A Necessary Defense

If you can discredit the messenger, you can discredit the message. That’s exactly what the false teachers in Galatia tried to do with the Apostle Paul. They attacked his apostleship so that they could undermine the gospel he proclaimed. In this message, we see Paul’s passionate defense—not for the sake of his reputation, but for the sake of the truth. Paul reminds the Galatians that the gospel he preached was not man’s invention or tradition, but a divine revelation from Jesus Christ himself. He also shares his own testimony, showing that only God’s grace could transform a violent persecutor into a preacher of the faith he once tried to destroy.