1. Welcome! www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones
Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

2. Galatians 1:6-9
Paul’s amazement: Deserting the Gospel by adding to it The nature of changing the Gospel Neither apostles nor angels can change it A distorted Gospel is accursed

3. Galatians 1:10-12
The nature of the Gospel Unalterable Singular The Gospel Paul received From Christ Himself

4. Galatians 1:13-24
The Story of Saul of Tarsus (Acts 9) A unique background His work against the church His time learning the truth His first trip to Jerusalem, then to Tarsus

5. Welcome!
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones
Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

6. Psalm 107:11 Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, And tell of His works with joyful singing.
Hymns
Invitation
Red Songbook -
Supplemental

7. So You Want to Learn the Bible?
Part 1
The Bible Encounter

8. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
2 Kings 22:1-20 King Josiah meets the Scriptures - He tore his clothes in anguish - He sent emissaries to God - He received God’s mercy

9. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
Multi-witness testimony of Scriptures Not one but many testimonies Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses 2 Corinthians 13:1

10. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
Multi-witness testimony of Scriptures Not one but many testimonies Thus it’s veracity is NOT circular reasoning

11. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
Supernatural claims of Scriptures Inspired by God – 2 Timothy 3:16 Understandable by all – Ephesians 3:3 Indestructible – 1 Peter 1:23-25
Eph 3:4 by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ),
 1Pe 1:23 having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 24 ¶ because "All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,25 But the word of the LORD endures forever.“

12. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
Continuity claims of Scriptures The OT claimed a new one was coming Jeremiah 31:31 The NT claims no other one is coming Jude 3
 Jer 31:31 "Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-
Jude 1:3 ¶ Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

13. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
Variety of translations of Scriptures Translation does not damage inspiration Translations reflect efforts to understand Some are better than others
 Jesus and the Apostles used the Septuagint, a GREEK translation of the OT

14. Meeting Scriptures The 1st Time
Demands of Scriptures NO personal interpretation – 2 Peter 1:19 NO other messages – Galatians 1:8-9 NO delay in action – 2 Timothy 3:7
 2Pe 1:20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.
Ga 1:8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed
2Ti 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

15. So You Want to Learn the Bible?
Before you can know what it says: You need to know WHO He is Scriptures are the manifestation: Of Christ as the Word of God Of the Holy Spirit of God by inspiration

16. So You Want to Learn the Bible?
Josiah was in anguish meeting Scriptures His heart was “tender” He was willing to be changed

17. So You Want to Learn the Bible?
Josiah was in anguish meeting Scriptures Scripture is a seed testing the heart-soil Scriptures reveal your character Are you hard hearted Are you willing to change?

19. At the End of the Meeting….
And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely Revelation 22:17

20. How To Come To The Lord
1. Hear and believe – Acts 15:7 2. Confess Jesus as Lord – Romans 10:9 3. Repent of your sins – Acts 2:38 4. Be baptized into Christ – Galatians 3:27 5. Remain faithful – Revelation 2:10