Faith and Freedom: In Line with the Gospel

Paul’s not only in line with the Pillars, he calls out the pillars!

Paul is not a people pleaser (1:10)

A Leader’s Pull away from the truth of the Gospel: Ouch! Peter, what were you thinking?

Hypocrisy of Peter: Peter’s living like a Gentile (because he’s free from Jewish observances), why would he force other Gentiles to live like Jews (to observe kosher).

Normally would sit with Gentiles, but around the right people would do things differently.

Mixed Gospel: NIVAC: “A gospel that mixed conversion to Christ with conversion to nationalistic Judaism.”

NIVAC: “Paul is arguing more than that Peter was simply wrong or inconsistent; Peter was had actually perverted the gospel itself with his behavior.”

Jewish Laws: (; )

Four-footed animals, except for sheep, goats, cattle, some deer (especially not pork)

Shellfish and mullucs

Birds of prey

Insects (except locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers)

Swarming land animals (lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, weasels)

Dead animals

Other Restrictions:

No fat or blood ()

History:

Gentile meat and wine

The Table that symbolized unity became a symbol of separation.

Two Churches: A Kosher Church and a Gentile Church

A Table that Seperated

v. 13: Stott: “They came ‘from James’ (), the leader of the Jerusalem church. This does not mean that they had his authority, for he later denied this (), but rather that they claimed to have it. They posed as apostolic delegates.”

v.14: ‘hypocrisy’

Greek: Actor on stage, ‘play acted’

Jewish Root: stronger term: NIVAC: “Sense of wickedness, opposition to God and his truth, and even heresy.” Peter was ‘morally’ wrong because he was theologically wrong (v. 11).

NIVAC: “By his behavior Peter’s gospel had shifted from “salvation for all without social restrictions” to “salvation for Jews alone” (and those who convert to Judaism). Peter had erected the old social barriers.”

“Force”: Important word. Anankazo “physical force”, against one’s will.

Summary: NIVAC: “When the Jewish nationalists arrived, Peter, perhaps remembering his narrow escape in Jerusalem, reversed his behavior and withdrew from the Gentiles. His behavior and speech got others to go along with him. But, in addition, he then began to force Gentile Christians to be circumcised (and to follow Jewish social laws), to reduce the threat of persecution he was beginning to feel from these ardent Jewish nationalists. Peter, in effect, was destroying the gospel of Jesus Christ by demanding that the converts at Galatia become Jews. In such a situation, there was no gospel because the work of Christ had been eliminated (v. 21).”

Eating gizards?

What is the Truth of the Gospel? Stott: “It is the good news that we sinners, guilty and under the judgment of God, may be pardoned and accepted by His sheer grace, His free and unmerited favour, on the ground of His Son’s death and not for any works or merits of our own.”

Who am I?

v. 16: What does it mean to be justified by faith?

“William Barclay said it well: “Faith is complete trust and complete surrender to Jesus Christ. It is the total acceptance of all that He said, of all that He offered, and of all that He is.”

v. 17: Freedom in Christ doesn’t mean we should be found out to be sinners.

NIV: “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!”

v. 18: “I”= Peter. Rebuilding (the law) what I tore down (dying with Christ), I’m a transgressor.

Faith vs. Works of the Law: NIVAC “Either one believes in Christ or one chooses to commit oneself to the law. One cannot live under both systems without destroying one or the other’s integrity.”

v.19: Died to the Law: ESVSB: “probably meaning that he no longer lives in the realm of trying to gain justification by obeying the law and that therefore the law can place no demands on him. Paul died to the law, he says, so that I might live to God. That is, since he no longer is under the impossible burden of trying to earn acceptance with God through his own efforts, he has gained God’s approval through the justification that is in Christ, and in this new relationship with God he found an amazing new freedom to live a life devoted to God.”

Application:

I have been crucified with Christ.

It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.

And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

v.21: “I don’t invalidate God’s grace by going back to the law, because if I did, then Christ’s dead is invalid.”

How did Christ substitute for us?

Substituted for Israel

Included the Gentiles

John’s Gospel: Died during slaying of the Lamb

Application:

not a passsage on confrontation

NIVAC: “The text is concerned about social and cultural imperialism, about Jewish designs to protect their privileged status before God.”

Hudson Taylor’s adopting the Chinese way of life??

Who am I?

Are we Jews? Jewish Christians? or Christians? Are we reformers of Judaism or are we starting the church?

What is Paul Talking about?

Justification

Luther: ‘This is the truth of the gospel. It is also the principal article of all Christian doctrine, wherein the knowledge of all godliness consisteth. Most necessary it is, therefore, that we should know this article well, teach it unto others, and beat it into their heads continually.’

Those who have been justified, live justly;

Opposite: To condemn. Guilty verdict vs. Not Guilty

Works/Law

Works

What does the Gospel DO to us?

The TRUTH of the Gospel was at stake. It unifies the church. It unifies in order for the world to experience that unity.

Clearly causes us to do works, we just need to decifer between the works/Law and works as a response to the Gospel

vv.17-20: Weakening Man’s Moral Responsibility

vs. 20: I can’t live as a sinner anymore because I have died and risen with Christ. Christ lives through me!

v.21: “You know what Jesus, you’re death wasn’t all that necessary. You didn’t have to go through all that rigamarole. You shouldn’t have bothered because, I’ve got this.”

“You know what Jesus, you’re death wasn’t all that necessary. You didn’t have to go through all that rigamarole. You shouldn’t have bothered because, I’ve got this.”

What these people were doing was perverted by why they were doing it: to express their faith in Moses rather than in Christ alone.

Movement from ‘this’ to ‘that’

Christian Anthropologist named Paul Heibert wrote an article in 1978 called “Conversion, Culture and Cognitive Categories.”

1) Sameness

2) Static: Once you’re in, you’re in!

3) Standardized: The externals define who is and who is out.

Old Testament Israel:

Sameness: Bloodline, DNA, genetics

Static: The Land of Israel

Standardized: The Law

Defined by the center: The Center creates the definitions and objects are defined by its proximity to the center.

Clear Division (boundary), but defined by movement of things

Centered sets reflect variation within a category.

Within the boundary sets, there may be many who are far away from the center!

Sameness vs. Diversity

Static vs. Dynamic

Standard: De Center

Cosmic Shift to Process through! Biggest issue for the church to sort through, and it didn’t do it perfectly!

12 For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

NIVAC: “The text is concerned about social and cultural imperialism, about Jewish designs to protect their privileged status before God.”

Bounded Set of the Jewish Diet: Jewish Laws: (; )

Jewish Laws: (; )

Bounded Set of the Jewish Diet: Jewish Laws: (; )

Kosher Laws intended to Protect Israel as a nation within their land as a distinct people group:

Four-footed animals (especially not pork) except for sheep, goats, cattle, some deer

Shellfish and mollusk (octopus, snails)

Birds of prey

Insects (except locusts, crickets, and grasshoppers)

Swarming land animals (lizards, crocodiles, chameleons, weasels)

Dead animals

Other Restrictions:

No fat or blood ()

History:

Gentile meat and wine (idol offering?)

Jews don’t eat with Gentiles because you’d be endorsing their diet!

But remember what happened to Peter?

Vision of Food!

“Great sheet descending: Beasts of prey, reptiles, and birds of the air.”

Voice “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.”

The Table that symbolized unity became a symbol of separation

BUT NO! It’s all dirty food!

“What God has made clean, do not call common.” Happened 3 times.

Peter knew what was right and what God wanted:

But remember what happened to Peter?

Vision of Food!

Peter knew what was right and what God wanted:

Vision of Grace for both FOOD and FELLOWSHIP!

He was pushing bounded sets within this new centered set reality!

“NOT IN STEP WITH THE GOSPEL!”

SHOW PICTURE: Peter was building his own bounded set again...

He was pushing bounded sets within this new centered set reality!

“NOT IN STEP WITH THE GOSPEL!”

Two Churches: A Kosher Church and a Gentile Church

Kosher Church:

SAMENESS: People: Made up of Jewish Imperialists who enforced the law of Moses

STANDARDIZED: Grace: NIVAC: “A gospel that mixed conversion to Christ with conversion to nationalistic Judaism.”

NIVAC: “What these people were doing was perverted by why they were doing it: to express their faith in Moses rather than in Christ alone.”

Faith: NIVAC: A Church “To express their faith in Moses rather than in Christ alone.”

What was he afraid of?

Feared the “Circumcision Party”

Fear of Man overpowered Fear of God!

Death?

Fear of Social persecution. Fear of the Power they brought with them, they came from James. James was the leader! We know from that James never intended for this group to represent him, but Peter was still afraid of this fake delegation.

Fear is what usually separates

It’s out of this fear that Peter begins to build up that which Jesus broke down...

v.14: He forces the Gentiles to live like Jews!

Peter isn’t just like ‘mah’ towards this issue. He is now at the point of forcing these social constructs!

Forced behavior: “Force”: Important word. Anankazo “physical force”, against one’s will.

“You WILL get circumcised!”

“You WILL eat with a kosher diet!”

Pulling on a baby-back rib, “GET THAT THING OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!”

Paul calls Peter a hypocrite: Jewish Root: stronger term: NIVAC: “Sense of wickedness, opposition to God and his truth, and even heresy.” Peter was ‘morally’ wrong because he was theologically wrong (v. 11)... NIVAC: “Paul is arguing more than that Peter was simply wrong or inconsistent; Peter was had actually perverted the gospel itself with his behavior.”

It’s out of this story that Paul feels compelled to share the fundamentals of the Christian Faith

v. 12: Stott: “They came ‘from James’ (), the leader of the Jerusalem church. This does not mean that they had his authority, for he later denied this (), but rather that they claimed to have it. They posed as apostolic delegates.”

Hypocrites:

v. 12: Stott: “They came ‘from James’ (), the leader of the Jerusalem church. This does not mean that they had his authority, for he later denied this (), but rather that they claimed to have it. They posed as apostolic delegates.”

v.14: ‘hypocrisy’

Hypocrites:

v.14: ‘hypocrisy’

v. 12: Stott: “They came ‘from James’ (), the leader of the Jerusalem church. This does not mean that they had his authority, for he later denied this (), but rather that they claimed to have it. They posed as apostolic delegates.”

Greek: Actor on stage, ‘play acted’

Jewish Root: stronger term: NIVAC: “Sense of wickedness, opposition to God and his truth, and even heresy.” Peter was ‘morally’ wrong because he was theologically wrong (v. 11)... NIVAC: “Paul is arguing more than that Peter was simply wrong or inconsistent; Peter was had actually perverted the gospel itself with his behavior.”

It’s out of this story that Paul feels compelled to share the fundamentals of the Christian Faith

Forced behavior: “Force”: Important word. Anankazo “physical force”, against one’s will.

Summary: NIVAC: “When the Jewish nationalists arrived, Peter, perhaps remembering his narrow escape in Jerusalem, reversed his behavior and withdrew from the Gentiles. His behavior and speech got others to go along with him. But, in addition, he then began to force Gentile Christians to be circumcised (and to follow Jewish social laws), to reduce the threat of persecution he was beginning to feel from these ardent Jewish nationalists. Peter, in effect, was destroying the gospel of Jesus Christ by demanding that the converts at Galatia become Jews. In such a situation, there was no gospel because the work of Christ had been eliminated (v. 21).”

v.14: Hypocrisy of Peter: Peter’s living like a Gentile (because he’s free from Jewish observances), why would he force other Gentiles to live like Jews (to observe kosher).

Summary: NIVAC: “When the Jewish nationalists arrived, Peter, perhaps remembering his narrow escape in Jerusalem, reversed his behavior and withdrew from the Gentiles. His behavior and speech got others to go along with him. But, in addition, he then began to force Gentile Christians to be circumcised (and to follow Jewish social laws), to reduce the threat of persecution he was beginning to feel from these ardent Jewish nationalists. Peter, in effect, was destroying the gospel of Jesus Christ by demanding that the converts at Galatia become Jews. In such a situation, there was no gospel because the work of Christ had been eliminated (v. 21).”

v.12: Why did Peter separate himself? Fear

What was he afraid of?

James’ people

v.12: Why did Peter separate himself? Fear

Death?

It’s out of this story that Paul feels compelled to share the fundamentals of the Christian Faith

Fear is what usually separates

Fear of death? James just died, good reason to fear!

Problem: Fear Drives People away!

NIVAC: “What these people were doing was perverted by why they were doing it: to express their faith in Moses rather than in Christ alone.”

Problem: Fear Drives People away!

Kosher Church:

Problem: Fear Drives People away!

Normally would sit with Gentiles, but around the right people would do things differently.

v.14: Hypocrisy of Peter: Peter’s living like a Gentile (because he’s free from Jewish observances), why would he force other Gentiles to live like Jews (to observe kosher).

Normally would sit with Gentiles, but around the right people would do things differently.

NIVAC: “Paul is arguing more than that Peter was simply wrong or inconsistent; Peter was had actually perverted the gospel itself with his behavior.”

v.14: ‘hypocrisy’

Greek: Actor on stage, ‘play acted’

Jewish Root: stronger term: NIVAC: “Sense of wickedness, opposition to God and his truth, and even heresy.” Peter was ‘morally’ wrong because he was theologically wrong (v. 11).

NIVAC: “By his behavior Peter’s gospel had shifted from “salvation for all without social restrictions” to “salvation for Jews alone” (and those who convert to Judaism). Peter had erected the old social barriers.”

“Force”: Important word. Anankazo “physical force”, against one’s will.

Summary: NIVAC: “When the Jewish nationalists arrived, Peter, perhaps remembering his narrow escape in Jerusalem, reversed his behavior and withdrew from the Gentiles. His behavior and speech got others to go along with him. But, in addition, he then began to force Gentile Christians to be circumcised (and to follow Jewish social laws), to reduce the threat of persecution he was beginning to feel from these ardent Jewish nationalists. Peter, in effect, was destroying the gospel of Jesus Christ by demanding that the converts at Galatia become Jews. In such a situation, there was no gospel because the work of Christ had been eliminated (v. 21).”

Eating gizards?

Two Churches: A Kosher Church and a Gentile Church

15 We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

“Jews by Birth” vs. “Gentile Sinners”:

Why would Paul separate humanity this way?

The Law!

Torah: “Instruction” (Circumcision, dietary Laws, Sabbath Observances)

Circumcision, dietary Laws, Sabbath Observances

Gentiles were sinners automatically because they didn’t live out the Law!

But a Person is Not” justified” by “Works of the Law”:

But a Person is Not justified by Works of the Law:

What do we mean by ‘justified’?

Debt of sin is covered

Opposite of justification= “To condemn”

Legal term: Justified= NOT GUILTY

‘Atone’ is another word= right with God

What do we mean by “works of the Law?

Vs. 16: “because by works of the law no one will be justified.”

These aren’t ‘works’ as in, good works. We need to jump into Paul’s Jewish world. These are works OF THE LAW: of circumcision, dietary Laws, Sabbath Observances, sacrificial system, etc.

So, a person is not justified by Works of the Torah, why?

Jews could potentially be justified by the works of the Torah if they were able to live out the works of the Torah perfectly, but they can’t, therefore they can’t be justified by it.

Jews could potentially be justified by the works of the Law if they were able to live out the works of the Law perfectly, but they can’t, therefore they can’t be justified by it.

v. 15: What do we do about Mariah? What do we do about v. 15? Is it an extension of Paul’s speech or is it a beginning of a theological explanation? Look at differences between ESV and NIV.

What is the Truth of the Gospel? Stott: “It is the good news that we sinners, guilty and under the judgment of God, may be pardoned and accepted by His sheer grace, His free and unmerited favour, on the ground of His Son’s death and not for any works or merits of our own.”

v. 15: What do we do about Mariah? What do we do about v. 15? Is it an extension of Paul’s speech or is it a beginning of a theological explanation? Look at differences between ESV and NIV.

Definition of Terms

Justification

Guilty verdict vs. Not Guilty

v. 16: What does it mean to be justified by faith?

v. 16: What does it mean to be justified by “faith”?

Opposite: To condemn. Guilty verdict vs. Not Guilty

Works/Law

v. 16: What does it mean to be justified by faith?

William Barclay: “Faith is complete trust and complete surrender to Jesus Christ. It is the total acceptance of all that He said, of all that He offered, and of all that He is.”

Faith keeps us centered in Christ: : Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith,

v. 17: Freedom in Christ doesn’t mean we should be found out to be sinners.

NIV: “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!”

v. 18: “I”= Peter. Rebuilding (the law) what I tore down (dying with Christ), I’m a transgressor.

Faith vs. Works of the Law: NIVAC “Either one believes in Christ or one chooses to commit oneself to the law. One cannot live under both systems without destroying one or the other’s integrity.”

v.19: Died to the Law: ESVSB: “probably meaning that he no longer lives in the realm of trying to gain justification by obeying the law and that therefore the law can place no demands on him. Paul died to the law, he says, so that I might live to God. That is, since he no longer is under the impossible burden of trying to earn acceptance with God through his own efforts, he has gained God’s approval through the justification that is in Christ, and in this new relationship with God he found an amazing new freedom to live a life devoted to God.”

17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the law I died to the law,? so that I might live to God.

Concern about giving up the Law: Weakening Man’s Moral Responsibility

Important question: v.17: Does the freedom that Paul preaches lead to such liberty, that we end up sinners and thereby cause Christ to be the servant of sin?

v. 17: Freedom in Christ doesn’t mean we should be found out to be sinners.

Again, Jewish mindset: What made someone RIGHTEOUS is the Law.

IF Jesus abolished the Law, and we start doing what sinners do, then isn’t Jesus the author of sin!

Eating pork would be eating like a sinner.

Doing what you want on Sunday… Well, the church still hasn’t sorted that one out completely!

Paul’s Answer is Emphatic!

“CERTAINLY NOT!” THAT’S RIDICULOUS!

: He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

You know what is sinful! You know what’s really wrong, Peter, is if we were to build back up what Jesus broke down...

18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

You want to go ahead and build those bounded sets, Peter, go ahead, but if you rebuild that system, you’re proving yourself a sinner.

You want to go and force down their throats kosher meals. You want to go ahead and force circumcision on these baby Christians, good luck! You’d be the sinner building back up the first system Jesus tore down.

YOU CAN’T HAVE THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS HERE MAN! YOU EITHER LIVE IN GRACE or you live under the thumb of the Law.

Law System vs. Christ System

v. 18: “I”= Peter. Rebuilding (the law) what I tore down (dying with Christ), I’m a transgressor.

Faith vs. Works of the Law: NIVAC “Either one believes in Christ or one chooses to commit oneself to the law. One cannot live under both systems without destroying one or the other’s integrity.”

Peter died to the law, so he’s erecting a dead system.

v.19: Died to the Law: ESVSB: “probably meaning that he no longer lives in the realm of trying to gain justification by obeying the law and that therefore the law can place no demands on him. Paul died to the law, he says, so that I might live to God. That is, since he no longer is under the impossible burden of trying to earn acceptance with God through his own efforts, he has gained God’s approval through the justification that is in Christ, and in this new relationship with God he found an amazing new freedom to live a life devoted to God.”

20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

v.19: Died to the Law: ESVSB: “probably meaning that he no longer lives in the realm of trying to gain justification by obeying the law and that therefore the law can place no demands on him. Paul died to the law, he says, so that I might live to God. That is, since he no longer is under the impossible burden of trying to earn acceptance with God through his own efforts, he has gained God’s approval through the justification that is in Christ, and in this new relationship with God he found an amazing new freedom to live a life devoted to God.”

20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

McKnight: “Those who have been justified, live justly.”

Christ loved me and gave himself for me...

I died with Christ.

Christ lives in me.

I live by faith...

Living by faith means living as justified which means living justly.

Like Paul!

Eating with others

Reaching out to others

Ignoring the social structures and pressures.

Tearing down walls

Accepting persecution

Fearing nothing!

You know who also did this? JESUS!

How do you live justly? What has the Gospel done to you?

Living by faith means living as justified which means living justly.

Sameness: Bloodline, DNA, genetics

Static vs. Dynamic

Standardized: The Law vs. Christ

Example

In 1857, a denomination in South Africa called the Dutch Reformed Church- or DRC- received a request. The request came from some white members of the DRC who asked permission to celebrate Communion separately from black members. That’s right, they asked permission to celebrate communion without communion!

That’s what leads us to our second example of disunity. It comes from Professor Todd Billings who wrote a beautiful book called Union with Christ, and in it, he shares a modern day example showing how the church has used Communion as a tool for disunion.

In 1857, a denomination in South Africa called the Dutch Reformed Church- or DRC- received a request. The request came from some white members of the DRC who asked permission to celebrate Communion separately from black members. That’s right, they asked permission to celebrate communion without communion!

This request went against the DRC’s Book of Church Order. In fact, an earlier request was rejected by the DRC because communion was to be done, and I quote “without distinction of color.”

But times were changing, and so allow me to share how Todd Billings describes the decision. He writes:

The [DRC’s Synod]- wanting to avoid being conservative, doctrinaire, and rigid- gave a pastoral accommodation that “due to the weakness of some,” communion and worship could be organized for separate celebrations based on race.

No one ever imagined how this first seemingly innocent decision would be the first domino to fall.

In fact, the dominos began a spiral of division:

First, the Dutch Reformed Mission Church formed 4 years after this decision. This denomination was for, and I quote again, for colored or mixed-race members. Another race based denomination would later form called the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa. This one was only for black members…

The formation of these denominations was merely a symptom of systemic racism that would eventually mutate into an ugly sociological and theological system called Apartheid.

It all started with a pastoral accommodation, but it grew into an elaborate system that justified the separation of races.

Billings explains again: The DRC became an avid advocate of apartheid as a government policy beginning in 1924, claiming that “competition between black and white on economic levels . . . leads to poverty, friction, misunderstanding, suspicion and bitterness.”[ 235] The DRC, and the new ideology emerging from its broken theology of the Lord’s Supper and justice, became a major source for the political ideology that led to the system of apartheid.

Apartheid literally means separateness. It’s from two words: apart-hood. So rather than build a society based on the ethic of neighborhood- feelings of hatred, pride, and fear thought it better to create a culture of apart-hood. It was a system that led to one of the most glaring black eyes in human history…

Who do you eat with?

Who do you have invited into your home?

Who do you love?

Do you have friends across racial, political, economic divides?

Do you protect the concerns for the poor?

How do you reach out to those who can’t reach out?

Restore the Kingdom!

Faith produces works from a Person

LAW made us right with Christ.

Good works is Christ working through us

Old Testament: THE LAW MADE US RIGHT WITH GOD.

New

Justification doesn’t come from righteous Works of the LAW,

The New Law: “Living by faith in the Son of God...”

It produces Works of Righteousness

Justification of faith doesn’t come from the works of the law, but that doesn’t negate or the good works that overflow from our faith.

Problem: Misunderstanding of Works in this passage takes away emphasis to do good works!

Justification: Luther: ‘This is the truth of the gospel. It is also the principal article of all Christian doctrine, wherein the knowledge of all godliness consisteth. Most necessary it is, therefore, that we should know this article well, teach it unto others, and beat it into their heads continually.’

What does the Gospel DO to us?

Justification: Luther: ‘This is the truth of the gospel. It is also the principal article of all Christian doctrine, wherein the knowledge of all godliness consisteth. Most necessary it is, therefore, that we should know this article well, teach it unto others, and beat it into their heads continually.’

Clearly causes us to do works, we just need to decifer between the works/Law and works as a response to the Gospel

You keep the table open

v.21: “You know what Jesus, you’re death wasn’t all that necessary. You didn’t have to go through all that rigamarole. You shouldn’t have bothered because, I’ve got this.”

vs. 20: I can’t live as a sinner anymore because I have died and risen with Christ. Christ lives through me!

v.21: “You know what Jesus, you’re death wasn’t all that necessary. You didn’t have to go through all that rigamarole. You shouldn’t have bothered because, I’ve got this.”

NIVAC: “We have a hard time treating others in a way that is consistent with the way God treats u

Faith and Freedom: In Line with the Gospel

Faith and Freedom: In Line with the Gospel

Introduction: Bounded Sets and Centered Sets

Introduction: Bounded Sets and Centered Sets

Bounded Sets:

Centered Sets:

Part I: vv. 11-14: Centered Set to Bounded Set

Part I: vv. 11-14: Centered Set to Bounded Set

Peter’s Transition:

What’s up with Eating with Gentiles?

What’s up with Eating with Gentiles?

What’s up with Eating with Gentiles?

: But remember what happened to Peter?

Peter Knows this Better than Anybody!

Peter knew this better than anybody!

Peter was building his own bounded set again...

Peter: Pushing the Boundaries!

Bounded Set: A Kosher Church

Two Churches: A Kosher Church and a Gentile Church

v.12: Why did Peter separate himself? Fear

And so Peter’s PRO-Activity Pushes the Boundaries:

Paul Calls Peter Back to the Center

Paul Calls Peter Back to the Center

Presentation of Justification by Faith

Part II: Presentation of Justification by Faith

Part: 3: Critique against Justification by Faith

Part: 3: Critique against Justification by Faith

Application:What does the Gospel DO to us?

Faith and Freedom: In Line with the Gospel

Faith and Freedom: In Line with the Gospel

Introduction: Bounded Sets and Centered Sets

Introduction: Bounded Sets and Centered Sets

Bounded Sets:

Centered Sets:

Part I: vv. 11-14: Centered Set to Bounded Set

Part I: vv. 11-14: Centered Set to Bounded Set

Peter’s Transition:

What’s up with Eating with Gentiles?

What’s up with Eating with Gentiles?

What’s up with Eating with Gentiles?

: But remember what happened to Peter?

Peter Knows this Better than Anybody!

Peter knew this better than anybody!

Peter was building his own bounded set again...

Peter: Pushing the Boundaries!

Bounded Set: A Kosher Church

Two Churches: A Kosher Church and a Gentile Church

v.12: Why did Peter separate himself? Fear

And so Peter’s PRO-Activity Pushes the Boundaries:

Paul Calls Peter Back to the Center

Paul Calls Peter Back to the Center

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Presentation of Justification by Faith

Part II: Presentation of Justification by Faith

Part: 3: Critique against Justification by Faith

Part: 3: Critique against Justification by Faith

Application:What does the Gospel DO to us?

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