What Is The Gospel? (Gal 1:1-5)

Staying Free: A Letter to Recovering Pharisees (1)
Sermons on Paul's letter to the Galatians 

​Paul’s letter to the Galatians is written to professing Christians. It’s written to help kill off our ‘inner Pharisee’ & to help ensure we never allow ourselves to be subject again to the yoke of pharisaic teachers or leaders & their distorted gospel, which Paul says is no gospel at all. The true gospel is both the highest authority & most liberating reality of the Christian’s life. It is so because it speaks God’s final verdict & liberating truth over God’s children. This is why as Christians we must not let anyone, or anything turn us from it! Yet one of the dangers in Christian circles is that we can become familiar with gospel language without truly understanding the gospel itself. So, it’s important to ask, ‘What is the Gospel’? The whole of Galatians helps answer this question. Yet, even in Paul’s opening greeting we find a clear & simple answer to this vital question!