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Week 41: Paul’s Travels: 1st Missionary Journey ( – 15; Galatians)

Antioch was the 3rd largest Week Forty-One Reading Plan city in the with about half a million :1-30 Gospel in people. It is where believers :25-13:52 Missionaries & Saul (Paul) Sent from Antioch were first called . :1-28 Mission Tour through Minor Paul’s three missionary :1-35 Council and the Place of the Law for Non-Jews journeys began in Antioch. :1-2:21 Law is not Part of the Gospel The there continued to grow faith which impacted :1-4:7 Life of Faith the world for for :1-6:10 Christian Liberty Led by the Spirit centuries.

Fourteen years after Saul’s conversion, the Antioch church commissioned him and Barnabas as missionaries. Thus began the first of what is called the 3 missionary journeys of Paul. The first journey lasted about 2 years (47-48ad), and was the shortest—distance and time wise. Saul and Barnabas, accompanied by , set out from Antioch for . They then went to , landing at Attalia. They proceeded inland along the military road in Asia Minor. At , John Mark left them. Saul and Barnabas then stopped at Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, , and , all in the province of , before retracing their steps to revisit the congregations they had founded earlier. This first mission trip confirmed Paul as a leader in spreading the gospel of sins forgiven through Christ to the non-Jews. It also gave him credibility when he met with the council in Jerusalem to discuss what relationship Judaism and had with each other.

Chapter Chapter 1 GALATIANS – Works vs. Faith 6

1—2 3—4 5—6 PAUL’S AUTHORITY JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH CHRISTIAN LIBERTY personal narrative doctrinal emphasis practical application Truth of the Failure of legalism Power of the Holy Spirit Freeness of the Gospel Freedom from legalism Freedom to love and to serve 1:1-5 Greeting 3:1-9 Faith or Works 5:1-15 Free from the law 1:6-10 Misconstruing the gospel 3:10-14 Righteous shall live by faith 5:16-25 Walk in the Spirit 1:11-21 Paul’s backstory 3:15-29 Belief or Law 6:1-5 Free to help others 2:1-10 True Gospel affirmed 4:1-20 Heirs through Christ 6:6-10 Free to be generous 2:11-21 Correction given 4:21-31 Bondage or Freedom 6:11-18 Conclusion

Paul sent this passionate letter, written about 49ad, from Antioch to believers being harassed by Judaizers who were insisting that they must be circumcised to be saved. Paul had established churches in Galatia during his first missionary journey. The key word for the book is faith. The key verse is :16. One sentence summary: People are justified by trusting Christ’s righteousness alone, not by keeping the law or by their good works. THE JOURNEYS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL

Fill in the four routes of the journeys that Paul took in the thirty years covered by Luke in the Book of Acts. Paul’s early travels are a little bit sketchy, but starting with the first missionary journey, you may enjoy charting his 1,500-mile, 3,000-mile, 3,300-mile missionary trips around the Roman Empire sharing the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ, with a final 2,300-mile sea journey as a prisoner to . Each journey is represented by a color. Several places were visited more than once making them more colorful!

Rome ippi THRACE & Three Taverns Phil   Forum of Appius ea  Neopolis  Ber ThessalonicaApollonia    Puteloi MACEDONIA CAPPADOCIA Troas Adriatic Aegean  GREECE ASIA Sea Sea Mitylene GALATIA Antioch in Iconium Lystra ACHAIA  PISIDIA Rhegium Derbe    Corinth   Cenchrea Perga Attalia Syracuse os C   Cnidus

MALTA Salamis  Antioch   Paul’s Early Travels (, 11; Gal. 1:17) Salmone   Lasea Fair Haven CYPRUS Paul’s 1st Missionary Journey (:1-14:28)  ad CAUDA  —with Barnabas and John Mark (47-48 ; 1,500 miles)  Tyre Paul’s 2nd Missionary Journey (15:36-18:22)

—with , Timothy, Luke, Priscilla & Aquila (50-52ad; 3,000 miles) Caesarea Paul’s 3rd Missionary Journey (18:23-21:16) N Jerusalem —with Timothy, Luke & others (52-57ad; 3,300 miles) ARABIA Paul’s trip to Rome (:17-28:31) —with Julius and Aristarchus (58-62ad; 2,300 miles)