I have been studying Galatians this past week in order to prepare to preach Galatians 1:6-12 tonight at Core. In study, I came across this little ditty and I thought I would share it with you. In commenting on Galatians 1:4, “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,” one commentator noted:
- Significantly, Paul did not develop an abstract or metaphysical doctrine of God apart from his self-revelation in Jesus Christ. In commenting on this verse, Luther remarked that Paul always associated Jesus Christ with the Father in order to teach us true Christian theology that “does not begin at the top, as all other religions do, but in the utmost depths.… Therefore you must put away all speculations … and run directly to the manger and the mother’s womb, embrace this infant and virgin’s child in your arms, and look at him—born, being nursed, growing up, going about in human society, teaching, dying, rising again, ascending above all the heavens, and having authority over all things. In this way you can shake off all terrors and errors, as the sun dispels the clouds.” (George, T. (1994). Vol. 30: Galatians. The New American Commentary (85–86). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.)
Never ever forget that the Great and Glorious God of All is best learned of through His Son who became flesh and lived among us. If you want to know who God is and what He desires, look to His Son who is the “exact representation of his being” (Hebrews 1:3). To look any where else is to choose a life filled with “all terrors and errors” because you starve yourself of God’s Living Word.
Look to the Living Word to have life abundant.
To know God, look to Christ.