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Theology-Study of God

Reconciliation-Restoration of man to God then to his fellow man

Unity-Blending together of a body into one whole

Transformation-Changing of form

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Introduction:

Introduction:

-Historical context of the book of Galatians.(Do

not spend too much time on historical context of the book)

Galatians 1:

(v.6)

What was the different Gospel that Paul was referring too???

(v.3)

The Jews were trying to impose circumcision as a requirement on the Gentiles for salvation.

Why is that a Problem?-The Jews where setting up another layer to Salvation.

When we do that it is if we are saying that the cross is not enough.

It is heresy to add anything to the cross.

It is like taking 100% pure water and adding a little bit of poison.

If something is already pure there is know need for adding anything.

-Paul calls it a different gospel.

-Most of us like to read about a good fight.

Well today we are going to read about a beef between two heavyweights of the faith.

Galatians 2:11-

(v.11) “But when Peter came to Antioch” let’s try to put a timeline on this event:

-EXPLAIN -Folks at the end of the chapter got saved (v.45)

Says “All the circumcise believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the HS had been poured out on the Gentiles also.

Peter celebrated and shared food with them.

Look at the beginning of Chapter 11 now

-Look at

-(v.1) Word started to spread that the gospel was being preached to Gentiles and that they were being saved.

-(v.2) Peter returned to Jerusalem to get a rebuke from the circumcised who were questioning him over his dinners guest.

-(v.3)

Basically saying why you down there eating unclean food with unclean people.

Sidenote: These were not Pharisees; they were the new converts to Christianity, that still could not let go of their ethnic superiority issues.

-(v.4)

Peter tells them his vision and explains it to them

Now skip down to (v.15)

Acts 11:

(v.15-18)

Peter says when I preached to them they accepted the message and HS fell on them just as he did us.

This message quieted down the Jewish Converts and they accepted the message that God was saving the Gentiles.

-Peter then tells them his vision,

How does Paul get to Antioch?

Acts

(v.21-26) Folks were getting saved down in Antioch it was a revival and the church at Jerusalem sent Barnabas down there to observe and to give validation to the revival.

(v.23) Barnabas saw it was a legit revival and he had a praise session

(v.25-26) Barnabas needed some help with all these new converts so he left and went to Tarsus to recruit Paul… “Barnabas said Paul it’s on fire in Antioch, and I need your help ministering and teaching all these folks”

(v.26) Paul agreed to come down and minister for a whole year the church exploded and that is where the Antiochene believers were named “Christians”---Little Christ.

They did not call themselves that.

Other people did as a term of mockery.

Sidenote: In the Early Church besides the church at Jerusalem(primarily Jews)…the First Baptist Church of Antioch(Primarily Gentile) was off the hook.

-In Chapter 13:1 The Church of Antioch was the church that commissioned Paul and Barnabas as missionaries to the Gentiles.

They left and sailed to many cities to deliver the gospel.

-In Chapter 14 they are returning:

(v.26-28)

They return to Antioch to give a report of the missionary journeys and of all the testimony that they experienced.

During that time they had a praise ceremony to celebrate that God had opened up salvation to the gentiles.

They spent sometime at Antioch ministering.

I think that it is during this time that Paul confronted Peter.

Galatians

(v.11) Paul is reflecting back on a past issue that happened between him and Peter(Cephas) “But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned” Paul is about to tell us about a situation that was so serious that he had to check Peter openly.

(v.12) “for prior to the coming of certain men from James” these men would have been men of high reputation and status.

The James in this text is Jesus brother who was the Pastor of the Church of Jerusalem.

(v.12) “he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof” these are two imperfect verbs.

Imperfect means past tense.

This tells us that Peter’s withdrawal was not immediate, but very slow and methodical.

What was Peter doing????

-When Peter spent time with the Gentiles he ate; Ribs, Lobster, and scallops.

When these Preacher sent from James the brother of Jesus came to observe what was going on in Antioch Peter would slowly separate from these new Gentile believers and pretend he did not know them anymore.

-(v.12)

The word tell us why Peter did this: “fearing the party of the circumcision” The Party of the Circumcision are those that believed that gentiles needed to be circumcised before they were to be considered clean(saved).

What did Peter behavior lead to???

-(v.13) “The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy” Notice what Paul calls Peter’s action---Two-facedness---or crooked.

To live hypocritically is live a “crooked” life.

-This sin by Peter affected other believers and the reason it affected other believers is because Ole Pete had such a big reputation.

We might say “Peter was the man”

-(v.13)

Now look at Paul “with the result that even Barnabas was carried away into hypocrisy” It’s as if Paul is saying “you even got my boy Barnabas pulling away from the Gentiles and causing a division in the body” Over circumcision.

-(v.14) “But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel” Normally when we think about the gospel we think of something spoken, but in this case it was not Peter message that was flawed it was his lifestyle.

He was reverting back to his Jewish roots which the Lord had already freed him from.

The Gospel is not just a verbal message, it is seen lifestyle.

In other words how we live speaks that gospel as well as what we say.

---Straightforward---Orthopodeo---Right footing

----Paul says the living crooked and then causing others to follow so I had to confront them openly:

Principles for open confrontation:

The person is a person of influence

The sin has manifested into a visible act

The sin attacks the unity of the body

The sin compromises the truth of the gospel---leaving baby christians or the unbelievers confused.

-(v.14-18)

Let me summarize Paul’s check of Peter:

-Paul basically tells Peter since you were freed up by Jesus from your former life as a Jewish man and now you act more like a gentile how is it that you now lead the gentiles back to your former behavior as a Jew.

-As the chosen people we were set apart to God, and the Gentiles were considered sinners and dirty, but we both recognize now that all of our righteousness, ethnicity means nothing, because the ground is level at the cross.

Race, Social Status, neighborhood, and your last name don’t matter with Jesus.

All of those things that meant something to us the things that we valued don’t mean a hill of beans to Jesus.

And Peter you know that “Do better Pete leave your former life bury it in the grave, stop vacillating back to your old Hebrew ways.”