Stand up

Galatians 2:11–14 CSB

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party. Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were deviating from the truth of the gospel, I told Cephas in front of everyone, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel Gentiles to live like Jews?”

Cephas is the Aramaic Word for Rock: it is parallel to the Greek Word Petros. which we know today was Peter.

the Point of knowing who cephas is to know what is going on in this passage. Last week we talked about how the Judaziers were forcing Jewish Beliefs on the Gentiles before they can be Christians. now here we see it is 14 years later and they are still doing the same thing only it is worse because peter Joins them because of selected people that showed up.

Afraid of Others

See Peter was afraid of what those group of people would think if he was caught eating with the gentiles. he was afraid they might not see him as the same person or judge him for such acts.

How many times in our lives do we do the same thing?

Think back how many time were you a Christian till your friends come around, or you talk to some you know at church till your friends come around.

We as Christians tend to take our salvation for granted and hide it away in the backroom rather than be excited to share it.

Often times we as Christians are on fire for Christ until it means actions then we freeze up and tend to revert back to what everyone else is doing.

during our lives we see things the world says is okay that we as Christians stand against but instead of rising up with our voice we sit back and let it happen and lose people for Christ.

see peter the one known as the rock made the same mistakes and see that sometimes we need someone to correct our actions to solve the problems.

How to correct

Paul had to correct Peter for his actions with the way he was treating the gentiles just because of certain people.

Christian Standard Bible Chapter 14

So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.

Paul had to rebuke peter to tell him the actions he was taking was not correct.

Here we see in Romans were Paul is speaking and is telling the manner in which we correct someone that is doing wrong . we are to pursue peace and build up. we as Christian tend to hide away in the because of what people will think. but we should be willing to call out the error in that and build up the person that is acting like peter.

Paul was very quick to put peter back where he belonged, but he did it in a loving manner to reminded peter the error he was making.

What is Next

Often when tend to think that wasn't me, or someone else needs to hear this. but think about how often you tend to do this. you tend to hide away the fact you are a christian and you are called to witness to the lost no matter what the world says is okay.