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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Galatians 1:14 http://www.dailybiblestudy.org
14 And [kai] profited [prokopto] in [en] the Jews' religion [Ioudaismos] above [huper] many [polus] my equals [sunelikiotes] in [en] mine own [mou] nation, [genos] being [huparcho] more exceedingly [perissoteros] zealous [zelotes] of the traditions [paradosis] of my [mou] fathers. [patrikos] KJV-Interlinear
14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. NASB Profited, means that Paul, then known as Saul, excelled, made good, advanced in the then religion of his ancestors. Paul was born a Jew as well as a Roman citizen. He was a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee, a Hebrew sprung out of Hebrews, Acts 23:6; Phil. 3:5. He grew up in the traditions of his parents and their parents before them. As he states here, he excelled with enthusiasm. And so much so, that there was no equal in any of his peers, to his own religious zeal and success. He was entrenched and dedicated to his beliefs. And even though we do not know where exactly Saul was during the crucifixion event, we can be certain that he was on the anti-Jesus side of things, and celebrating the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus as, in his mind, the removal of just another anti-religious fanatic. Saul was at the head of the anti-Christian movement, and he persecuted Christians with a zeal that no one else could match. So, Saul knew of the Christian faith, and had to have known that this movement followed the crucifixion and was related to it, even though he rejected the idea that Jesus was the Messiah. Paul, as Saul, states that he pursued this with a zeal that exceeded the traditions of his ancestors. And that indicates the rise of a more fanatical element in the priesthood, from a younger generation that was contemporary with Paul. The zeal eventually would end in the destruction of Jerusalem and Judah, by Rome, some forty years after the Cross. This also points to the magnitude of the national rejection of the Messiah, the extreme disregard of the scriptures, and the indifference toward the prophecies that pointed to the birth of Christ up to and including his sacrifice. Even Herod the Great, and his advisors, knew of the prophecy of the birth of a king, and he tried to have all male infant babies killed in order to kill Jesus. None of the priests went to seek out the child. And some thirty-three- and-a-half years later, even the priesthood, the so called experts of scripture, killed the very Messiah they were waiting for, thus fulfilling the very prophecy that they rejected. So from birth, to the cross, to the destruction of Jerusalem, a period of about seventy years, the fanaticism of Judaism grew rapidly, and Saul was caught up in the middle of it all. Most folks who are engaged in and saturated in, their beliefs, are so stuck in their ways that it is very difficult for them to change. Most do not change. And as Paul has pointed out, it was not his education or tradition or his contemporizes, that taught him the true gospel. They were too radical and drifting further and further away from truth with each passing day and year. He learned from Christ and from Christ alone.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
