What is Paul referring to in Galatians 1 when he speaks of God revealing His Son in him?
Paul is referring to the Damascus revelation when Christ revealed Himself to Saul of Tarsus and called him as the apostle Paul. This revealing was God's work in him for his commission to bear Christ's name before Gentiles, kings, and Israel, and to suffer for that name.
Les explains that in Galatians 1:16, Paul is pointing back to the Acts 9 account, where the Lord Jesus spoke to Ananias about Saul. Christ said He would show Saul how great things he must suffer for His name's sake, and that Saul would bear His name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. Les teaches that God was going to reveal Himself in this man, this apostle, Saul of Tarsus, now known as Paul. The revealing was not Paul going up immediately to Jerusalem to check it out with the twelve; as Les notes, it does not say that. Paul's later beatings, scourging, cold, nakedness, sickness, and fear for his life in the Corinthian letters demonstrate the suffering Christ promised.
To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
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Why did God call Paul and reveal His Son in him?
God brought Paul on the scene for the distinct purpose of taking the Gospel of Grace to the Gentiles, revealing His Son in him so that he might preach Him among the heathen.