Sublime Submission
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood,” Galatians 1:15-16 NKJV Without a contextual interpretation of the scriptures, anyone can readily treat Paul’s conversion and commissioning as preferential predestination. Like it is up to God to decide who goes to hell or heaven. Whereas, by ‘I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood’ , it shows that it was Paul’s decision to respond to the call against the forces of flesh and blood . Flesh and blood constitute the coverups for the spiritual violence against the kingdom of God; and the influence of self-will, human reasoning, and the deceitfulness of worldly attractions. Apparently, believers at the early church had held on to the keys in their closets to engage these forces, pulling down strongholds and every imagination against the Will of Christ...