. So Jesus was appearing to the apostles after his resurrection. So if he did it here, what makes you think that he would not do it with the apostle Paul as his choice and replacement of Judas as the 12th apostle?
[00:34:03] Because all these the Bible says here that he gave, he had given commandments unto the apostle whom he had chosen, says to him, he also showed himself. He showed himself after the resurrection. He showed himself. So now the Apostle Paul is claiming here that in the same way that Jesus showed himself unto you after his resurrection and gave you commandments, he says he did the same thing, but by the apocalypsis of Jesus Christ.
[00:34:30] Okay, so that is what he's really talking about here. Okay, so it says, for you heard of my conversation, how in time, now he tells you how I persecuted the Jews, the Jewish religion, how beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it. Can we go to 1 Corinthians 15 so that I can show you that Paul was not, Was not confused about this. First Corinthians 5.
[00:34:56] So now remember, while we are on our way there, remember Ephesians 1, okay? From verse 17, I'll read. Says that the God of our Father and our Lord Jesus, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of revelation. The spirit of revelation in the knowledge of him, the spirit of apokalupsis in the knowledge of him. That is different. That is not the same thing, all right? Because he's the one that is writing this, that is putting this construction together. He understands the differences, that there's a difference between apocalypse, revelation of Jesus Christ and revelation, spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.
[00:35:35] The spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him is not the apocalypsis of Jesus Christ.
[00:35:46] Okay, so these are two different things. Okay, so what is the apocalypses of Jesus Christ? When Jesus Christ was appearing, when. When the disciples were locked up and they were afraid, after Jesus Christ had been buried, and then he appeared, he suddenly. That is it. That is the apocalypsis of Jesus Christ. Where from after his resurrection, he made appearances unto his apostles, and he gave them commandments and he gave them instructions. Now the Apostle Paul is coming with this letter and saying, hey, listen, in the way that he appeared to you, he has appeared to me also to validate my apostleship. I was not appointed by man.
[00:36:30] I was appointed by Jesus Christ himself. That's why it says by apocalypses of Jesus Christ. So when else do you find that phrase, apocalypses of Jesus Christ? It's used also by John, okay? Because John also knows the difference. So this is now AD 90, where the Apocalypses of Jesus Christ was written by the Apostle John.
[00:37:01] So this is over 40 years later. So the Apostle John also understands that because he would have also read the things that the Apostle Paul had said about his encounter with Jesus Christ.
[00:37:18] So now he titled that whole book the Apocalypses of Jesus Christ. The Revelation of Jesus Christ. Okay, let's go to Revelation, chapter one quickly, so you can see that. So now there's a difference between the apocalypses, the apocalypses in the epignosis of him and the apokalypsis of Jesus Christ.
[00:37:39] It's not the same thing. So the Apostle Paul was not claiming that he studied, studied and got revelations like we do. You understand? He was saying that his apostleship was by Jesus appearing in person. Like he appeared unto the apostles whom he had chosen after his resurrection. He also saying that he appeared unto me. And guess what? I'll show you another detail. But here, Revelation, chapter one. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him. What is that? The apocalypses of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto who? Unto John, to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John.
[00:38:24] So the apostle John also received an apocalypse visitation of Jesus Christ. And if you study Revelation, the whole chapter, chapter one, you actually see what that apocalypsis of Jesus Christ is. And the apostle Paul, his claim here, and the apostle John knows what he's talking about, that this is the same experience that the apostle Paul had that he's describing here In Galatians, chapter 1 from verse 12 says, For I neither received it of man, says, neither was I taught it says, but by revelation of Jesus Christ.
[00:39:00] Okay, so what I want to share with you in this study is that the apostle Paul was actually the fulfillment of the scripture for the replacement of Judas. The bishopric of Judas was Jesus choice was the apostle Paul to make it the 12th.
[00:39:27] Okay. And not our apostle Matthias that was chosen by men. Okay, so let's go. Where are we going? First Corinthians, chapter 15. Right. I want to show you something First Corinthians, chapter 15 before we wrap this study up.
[00:39:44] We wrap this study up.
[00:39:46] So it says, the gospel that I preached unto you says it is not after men.
[00:39:53] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Says, for neither received it, I of man.
[00:39:57] Says I didn't receive it of man. Okay, which gospel is he talking about? Now let's read First Corinthians, chapter 15 from verse one. All right, so it says, moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel. Ah.
[00:40:08] Oh, my goodness.
[00:40:11] Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel says, which I preached unto you, which also you have received says, and wherein you stand, says the gospel that I preached unto you. What is the gospel? As a Christian, you need to understand what the Gospel of Christ is. What is the gospel Is the Gospel of Christ? Just anything from the Bible, any good news from the Bible, the gospel. So a lot of Christians, they don't even know what the Gospel of Christ is. But the Gospel of Christ is a particular message. It's a specific message that. That.
[00:40:42] That Jesus Christ communicated and taught. The apostle Paul, that is what he's saying, that I, no human being, taught me that this is the. These are the contents of the message that you now call the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He said Jesus Christ appeared to me personally, and he told me that these are the contents of the message that is now called that we now that he, the Apostle Paul, now went about calling the Gospel of Christ or the Gospel of God in some instances.
[00:41:13] Okay, so it is not just everything from the Bible that is the gospel. Yes, it is the Gospel in that it is good news. But when the Apostle Paul made reference to the Gospel, he was making reference to a particular message. He wasn't making reference to everything that a preacher is talking about, even though generically everybody just says, he's a preacher of the gospel, he's a preacher of the gospel. But when the Scriptures, when the scripture is talking about the Gospel of Christ, what is he talking about? It's a specific message. Now let's look at it here.
[00:41:44] It says, moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel.
[00:41:48] Ah, says which I preached unto you, which also you have received, says, and wherein you stand, it says, by which also you are saved. It says, this message says, I did not receive it from men. No man taught me this message. It says, but I received it from Jesus Christ himself. He appeared to me like he appeared to the other apostles in person. And he taught me these things that are now writing unto you that are now that I shared with you.
[00:42:19] Okay, says, by which also you. By which also you are successes. This is the message that a person has to believe in in order to be saved.
[00:42:28] There is no other message. Yes, I know, man of God, I know, sister of God, brother of God. I know that you can share the word of God and the Holy Spirit can convict people unto salvation and they can come forth and say, listen, I want to give my heart to Christ. But the moment a person comes forward and says, I want to give my heart to Christ, even though you were teaching from the Bible, you were not sharing the gospel, you probably were not sharing the gospel, you're probably just preaching the word of God.
[00:43:04] You were probably just sharing the Word of God. But was that the gospel? Okay, so if somebody in church or somebody comes to you and says, I want to receive Jesus Christ, it's your responsibility to teach and to preach the gospel to the person, because that is the message that will get them saved.
[00:43:23] Even though the Holy Spirit convicts people towards salvation without them having heard the Gospel. All right? It has happened to me like countless times, okay? Being in ministry for over 70 full time for over 17 years.
[00:43:40] So I know that it is happening. When I'm talking about something, I'm talking about finances from the Word of God and people, you know, get convicted like I want to, but they didn't really hear the gospel. The gospel is a specific message and the scriptures Reveal it to us here. So you must call things what the scriptures, what the Bible calls them. Don't call them what you think or what you heard or what you were taught by.
[00:44:10] Okay, so now the Apostle Paul tells us that this is the gospel that I preached unto you, the one that he was saying in his letter to the Galatian Church, says, the gospel that I received says it is not after men. What is he talking about? He's just talking about scriptures. He's just talking about the word of God. He says, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and it is profitable. But is all scripture the gospel? No, but all Scripture is based on the Gospel. It is founded. The foundation of all scripture is the gospel. Okay, now what is the gospel? It says, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. The word of his grace is the word of grace. What is the word of his grace? In other places he calls it the Gospel of God. What is that?
[00:44:56] Okay, but then there's what is called the Gospel of Christ. Says when you go to Romans, chapter one, from verse 16, 17, 18, it says, for I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, says, for it is the power of God unto salvation, says to everyone that believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek, says for therein in the message in the gospel. What is it?
[00:45:20] Okay, let me show you to you here. That is why you're in this Bible study, okay? By which also you are. It is the power of God unto salvation. Now he's telling them here at the Corinthian Church that this gospel, the gospel that I received from the apocalypses of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation, says not another gospel. So now he's telling them, anyone who preaches unto you another gospel than this one that I have received from Jesus Christ himself, let him be accursed.
[00:45:51] Okay?
[00:45:53] Says if you keep in memory, if you keep the Logos, if you keep the revelation, if you keep the words. So now he's talking about the specific words. Says if you keep the words, says what I preached unto you. So they are specific words. So that way the memory. So his Logos. So he's talking about words, the sayings.
[00:46:13] Logos refers to the totality of the revelation of God or the sayings of God, or the utterances of God. So now, yes, he's referring to the specific utterances of the contents of the message that Jesus Christ delivered unto Paul by apocalypses, which is called the gospel.
[00:46:38] So he says, by which also you are saved if you keep in memory what I preached unto you unless you have believed in vain. If you believe something else, you have believed in vain. If you do not, if you believe something else other than the contents of this message that I shared with you says, you are not saved because this is the one that saves.
[00:46:59] Verse 3 says, For I delivered. Now he begins to detail the contents of the message that he says Jesus Christ gave him. The contents of this message says, I didn't make this up.
[00:47:12] Nobody taught this one. It's Jesus Christ that came and he gave the contents of the message and he says that this is the gospel that you must go and preach. This gospel of the King says, it must be preached throughout all the world.
[00:47:29] Verse 3. Now he begins to now give us the details of the message that he received from the apocalypses of Jesus Christ says, for I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received. How that Christ died, how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures says, and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. This is the gospel.
[00:47:54] This is the message that saves. This is the power of God unto salvation. This is the message that somebody has to believe to receive Christ and to be born again and to become a child of God.
[00:48:06] So if you are preaching any other message and the contents of this message are not in that, and somebody gets convicted by the ministry of the Holy Spirit, by the manifest presence of God, by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, by the manifestations of the Spirit of God, you have to where you will have to. And the person gets convicted. Oh my God, they're shocked. Oh, I need to give my heart to Christ, right? You have to preach to them the gospel.
[00:48:39] You have to preach to them this message and they have to believe, they have to accept it and they have to say yes to says, how did Christ died for our sins? Did Christ. Christ died for your sins? According to the scriptures, he was buried and on the third day he rose again.
[00:48:57] Oh my goodness. According to the Scriptures. Now see, this is where I wanted to show. This is what I wanted to show you. It says, and he was seen of Cephas.
[00:49:06] This is after his resurrection says, he was seen of Cephas. Remember it says, I received it by the apocalypses of Jesus Christ, by the appearing of Jesus Christ. Jesus appeared unto me personally, like he did to the other 11.
[00:49:20] And he appoint and he sent me, and he appointed me an apostle to fulfill the Scripture says, and that he was buried. This is verse four, says, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures. Now verse five, Then it says, and he was seen after his resurrection of Cephas. Then of the 12, which 12 he's talking about, that includes Matthias, okay? Because I don't think Judas was there. So when he's saying 12 there, Paul humbly is referring to Matthias. Okay? Then of the 12, he was seen of the 12. So he's including Matthias there to make it 12, okay?
[00:50:08] And then, okay, verse six, after that, he was seen above 500 brethren at once, okay? After that. These are different apocalypses of Jesus christ that over 500 brethren experience, okay?
[00:50:30] You were seen by over 500 brethren at once. Says, of whom the greater part remain unto this present. The greater part remain unto this present. The present of the time that he was writing the.
[00:50:43] This letter.
[00:50:45] So the Corinthian. The letter to the Corinthian was written in between AD 53 to AD 54. That's First Corinthians. That's when it was written, AD 53, AD 54. This is from that time when Jesus Christ says, some of them are still alive, okay?
[00:51:08] It says, the greater part remain unto this present. Says, but some have fallen asleep, some have passed on. Okay?
[00:51:16] Some have fallen asleep. And it says, and after that he was seen of James, then of all the apostles.
[00:51:26] And then verse eight. And then it says, and last, ah, of all, he was seen of me also.
[00:51:36] You get it? He says he was seen of me also.
[00:51:41] So he's saying that, you know, after Jesus resurrection, Jesus appeared to me also in the same way that he appeared to the other apostles. And now in the letter to the Galatians that we're reading there, he says that Jesus, when he appeared to me, says he appeared to me also. He's not talking about revelation of Scripture. He says, Jesus appeared to me also in person.
[00:52:04] And last of all, he was seen of me also as one born out of Jew time. Oh, my goodness.
[00:52:13] So there he is, further strengthening his apostleship.
[00:52:23] Says he was one, says he as. As one born out of Jew time. Verse 10 says, For I'm the least of the apostles that I am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persist, I'm not even worthy to be called an apostle because of my persecution of the church before my calling.
[00:52:42] How humble Paul is, okay? But you know, he's not. He was not like that here in, in the letter to the Galatian Church. He was really flexing his muscles there. So now we're going to close, okay, this Bible study, before it gets very, very long. Let's finish up with what let's finish up what the Apostle Paul was saying here that I wanted to show you. So when he says that I received it by the apocalyptus of Jesus Christ, says that and last of all he was seen of me. Also it says, after his resurrection, says he was seen of Cephas, he was seen of James, he was seen of the 12, all right, humbly, he included Matthias there as the 12, all right, that saw Jesus after his resurrection. And then he was seen by over a hundred, five hundred brethren at once. These are just brethren. They saw him. There was an apocalypsis of Jesus Christ to those people after his resurrection. Then he says, and then he was seen, says, and last of all, oh my goodness, sound touching. Says, and last he puts himself last.
[00:53:51] He mentions everybody else that saw Jesus that Jesus appeared to in that way.
[00:53:57] And then he mentions himself last, and he says, last of all he was seen of me. Also it says, as one born out of Jew title says he was seen of me, also says, as one born of Jew time says, and I am not even worthy to be called an apostle because of my persecution of the Church of God.
[00:54:18] Okay, so now in that apokalupsis, I want to show you something else, another striking detail from here, from what he's saying here in Galatians.
[00:54:29] So therefore you heard of my conversation in time past in the Jewish religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God and wasted it and profited in the Jewish religion above many my ecos in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. Verse 15. But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, oh glory, says to reveal his son in me, says that I might preach him among the heathen immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. So now he's talking about his calling and his apostleship.
[00:55:06] Says to reveal his Son in me, says that I might preach him among the heathen immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, says neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me. So he's still holding on to his claim of apostleship. Okay, says who became apostles before me?
[00:55:31] Says neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me, says, but I went into Arabia, says when God when I got saved, when God called me, when he got struck blind and he went and they laid hands on him and the scales from his eyes fell down, right? He says, I conferred not with flesh and blood, he said, I didn't talk to anybody okay, follow this. Follow this. Says, I didn't confer to anybody. I didn't go see the apostles. I didn't go see anybody. I didn't go see anybody else.
[00:56:06] Says, neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me. Says, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus. Then after three. After three. He spent three years in Arabia.
[00:56:21] He was in the desert with for three years and how many years?
[00:56:32] Okay, he was in the desert for three years. And then he says, in the desert I had an apocalypsis of Jesus Christ.
[00:56:43] There was an apocalypsis of Jesus Christ in the desert that I was in there for three years.
[00:56:52] He had apocalypses of Jesus Christ in the desert of Arabia for three years after his conversion. He said, I conferred not with flesh and blood. Neither did I go up to Jerusalem where there are those that were apostles before me. Says, I went into Arabia. There I was there for three years, and there I received. I was having apocalypses of Jesus Christ. He was having apocalypses. That's when Jesus was appearing unto him.
[00:57:20] Okay, it Sundays, then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days. But other of the apostles saw. I none save James, the Lord's brother. Now, the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
[00:57:38] Afterward I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. Now, from. From the desert of Arabia that he was there for three years, where he was spending time with God for three years. So imagine.
[00:57:51] What I want to reveal to you from that part of the Scripture is that the disciples, the apostles and the disciples of Jesus, they spent three years with Jesus.
[00:58:10] They spent three years with Jesus.
[00:58:16] They spent three years with Jesus. And the time that they spent three years with Jesus, all right, Was in the time of the Old Testament, all right? This was when he was living and walking as the Son of man, even though he was the Son of God.
[00:58:36] And then after his resurrection, they were with him for 40 days and 40 nights.
[00:58:43] And then after Paul's conversion, he went into the desert of Arabia for three years. Three years.
[00:58:51] And there he experienced what? The apocalypses of Jesus Christ. There in the desert of Arabia for three years. So Jesus Christ gave the apostle Paul three years apocalypsis in the same way that Jesus Christ spent time with the other 12 that were then 11.
[00:59:18] He spent three years with them, and then he spent three years with the apostle Paul.
[00:59:25] But this time it was after his resurrection. The apostle Paul was on the other side of Jesus ministry where Jesus had been declared the Son of God with power by resurrection from the dead.
[00:59:38] And then he downloaded this message unto Paul. For three years afterwards, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ. But they had heard only that he which persecuted us in time past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me. All right, that is our first Bible commentary. Our first Bible commentary.
[01:00:12] I trust that you know it has blessed you and you have increased in your knowledge, you know of the Word of God from that very beautiful. So in our next, in our next chapter, we'll be looking at Galatians chapter two. Don't miss it. It's going to be great. It's going to be beautiful. You're going to love it, love it, love it, love it, love it. How beautiful. How amazing God is. So the Apostle Paul. What we learned from this Bible commentary and study is that the Apostle Paul was the replacement of Judas.
[01:00:49] Was the replacement of Judas. Says you were seen of me also as one born out of Jew time. Oh my God. Oh, what a life. The Apostle Paul lived. What a life, what a life, what a life, what a life. Okay, so catch us now on Galatians chapter two. So we're going to be doing this, you know, the chronological order of the epistles, we're going to go through them in this Bible Commentary program that we have for you, for your development, for your understanding, for your knowledge. You can go through the Epistles with us and you will surely be blessed. You'll be transformed. You come out from there with an amazing and beautiful understanding and knowledge of the Scriptures. And we'll try and give you in as much as you can. I'll try and add a lot of details that can enrich your study, your own personal study and knowledge of the word of God and of the Scriptures and of the Epistles that really speak more about the church being your life in Christ. Now that you have become a Christian, okay, if you're not a Christian, I'd like to extend this opportunity to you to receive Jesus Christ. It's never too late. If you're watching this, you know you haven't given your heart to Christ or you're not sure. I just wanted you to say this prayer after me.
[01:02:17] I'll get to the prayer right now and you can go on our website www.whatthewordsays.org and you go to the drop down menu and you have the prayer to receive Jesus Christ. And then I'M going to go through that prayer with you. And then as you pray this prayer, I want you to mean it from the bottom of your heart so you can repeat after me. Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in response to your word.
[01:02:56] I believe that Jesus Christ is God in human flesh.
[01:03:02] I believe that he lived and died for the remission of my sin.
[01:03:11] And on the third day, he rose from the dead for my justification.
[01:03:19] I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is lord of my life.
[01:03:29] From this very moment, I receive eternal life into my spirit, into my soul and into my body.
[01:03:44] Amen. Glory to God. Congratulations. If you pray this prayer, you are now born again. Please stay locked in. Stay tuned in into a Bible commentary. All right? And for the other episodes, for the other teachings, where we're going to be going through verse by verse, verse by verse, the epistles, we'll be going through them verse by verse, and they will surely truly bless you. My name is Shingi. I love you. God bless you. And remember, this is your time.
