Set Apart From Birth: Galatians 1:11-24

I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

The Damascus road. Noon sun blazing, dust rising, a man on a mission to destroy the church.

Saul of Tarsus had letters in his bag—authorization from the high priest to arrest any followers of the Way. He had already ravaged the Jerusalem church. Now he was extending his reach to Damascus.

For you have heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God and tried to destroy it.