Isn’t it amazing how one word—that you will hear repeatedly in this PODCAST—can change someone’s life, forever?
Perhaps even your own.
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So.Much.Here. In this PODCAST.
So much here for us to ingest and digest.
So much here that will give you So.Much.Hope.And.Encouragement.
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The premise of this PODCAST is simply this:
The Christian life is not that complicated.
I would humbly suggest that from a purely biblical point of view, vibrant, dynamic, victorious Christian living is a pretty straightforward proposition.
Despite all of the endless books, sermons, lessons, blogs that load up a believer with their own unique lists of spiritual disciplines—each of which we MUST each incorporate into our daily lives in order to please God—I would humbly suggest that vibrant, dynamic, victorious Christian living can be summed up in one word.
One word that flows right out of Galatians 1:10.
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A blare of the bugles and a roll of the drums. This PODCAST breaks the seal on a brand new study.
A brief interlude in our ongoing series entitled Paul in High Definition.
Welcome to Galatians in High Definition!!!
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I’ll make this brief and to the point.
If you, or anyone whom you know, has and/or is being abused by another, you/they need to hear this PODCAST.
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What you are about to hear in this PODCAST is a masterful, masterful example of how two apostles—Peter and Paul—addressed a thorny issue that confronted the first generation of Christ-followers.
The issue of slavery.
Paul in particular will seize upon a teachable moment, presented to him by a runaway slave, and use this moment spectacularly to develop an entire New Testament theology of slavery. AND what it all has to do with us today when it comes to our own thorny social issues which threaten to divide us.
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It is one of the most beautiful words to appear anywhere in the Bible.
So beautiful, as you will hear in this PODCAST, that the biblical writers invoke this word one hundred one times.
Peter will employ it in 1 Peter 1:18 when he writes these 3 amazing words:
“You were redeemed.”
That is a declarative sentence, causing us to ask, What’s the picture??? The biblical picture of redemption.
I’ll give you a hint: It all has to do with one of the so-called Minor Prophets. Minor in terms of his book’s length; MAJOR in terms of its message.
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You’ve perhaps heard the old line, “Things aren’t always as they appear to be.”
Well, as you are about to hear in this PODCAST, sometimes things are exactly as they appear to be.
Case in point, Peter’s exposé of Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer.
Kudos to Peter. The apostle properly diagnosed the terminal condition of Simon’s tortured soul with pinpoint accuracy.
A diagnosis that, were I to be honest with you, hits me way too close to home. For as much as I am ashamed to admit it to you, I have battled this very demon too.
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YOU are poetry personified.
A living, breathing, warm-blooded, lyrically beautiful poem.
Want proof? Here’s proof:
His name is Saul of Tarsus.
To us, he will forever be memorialized as the celebrated Apostle Paul. Though, as you will hear in this PODCAST, he would reject out of hand that lofty adjective “celebrated.”
We celebrate Paul because we owe to him more than we could ever hope to repay. For starters, thirteen epistles preserved as New Testament Scripture. Which, when taken together, form 23% of NT.
It is true that our old friend Luke was actually the more prolific of the two—Luke wrote slightly more of the New Testament in terms of word count, 27%. (And BTW, in case you are interested, the Apostle John gets the bronze medal—John’s Gospel, 3 epistles, Revelation combine for 20% of the New Testament.)
It is to Luke we owe a huge debt of gratitude for his compelling biography of Jesus and his gripping history of the ancestors in our faith, in whose glow we bask each week as we study this great book of Acts.
But it is really Paul who more than any other biblical writer lays for us theological foundation for our faith.
So while we do indeed, and for good reason, celebrate the vaunted apostle, he would describe himself as the least—ἐλάχιστος (a superlative, “less than the least”)—of all the apostles (1 Cor. 15:9). And Eph 3:8, “less than the least of all God’s people.”
This was not false modesty on Paul’s part. Not at all. This was a guy who was abundantly self-aware. He knew the roots from which he sprang. He knew that his very first mention in the New Testament places him at scene of, and makes him complicit in, the stoning of Stephen. Not Paul’s finest hour by any stretch.
Paul understood that all that he was was do solely and singularly to God’s amazing grace. The chorus of which he sung regularly and repeatedly.
So much for us to learn and know and appreciate and to emulate in this marvelous man. Let’s meet him now.
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