1 00:00:00,010 --> 00:00:01,770 I've been hearing about the house of God 2 00:00:01,770 --> 00:00:02,570 under attack. 3 00:00:03,910 --> 00:00:05,790 I want to speak a word on the 4 00:00:05,790 --> 00:00:09,990 gospel under attack Let's turn to the book 5 00:00:09,990 --> 00:00:35,260 of Galatians, please chapter 1 Galatians 6 00:00:35,260 --> 00:00:42,410 1 verse 1 chapter 1 verse 1 Paul 7 00:00:42,410 --> 00:00:46,670 an apostle not of men neither by men, 8 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:50,710 but by Jesus Christ and God the Father 9 00:00:50,710 --> 00:00:54,370 who raised him from the dead And all 10 00:00:54,370 --> 00:00:56,330 the brethren which are with me on to 11 00:00:56,330 --> 00:01:00,270 the churches of Galatia Grace be to you 12 00:01:00,270 --> 00:01:02,290 and peace from God the Father and from 13 00:01:02,290 --> 00:01:06,210 our Lord Jesus Christ Who gave himself? 14 00:01:06,770 --> 00:01:11,030 for our sins That he might deliver us 15 00:01:11,670 --> 00:01:15,230 from this present evil world The word is 16 00:01:15,230 --> 00:01:18,630 age according to the will of God and 17 00:01:18,630 --> 00:01:22,070 our Father To whom be glory forever and 18 00:01:22,070 --> 00:01:27,390 ever Amen I marvel That ye are so 19 00:01:27,390 --> 00:01:30,790 soon removed from him that called you into 20 00:01:30,790 --> 00:01:35,410 the grace of Christ on to another gospel 21 00:01:35,410 --> 00:01:40,710 a different gospel Which is not another but 22 00:01:40,710 --> 00:01:43,330 there be some that trouble you and would 23 00:01:43,330 --> 00:01:50,890 pervert the gospel Christ Now come into chapter 24 00:01:50,890 --> 00:01:55,490 2 Verse 3 but neither Titus who was 25 00:01:55,490 --> 00:01:57,230 with me being a Greek was compelled to 26 00:01:57,230 --> 00:02:01,070 be circumcised This is at Jerusalem and that 27 00:02:01,070 --> 00:02:03,550 because of false brethren on a words brought 28 00:02:03,550 --> 00:02:07,150 in who came in privately to spy out 29 00:02:07,150 --> 00:02:10,450 our Liberty which we have in Christ Jesus 30 00:02:10,450 --> 00:02:15,070 that they might bring us into bondage Now 31 00:02:15,070 --> 00:02:20,110 verse 11 Now This is in the location 32 00:02:20,110 --> 00:02:24,860 of Antioch But when Peter was come to 33 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:27,540 Antioch, I withstood him to the face because 34 00:02:27,540 --> 00:02:31,320 he was to be blamed For before that 35 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,700 certain came from James He did eat with 36 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:38,920 the Gentiles But when they were come He 37 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:44,080 withdrew and separated himself Fearing them which were 38 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:49,520 of the circumcision and the other Jews Dissembled 39 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,640 likewise that were dissembled means hypocrisy In so 40 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:58,340 much that Barnabas also was carried away with 41 00:02:58,340 --> 00:03:04,240 their hypocrisy dissimulation But when I saw that 42 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,500 they walked not abruptly according to the truth 43 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:08,700 of the gospel I said unto Peter before 44 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:10,900 them all if thou being a Jew live 45 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:12,780 is after the manner of Gentiles and not 46 00:03:12,780 --> 00:03:14,760 as to the Jews Why compel us thou 47 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,000 the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 48 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,320 We who are Jews by nature and not 49 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,300 sinners of the Gentiles knowing That a man 50 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:24,620 is not justified by the works of the 51 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:26,840 law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ 52 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,900 Even we have believed in Jesus Christ that 53 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:32,900 we might be justified by the faith of 54 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:35,560 Christ and not by the works of the 55 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,400 law For by the works of the law 56 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:44,320 shall no flesh be justified Verse 19 for 57 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:45,400 I through the law. 58 00:03:45,620 --> 00:03:47,760 I'm dead to the law that I might 59 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:48,720 live on to God. 60 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:52,540 I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless, I live 61 00:03:52,540 --> 00:03:54,920 yet not I but Christ liveth in me 62 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,980 and the life which I now live in 63 00:03:56,980 --> 00:03:58,640 the flesh I live by the faith of 64 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,480 the Son of God who loved me and 65 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,920 gave himself For me I do not frustrate 66 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,640 the grace of God for if righteousness came 67 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,760 by the law Then Christ is dead in 68 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:10,080 vain. 69 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:13,520 Oh foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you that 70 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:16,560 you should not obey the truth Before whose 71 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:19,779 eyes Jesus Christ hath evidently been set forth 72 00:04:20,579 --> 00:04:26,780 crucified among you chapter 3 verse 13 Christ 73 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:28,520 hath redeemed us from the curse of the 74 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,220 law Being made a curse for us for 75 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:34,120 it is written cursed as everyone that hangeth 76 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:42,230 on the tree Now chapter 4 verse 4 77 00:04:42,230 --> 00:04:44,150 But when the fullness of the time was 78 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:46,550 come God sent forth his son made of 79 00:04:46,550 --> 00:04:49,030 a woman made under the law To redeem 80 00:04:49,030 --> 00:04:51,450 them that were under the law that we 81 00:04:51,450 --> 00:04:55,190 might receive the adoption of sons And because 82 00:04:55,190 --> 00:04:57,650 ye are sons God hath sent forth his 83 00:04:57,650 --> 00:05:01,350 spirit of his Son into your hearts crying 84 00:05:01,990 --> 00:05:08,010 the father chapter 5 verse 1 Stand fast 85 00:05:08,010 --> 00:05:10,090 therefore in the Liberty were with Christ hath 86 00:05:10,090 --> 00:05:12,790 made us free and be not entangled again 87 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:19,790 with the yoke of bondage verse 13 For 88 00:05:19,790 --> 00:05:23,450 brethren ye have been called unto Liberty Only 89 00:05:23,450 --> 00:05:25,770 use not Liberty for an occasion to the 90 00:05:25,770 --> 00:05:32,310 flesh but by love serve one another Verse 91 00:05:32,310 --> 00:05:34,730 22 brings out the fruit of the Spirit 92 00:05:34,730 --> 00:05:35,470 is love joy. 93 00:05:35,630 --> 00:05:38,870 Peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance 94 00:05:38,870 --> 00:05:41,690 against such There is no law and they 95 00:05:41,690 --> 00:05:45,290 that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with 96 00:05:45,290 --> 00:05:52,010 the affections and lusts chapter 6 Verse 14, 97 00:05:52,130 --> 00:05:53,930 but God forbid that I should glory save 98 00:05:53,930 --> 00:05:55,850 in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ 99 00:05:55,850 --> 00:05:58,630 By whom the world is crucified unto me 100 00:05:58,630 --> 00:06:05,680 and I on to the world the Lord 101 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,280 will bless to us the Reading from his 102 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:14,530 word the book of Galatians similar to the 103 00:06:14,530 --> 00:06:20,410 book of Romans in many ways But it's 104 00:06:20,410 --> 00:06:25,590 different in that Galatians takes up controversially What 105 00:06:25,590 --> 00:06:26,750 Romans takes up? 106 00:06:27,310 --> 00:06:31,850 systematically Like the book of Romans it was 107 00:06:31,850 --> 00:06:35,130 written to more than one assembly You'll notice 108 00:06:35,130 --> 00:06:36,810 in the opening part of the epistle. 109 00:06:36,990 --> 00:06:40,870 It was to the churches of Galatia and 110 00:06:40,870 --> 00:06:42,850 So we would learn from that that it 111 00:06:42,850 --> 00:06:46,930 had a widespread Readership and it contained teaching 112 00:06:46,930 --> 00:06:49,810 that was applicable to all assemblies and we 113 00:06:49,810 --> 00:06:54,200 might say at all time when we come 114 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,640 to the Epistle we notice that Well, we 115 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,840 can divide it Into three the first two 116 00:07:01,840 --> 00:07:04,360 chapters are bringing before us the purity of 117 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:09,180 the saving message Chapters three and four we 118 00:07:09,180 --> 00:07:10,800 could write over that the Liberty of the 119 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:15,120 Sons and then in chapters five and six 120 00:07:16,540 --> 00:07:20,620 It's dealing with the spirituality of the Saints 121 00:07:21,620 --> 00:07:24,200 Again, the first two chapters is presenting to 122 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:31,300 us the preacher of justification Paul and The 123 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:36,320 revelations that he received Chapters three and four 124 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,280 it's the principles of justification Justification by faith 125 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,900 and its ramifications and Then in the last 126 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:48,480 two chapters we have the privileges of justification 127 00:07:49,460 --> 00:07:53,560 Being realized its realization in the life of 128 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,360 the believer So come to the first two 129 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,580 chapters and the purity of the saving message 130 00:08:00,580 --> 00:08:03,660 you'll notice that Paul Immediately gets down to 131 00:08:03,660 --> 00:08:07,320 business as he approaches this problem of the 132 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,700 attack that had been made on the Gospel 133 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:14,420 immediately gives a summary of the pure gospel 134 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:18,440 We read that from verse 3 and verse 135 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:18,900 4. 136 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:21,680 He speaks of our Lord Jesus Christ Notice 137 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,500 who gave himself for our sins That he 138 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:31,179 might deliver us from this present evil world 139 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,520 so the pure gospel presents Christ in his 140 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,620 death as the answer to the problem of 141 00:08:40,620 --> 00:08:47,760 our sins There are certain parts of North 142 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,940 America where it has been stated in the 143 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:55,120 assemblies That When we preach the gospel we 144 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,700 should minimize preaching about sin The pure gospel 145 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:05,320 deals with the matter of our sins That 146 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,020 he might deliver us from this present evil 147 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:11,580 age so the effect of the gospel is 148 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:15,540 to change lives and to deliver them from 149 00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:18,300 the the evil of the age and ultimately 150 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:21,860 out of This age altogether when our Lord 151 00:09:21,860 --> 00:09:26,260 returns So it deals it results in a 152 00:09:26,260 --> 00:09:30,800 changed life in lives that are different this 153 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,140 present evil age It's coming under the judgment 154 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:41,430 of God The pure gospel will bring that 155 00:09:41,430 --> 00:09:47,280 out and it will lead to lies lives 156 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,780 that are separate from the world We live 157 00:09:50,780 --> 00:09:52,560 in a day when people profess to be 158 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:54,060 saved and they live lives that are no 159 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:55,420 different from the world They can go to 160 00:09:55,420 --> 00:09:56,900 all the places that the world goes to 161 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:02,100 and it doesn't seem to mean anything That 162 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:06,220 is an attack on the gospel that affects 163 00:10:06,220 --> 00:10:11,720 gospel testimony and ultimately denies the purity of 164 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,240 the gospel Chapter 1 verse 6 Paul says 165 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,360 I marvel that you're so soon removed From 166 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,720 the gospel to another gospel another of a 167 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,360 different kind Which is not another of the 168 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:31,030 same kind and the problem is he says 169 00:10:31,030 --> 00:10:34,150 some would trouble you the word trouble Brings 170 00:10:34,150 --> 00:10:36,090 in the idea of they would agitate they 171 00:10:36,090 --> 00:10:39,910 would cause commotion amongst the Saints by perverting 172 00:10:39,910 --> 00:10:44,210 or turning around or in effect reversing the 173 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:50,600 effect of the gospel of Christ Paul doesn't 174 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:52,300 mention mince his words when it comes to 175 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:53,240 such an important matter. 176 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:59,100 He says let such be accursed He would 177 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:06,300 let God deal with them Paul goes on 178 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:09,160 to show that now in dealing with his 179 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,140 own apostleship and The gospel that he had 180 00:11:13,140 --> 00:11:15,680 received he was not in the business of 181 00:11:15,680 --> 00:11:20,760 trying to please men verse 10 His gospel 182 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:21,880 was not from man. 183 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,900 He didn't receive it from man and he 184 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:27,060 wasn't out to try to please man Verse 185 00:11:27,060 --> 00:11:28,960 12 neither was I taught it but by 186 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:34,040 the revelation of Jesus Christ Paul was an 187 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,580 apostle with apostolic authority and what he received 188 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:40,300 He received directly from the Lord and he 189 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:46,710 presented it faithfully in the gospel now there 190 00:11:46,710 --> 00:11:49,210 were detractors from Paul always dogging his footsteps 191 00:11:49,210 --> 00:11:50,850 and it seems like some of them were 192 00:11:50,850 --> 00:11:54,930 saying that Paul was anti-jewish and So 193 00:11:54,930 --> 00:11:57,130 Paul will speak here of his former zeal 194 00:11:57,130 --> 00:12:01,290 in the Jews religion He was actually going 195 00:12:01,290 --> 00:12:05,490 about persecuting the church And it wasn't that 196 00:12:05,490 --> 00:12:12,790 he was opposed to those that Were in 197 00:12:12,790 --> 00:12:17,700 Jerusalem the leaders He's setting out that he 198 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:20,540 had some early contact with them It's not 199 00:12:20,540 --> 00:12:22,940 that they were contributing to the gospel that 200 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:25,500 he was preaching But he was not opposed 201 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,540 to them and they were not opposed to 202 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:30,140 him In fact in verse 24 of chapter 203 00:12:30,140 --> 00:12:32,580 1 it says that they glorified God in 204 00:12:32,580 --> 00:12:36,220 me when they saw the effect of how 205 00:12:36,220 --> 00:12:38,520 that one who was so radically opposed to 206 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:41,420 the the church and with Persecuting the church 207 00:12:41,420 --> 00:12:45,080 his life had been changed and Paul himself 208 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,500 was a living testimony to the gospel that 209 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,780 he preached and they glorified God in me 210 00:12:50,780 --> 00:13:00,560 in chapter 2 He identifies the 211 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:06,820 source of Where the attack came from he 212 00:13:06,820 --> 00:13:10,900 speaks of false brethren unawares brought in That 213 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:13,200 is they were in the church of Jerusalem 214 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,240 at Jerusalem Or they at least had effect 215 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,860 upon the Saints there and they were promoting 216 00:13:23,020 --> 00:13:28,280 the concept that the the Gentiles Who had 217 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:33,710 believed should not be circumcised and They seem 218 00:13:33,710 --> 00:13:36,090 to have scriptural backup because the Old Testament 219 00:13:36,090 --> 00:13:40,190 after all had had spoken of of circumcision 220 00:13:40,190 --> 00:13:45,130 But Paul says in verse 5 that he 221 00:13:45,130 --> 00:13:49,560 gave them subject a subjection not for a 222 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:54,220 moment and he was not going to bow 223 00:13:54,220 --> 00:13:59,630 to that idea and In fact the rest 224 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:02,290 of the the leaders there in Jerusalem They 225 00:14:02,290 --> 00:14:04,450 were in perfect agreement the elders and the 226 00:14:04,450 --> 00:14:06,690 Apostles they gave to him and to to 227 00:14:06,690 --> 00:14:09,590 Barnabas the right hand of fellowship to preach 228 00:14:09,590 --> 00:14:17,510 the gospel among the Gentiles verse 9 so 229 00:14:17,510 --> 00:14:20,540 Paul was moving with his brethren and In 230 00:14:20,540 --> 00:14:23,560 fellowship with the the leaders of the church 231 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:30,180 in the local assembly in Jerusalem But there 232 00:14:30,180 --> 00:14:32,840 was an issue that that arose in the 233 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,170 assembly at Antioch Now this is still a 234 00:14:37,170 --> 00:14:42,130 long way from Galatia But nevertheless Paul is 235 00:14:42,130 --> 00:14:44,590 setting out how that he has defended the 236 00:14:44,590 --> 00:14:49,350 gospel which he has preached and The attack 237 00:14:49,350 --> 00:14:52,430 which is coming upon the the assemblies in 238 00:14:52,950 --> 00:14:57,190 Galatia he has stood against that before and 239 00:14:59,110 --> 00:15:01,510 So he speaks about the matter that happened 240 00:15:01,510 --> 00:15:05,270 at Antioch Peter had come up to Antioch 241 00:15:05,270 --> 00:15:07,410 and Peter being a pillar in the church 242 00:15:09,130 --> 00:15:11,950 in fact Peter had received that vision in 243 00:15:11,950 --> 00:15:13,970 Acts chapter 10 of the of the sheet 244 00:15:13,970 --> 00:15:18,150 let down and I Arise Peter kill and 245 00:15:18,150 --> 00:15:20,270 eat and and what what God has given 246 00:15:20,270 --> 00:15:21,870 you to eat to call not common and 247 00:15:21,870 --> 00:15:25,010 unclean and the lesson was in in relation 248 00:15:25,010 --> 00:15:28,650 to Cornelius the Gentile being being brought in 249 00:15:28,650 --> 00:15:31,790 with his house into the blessing of the 250 00:15:31,790 --> 00:15:35,630 gospel and Cornelius and his household Receiving Christ 251 00:15:35,630 --> 00:15:38,210 were saved by the grace of God and 252 00:15:38,210 --> 00:15:42,170 Peter recognized that God was Extending the testimony 253 00:15:42,170 --> 00:15:45,330 now to the Gentiles Peter had been taught 254 00:15:45,330 --> 00:15:50,510 that Peter was instrumental even in bringing the 255 00:15:50,510 --> 00:15:56,420 gospel to the Gentiles and Peter Understanding that 256 00:15:56,420 --> 00:15:59,360 has been free to sit down and eat 257 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,700 a meal with the Gentiles something that a 258 00:16:01,700 --> 00:16:12,030 strict Jew would never have done but there's 259 00:16:12,030 --> 00:16:13,970 some brethren now have come up from Jerusalem 260 00:16:13,970 --> 00:16:22,070 from James and And they don't think Peter 261 00:16:22,070 --> 00:16:30,280 should eat with the Gentiles and They would 262 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,940 find fault with that Because it wasn't according 263 00:16:34,940 --> 00:16:37,620 to the law in their view They are 264 00:16:37,620 --> 00:16:39,360 they are what we would call legal beagles 265 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,100 and have come up from from Jerusalem And 266 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:45,180 they're frowning on Peter and so Peter as 267 00:16:45,180 --> 00:16:45,500 a result. 268 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:47,720 He separates himself from them. 269 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:54,820 It says in verse 12 fearing them Fearing 270 00:16:54,820 --> 00:17:04,710 them man like Peter imagine and he's 271 00:17:04,710 --> 00:17:10,170 coming under the problem of legalism that these 272 00:17:10,170 --> 00:17:12,250 men have brought With them. 273 00:17:18,030 --> 00:17:19,790 They're trying to get back to the law 274 00:17:19,790 --> 00:17:25,530 Legalism, I want to I want to speak 275 00:17:25,530 --> 00:17:28,790 carefully about this because legalism Today that that 276 00:17:28,790 --> 00:17:31,190 word is an emotive word when it when 277 00:17:31,190 --> 00:17:37,020 it's used amongst us But notice some of 278 00:17:37,020 --> 00:17:39,060 the some of the lessons that we can 279 00:17:39,060 --> 00:17:42,320 pick up on here in relation to that 280 00:17:43,020 --> 00:17:45,800 Because it was legalism that was raising its 281 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:47,640 head and was affecting even a man like 282 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:52,320 Peter We noticed number one. 283 00:17:52,420 --> 00:17:56,770 It runs on fear the fear of what 284 00:17:56,770 --> 00:18:03,080 others might think and it resulted in a 285 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:03,580 separation. 286 00:18:03,820 --> 00:18:10,240 That was wrong That was divisive and it 287 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:14,420 was overturning what Peter had previously learned What 288 00:18:14,420 --> 00:18:18,120 Peter previously had taught and what Peter previously 289 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:19,660 had practiced? 290 00:18:21,830 --> 00:18:27,180 So says Paul he was being hypocritical he 291 00:18:27,180 --> 00:18:31,460 was Doing that which was not according to 292 00:18:31,460 --> 00:18:35,000 the truth of the gospel of the grace 293 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,980 of God that had brought Blessing to the 294 00:18:37,980 --> 00:18:38,820 Gentiles. 295 00:18:42,260 --> 00:18:44,560 And so it says Paul withstood him to 296 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:51,180 the face because he was wrong And we 297 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:54,860 simply learned that good men can be Wrong 298 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,950 and might even need to be rebuked as 299 00:19:01,950 --> 00:19:05,090 Paul did with Peter In a public way 300 00:19:05,090 --> 00:19:10,950 firmly I'm sure but graciously I would note 301 00:19:10,950 --> 00:19:13,470 as well Just jumping over quickly to chapter 302 00:19:13,470 --> 00:19:16,590 4 verse 16 I would notice that legalism 303 00:19:16,590 --> 00:19:19,870 also makes those that speak the truth an 304 00:19:19,870 --> 00:19:26,290 enemy To those that subscribe to it Verse 305 00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:28,630 16 am I therefore become your enemy because 306 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:31,190 I tell you the truth So there's an 307 00:19:31,190 --> 00:19:31,830 animosity. 308 00:19:32,110 --> 00:19:34,270 There's a hostility against those that speak the 309 00:19:34,270 --> 00:19:45,990 truth That comes from the legal mind and 310 00:19:45,990 --> 00:19:49,890 then right there in chapter 4 again You 311 00:19:49,890 --> 00:19:53,290 follow on into verse 17 We would learn 312 00:19:53,290 --> 00:19:57,990 that that legalism threatens to exclude individuals from 313 00:19:57,990 --> 00:20:01,710 its little click Any who do not follow 314 00:20:01,710 --> 00:20:08,100 its code of rules That's what the legalists 315 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:15,680 were doing legalism fosters cliquishness amongst the Saints 316 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,260 Now those lessons are right on the surface 317 00:20:22,260 --> 00:20:31,600 of our Bible Paul's difficulty with it all 318 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,940 is this that it was getting back to 319 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:39,540 the very core of the gospel because It 320 00:20:39,540 --> 00:20:44,200 was basing it was basing justification and acceptance 321 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:48,840 acceptance with God and with other believers on 322 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,000 the basis of the works of The law 323 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,040 and so now we're back in chapter 2 324 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:58,820 verse 16 the works of the law do 325 00:20:58,820 --> 00:21:04,180 not bring justification But faith in Jesus Christ 326 00:21:05,810 --> 00:21:08,930 So Peter's behavior was an attack on the 327 00:21:08,930 --> 00:21:12,270 very core of the of the gospel message 328 00:21:16,190 --> 00:21:19,110 Paul brings out now in verse 19 of 329 00:21:19,110 --> 00:21:25,370 chapter 2 That so far as the necessity 330 00:21:25,370 --> 00:21:28,990 of performing under the law was concerned that 331 00:21:28,990 --> 00:21:34,590 was finished with at the cross I am 332 00:21:34,590 --> 00:21:40,660 dead to the law Nevertheless, I live yet 333 00:21:40,660 --> 00:21:43,880 not I But Christ liveth in me the 334 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,340 life that I now live in the flesh. 335 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:48,420 I live by the faith of the Son 336 00:21:48,420 --> 00:21:51,660 of God Who loved me and gave himself? 337 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,780 for me Marvelous to think of it, isn't 338 00:21:55,780 --> 00:21:59,300 it our acceptance with God is because the 339 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:02,060 very Son of God Himself Was willing to 340 00:22:02,060 --> 00:22:04,580 lay down his life in death at the 341 00:22:04,580 --> 00:22:08,240 cross of Calvary To deliver us from the 342 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:11,340 penalty of our sin To bring us back 343 00:22:11,340 --> 00:22:14,100 to God and give us perfect acceptance in 344 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:14,620 his presence. 345 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,720 So salvation by grace through faith is in 346 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:22,460 a personal Savior and It is the opposite 347 00:22:22,460 --> 00:22:26,040 to the idea of achieving righteousness or acceptance 348 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:30,840 with God through a performance System of trying 349 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,620 to keep rules or trying to keep law 350 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:40,100 It's the opposite to that Paul defends the 351 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:44,040 purity of the saving message coming to chapters 352 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:47,940 3 and 4 He'll take up they thought 353 00:22:47,940 --> 00:22:51,740 now of the Liberty of the sons You 354 00:22:51,740 --> 00:22:54,320 notice how he approaches it in verse 1 355 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,360 of chapter 3 Oh foolish Galatians who has 356 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:01,100 Bewitched you who has mesmerized you you're acting 357 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:06,480 like you're you're hypnotized Hasn't Jesus Christ been 358 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,340 graphically presented before you as though he was 359 00:23:09,340 --> 00:23:12,780 crucified among you So graphically was the presentation 360 00:23:12,780 --> 00:23:19,240 of the preaching of the cross So he's 361 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,420 calling their minds back to when they first 362 00:23:21,420 --> 00:23:22,320 received the gospel. 363 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,500 And so he asked them some pertinent questions 364 00:23:28,020 --> 00:23:31,140 He says how is it that you came 365 00:23:31,140 --> 00:23:33,160 to have the Spirit of God within was 366 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:34,660 it through the keeping of the law? 367 00:23:36,700 --> 00:23:39,100 Oh, or was it through what you heard 368 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:40,800 and received by faith? 369 00:23:42,890 --> 00:23:50,070 obviously the latter he's on to show the 370 00:23:50,070 --> 00:23:52,390 consistency of that even with the Old Testament 371 00:23:52,390 --> 00:23:55,430 scriptures because the legal beagles they were going 372 00:23:55,430 --> 00:23:57,090 back to the Old Testament and they were 373 00:23:57,090 --> 00:24:01,090 trying to to Transpose the the truth of 374 00:24:01,090 --> 00:24:04,050 what was for then Over to here now 375 00:24:04,050 --> 00:24:06,290 in the new era of the of the 376 00:24:06,290 --> 00:24:08,530 of the gospel of the grace of God 377 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,960 But Paul shows in verse 6 that Abraham 378 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:14,640 believed God and it was counted on to 379 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,020 him for righteousness and that statement was made 380 00:24:19,020 --> 00:24:23,380 before even the sign of circumcision was given 381 00:24:28,150 --> 00:24:31,070 and then Paul will prove that the blessing 382 00:24:31,070 --> 00:24:35,410 of justification by faith Does reach out to 383 00:24:35,410 --> 00:24:36,290 the Gentiles? 384 00:24:37,550 --> 00:24:42,690 Because God had promised to Abraham That in 385 00:24:42,690 --> 00:24:46,250 thee shall all nations of the earth be 386 00:24:46,250 --> 00:24:49,610 blessed And God makes the point God was 387 00:24:49,610 --> 00:24:55,310 presenting the gospel to Abraham then It was 388 00:24:55,310 --> 00:24:58,230 embodied in that that through Abraham and through 389 00:24:58,230 --> 00:25:01,130 the promised seed all Nations of the earth 390 00:25:01,130 --> 00:25:08,840 would be blessed and though the law comes 391 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:14,560 430 years after That covenant was confirmed to 392 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:20,130 Jacob Paul's point is this that the law 393 00:25:20,130 --> 00:25:22,570 came after that so the the law cannot 394 00:25:22,570 --> 00:25:27,010 disarm or disenow What God has already unilaterally 395 00:25:27,010 --> 00:25:34,150 promised and just like an ordinary contract when 396 00:25:34,150 --> 00:25:37,170 it's signed sealed and delivered Then you can't 397 00:25:37,170 --> 00:25:37,610 change it. 398 00:25:37,670 --> 00:25:42,330 It's a contract So God made that contract 399 00:25:42,330 --> 00:25:47,670 with Abraham that there would be blessing that 400 00:25:47,670 --> 00:25:51,430 would extend to all nations Through the promised 401 00:25:51,430 --> 00:25:57,870 seed That is through Christ So then the 402 00:25:57,870 --> 00:25:58,670 question would arise. 403 00:25:58,750 --> 00:26:00,030 Well, what was the purpose then of the 404 00:26:00,030 --> 00:26:00,370 law? 405 00:26:00,650 --> 00:26:02,750 Why did the law come in chapter 4 406 00:26:02,750 --> 00:26:04,930 will will deal with that and show that 407 00:26:04,930 --> 00:26:07,310 the law was our Schoolmaster to bring us 408 00:26:07,310 --> 00:26:09,470 to Christ that is it was it was 409 00:26:09,470 --> 00:26:13,190 given as a temporary measure in the program 410 00:26:13,190 --> 00:26:17,670 of God it was given as a Spotlight 411 00:26:17,670 --> 00:26:20,170 if you will to highlight the fact that 412 00:26:20,170 --> 00:26:23,310 man was a need of deliverance from the 413 00:26:23,310 --> 00:26:27,930 curse of the law Man couldn't perform it 414 00:26:28,870 --> 00:26:34,190 Perfectly and so in that temporary period had 415 00:26:34,190 --> 00:26:35,870 come to an end when the fullness of 416 00:26:35,870 --> 00:26:38,750 the time was come What happened God sent 417 00:26:38,750 --> 00:26:40,930 forth his son made of a woman made 418 00:26:40,930 --> 00:26:43,070 under the law that he might redeem them 419 00:26:43,070 --> 00:26:47,070 that were under the law and under its 420 00:26:47,070 --> 00:26:52,470 curse that we might receive The adoption of 421 00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:59,160 sons That's very significant. 422 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,040 That's bringing us into the second part of 423 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:08,030 the epistle because now it's going to move 424 00:27:08,030 --> 00:27:10,710 on to the ground of a relationship and 425 00:27:14,050 --> 00:27:15,950 God has sent forth the spirit of his 426 00:27:15,950 --> 00:27:20,970 son into our hearts Whereby we cry ABBA 427 00:27:20,970 --> 00:27:25,890 father There's a new relationship has been established 428 00:27:26,910 --> 00:27:30,510 So the fullness of the time comes and 429 00:27:30,510 --> 00:27:35,770 God sends forth his son to redeem them 430 00:27:36,570 --> 00:27:39,090 that were under the law the focal point 431 00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:42,370 of all time and of all eternity is 432 00:27:42,370 --> 00:27:46,490 the life is the death of our Lord 433 00:27:46,490 --> 00:27:55,130 Jesus Christ chapters 5 and 6 the spirituality 434 00:27:55,130 --> 00:28:04,730 of the Saints Paul's thinking is is following. 435 00:28:05,050 --> 00:28:09,150 No doubt the attack that his detractors would 436 00:28:09,150 --> 00:28:14,110 bring and the question would be asked well 437 00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:18,750 if the law was just temporary and If 438 00:28:18,750 --> 00:28:22,490 that has been set aside Well, then how 439 00:28:22,490 --> 00:28:23,930 shall we then live? 440 00:28:25,310 --> 00:28:31,010 By what rule by what code of conduct 441 00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:35,770 What is going to regulate the life of 442 00:28:35,770 --> 00:28:43,940 the believer Paul is teaching that I am 443 00:28:43,940 --> 00:28:49,090 dead to the law Thank God for that 444 00:28:49,090 --> 00:28:54,090 because its curse is no more power Over 445 00:28:54,090 --> 00:28:58,850 me as a believer But he goes on 446 00:28:58,850 --> 00:29:00,370 to show that I am dead to the 447 00:29:00,370 --> 00:29:04,110 flesh as well with its affections and lusts. 448 00:29:04,110 --> 00:29:07,910 So we we do not Dealing with this 449 00:29:07,910 --> 00:29:10,030 negatively first of all, we do not have 450 00:29:10,710 --> 00:29:17,210 License to do whatever the flesh desires When 451 00:29:17,210 --> 00:29:19,090 Christ died on the cross, he died as 452 00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:22,430 a real man in a real body as 453 00:29:22,430 --> 00:29:26,650 a representative man before God He was actually 454 00:29:26,650 --> 00:29:36,520 put to death in the flesh So I 455 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,440 am dead to the flesh with its affections 456 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:41,660 and lusts he says in chapter 5 verse 457 00:29:41,660 --> 00:29:44,580 24 they that are Christ's have crucified the 458 00:29:44,580 --> 00:29:50,060 flesh with the affections and loss and Lusts 459 00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:52,180 so the cross has brought the believer now 460 00:29:52,180 --> 00:29:54,940 on to new ground where he has decided 461 00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:59,660 Against his depraved self and recognizes that that 462 00:29:59,660 --> 00:30:07,010 was finished at the cross And that's the 463 00:30:07,010 --> 00:30:08,450 mind of God that we should be finished 464 00:30:08,450 --> 00:30:12,780 with it And so when I enter into 465 00:30:12,780 --> 00:30:14,740 the mind of God in that matter, I'm 466 00:30:14,740 --> 00:30:16,820 actually expressing the will of God in my 467 00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:23,120 life Finished with the flesh and its lusts 468 00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:28,570 and affections But then there's a third thing 469 00:30:28,570 --> 00:30:30,530 he says that I'm dead to he says 470 00:30:30,530 --> 00:30:32,870 I'm dead to the world chapter 6 verse 471 00:30:32,870 --> 00:30:37,420 14 But God forbid that I should glory 472 00:30:37,420 --> 00:30:39,520 save in the cross of our Lord Jesus 473 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,960 Christ By whom the world is crucified unto 474 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:46,360 me and I unto the world So what 475 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,900 is it that stands between me as a 476 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:50,360 believer and the world? 477 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:56,960 What stands between me as a believer and 478 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:57,460 the world? 479 00:31:01,780 --> 00:31:04,380 It's not some line drawn in the sand 480 00:31:04,380 --> 00:31:09,680 by men Somewhere around the cultural norm of 481 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:17,390 the 1950s in the Western world Nor the 482 00:31:17,390 --> 00:31:20,230 line drawn by the Amish code of community 483 00:31:20,230 --> 00:31:28,890 rules Nor by the Hutterite collective idea nor 484 00:31:28,890 --> 00:31:33,670 some preachers printed booklet of extra biblical rules 485 00:31:34,450 --> 00:31:36,850 That's not going to regulate the life of 486 00:31:36,850 --> 00:31:38,670 the believer and separate him from the world 487 00:31:38,670 --> 00:31:42,090 What is it that will separate him from 488 00:31:42,090 --> 00:31:46,490 the world it's the cross The cross the 489 00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:56,730 cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom 490 00:31:56,730 --> 00:31:59,790 the world is crucified unto me and I 491 00:31:59,790 --> 00:32:04,710 unto the world and On resurrection ground the 492 00:32:04,710 --> 00:32:07,290 believer has a new power to operate within 493 00:32:07,290 --> 00:32:12,170 him the Holy Spirit Which when we move 494 00:32:12,170 --> 00:32:14,750 subject to his will to his teaching from 495 00:32:14,750 --> 00:32:16,990 the Word of God From his leading from 496 00:32:16,990 --> 00:32:19,330 the Word of God, we will walk in 497 00:32:19,330 --> 00:32:21,550 the spirit and we will not fulfill the 498 00:32:21,550 --> 00:32:26,050 lusts of the flesh Teaching of chapter 5 499 00:32:26,050 --> 00:32:33,130 So it's not some code of behavior Behavior 500 00:32:33,130 --> 00:32:36,210 either from the law or some other code 501 00:32:36,210 --> 00:32:38,990 of behavior that will regulate the life of 502 00:32:38,990 --> 00:32:42,110 the believer But it's an indwelling divine person 503 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,220 That will produce within that believer a living 504 00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:53,060 likeness unto the Lord Jesus Christ The fruit 505 00:32:53,060 --> 00:33:00,930 of the Spirit love joy peace long-suffering 506 00:33:00,930 --> 00:33:05,350 gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there 507 00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:12,490 is no law righteousness Practically lived out in 508 00:33:12,490 --> 00:33:15,790 the life Of the believer so an obedient 509 00:33:15,790 --> 00:33:18,990 walk is the result of the believer that's 510 00:33:18,990 --> 00:33:21,570 living in fellowship with God in the energy 511 00:33:21,570 --> 00:33:23,270 of the Spirit of God according to the 512 00:33:23,270 --> 00:33:28,950 Word of God an Obedient life results Obedience 513 00:33:28,950 --> 00:33:30,010 is not legalism. 514 00:33:32,730 --> 00:33:37,390 It is scriptural behavior Legalism goes beyond the 515 00:33:37,390 --> 00:33:42,530 Word of God So as believers we do 516 00:33:42,530 --> 00:33:48,960 not have ten commandments to follow Our brother 517 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:53,840 Alice already mentioned this But I noted with 518 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,400 interest just yesterday that 12 times over in 519 00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:58,120 the New Testament. 520 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:07,860 We have this expression love one another 12 521 00:34:07,860 --> 00:34:11,880 times over Is the Spirit of God emphasizing 522 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:18,159 that I think so Love one another just 523 00:34:18,159 --> 00:34:21,139 Paul emphasized that in this subject Notice verse 524 00:34:21,139 --> 00:34:23,920 5 verse 13 chapter 5 verse 13 for 525 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,780 brethren You have been called unto Liberty only 526 00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:28,739 use not Liberty for an occasion to the 527 00:34:28,739 --> 00:34:35,360 flesh, but notice But by love Serve one 528 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:41,570 another that would be the test of true 529 00:34:41,570 --> 00:34:47,639 spirituality, wouldn't that the test of true? 530 00:34:47,940 --> 00:34:51,820 spirituality is not How well we follow a 531 00:34:51,820 --> 00:34:56,630 set of rules or even of? 532 00:34:56,630 --> 00:34:58,590 Expected gospel hall behavior. 533 00:35:01,010 --> 00:35:03,270 That's not the true test of spirituality. 534 00:35:07,610 --> 00:35:09,370 What's the true test of spirituality? 535 00:35:10,930 --> 00:35:18,230 How well we in love serve one another 536 00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:20,850 it's the fruit of the Spirit the first 537 00:35:20,850 --> 00:35:27,590 one mentioned love joy peace and the believer 538 00:35:27,590 --> 00:35:30,310 that's living in the good of that will 539 00:35:30,310 --> 00:35:33,650 be a peaceable believer and Will have that 540 00:35:33,650 --> 00:35:37,540 effect on others and it's easy to love 541 00:35:37,540 --> 00:35:40,840 him a person that's lovable toward us Isn't 542 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:45,600 that in love serve one another just the 543 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,400 Lord will bless his word to our hearts