Galatians 1:15

God… was pleased to reveal His Son in me.
(Galatians 1:15,16 NIV)

Spiritual discernment, perception,
understanding and intelligence are all too rare. The causes are many. The
engrossment with the work and its multifarious concerns; the rush and hurry of
life; the restless spirit of the age; these, with an exhaustive provision of
external religious...

It pleased God… to reveal His Son in me. (Galatians 1:15,16)

If Christ, the Son of God’s love, is central and supreme in the heart of the believer so much else goes down, it must go down. Controversies with God will divide, but those artificial things, those things resultant from man’s activity and his projecting of himself, insinuating of himself into the interests of God, those things cannot abide where...

God... has
shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6)

The Letter to
the Galatians really can be summed up in this way: a Christian is not one who
does this and that and another thing which is prescribed to be done; a
Christian is not one who refrains from doing this...

When He... was pleased to reveal His Son to me... I did not immediately consult with anyone. (Galatians 1:15,16 ESV)

I do not know what the apostles might have
said if Paul had gone to see them, but seeing that they had not had the
revelation that he had had and they had not the call that he had (theirs was not an

It pleased God... to reveal
His Son in me, that I might preach Him. (Galatians 1:15,16)

Since Paul’s day so very much
of Christian activity has been the furthering of a movement, the propagating of
a teaching, and the furthering of the interests of an institution. It is not a
movement, nor to establish a movement in the Earth and to get followers,
adherents,...

It pleased God... to reveal His Son in me.
(Galatians 1:15,16)

It is always futile and dangerous to advise people to leave one thing until they have a revelation of the fuller, and only such a revelation will accomplish the true emancipation.... It may not be applicable to many of us, but the principle is what I want you to recognize. You may not need to be emancipated from anything...