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Brethren ,Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ..

Paul had to encourage the churches that he founded to stay true to the Gospel he first preached to them. In this introduction of his letter to the Galatians, he tells them that the Gospel was not something he made up. Remember: Paul was throwing Christians in jail and attacking the church before he was confronted by Christ. This Gospel is the real thing, so don't let people or even an angel tell you otherwise. Paul will later explain that the other gospel being preached has to do with trying to please God by keeping the rules of the Law. Paul knew it was all about GRACE given to us through what Jesus did for us. He gives His own experience as a testimony of that fact. He sums up the Gospel in verse 4, "[Jesus] gave himself for our sins to rescue us....". There can never be a greater gift than this. Our Lord Jesus Christ not only has given us forgiveness and salvation and all spiritual blessings, Jesus gave Himself! The pure, glorious Son of God gave Himself, substituting Himself in our place to suffer the righteous judgment of God on our sins. "[Jesus] gave himself.." "[Jesus] gave himself for our sins..": Six times this wonderful affirmation is found in God's Word. The first is here (Gal. 1:4), assuring us that, when He gave Himself, Jesus paid the price to deliver us from this present evil world into the eternal world to come. "[Jesus] gave himself.." Then, in the next occurrence, this promise is made intensely personal. Christ "loved me, and gave himself for me" (Gal. 2:20). The gift Christ gave is more than the world could ever give. "[Jesus] gave himself.." The supremely sacrificial nature of His gift is then emphasized. "Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God" (Eph. 5:2). The sacrifice has brought us to Himself, for "Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. . . . That he might present it to himself a glorious church" (Eph. 5:25,27). "[Jesus] gave himself.." The offering was sufficient to pay for the redemption of all sin, as He "gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time" (1 Tim. 2:6). This ransom is not merely to redeem us from the penalty of sin at the judgment, however, but also from the power of sin in our lives, and this is the testimony of the final occurrence of this great declaration. Christ "gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (Titus 2:14). Jesus Christ gave Himself for our sins. He took our punishment. He paid it all. Not only does that make us right with God, but it also "rescues us from this present evil age". Many seek salvation from judgment but don't see the need to be rescued from their present depravity. They don't see it as depravity. Living a self-centered life apart from God is thumbing your nose at your Creator. It is telling God that your will comes first. It is insisting that you remain god of your own life. He gave Himself for our sin, but true deliverance from sin also delivers us from the present evil age. Paul maintained that what he is telling the Galatians was an effort to be faithful to God (vv. 9-10). He could just go along with men who insist on teaching a corrupt gospel, but that would make him a servant of men and not of Christ. He was willing to go against the flow, take the persecution, and stand up and be different because he was Christ's servant. Pleasing men rather than God is compromise. When faced with pleasing men or staying true to the Gospel of grace, we should stay true to God no matter what the cost may because and we must remember that "...you were bought at a price.." (1 Cor. 6:20) and "[He] gave himself for our sins to rescue us".

By the sacrifice of His own life, we have been allowed to recognize what the will of God is for our lives, and are being perfected through the faith that we have in Christ Jesus...

This serves to remind us that Jesus Christ gave his life or our sins and serves to rescue us from evil. Jesus could not come any sooner for me so as to destroy the evil ones among us.

Thank God ! Rescue ,is just that ,from evil , Rescued,& Redeemed, in Chris name amen!