1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:03,600 Good morning, everyone. It is a beautiful day to be 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,100 together to worship Our God today and I'm privileged to have 3 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:10,100 the chance to lead our study through the book of Galatians. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:14,300 And today we're covering chapter 2 about a month ago, we cover 5 00:00:14,300 --> 00:00:15,800 chapter one. So I'm going to do a quick 6 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,500 refresher because I know for my own even studying I needed that 7 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:22,100 constant refresher as I go through. 8 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:25,100 So today we're going to do a quick refresher of chapter one 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,700 and try to get all the way through Galatians Chapter 2 10 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:29,900 today. I just want to say a word of 11 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:33,900 appreciation, Rishi ation for a congregation as a teacher, you 12 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,500 know, putting in the time to study it takes a lot of work for 13 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:41,300 anyone who studies. And and there's nothing more 14 00:00:41,300 --> 00:00:45,600 motivating as a team as a person trying to lead a study then to 15 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,500 see that people are putting the stuff into their life and you 16 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:51,000 can tell by conversations we have with one another. 17 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:55,100 The way people act, the way we talk the way we pray, the way 18 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:58,300 people and our individual conversations, talk to one 19 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:01,700 another, you can tell people are putting the F into action and as 20 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:04,700 someone leading a study, there's nothing more motivating than 21 00:01:04,700 --> 00:01:07,100 knowing. Okay, this is going to good use. 22 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:09,900 This is fruitful work and I can tell that. 23 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:12,000 So, thank you for your encouragement in the lives that 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,900 you live lead. And looking forward to hopefully 25 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:18,600 learning something together today in Chapter 2 of Galatians. 26 00:01:20,100 --> 00:01:22,200 So, if you want to have this open in front of you, this is 27 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,300 where we're going to spend all of our time today. 28 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,400 And I'll remind you of, kind of our keynote verse that I put on 29 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,300 the board the first time and I think this summarizes the whole 30 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:33,600 point of the book of Galatians pretty well. 31 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:38,000 So remember Paul is writing this letter to a region called 32 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,300 galatia. It's a bunch of people in 33 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:44,400 galatia churches, in galatia and he tells them to stand fast or 34 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:50,000 hold on strong, therefore in the liberty or the freedom, which It 35 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,500 has made us free and do not be entangled again with a yoke of 36 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:58,500 bondage, he's going to use this phraseology, this bondage and 37 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:03,300 this being tied back and a lot of times he's mentioning the Old 38 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:06,200 Testament, how they wanted to pull the people back to the Old 39 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,100 Testament and say, okay, yeah, we need to be Christians, but 40 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:13,200 you also need to be tied into the Old Law. 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,400 And the hard thing for these Jews was, they had spend their 42 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,500 whole lifetime, and they had spent so much history, being the 43 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:25,300 center of God's plan. The Jewish people had this Rich 44 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:27,900 history and they were not ready to let go of it. 45 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,200 And the way they thought their history was important. 46 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,700 And so they started trying to say, okay, yeah, you need to be 47 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:39,200 Christians, but you have to be kind of a compound Christian, 48 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:41,200 you have to be a Jew and a Christian. 49 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,500 So if you want to become a Christian, you have to first 50 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:47,300 become Manju, and that's the entryway into Christianity. 51 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,400 You have to be circumcised like under the law of Moses. 52 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:54,600 Under the Old Testament, to become a Christian And that's 53 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,000 this entanglement because it was just making things all tangled 54 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,200 up and you had to be pulled back to something that wasn't there. 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,100 Anymore wasn't binding them anymore and you want them to be 56 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:08,100 free ultimately and we're going to cover some Concepts that will 57 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:11,500 go into General law. But a lot of times he's talking 58 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:14,800 about the law of Moses, the Old Testament, okay? 59 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:17,800 So I'll remind us that one of the most helpful things when I 60 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,600 was studying this as to re go through my outline to remind 61 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:23,800 myself where we're going in chapter 1. 62 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,500 When he started off by defending his apostleship the whole point 63 00:03:27,500 --> 00:03:31,300 of it writing this letter is because he had the authority 64 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,900 from God, that gospel came from Divine Authority and his 65 00:03:36,900 --> 00:03:40,400 relationship to the apostles is the second section. 66 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,700 We get into now his relationship with the apostles is important 67 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,000 because he already showed us. He's he was independent from the 68 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,200 apostles. Okay, the other bigwigs the 69 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,600 other important Apostles. He's already showed himself. 70 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,200 Hey I had my gospel A from them. I didn't have to have these guys 71 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,000 approval but he's going to go on to affirm even though I didn't 72 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,200 need that. Even though I didn't need their 73 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:05,700 approval, he's gonna go through and show us how he did have 74 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:08,600 their approval and so let's get into it. 75 00:04:13,700 --> 00:04:17,300 Clickers mean, crazy. Okay, verse 1 of chapter 2, he's 76 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:20,000 already told us about his trajectory and his faith up to 77 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,500 this point. Then he says, after 14 years. 78 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:27,500 So, he was converted, he spent three years in Arabia, not even 79 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:29,200 around any of the other apostles. 80 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:34,200 Then he came back to finally, to Jerusalem after 14 years, I went 81 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,900 up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and also took Titus 82 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:41,100 with me. So he stresses this 14 years, 83 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:43,500 basically. What he's saying is, if I only I 84 00:04:43,508 --> 00:04:47,400 went to Jerusalem the place where all the happening stuff 85 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,400 was going on where all the these great men were? 86 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,100 If I went twice in 14 years, do you really think I really needed 87 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:57,800 their Authority? Or I was getting my gospel from 88 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,100 them? It's like no, he's trying to 89 00:05:00,108 --> 00:05:03,400 make a point after 14 years. I went back and he's gonna 90 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:07,200 outline the situation happened. When he did get back in amongst 91 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,900 them, Sometimes getting a bunch of religious people together can 92 00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:13,600 create some problems. We're going to read about that. 93 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,800 In this chapter. So I went up again to Jerusalem 94 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,400 with Barnabas and also took Titus with me. 95 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:20,700 Okay. I want to make a stop and make a 96 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:25,900 point here, that kind of is built off of our last study, and 97 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:29,100 this whole chapter is about something Paul had to fight 98 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:33,400 against Paul was an apostle and he was immediately met with 99 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:37,000 adversity and that's why he's still defending himself, he's 100 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,300 trying to show them his legitimacy and I think I think 101 00:05:40,300 --> 00:05:44,800 this is an important Point. Hell's forces had an assignment 102 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:48,600 again. It's Paul, they were trying to 103 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:52,100 help us forces were trying to work against the church and 104 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:53,800 there are many ways. The devil can do that. 105 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:57,600 The devil is deceptive, he is conniving, he can work in 106 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,100 relationships and become like that, that that water that's 107 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:04,400 into it gets into a crack and freezes and thaws and expands 108 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,300 that crack and makes things worse and worse. 109 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,400 The devil was working in the church to try to split people 110 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,800 apart. And Paul had to fight against 111 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,400 this, and I think there's a lesson here. 112 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:19,800 Hell's forces have an assignment against your life. 113 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,600 If you are serving God, if you are in the thick of it, there's 114 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,600 going to be challenges by nature of the fact that hell's forces 115 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,700 don't want you to do that. And the reason is heaven has an 116 00:06:33,700 --> 00:06:38,300 assignment for you if you have an assignment from Heaven, hell 117 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:40,100 is going to have an assignment against you. 118 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:44,400 So may we not be surprised. May we take this in stride like 119 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,300 Paul did Paul handle the situation. 120 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:49,900 He kept going, we can admire Paul for his work here. 121 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:54,600 Admits the the all these barriers effaced there's a he's 122 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:56,500 he must have been thinking there's a whole world to preach 123 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:58,700 the gospel. To why do I have to face so many 124 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:02,200 barriers? He'll is forces have an 125 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,600 assignment against his life and because and against our life, 126 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:09,800 but that's because heaven has an assignment for us, okay? 127 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:13,400 So, Paul has gone to down to Jerusalem and he's taking with 128 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,100 him Barnabas and Titus. Now, we learn that both of these 129 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:20,100 men were well respected among the leadership in Jerusalem. 130 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:23,300 So, we're coming into this with two good guys Barnabas and 131 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:25,000 Titus. We're going to talk more about 132 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,600 Barnabas later because he gets involved in some in some 133 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,900 problems. But tie, this is one of those. 134 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:35,000 Who really holds firm in this process and becomes a beloved 135 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,400 helper to Paul. Everything. 136 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:40,300 Second Corinthians, we're told that he was like a brother to 137 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:44,500 Paul, he was comforted by Titus. Paul was comforted by Titus. 138 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:47,700 Paul trusted him to take a collection of money. 139 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,600 So to take a collection of money and transported, that takes a 140 00:07:50,608 --> 00:07:55,600 lot of trust Titus. It says, another place had the 141 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:59,500 heart of love for the lost like Paul did. 142 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,000 So Titus, in many ways is a wonderful character. 143 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,200 We just finished the letter to Titus. 144 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:08,100 So that's one of the people. People who went with him and 145 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:11,800 we're going to get back to Barnabas and a little bit verse 146 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,200 20. Paul says, and I went up by 147 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:18,000 Revelation, so I didn't go there because Peter and them said, 148 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,600 hey, Paul, get down here, we have some orders for, you know, 149 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,300 he says, I went up by Revelation. 150 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,500 I went up because God told me to buy direct order and 151 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:29,700 communicated to them that gospel, which I preach among the 152 00:08:29,700 --> 00:08:31,700 Gentiles. So he went there and 153 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:35,600 communicated, he was corroborating, the gospel that 154 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:38,400 he is sharing with it. Gentiles remember the world at 155 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,400 that time has two groups of people you're there Jew or 156 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,000 Gentile if you're not a Jew, your agent. 157 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:49,200 So he was preaching to people who are not Jews, he says, but 158 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,800 he he went and talked to them privately to those were of 159 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,700 reputation. So he went to talk to the people 160 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:58,300 in Jerusalem. These these men of renown in 161 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:02,100 Jerusalem privately first to those who are reputation 162 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:06,600 reputation, lest by any means I might run or had run. 163 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,400 In vain, I believe what he's basically saying here, as he 164 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,300 comes into this Jerusalem situation. 165 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:14,100 Okay. There's a lot of religious 166 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:16,800 people in this area and he wanted to talk to the leaders. 167 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,400 First to make sure there wasn't going to be any issues to make 168 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,400 sure. Hey, here's what I'm preaching 169 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,000 and I need to know if there's going to be any problems with 170 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,400 that. I need to know if there's going 171 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,900 to be any issues with you disagree with my gospel, he 172 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:32,200 didn't want to be running in vain. 173 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,900 He says yet, not even tied us, who is with me? 174 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:39,900 Being a Greek or a gentile. He says, Titus was Gentile, he 175 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:43,400 wasn't circumcised. And he was not compelled to be 176 00:09:43,400 --> 00:09:47,100 circumcised, so he comes into the situation and nobody 177 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,900 convinced Titus to go back to the Old Testament. 178 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,300 He's showing how those forces are already working, but Titus 179 00:09:55,300 --> 00:09:57,100 was not compelled to be circumcised. 180 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:02,400 He says and this occurred. So he's going to say it's kind 181 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,900 of gets a little bit confusing, the sentence structure here, but 182 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:08,400 he's going to say, this whole situation occurred, this whole 183 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,700 problem with people trying to pull them back to circumcision, 184 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:15,900 trying to pull them back to the Old Law, this occurred because 185 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:20,800 of false Brethren secretly brought in who came in by 186 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,900 stealth to spy out, our Liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus 187 00:10:25,900 --> 00:10:28,700 that they might bring us. Into bondage there is that 188 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:30,200 language. We talked about in the 189 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,900 introduction later on in Galatians, he's going to 190 00:10:32,900 --> 00:10:35,600 emphasize, don't go back to that bondage. 191 00:10:35,900 --> 00:10:39,700 Don't go back to the requirements of the Old Law and 192 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,700 and Stand Fast and Liberty. And there's people who came in 193 00:10:43,900 --> 00:10:48,300 to take them away from that. He's building a contrast here 194 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,700 between Liberty and bondage. And the reason this is such 195 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:56,700 bondage, the reason, the Old Testament was considered bondage 196 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:59,800 to them. Is because the Old Testament 197 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,200 didn't have a savior yet. They were tying people to 198 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,100 something that had no rescuer. They were tying them to a 199 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:12,500 sinking ship. If you tie someone to a ship 200 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:16,000 that has a savior, that is gonna be saved, great, but they were 201 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,700 being tied to an old law that wouldn't have a savior, the new 202 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,000 law brought the Savior, and that's why it was freedom and 203 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,800 liberty because they could be saved in it. 204 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:33,900 And he says, to whom we did not yield submission even for an 205 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:35,900 hour. So these people who came in, we 206 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:40,200 didn't we didn't submit to them. We did not stand or accept this. 207 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:44,200 This tragedy of of tearing down the gospel. 208 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:47,300 We did not accept that we did not yield to that even for an 209 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:48,500 hour. Why? 210 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:52,700 So that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you now you 211 00:11:52,700 --> 00:11:56,600 could read this and say well it wasn't that big of a deal that 212 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,300 these people stood up for the gospel because it would have 213 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:06,000 been Reserved anyway, right. Like if Paul didn't stand up, 214 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:10,500 the gospel still would have been preserved because God always has 215 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:14,700 a way of getting his word out. That's true. 216 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,400 That's, that is probably true. Even if Paul didn't stand up, 217 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:20,200 someone would have, but it doesn't take away. 218 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:25,200 The fact, that Paul, and his supporters here, preserve the 219 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,300 truth of the Gospel. So that we could have it today. 220 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,700 And the bottom line is if you don't do your job and God's 221 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:38,800 kingdom, it will get done. And maybe you'll get done 222 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,600 somewhere else. Maybe it's not going to flourish 223 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,300 here. If I don't do my job, God's 224 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:50,200 purposes are not going to stop. But that doesn't take away from 225 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:55,400 the fact that if you are involved, you have a role and 226 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,900 doing something extremely great beyond anything that you could 227 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:02,500 ever think to accomplish in your Earthly life beyond anything 228 00:13:02,500 --> 00:13:06,900 else. Your work has long-term Eternal 229 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:08,700 consequences just like Paul's did. 230 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:13,800 Even though Paul was just a man. He helped preserved truth of the 231 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,300 Gospel by how he stood up in faith. 232 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:26,100 And preserving both the faith. And the people, the faith of the 233 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:29,300 people around him because it's going to say that Paul would 234 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:31,700 preserve the faith of the people around him because they would 235 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:33,300 eventually change from their error. 236 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:38,000 So he presumed help, preserve the faith, and their faith and 237 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,000 we can learn from the example for our own action, verse 6. 238 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:46,000 But from those who seem to be something whatever they were, it 239 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,600 makes no difference to me, God shows no personal, favoritism to 240 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,200 no man. For those who seem to be 241 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:57,300 something out of nothing to me. So he's really, he's really 242 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:02,200 tearing down these platforms and these pedestals that we put men 243 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,300 on and in this situation specifically we're going to 244 00:14:05,308 --> 00:14:07,800 learn the people who seem to be something that was Peter. 245 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:10,800 James maybe John, some of those people who seem to be these 246 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,600 great people. He says, made no difference to 247 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,900 me. There's people He says they had 248 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:21,500 a nothing to me and I don't believe he's saying here that 249 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:26,900 they were useless, or weren't a spiritual strength for him. 250 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:28,200 I don't think that's what he's saying. 251 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,900 I believe what he's saying is in the context, he's talking about 252 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:37,600 how he's how his gospel was, was being taught truthfully on its 253 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,100 own. He didn't have to have anybody 254 00:14:40,100 --> 00:14:43,300 else add to his gospel. Like, hey, Paul, your gospel is 255 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:46,400 weak in this area, Peter, and I have to say that to him, They 256 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,500 didn't have to add anything to his gospel, he didn't need that 257 00:14:49,500 --> 00:14:54,500 from them. Verse 7, but on the contrary. 258 00:14:55,400 --> 00:14:59,600 So not only did they not add to my gospel on the contrary when 259 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,500 they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised have been 260 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:06,900 committed to me. As the gospel for the 261 00:15:06,900 --> 00:15:12,200 circumsized was to Peter for. He who worked effectively, who 262 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,900 for he who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the 263 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:18,900 circumcised also worked effectively and me toward the 264 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:23,400 Gentiles. And when James cephas and John, 265 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:26,200 who seemed to be pillars perceived, the grace that have 266 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:30,000 been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of 267 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,700 Fellowship that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the 268 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:35,100 circumcised. Okay, let's back out. 269 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:39,100 That's a a huge big sentence that has a lot information. 270 00:15:39,500 --> 00:15:43,900 So he starts out by saying when they saw that, that I was 271 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:48,400 preaching, the gospel to the Gentiles, just as the gospel to 272 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,700 the Jews was committed to Peter. So Peters job was to go to the 273 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:55,200 Jews and Paul is primary job was to go to the Gentiles when they 274 00:15:55,200 --> 00:16:00,400 saw that knowing that God is working in both of us. 275 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:03,100 That's what this paragraph here. That's in parentheses basically 276 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:08,300 says knowing that the God. Who supported Peters apostleship 277 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:12,800 also supported mine. Their response to that. 278 00:16:13,700 --> 00:16:16,100 They gave me and Barnabas the right hand of Fellowship, they 279 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:18,900 saw that I was doing a good work basically and the right hand of 280 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:21,200 Fellowship, basically, keep doing what you're doing. 281 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,500 We're in agreement. We are on the same path. 282 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:27,900 We are we are supportive of your work Paul. 283 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,400 So again, this is further validating to the people who are 284 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,600 detractors of Paul, it's validating. 285 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,800 Hey, I didn't need the apostles but even they gave me their 286 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,300 validation. They gave me the right hand of 287 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:40,000 Fellowship. They said you're on the right 288 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,800 track. You keep doing what you're 289 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:47,100 doing. Yes, the affirmation the 290 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:51,200 agreement. Now I think it's interesting a 291 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,600 little side point. Why God chose Paul for one work 292 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,800 and Peter for another. And I think the beautiful part 293 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:05,000 is God, prepared them. For their work because their 294 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 work needed them and they needed their work. 295 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,599 God prepared. This work special for them 296 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:15,500 because the work needed their these men's effort, but they 297 00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:19,700 also needed the work. And I look at Peter specifically 298 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:21,800 in this in this this thought process. 299 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,500 I look at Peter who went to the Jews. 300 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:28,600 Now, it's interesting when you can consider Peters character 301 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,800 Arc, Peter kind of went back and forth and it seems like he might 302 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,900 have had trouble with people's view of him. 303 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:40,600 For example, when Jesus was about to die, Peter said no, I'm 304 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,600 gonna stand up for you and nothing's gonna happen to you. 305 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:49,000 I'm gonna defend you. And and later he would give in 306 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,900 when a little girl came to him and said, you're one of the 307 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:55,500 Apostles and Peter, it was like the pressure of the crowd. 308 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:59,400 I don't know what it exactly was but Peter gave in to that crowd 309 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:06,200 pressure, especially from the Jews, it seems And we learned. 310 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,000 We're going to learn later in this situation. 311 00:18:08,500 --> 00:18:12,800 How he's going to give in to the peer pressure of the Jews around 312 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,000 him, and he's going to go back. So it's interesting that God 313 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,100 sends Peter to the Jews. It's almost like he wants him to 314 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:23,800 deal with that. He wants him to deal with the 315 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,400 insecurity of going to his Jewish. 316 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:29,300 Nationality people and saying, No this is right and I'm going 317 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:33,000 to stand up for it, even though I want to pull back, maybe and 318 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,400 go with the crowd, he had to deal with his own feelings in 319 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:42,000 his own weaknesses and I believe the work was important for 320 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:44,100 Peters growth because we're going to later. 321 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:46,800 Learn that he would change. And he would become an elder in 322 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:48,900 the church through all of his mistakes. 323 00:18:49,900 --> 00:18:53,100 But his work, his responsibilities pushed in 324 00:18:53,100 --> 00:18:55,300 there, and I want to encourage you to take on more 325 00:18:55,300 --> 00:18:58,600 responsibility in your own life and serving God because there 326 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,000 are places your faith will never go in till you take on that 327 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,800 responsibility. There Are Places. 328 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,700 You can't push yourself until you step out of with the rules. 329 00:19:07,700 --> 00:19:11,100 You currently have or outside of the confined roles that you 330 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:14,900 currently have of what you're willing to do for the Lord. 331 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:20,100 And take on more for his cause, Peter was a great example of 332 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:23,900 that. He was often failing but often 333 00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:30,100 growing when we read about in the Bible it's interesting here 334 00:19:30,500 --> 00:19:34,600 and I'm not sure if this was the intent of the author but I want 335 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,700 to focus on this phrase for just a second, it said and when James 336 00:19:37,700 --> 00:19:42,500 cephas, which is Peter and John Who seemed to be pillars. 337 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:46,600 Now, this phrase has an interesting connection because 338 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:48,900 of the temple that stood at this time. 339 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:53,000 Okay, the Jewish temple was this, elaborate ornate wonderful 340 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:58,300 structure from the Old Testament and it had two pillars in front 341 00:19:58,300 --> 00:20:01,400 of it. There are named Boaz and I 342 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,800 believe it's yanking or jaqen, however, it's pronounced and 343 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:09,300 these pillars We're massive, they're beautiful, they're made 344 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:14,000 of bronze or brass or something like that and they were they 345 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,200 were some some people said 30 feet. 346 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,200 I don't know exactly how tall they were. 347 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,900 Some of the measurements were a little bit fuzzy but these were 348 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:24,800 massive pillars. Temple was big. 349 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,400 These pillars were at least 30 feet high and diameter. 350 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:32,000 They were about six feet across. So this is a massive pillar 351 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,700 standing in front of this beautiful ornate structure. 352 00:20:36,700 --> 00:20:40,800 But if you look at the top of these, there's no building it 353 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,500 sitting on it. That's called a non load-bearing 354 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:49,200 pillar in front of the temple. There were these two beautiful 355 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,500 pillars. That weren't holding anything 356 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:55,000 up. They were decorative And I'm not 357 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,000 sure if this is the the in the thought that Paul had in writing 358 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:05,400 this maybe he was comparing these men Peter and James two 359 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,900 pillars that were looked beautiful, but we're really 360 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:11,300 holding nothing up. But the point is true. 361 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:16,100 Nonetheless he's going to dig into them for their weakness in 362 00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:20,500 their failures. I think it's interesting that he 363 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:23,000 uses this terminology, they seemed to be pillars. 364 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,600 Okay, so you have these men who gave, we already read this, who 365 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,400 gave Paul and Barnabas the right hand of Fellowship, keep doing 366 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,900 what you're doing verse 10. They desired only that, we 367 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:38,400 should remember the poor. The very thing which I was also 368 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,000 eager to do. Now, I believe this is 369 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,600 specifically referring to the poor who are in Jerusalem. 370 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,600 The poor Christians in Jerusalem. 371 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:51,500 We later learn that. And we're in Romans 15 verse 25. 372 00:21:51,700 --> 00:21:55,000 It says this Paul is saying but now I'm going to To go to 373 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,700 Jerusalem to minister to the Saints for it. 374 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:00,600 Please those for Macedonia and aquella to make a certain 375 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:05,000 contribution to the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem. 376 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,000 So I believe when he's saying here that they all wanted to 377 00:22:09,008 --> 00:22:10,400 make sure they were taking care of the poor. 378 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,100 I believe that was referring to the poor Christians in the city 379 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:18,300 of Jerusalem specifically. Now, it doesn't mean that we 380 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:21,700 don't have responsibilities to the poor in general. 381 00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:23,900 We are to be good too many people. 382 00:22:25,300 --> 00:22:28,600 Regardless of where they stand in religious circles, we would 383 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:30,400 be good to the poor. But I believe this is 384 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,600 specifically talking about the poor Christians in Jerusalem 385 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,600 verse 11. Now, when Peter had come to 386 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,400 Antioch, I withstood him to his face. 387 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,900 So we're about to get into, we're transitioning now from 388 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:49,900 Paul defending, his apostleship to a point where he is talking 389 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:53,800 about arising conflict, there is a rising conflict building with 390 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:56,800 Peter and Paul. Paul and Antioch, he withstood 391 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:02,400 him to his face. That's very controversial 392 00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,500 language because he was to be blamed. 393 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,100 Okay, why? Why was why was Peter to be 394 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:12,100 blamed? It says for before certain men 395 00:23:12,100 --> 00:23:16,900 came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles so he was used 396 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,800 to talk and have a good, you know, fraternizing with the 397 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,400 Gentiles. He was all doing his thing. 398 00:23:21,700 --> 00:23:24,900 He had received the message with cornmeal. 399 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:27,300 Alias that he was to accept the Gentiles. 400 00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:30,500 Now he was doing that, he was eating with the Gentiles but 401 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,400 when they came when those people who are trying to pull people 402 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,400 back to the Old Testament, came he withdrew and separated 403 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,100 himself Peter felt that pressure. 404 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:46,200 And he didn't, he wouldn't even the Gentiles because he was 405 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,100 fearing those who were of the circumcision. 406 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,700 Peter was the one who took a knife and slashed off the the 407 00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:56,400 servant of the high priest Mal kiss. 408 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:03,200 This is the guy who's afraid of the Jews, the people of the 409 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:06,100 circumcision. Why? 410 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,600 Now, I want to set this scene, I just pulled this random picture 411 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,400 of a potluck. They have these things in 412 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,400 Jerusalem called their love feasts where they would all get 413 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,200 together and have a meal together. 414 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:21,000 And so I just wanted to put a context maybe for for the 415 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,500 gravity of what's about to happen. 416 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:26,000 You have a lot of people getting together eating together and 417 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,400 Paul's going to come into this situation and he's going to kind 418 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:32,500 of blow things up. It says, and the rest of the 419 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:35,500 Jews, also played the hypocrite hypocrite with him. 420 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,000 So the even Barnabas was Has carried away with their 421 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,500 hypocrisy. This is the problem of when we 422 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:47,600 don't stand up for what's right. And when we give into peer 423 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,500 pressure's and Temptation, it wasn't just that Peter was 424 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:55,600 unfaithful. It says the rest of the Jews 425 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,000 followed his suit and played the hypocrite. 426 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:01,100 The word hypocrite. Was someone who wore a mask? 427 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:04,200 They were fake. Peter was being fake and the 428 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,200 rest of the Jews also became fake. 429 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,800 So that even Barnabas was carried away with their 430 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:16,200 hypocrisy, Peter knew better and Acts chapter 11 verse 17. 431 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,200 We read it. We just talked about that 432 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,200 situation where he was sent to the house of Cornelius and he 433 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:22,800 had received this message from God. 434 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:26,000 You know what, except the Gentiles arise kill and eat. 435 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:28,200 It's not about the unclean animals of the Old Testament 436 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,600 anymore. He was told to move on. 437 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:34,100 And from there, he said to the other people, he said, if 438 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,300 therefore, God gave them the same gift as he gave us the 439 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:39,600 Gentiles. When we believed on the Lord, 440 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,900 Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand Stand gone. 441 00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:46,500 And when those people heard these things they became silent 442 00:25:46,500 --> 00:25:50,000 and they glorified God saying. Thank God has also granted to 443 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:56,400 the Gentiles repentance to life. He had already had the message 444 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,800 he knew, better Peter knew better than to pull away and be 445 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,200 Hypocrites against the people who are Gentiles Peter knew 446 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,400 better. And I think the saddest part of 447 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,500 all, this is even Barnabas was carried away. 448 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:14,700 Barnabas we read about is an encourager. 449 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,600 Barnabas was someone who would stand up for somebody when no 450 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,600 one else would? Specifically with Paul. 451 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:26,800 So this had to really hit home for Paul that Barnabas did this 452 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:32,000 in Acts chapter 9 verse 26. It says and when Saul who was, 453 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:35,100 it was Paul same person had come to Jerusalem. 454 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:39,100 So Paul's just been converted. He was previously, killing 455 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:40,900 Christians, having Christians killed. 456 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,900 So when he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples when 457 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:49,500 he was converted, he tried to Come in with the rest of them 458 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:54,900 but they were all afraid of him. And did not believe that he was 459 00:26:54,900 --> 00:26:59,000 a disciple. Can you imagine that what I felt 460 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,000 to be the enemy and to try once you're converted to join? 461 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,800 The enemy cabin, say I was wrong. 462 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,400 I'm ready to support the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 463 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,100 And everyone just to be afraid of you. 464 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,200 What if everyone in this room looked at you sideways? 465 00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:17,100 We don't want anything to do with you. 466 00:27:17,100 --> 00:27:19,800 We don't really believe you're a true Christian, how that would 467 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,600 hurt. But you know what with all those 468 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:30,100 other people Barnabas Took him and brought him to the apostles. 469 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,300 Barnabas took, this guy that everyone else rejected and 470 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:35,100 encouraged him and said, hey, we got you your. 471 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:36,700 All right, let's go, let's do some work. 472 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:42,500 Barnabas stood up for him when everyone else was against him 473 00:27:43,300 --> 00:27:47,100 and how much it must have hurt Paul and hurt the people around 474 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:50,200 him, that even Barnabas was influenced by this peer 475 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,300 pressure. So that he wouldn't eat with the 476 00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:58,200 Jews that he would withdraw from them and be afraid of people who 477 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,400 were Jewish, who were trying to pull them back to the Old Law. 478 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:08,300 Even Barnabas was carried away. But when I saw that they were 479 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:11,200 not straightforward about the truth of the Gospel, I said to 480 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,100 Peter before them all. So before everyone who was there 481 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:19,700 eating before everyone who is seeing this Paul stood up in 482 00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:22,100 front of everyone and said, if you being a Jew live in the 483 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:24,500 manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews. 484 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,200 Why do you compel the Gentiles to live as Jews? 485 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:30,300 He says, you're not even living like a gentile. 486 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,000 You eat bacon for breakfast. You're not following the Old 487 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,200 Law. Why do you? 488 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,600 If you don't live in the manner of the Jews, compel other people 489 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:44,200 to live as Jews. He's calling me out for being a 490 00:28:44,208 --> 00:28:48,300 hypocrite in front of everybody, and this has to be a people 491 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:52,100 Pleasers worst nightmare to be called out in front of everyone. 492 00:28:52,900 --> 00:28:56,100 May we be authentic and honest in our faith. 493 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,200 Maybe we stand for, what's, right? 494 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,400 And don't do it just because of certain people who are around 495 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:07,500 all the time because we will be exposed one way or another lies, 496 00:29:07,500 --> 00:29:12,500 get exposed. This is Paul's or Peters worst 497 00:29:12,500 --> 00:29:14,500 nightmare. Now, I used to think that it 498 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:17,700 kind of stopped there and then he went on to Justice Paul was 499 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:19,700 writing about the situation, he's like right back to my 500 00:29:19,700 --> 00:29:23,100 original thought but no, Paul is still going off. 501 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:25,300 This is still part of his speech in front of everyone. 502 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:30,000 We who are Jews by nature and not Sinners of the Gentiles. 503 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,200 So the world outside of the Jewish faith was considered to 504 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,400 be generally sinful. They did not follow God, he says 505 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,200 knowing that a man is not justified by The Works of the 506 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,100 law. But by faith, in Jesus Christ, 507 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:46,300 even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified 508 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:50,100 by faith in Christ and not by The Works of the law for by The 509 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:53,200 Works of the law. No flesh shall be justified. 510 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,800 What's he saying? He's saying that, we know better 511 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,700 than anybody. We can't do this perfectly. 512 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,300 We tried to live our lives. Perfect in front of the Old 513 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:08,300 Testament law and Paul really thought he was But it said that 514 00:30:08,300 --> 00:30:11,600 we know that a man is not justified by The Works of the 515 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,300 law. There is nothing they could do 516 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:15,500 Under the Old Law to save them self. 517 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,300 They were only to be saved by faith in Christ Jesus. 518 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:28,900 We know that as Jews. Even we have believed in Christ 519 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:33,000 Jesus, that we might be justified and by faith in Christ 520 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:37,100 and not by The Works of the law. This is all tied in with the Old 521 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:39,600 Testament law. I believe we're going to talk 522 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:44,500 more about General on a second but he's saying Well, you can't 523 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:46,600 do it. You can't be justified. 524 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,400 What is Justified me? And he means basically, to be to 525 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,100 me made, right? It to be made Guiltless to me 526 00:30:54,100 --> 00:31:00,700 made innocent in a sense. So here is the world reality. 527 00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:03,500 The biblical reality is that everyone has sinned and fallen 528 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:05,600 short of the glory of God Romans 3:23. 529 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,600 We are all confined, understand, we have all sinned. 530 00:31:09,300 --> 00:31:10,700 So, how are we going to be saved? 531 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,400 How are we going to be justified to where our sins aren't counted 532 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:22,900 against us and Eternity? It's not by the Old Testament 533 00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:29,500 law, it's by faith in Christ. We are going to be saved because 534 00:31:29,500 --> 00:31:31,800 of faith in Christ. Not because of an old law that 535 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,700 we follow perfectly and are saving is not going to come 536 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,500 through our own works, either. We're going to talk about that 537 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:42,000 in just a second for by The Works of the law. 538 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,800 No flesh shall be justified. This is true, both in Old 539 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,800 Testament context and in any law context for example. 540 00:31:52,300 --> 00:31:54,700 If I were to go out driving down the street, I'm not going to 541 00:31:54,700 --> 00:31:58,100 drive, you know, 35 exactly on the speed limit, a cop's not 542 00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:00,100 going to pull me over and say congratulations, here's 50 543 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:01,500 bucks. You follow the speed limit, 544 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,300 that's not how the law works. Most law only punishes people 545 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:10,300 who have done wrong, it's such a boundary and keeps you in the 546 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:16,700 boundary. so law in general, Doesn't save you. 547 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,200 You don't get something from law. 548 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:21,900 Your only shown your weakness through law. 549 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,900 You're only shown where you messed up the cup only pulls you 550 00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:26,400 over if you're doing something wrong. 551 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,500 But specifically to the Old Law. The old laws purpose was not to 552 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:37,000 justify people. The scripture says that by the 553 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,400 Old Law, all are confined under sin, the Old Law shows us that 554 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,900 we're all stuck in sin. It's like the walls close in 555 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:46,000 around us and we have nowhere to go under sin. 556 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,900 The law can find us all in that place where we had nowhere to 557 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:52,100 run. Its purpose was not to justify 558 00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:54,600 us. Its purpose was not to free us 559 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,500 and people really give the Old Law, bad rep, the Old Law was 560 00:32:57,500 --> 00:33:01,800 not evil. It just was not built to save 561 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,600 you. It was built to be a tutor. 562 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,200 It was built where told to lead us to Christ to show us that we 563 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:10,800 need Christ. The Old Law was the problem. 564 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,000 It was staying with the Old Law Without A Savior without the new 565 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:20,500 law to fill its place. Now, it is also generally true 566 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:28,400 that law does not save us and we are not saved by our works, but 567 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,600 that's the beauty of the law of Liberty. 568 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,100 We read about Christ's law and the Bible and the Plan of 569 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:37,400 Salvation and life. We live as a law of freedom 570 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:39,500 word. The Bible says, we're going to 571 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,200 be slaves to something. You're going to be slaves to God 572 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,000 or slaves to evil. So it's not that we don't have a 573 00:33:45,008 --> 00:33:48,300 law. It's just that Christ's law. 574 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:51,800 When we follow it, fills with freedom. 575 00:33:52,500 --> 00:33:55,800 It is embedded with freedom. Now, do our work, save us. 576 00:33:55,900 --> 00:34:01,700 No, but true saving Faith justification by faith. 577 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,600 It's not because we worked our we earned it. 578 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,900 But part of Saving faith is full submission. 579 00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:13,600 Full action. Full Readiness to follow God's 580 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,400 plan. Because it is the law of 581 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,000 Liberty. Now, Clinton friends, if you've 582 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,699 heard his lesson is actually, on our podcast, did a good outline 583 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:26,800 explaining this from a legal context, he talked about how 584 00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,300 there's different ways in a court system where you can be 585 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,300 justified or basically let go and determined to be free. 586 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,900 The first one he mentioned was insufficient evidence. 587 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,100 Okay. Maybe a court says you can go 588 00:34:39,100 --> 00:34:41,300 free because there's not enough evidence to convict you. 589 00:34:41,500 --> 00:34:43,400 We already learned from Romans 3:23. 590 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,000 We've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 591 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:49,900 We learned that the the eye of God is going to and fro on the 592 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:54,000 earth seeing everything God is omniscient. 593 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,800 He sees all he's omnipresent. So God sees us. 594 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,900 There is no chance there is not a bit of chance. 595 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,400 The God not see something that we've done. 596 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,500 So there will be sufficient evidence to convict us maybe 597 00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:11,200 privilege of race position or family, you know, in times in 598 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,800 history, in certain places by certain privilege, you could get 599 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,000 off, because of, who you knew who you were. 600 00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:22,200 Maybe your family was. Not in this Kingdom. 601 00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,800 Our God is a just God. He doesn't let the innocent go 602 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,300 or he doesn't let the guilty go and he doesn't condemn the 603 00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:32,300 innocent based on any kind of privilege, maybe gift or 604 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:34,700 bribery, maybe you could give something to a judge and say 605 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:37,800 judge, I got a family, fortune, give you a lot of money to get 606 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,900 me out of this situation. Our God is a just got. 607 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:42,900 The Bible says that he doesn't need anything from us. 608 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:44,300 What are we going to give to God? 609 00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:46,400 That he does not already have he created it all. 610 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,200 There's no gift or bribery we can give God, we cannot claim 611 00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:52,400 fourthly. Lee superiority. 612 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,800 And anyway, we can't say, I'm more religious than other 613 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,700 people. I'm superior to other people. 614 00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:02,300 I am doctrinally Superior to other people in, so I should be 615 00:36:02,300 --> 00:36:05,300 saved. I should be Guiltless and we 616 00:36:05,308 --> 00:36:08,100 cannot claim that I'm morally Superior to other people. 617 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,100 Why? Because we've already sinned, 618 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:15,300 and once you send, you are guilty of all the Bible says, So 619 00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:20,100 I can't claim to be let free or forgiven because I'm superior to 620 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:23,000 anyone else in any way. That's just not how it works 621 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,000 with God. And for us, I think that's 622 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,900 important as a church. And as the Church of Christ We 623 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:33,900 are not saved because of our own Works. 624 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000 We're not saved. Ultimately, because we do 625 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,600 communion The Way, We believe the Bible says, We're saved by 626 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,400 faith in Jesus Christ, and part of that is submission to what we 627 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:49,800 believe, but we are not going to stand for God and, and put our 628 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:55,400 good works out there as reasons why we should be saved finally, 629 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,800 you might be able to say ignorance, I didn't know, 630 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:02,100 because the Bible says, everyone has a natural law of the heart. 631 00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:05,800 Everyone knows has God in their hearts, and no one is Guiltless 632 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,700 because we all have a responsibility that it comes 633 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:10,300 from something God put within us. 634 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,700 Us. We cannot claim ignorance and 635 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:16,200 finally, we get to this issue of innocence and this is what we've 636 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,100 been talking a lot about with the juice. 637 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:22,000 Maybe they felt that they were innocent because they have been 638 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,800 justified by the law, they kept the law perfectly, but we've 639 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:30,100 already learned that you cannot be freed because you kept the 640 00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:35,600 law perfectly. Verse 17 but if while we seek to 641 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,500 be justified by Christ, so Paul is still going on. 642 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:41,500 This is part of his continued speech in front of everyone but 643 00:37:41,500 --> 00:37:46,700 if while we seek to be justified by Christ we ourselves are also 644 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:51,100 found Sinners is Christ therefore a minister of sin so 645 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:56,900 it is as Christ's true work and Christ effect in our lives is 646 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,800 that his fault. If we are still Sinners, 647 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:03,400 certainly not for. If I Build again, those things 648 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,800 which I destroyed. I make myself a transgressor. 649 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:12,100 If I build up against in it wasn't Christ, working me, that 650 00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:16,200 built that sin up, it was my own transgression going back to it, 651 00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:24,700 he said Verse 19 for I through the law died, to the law that I 652 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:29,200 might live to God. I threw the law. 653 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:33,200 So the law showed him, his weakness and showed his showed 654 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,200 him. His inability to be saved on his 655 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:41,300 own Works through that. He died to the law that law. 656 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:44,500 He died to it because he was shown that he couldn't be 657 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:47,500 perfected by it. He couldn't be made justified by 658 00:38:47,500 --> 00:38:51,100 it. So he died to it, why not? 659 00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:53,800 So we could just be left stranded, he died to it, so he 660 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,500 could be living to God so that he might go to. 661 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,900 The saving presence in the saving work of God and the 662 00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:04,200 Christ Liberty that I might live to God. 663 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:07,700 How do you do this for? I have been crucified with 664 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:11,100 Christ. It is no longer I who live, but 665 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:15,800 Christ lives in me, I have been crucified with Christ. 666 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,700 He's talking about his his own will, his own desires, his own 667 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:25,500 life, what his control was? He said that's been killed and I 668 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,000 saw the picture that help me get this in my Head. 669 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,200 It's a submission. We let ourselves be crucified 670 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,600 saying I'm not going to live this life for me anymore. 671 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:40,400 I'm sacrificing what I want because I want Christ to live in 672 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,300 me instead, so that I might live to God. 673 00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:47,700 That's how we are living with God because we are crucifying 674 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,800 ourselves allowing that to happen to live to have Christ 675 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,500 live within me. You know what the pressure is 676 00:39:56,700 --> 00:39:59,700 off. The pressure for me to figure 677 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:02,200 out my own life and make all these decisions and figure out 678 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,900 eternity and decide where my family is going to end up in 679 00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:06,700 eternity and provide for my child. 680 00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:09,700 All that pressure is off because Christ is the one living in me, 681 00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:12,800 Christ is the one giving me my direction and my hope and my 682 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,400 purpose. And my life. 683 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:17,700 My hope is in still. My direction is acquired and my 684 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:21,300 plan is set because Christ lives in me. 685 00:40:22,700 --> 00:40:25,800 And the life which I now live. I still have to live a life 686 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,000 here. I can't just skip straight from 687 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,700 work, from here to the spiritual life, the life. 688 00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:37,300 I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who 689 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:41,300 loved me and gave himself for me. 690 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:46,500 Paul saying this in front of everybody, can you imagine the 691 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:49,900 silence in the room? Can you imagine the shock? 692 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:54,300 When all this talk about law and stuff, was brought back to where 693 00:40:54,300 --> 00:41:00,400 that may needs to be The Son of God who loved me, the Son of God 694 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,300 who gave himself for me, Paul puts me there twice because we 695 00:41:04,300 --> 00:41:06,000 need to put ourselves there twice. 696 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:12,000 You were saved you were but you were justified by Christ and we 697 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,900 need to have faith in him and that's where our Focus needs to 698 00:41:14,900 --> 00:41:18,000 be and the one who loved me and gave himself for me. 699 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:22,100 So I Crucify My Flesh and give it back to Christ. 700 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:24,600 I do not set aside the grace of God. 701 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,300 Paul says For if righteousness, comes through the law. 702 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,300 Then Christ died in vain. He says, I'm not going to just 703 00:41:32,300 --> 00:41:35,100 take God's grace, all that goodness, the things that I 704 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:38,300 didn't deserve to get with it. I am rewarded with he said, I'm 705 00:41:38,300 --> 00:41:41,800 not gonna take all that the liberty and just set it aside. 706 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:46,000 He says, because if I do that and say, okay, thank you for 707 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,900 this nice gift box of Christ, and I'm going to set it here. 708 00:41:48,900 --> 00:41:53,100 I'm going to be a Jew. If I do that. 709 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,600 Then Christ died in vain, if I say, thank you for that gift, 710 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,500 but I'm going to live my Jewish life and be justified by my 711 00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:06,300 works of the law. Then there was no point in 712 00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:09,900 Christ died. Christ died for no reason. 713 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,000 I can't imagine Peter in this situation. 714 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,700 I wonder if he heard the rooster crow a fourth time. 715 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:26,100 I wonder if all of this being brought back to the Son of God 716 00:42:26,100 --> 00:42:29,400 who died for him. I wonder if that what that 717 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,100 brought to his mind the pain that you felt again when he 718 00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:36,200 realized I've rejected him again just in a different way. 719 00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:43,800 This brings us to the end of the chapter. 720 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,500 So I just want to close with a couple points. 721 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,300 I think it's I think it's awesome. 722 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,200 That the Bible includes everything. 723 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,700 We just read. If you were trying to start an 724 00:42:52,707 --> 00:42:55,600 organization, that is going to change the world, you would try 725 00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,900 to keep the roots very pure. That's where most religions try 726 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:01,500 to do. They try to justify their 727 00:43:01,500 --> 00:43:04,200 founding fathers and they're the people who set the religions 728 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,700 say, well, this person is great. They're Flawless, they're nice 729 00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:10,300 and everything was good. The Bible doesn't do that 730 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:14,000 because that's not reality. The Bible says, three of these 731 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,800 key members, they all messed up. The people who were with James, 732 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,600 it says, the people who were with James, cause this problem. 733 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:25,700 So James is at fault somehow, it seems here, the Peter, that one 734 00:43:25,700 --> 00:43:29,700 of the primary gospel preachers at the time he denied Christ, 735 00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:33,200 Bib. The biblical Integrity is 736 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,100 fascinating to me, because it shows us a real reality shows us 737 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:42,100 real religion, where it allows us to track people's full circle 738 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,200 Peter, he denied Christ. And then on the day of 739 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,800 Pentecost, he was the one. He was the one to deliver the 740 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,500 message to the Lost. How about that? 741 00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:55,700 Okay, happily-ever-after, nope. He needs to then be adjusted and 742 00:43:55,707 --> 00:43:58,900 have to go to the house of Cornelius and learn about the 743 00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:01,600 Gentiles saving. Okay. 744 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:03,600 Now he's good, right? Nope. 745 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,700 We just read about a situation where Peter really messed up in 746 00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:10,700 front of everybody. This is honest, this is real 747 00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:14,200 life. But we later learned that Peter 748 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:17,400 must be blameless. The Bible says that to be an 749 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:20,200 elder in the church to be a pastor, you have to be 750 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,700 blameless. It wasn't that he was perfect, 751 00:44:22,700 --> 00:44:26,500 obviously, clearly, but he had gotten his wrongs right to be an 752 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:29,700 elder. He had right his wrongs, isn't 753 00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:31,700 that awesome? Praise God. 754 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:34,800 That we are given examples of how to take things full circle 755 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,900 to not. Look at our passing a man messed 756 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:39,000 up. See you guys, I lost my chance. 757 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,200 We're shown what some of the primary leaders really messing 758 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,500 up? That is both encouraging to us 759 00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,900 and it's confidence-building. They weren't serving a fake 760 00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:53,600 religion and a fake God. The development, the 761 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,300 developmental issues, because of this whole conflict in 762 00:44:57,300 --> 00:45:00,800 Jerusalem, you'd think that would have been massive, right? 763 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,200 Like we're trying to start a church and now there's all this 764 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,400 mess but God takes something beautiful and make something 765 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,200 great out of it. Again, to remind us Health 766 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,700 forces have an assignment against your life because heaven 767 00:45:12,700 --> 00:45:15,900 has an assignment for you, Paul stood up in front of all this 768 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,500 from all in front of all these people. 769 00:45:18,500 --> 00:45:21,400 And the Bible says, people accused him or made fun of it, 770 00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,700 basically for being a week speaker. 771 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,000 Maybe Peter was a Brawny, man. He was a fisherman. 772 00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:28,500 You got to pull Nets around all day. 773 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:30,200 It wasn't just like casting reel. 774 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:33,400 He stood up in front of may, be a tough guy and tough crowd. 775 00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:37,300 But Paul stood up and said something. 776 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,000 And back to this idea that God brought all this full circle, we 777 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,800 can trust that God. Used this awkward encounter and 778 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,600 Antioch for everyone's good. It was good for Paul because 779 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,900 Paul stayed true and proclaim the gospel. 780 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,200 What a great opportunity, what a great confidence Builder, what a 781 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:58,500 great Sometimes, your faith is made known to yourself by what 782 00:45:58,500 --> 00:46:00,900 you stand up for. It was good for Peter because 783 00:46:00,900 --> 00:46:03,900 Peter was corrected. And as a result became even more 784 00:46:03,900 --> 00:46:06,500 convinced in the truth than before, it was good for 785 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:08,800 Barnabas. Because barmes, came to the 786 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,900 correct belief on this matter. He would be changed later. 787 00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:14,100 It was good. For The Men Who Came From James 788 00:46:14,100 --> 00:46:17,300 has started the whole mess because a line was drawn at the 789 00:46:17,300 --> 00:46:20,500 true gospel and they had to decide sometimes people need to 790 00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:23,700 see that there's a line. You don't cross that it was good 791 00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:25,700 for the Jewish Believers in Antioch. 792 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,800 They have the truth sped out clearly for them maybe these 793 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,100 Jewish Believers remember they're they're just having a 794 00:46:31,107 --> 00:46:33,800 hard time believing the fact that these Gentiles can just 795 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,700 walk in when we been here Garden Gate this whole time but they 796 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:39,400 were shown the truth of the Gospel. 797 00:46:40,300 --> 00:46:43,600 It was good for the Gentile Believers in Antioch so it's 798 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,500 good for the Jews but was also good for the Gentiles because 799 00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:49,900 their faith and Liberty in Christ was strengthened if you 800 00:46:49,900 --> 00:46:52,700 were a gentile and you saw somebody stand up against all 801 00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:56,200 this, Mickey think. Okay, I'm on the right path. 802 00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,100 I felt a little bit rejected before I felt a little bit like 803 00:46:59,100 --> 00:47:03,300 this is pointless before, but I'm strengthened knowing that I 804 00:47:03,300 --> 00:47:06,400 do have faith and I do have Liberty in Christ Jesus. 805 00:47:06,700 --> 00:47:10,200 And finally, it was good for us because as we learned before the 806 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,900 true still lives today, God took something that was really, 807 00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:19,600 really not good for an early church and good came from it, in 808 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,800 many ways. That's our lesson for today. 809 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,700 In Galatians, Chapter 2. We're going to get further into 810 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,800 this justification by faith going forward. 811 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,800 So if you want to learn more about, why is it we've justified 812 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,000 by faith and why can't we? Be justified by works. 813 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,500 Chapter 3 is coming. Thank you for your kind 814 00:47:37,500 --> 00:47:41,400 attention this morning. If you've heard all this and 815 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:43,700 you're like, you know what, I want to be a part of this 816 00:47:43,700 --> 00:47:46,800 wonderful plan. The Bible says that to believe 817 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:48,200 something you have to hear it first. 818 00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:51,100 So maybe maybe if you've heard the gospel, this morning, that 819 00:47:51,100 --> 00:47:54,000 Jesus Christ died for us, that nothing we could do to save 820 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,300 ourselves. That's the Son of God dies for 821 00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:57,600 us. Maybe you believe that this 822 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,000 morning, you ready to change your life to repent and confess 823 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,000 that Jesus Christ is Is the son of God. 824 00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:07,900 Unto salvation. You can start that process and 825 00:48:07,900 --> 00:48:10,400 you can be added to a church like our new brother Kenny was 826 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:12,000 last week. Beautiful. 827 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,000 Wonderful thing to see. You can do that today. 828 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:19,200 It doesn't take some massive corporate meeting and all these 829 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:20,400 things. It takes some water. 830 00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:23,400 There's water covering massive percentage of the earth. 831 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,400 We happen to have some our convenience here. 832 00:48:25,700 --> 00:48:27,900 You can be baptized for the remission of your sins and added 833 00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:31,900 to that church. You could submit to be in that 834 00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:34,900 crucifixion with Christ through baptism through his death. 835 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,300 We are joined with him in baptism and you can rise to walk 836 00:48:38,300 --> 00:48:41,200 in newness of life. If you need to get something off 837 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,700 your chest, if you need to make something right with the 838 00:48:43,707 --> 00:48:46,200 Brethren here or maybe you just need the prayers of the church. 839 00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:49,500 We're happy as a family of gods, take care of that this morning 840 00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:52,100 to support one another. In any way we can serve you 841 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,800 while we stand in seeing this, on an invitation, We thank you 842 00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,100 for listening to our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ 843 00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:03,700 at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 844 00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:06,900 would like any additional information or you would like to 845 00:49:06,900 --> 00:49:09,900 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 846 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:14,400 Please email us at info at search of Christ. 847 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:19,100 Bakersfield.com, our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 848 00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:24,000 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 849 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:28,200 Please make plans to join us. We would love for you to be our 850 00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:29,100 honored guest.