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What is the Gospel?
Yes....I’m asking it again...
In THIS setting - the question is most often - easily answered -
BUT AS life is being lived out - the ANSWER is often - forgotten
For the past several weeks - we had been making our way thru the 1st chapter of Galatians...
And the Apostle Paul DEFENDING his apostleship...
AND - his message!
Paul is writing to the Galatian churches DUE to false teachers who had come in - to DISTORT the Gospel...
They had been declaring that the Gentile believers - needed to be physically circumcised in order to be SAVED...
And the way that Paul describes this (in the 6th VERSE of this book) - he makes it crystal clear that this is a SERIOUS matter...
The (HIM) in this verse - that is being DESERTED - is God
Paul equates - Embracing a False Gospel - AS LEAVING/WALKING AWAY FROM/ God...
This is NO.LIGHT.MATTER.
And as we’ve seen from Paul - The way that Paul has constructed his argument TO the Galatians...
…has been something to consider.
I think it’s pretty clear - at this point in time - having broken into chapter 2 LAST WEEK - that Paul’s argument - has been BALANCED.
If you remember - he started out (in chapter 1) by SEPARATING himself - from man...
Saying that he was sent - BY GOD…not man
He then declared that he was not TAUGHT this message - BY MAN...
but instead - BY GOD
See - one of the claims of the False Teachers - was that Paul was simply trying to PLEASE MAN…by not forcing the Gentiles to be physically circumcised!
And so PAUL makes it clear that his APOSTLESHIP AND HIS MESSAGE - was DIRECTLY from God!
He had made it clear that:
his message
his agenda
his love
Was ALL - from God…!
But then - - Last WEEK - we saw Paul shift course...
He BALANCED out the scales...
How?
He ALIGNED his message - with the Apostles’ message!
(those who WALKED with Jesus)
AND IN DOING SO - he aligned his message - with that of Jesus Christ!
And so - YOU TELL ME - would it be safe to say - that Paul - takes the Gospel SERIOUSLY?
Yes?
I agree!
But TODAY - I think we’ll see a glimpse of - the DEPTH of HOW serious he takes it...
…and hopefully - we’ll ALL be inspired - to do the same
To catch the STORY of what’s happening here...
We know that Paul - early in this letter to the Galatians - has been DEFENDING the Gospel!
By just WORDS?
NO - by DEEDS as well!
- if you remember last week - we read about how TITUS ( a Gentile) had gone WITH Paul to Jerusalem 14 years after Paul’s conversion...
And at THAT time - false teachers were trying to PERSUADE Titus to GET circumcised!
Did PAUL give in?
NO
He DEFENDED the Gospel - in DEED - by what he did/DIDN’T do...
His ACTIONS defended the gospel...
And he tells us WHY he did this...
So Paul and Titus - and Barnabas - by their ACTIONS - defend the Gospel...
And by doing so - the TRUTH of the Gospel remained CLEAR in the hearts of those watching…!
But then - in TODAY’s text - Paul tells of when PETER came to Antioch!
What happened?
*How many of you like - CONFLICT?
Well - All I can say is - Following Jesus WILL lead you to - many an AWKWARD conversation...
MANY a TENSE - conversation...
You know what’s in the Job Description for Eldership?
Highly Awkward...
Highly Tense....conversations
Any man in here - who aspires to the Eldership - Get READY!
Extremely awkward - extremely tense conversations are coming for you...
Paul and Peter weren’t BEST BUDS - but they had already - prior to this - locked arms in alignment on the Gospel!
They were TOGETHER!! Of ONE MIND!!
And so reading this verse - here’s what we know...
This isn’t EASY!!
Paul wasn’t sitting behind a KEYBOARD - putting Peter in his place...
Paul wasn’t sending out - CRYPTIC tweets about Peter’s actions...
NO - Paul was - FACE-to-FACE - with Peter…!
And he condemned him...
Why?
What’s the STORY?
Here we see that Peter had come to Antioch...
And WHEN he came...
he found - OPEN-TABLE communion between Jew and Gentile...
What is that?
PHYSICALLY? - it’s Jews not necessarily adhering to the Jewish Dietary laws - as they DINE with Gentiles...
It’s JEWS - living AS Gentiles… eating and dining with Gentiles!
AND SO --- - IN A NUTSHELL - it’s a Physical Picture of what Spiritually happened due to the cross of Christ!
SLIDE: Living the Gospel: Unites All Men Under Grace
Living the Gospel
How so?
Remember this?
Let’s just read thru it all...
What did this say?
In Christ - by HIS blood - those who were FAR off (Gentiles) have been brought near...
For Jesus is our - PEACE
He has broken down the dividing WALL of hostility between Jew and Gentile!
So Let’s EAT!!
AND BECAUSE - the path to God - is BY FAITH
Let’s eat - TOGETHER!!
This is what Peter saw when he showed up in Antioch!!
A physical display of a CRUMBLED wall of hostility!
And if you remember back to our trek through Ephesians - we saw this...
SLIDE: Wall of Hostility - the Law
That the law was the wall of hostility!
SO - the law created hostility between Jew and Gentile...
The Jews adhered to the law and the Gentiles did NOT...
But Jesus comes - and FULFILLS the law...
The believers in Antioch understand this - BELIEVE this!
And LIVE out the good news...
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