Galatians is the Magna Carta of evangelical Christianity. It is Paul’s great declaration of religious freedom a freedom that involves independence from men and dependence on God.

Today, I’ll be sharing with you in three sessions a series of sermons on Galatians, this landmark profession of Paul’s Christian experience. I will not be doing a verse by verse exposition, but will “preach through’ the book, concentrating on the major themes an on those signal passages that are the heart and soul of Paul’s message for us today.

We begin at the very beginning – Paul’s introduction of himself in the first 9 verses of his letter. Paul, an apostle - not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ.” Paul knew who he was, and this was his favorite description of himself. He used it in his intr…