Lesson 2084

(Lesson 2084)(08-19-17)  Galatians 5:15-20
    “Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.”
    In today’s lesson, Paul again demonstrated his displeasure with the Galatians, implying that if they continued to give themselves over to the pressure from the Jews, he would, by default become thier enemy.
    In the last verse, Paul expressed that he wanted to come again the Galatia because he doubted the church was sincere in its devotion to Jesus Christ.
    If Paul were alive today, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have the same doubts about the vast majority of our so-called Christian churches.~