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For the past several weeks we’ve gazed LONG and HARD at - the Gospel
Having finished up chapter 1 of Galatians last week - we come out of it realizing the task at hand for the apostle Paul...
He’s trying to CONVINCE the Galatian churches to - BELIEVE what he had ALREADY taught them when he established the churches...
THE GOSPEL!
And he starts out by...
Defending his apostleship (that he was SENT BY GOD and not man)
He THEN...
Defends his message as having COME FROM GOD - and not man
And we SEE that his approach EARLY on in this letter - is to DISTANCE himself from...
…MAN AS HAVING anything to do with his apostleship or message!
And that makes SENSE right?
If we think about the context of this book - FALSE teachers had come in and began TEACHING a false gospel...
NOW - they didn’t LABEL their message as a FALSE gospel!
They labeled PAUL’s message as a FALSE gospel!
Which MEANS - they were teaching that Paul’s message was NOT FROM GOD...
…and was strictly FROM MAN!
And so PAUL responds - IN chapter 1 - to that claim...
Paul SEPARATES himself from MAN - and ATTACHES himself to - GOD
My message is FROM [Him]…!
This AGENDA is FROM [Him]…!
This LOVE is FROM [God]…!
It’s ALL from HIM!
And so PAUL - PRECISE in his argumentation - NOW - beginning in chapter 2....
Shifts course a bit…and for good reason.
We’ll get to that reason today...
Anytime you read a text of Scripture that is NARRATIVE...
There’s ALWAYS an aspect of the text that is - HISTORICAL...
And so part of every sermon in that sense - becomes a history lesson...
And so with this text here - we read of what Paul was doing (at the time) and WHY he was doing it...
…and we gain understanding - on a very PRACTICAL level!
What Paul did...
Where he went...
WHEN he went...
WHY he went...
And ALL of these things - not ONLY do they speak into this - STORY of the past...
But they also speak into - our THEOLOGY - today...
And it’s THOSE pieces and parts that we want to GET TO - but not before we UNDERSTAND the STORY...
So let’s walk through the STORY of it…so we can get to the THEOLOGY beneath it...
And we’ll probably spend a few weeks on the theology beneath this passage today...
But first...
I’d like to first - GET INTO Paul’s head if we can - to make sense of what’s happening...
Paul - as we know - is wanting to RE-ENGAGE the Galatian churches...
They’ve EMBRACED a false gospel - one that - ADDS - works to faith...
False teachers had begun teaching that Gentiles in the church needed to be circumcised if they wanted to become - CHRISTIANS...
That they needed - Physical circumcision to GET right with God...
And they begin teaching that PAUL is simply out to - PLEASE man...
To MAKE IT EASY on the Gentiles
To NOT upset them - in making them get circumcised...
And so - - WHAT does Paul do here in our text?
Where in chapter 1 he SEPARATED himself - from MAN…saying he was not taught this MESSAGE…this GOSPEL…
HERE - today...
…we see Paul making it known that HIS message - DID align with the apostle’s message!
Let’s go to a couple verses to see this...
So Paul here is TELLING the Galatians - that 14 years after his conversion (that’s the concensus) - that he went back to Jerusalem…in order to preach to those who SEEM influential… the gospel he preached to the GENTILES!!
Now those who SEEM influential - this is probably James, Peter and John...
Which I think v9 speaks to...
So Paul here - having LAST chapter SEPARATED himself from MAN...
NOW ALIGNS himself - with the apostles…ACCORDING to the MESSAGE - the GOSPEL!
NOW WHY would Paul do this?
He told us at the end of v2...
This verse here - is gonna be our SPRINGBOARD...
it’s going to LAUNCH us into our passage today…to help us DIG in...
…and SHOW US - why Paul is taking this approach here in our text...
WHY he’s aligning his message with the message of the apostles!
When Paul here - TELLS the Galatians that he preached the gospel to James, Peter, and John...
..IN ORDER to make sure that he was not RUNNING in vain...
Paul’s NOT SAYING that he was wanting to MAKE sure that his message was - ACCURATE!
He’s not saying - Well - I just wanted to make sure that what I was saying - was correct…!
NO - I believe that it’s VERY possible that there were PEOPLE who were ALREADY maligning Paul’s message of GRACE....
…and MAYBE their beef went like this...
From the New American Commentary...
“After his conversion we had such high hopes for Paul.
After all, no one else in this generation was better trained in God’s Torah than he.
But now he has departed from the faith of Jesus and the apostles.
He is carrying out a negative campaign against the law, totally divorcing the Messiah from the nation Israel.
He is a dangerous radical who must be stopped before he completely overturns the Jewish character of our faith by bringing into the church those Gentiles who shun so basic a requirement of the law as circumcision.”
And so MAYBE this was at play...
AND PAUL - was wanting to SEE and HEAR about the RESULTS of their labor...
He wanted to KNOW if the CHURCH that was being ESTABLISHED...
…was a - DIVIDED church or not…!
NOT because the MESSAGE was wrong....but simply because we’re dealing with MAN - who’s HEART is above all things - wicked…and deceitful...
Paul wanted to know if the CHURCH being established was actually - divided...
a Jewish church
a Gentile church
If THAT was the case - Paul would have labeled his work - IN VAIN...
But he’s TELLING the Galatians this very thing - NOW - TO THE GALATIANS...
He wants THEM to know - something specific about the Gospel!!
What is it?
- Let’s read thru the text - and we’ll see it...
Paul here - is letting the Galatians KNOW - that back when TITUS (who was a Gentile), WENT with Paul to Jerusalem...
He wasn’t FORCED to be circumcised!
And that MEANS - that WHAT THE GALATIANS are hearing NOW - from the False Teachers - FALLS OUTSIDE of - the gospel first PREACHED by the apostles!
And that POINTS to the reality that this PUSH for circumcision had COME ABOUT - OUTSIDE of the apostles themselves -
And this puts a SPOTLIGHT on the False Teachers...
And so here we see - within the STORY - a theological nugget that we can pull out...
SLIDE: Our Gospel Living: Preserves God’s Truth in the Heart of Man
Our Gospel Living
What did Paul say...
Paul’s not saying that HIS CHOICE to NOT allow Titus to get circumcised - KEPT the gospel TRUE...
He’s saying that HIS CHOICE to not allow Titus to get circumcised - KEPT the gospel - CLEAR in the hearts of the those watching that play out…and OUR hearts as well - EVEN today!!
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