But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleasedBut when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace,But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,
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… he calls them Galatians 1 15 it pleased God Paul says who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace he names them Isaiah 49 1 the Lord called me from the womb from the body of my mother he named my name and anoints them this is John the Baptist in Luke chapter 1 verse 15 says he will be great in the sight of the Lord he will also be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother's womb. Anointed with the Spirit even from his mother's womb. The converse of that, I didn't put this verse in there. It's kind of bad news, but Psalm chapter 51, verse 5, says that we are sinful from the moment our mother conceives us. Embryos don't have a sinful nature. People have sinful natures. All of this showing, abortion, an attack on the intimate relationship that God possesses with the unborn. Do we see how serious this is? This is not a social issue, political issue, women's issue, children's issue. …
… or he set me apart to be an apostle. Here's Galatians 1.15. He who had set me apart before I was born and who called me by his grace. You're going to be an apostle, Paul. Period. I'm God. So right now you hate me. I'm knocking you off your horse. I'm going to shine down from heaven. I'm going to blind you for three days. You're mine. I'm taking you. Isn't that glorious? You know an unbeliever in your life that's like Paul? I do. he can take them. He can take them. Okay, that's my answer to the question, what does the will of God mean? Keep before your mind for the rest of your life, God's will is all things in the sense of what is decreed. God's will is his revealed will in the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible that you should obey. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world. Now, Johnny said she's a five-point Calvinist. …
… He says, But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any men. Did you catch that? He said, God was pleased to reveal, verse 16, to reveal his son in me, to reveal Christ in me, so that, purpose clause, why did God, why was he pleased to reveal his son in me? So that I would do what? Preach him, proclaim him among the Gentiles, among the nations. So Christ is in me so that I might preach him among the nations. Don't miss it. Paul is not saying this is relegated to a special call in our lives. He's saying this is the very purpose of our salvation. Because Christ is in us, it's automatically we would give our lives to proclaim that gospel to the entire world. Turn back to Romans, a few pages to the left there. We passed over. Look at Romans chapter 1. …
… You have to live it now, survive it now, explain it later. When I read you Galatians chapter 1, verses 11 through 20, I read that on purpose first, but it's not what Paul said while he was going through his conversion. It's what he said 14 years after the fact. And Saul, excuse me, Paul, the artist formerly known as Saul, saw his Hebrew name. He was named after the first king of Israel. He was from the same tribe of Benjamin. The name Saul means to hear or to ask. Excuse me, not to hear, to ask. Isn't that crazy that in the beginning of the passage, he's asking for letters to persecute the church, and after God gets done with him, he's asking Jesus, who are you? God is changing his questions. Isn't that crazy? As he's explaining to the church at Galatia… This is a group of Christians who didn't grow up Jewish. It's a group of Christians we would call Gentiles. It's who Paul was called to reach. He says in verse 13, I know you heard of my previous way of life in Judaism, how intensely I persecuted the church of God. You heard about my previous way of life. Now stop right there. Have you been imprisoned in your previous. …