(3)—Paul was also shut out of this experience, but he had one of his own that gained as full possession of him. Paul knew the Lord in his Resurrection power, as one who inverted his outlook on the God and the World and_ reversed the aim and ambitions of his life. Thus Christ was to Paul not simply one who asked for his heart and called for his imitation: he was one who stirred and claimed his whole genius. It was with him as with that brilliant Italian writer Papini who in mid career has come to realize the glory of His Kingdom and has set himself to present His story afresh to the educated world. The Apostle of the Gentiles was called to cooperate in a great task, and the umderstanding and undertaking of it be came his complete preoccupation and bespoke the full powers of his personality.
the strength of this commission Paul joined himself to Peter and James im Jerusalem, and it unfortunately led to a misunderstanding, not with them,- but with others. Narrow men of false conservatism said that he went to get authority for his special ministry. This Epistle (to the Galatians) was written partly to repudiate such an idea, and it is the great charter mot only of a man's rights in Christ, but equally of Christ's rights in him. It asserts that Christ has a claim upon all that is distinctive in a man's, outlook and genius, because he is not content with a stereotyped witness. James had his own experience and so had Peter, but they were nothing Paul except by way of brotherly interest. It was his own experience that gave him authority in expounding the mighty Gospel of Christ.
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