WUM Galatians 2

Join Butch and Rod as they discuss Paul's history and the importance of Christian character.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Well, good afternoon, good evening, good day, wherever you might be. I'm Rod.

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And I'm Butch, and this is W U M. And we are excited to get back into God's Word, and we're in Galatians chapter 2 today.

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Yes.

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Before that, how are you doing, brother?

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Doing well. Can't complain. A little tired from the from resurrection's weekend, but I'm doing great.

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Yeah, Rod preached our uh our um oh my goodness, I couldn't get sunrise out. See, apparently I'm still sleep deprived. Sunrise service, yes.

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Yeah, trying preaching on three on three hours of sleep and just it was but it was a great time. God blessed, and um got God showed me that He does answer prayer.

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I mean I knew I knew that, but you know, all it's always good to see it when it happens.

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All week I've been watching the time and at work it's been dark at six, it's been dark at six, it's been dark at six, and so Thursday, Friday, it's like it's still dark at six o'clock, and just what are we gonna do at six on Sunday? Well, at 5:30, the horizon lit up. And it's like, I think it's gonna be okay.

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Oh, then that explains why you said, hey, um, the sun came up. Yeah, I was sitting there going, why did he go start with that? Okay, now it makes sense.

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Yay!

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Yay, the sun rose.

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So, yeah, God does answer praying. It was a great time to share God's word with the folks who were out at the park. Um, but today we are in, as you mentioned, Galatians chapter two.

unknown 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Where Paul is continuing from Galatians chapter one, talking about uh his life early on after his conversion, um, and the things that he did and the things that he did not do. Um and so let's let's get into it. Can I can I start? But I like to back up to chapter one, verse eighteen. Can I do that? Yeah, please.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

I think it sets a good context stage for what he's gonna talk about.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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All right, so Galatians, beginning in chapter one, verse eighteen, Paul says, Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Peter and stayed with him fifteen days. I saw none of the other apostles, only James the Lord's brother. I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie. Later I went to Syria and Sicilia. I was personally unknown to the churches of Judea that are in Christ. They only heard the report. The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy. And they praised God because of me. Verse 1, chapter 2. Fourteen years later, so some time has passed since Paul's conversion. A lot of time has passed since his conversion. Uh I went up again to Jerusalem. This time with Barnabas. I took Titus along also. I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preached among the Gentiles. But I did this privately to those who seemed to be leaders for fear that I was running or had run my race in vain. And so we we see here in these first three, these first two verses, rather, um, that Paul just lets us know that he didn't immediately go and uh converse and consult with the apostles. I mean, we're talking 14 years.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Yeah, between the visits, right? It's like, holy cow, 14 years later, he goes to Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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So it's with Barnabas and Titus.

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Yes.

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With Barnabas and Titus and And this was revealed to him to go. Like this was a revelation. This is God saying, Okay, time to go back to Jerusalem.

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Right, right. And so he goes and he visits with these guys, and he he says that I that I submitted to them the gospel which I preached among the Gentiles. And so they're they're having this conversation about the gospel that he's preaching. And he says, But I did this privately to those who were of reputation for fear that somehow I might be running or had run in vain. And it's not like Paul's gospel was radically different or some other gospel, but it seems that he he's connecting with these apostles because of maybe some outside influences from the Judaizers who were trying to get the Jews, hey, you gotta get back to the law. And it's like if I don't go talk, it's like it's like when brothers are doing the same thing but on different pages, and let me go talk this brother so that we're on the same page so that these other dudes don't come in and just pull the rug out from under us.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

Yeah, and to make sure that we're yeah, we're all on the same page.

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Yeah.

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Okay, am I am I preaching the same thing that James and the other apostles are? Yeah. Because their ministry has been more to, we'll see this as we go. Their ministry has been more to the Jews. And his has been very clearly to the Gentiles. Yes. And are Jews mixed in? Absolutely. But the majority of his ministry has been Gentile.

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Yeah, yeah. And we gotta make sure that we're on the same page with this so that these guys don't do it in round around us. And um, and so that's that's that's what Paul Paul intimates here. Um, because look at what he says in verse 3. He says, but but not even Titus, who was with me, though he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. So there's this issue stirring where, hey, if if if if if you call yourself a Christ follower, then you gotta you gotta keep the law, you gotta do what the law says. And the law says you have to be circumcised. If you're going to be a Christ follower, and we're going, we're gonna try to get back to this thing of keeping the law to honor God. And Paul's like, uh, okay, let's make sure our gospel is on the same page. And that even Titus, even though he was a Greek, he wasn't compelled to be circumcised, like Jews, like Greeks who, when they want to convert to Judaism, have to do. And um he says, yet in verse 4, he says, yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in sneaked in to spy on our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus in order to enslave us. So you've got these Jews who have crept into the church. Hey, you know, you really gotta you really should think about circumcision. You know, I mean, I know I know Jesus died for us, it's a faith thing, but to take this thing the the whole way, you really should think about the circumcision thing.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

You still gotta keep the law. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, think about that. Let that let that ruminate for a while. And yeah. And so these folks are trying to destroy the freedom that we have in Christ, where we don't have to keep the law. We don't have to follow the law because we can't. That's why Jesus came, he did it for us.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

So Paul makes it clear, right, in verse 5, to them we did not yield in submission, even for a moment.

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Yeah.

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So that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. Like, hey, it's tempting sometimes to be going, oh, well, it makes and there are some things though that are that make sense in the law, right? There's some dietary things that make a lot of sense. Man, eat real food, right? There are certain things that are still okay for us to eat that maybe they aren't the greatest thing to eat. The bottom feeders in the ocean and things that were not allowed to be eaten before, now they're allowed, but it still makes you go, yeah, is that really that good for you?

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There's some moral things that we have to think about in the law that hmm.

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Yeah, there's an awful lot of precedents and principles that are like, yeah, this makes sense. But the difference is when somebody tells you you have to be circumcised to be saved.

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In order to be saved, you draw the line. Because now it's Christ and. And it should be Christmas.

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And so now we are a lot of years removed from that initial meeting in Jerusalem where they're like, well, what do we tell the Jews? Hey, abstain from meat sacrifice to idols and sexual immorality, right? Right. But even that, you're like, well, you're starting to, it's a slippery slope of adding another yoke that Jesus didn't say. Right? He said he fulfilled all of the law. This is where it gets funny when people hear you say things like, the law's been fulfilled, and they're like, Well, well, we still follow the Ten Commandments. I'm like, actually, no.

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Yeah.

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And we have we probably have to talk about that because people will hear that and go, Are you telling me I shouldn't that it's okay for me to covet my neighbor's donkey and his wife? And no. I'm just saying you're not required to follow all the Ten Commandments to be saved.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

You mean I don't have to keep the Sabbath?

SPEAKER_01 9:42

No. And you don't have to not cut the beard in front of your ears and your, you know, all these things that are in the Old Testament law. Jesus set us free from following all that. We can't, we can't do any of it to get the right status with him to be saved. Yes. That's only the finished work of Christ. Yes. Trusting that.

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Yeah.

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However, is it okay to murder, kill, rape, steal? No.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

No. No. No, but that's the moral law, which which is which is covered in both Old and New Testament. Ceremonial law, not so much.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Yeah. We don't need to kill bulls and goats and slaughter pigeons and doves and all these things. No, we don't need to do that anymore. That has all been fulfilled by the finished work of Jesus. So I love how Paul even throws in circumcision, right? Because it's like, ugh. Or we'll talk about this later. Baptism, too. People throw this in and go, Yeah, see, you gotta be baptized. You're like, well, now you're talking works.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

Yeah. Yeah. Is baptism necessary for salvation? No.

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No, it's a work.

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It is an act of obedience.

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And and and encouraged and commanded for us to do that. Right.

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Just like we take communion.

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Yeah. That's encouraged whenever you do it, do it like this. Right. Remember me.

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Right.

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It's not said you're saved if you do it.

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That's true. But some folks like to take it there with certain scriptures. You know, Acts chapter 2, verse 38, that kind of thing. And it's like, yeah, but no, no. Baptism is not a requirement for salvation. It is Jesus, faith in Jesus Christ and Him alone, period. End of sentence.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

And we'll see that as we go through Galatians. That's so awesome because this whole them being bewitched and so easily pulled away from the truth of the gospel, he throws in things that you're like, oh, well, wait, yeah, that's a work. Well, yeah, baptism's a work. Yeah, circumcision's a work. Yeah. Taking communion is a work. All these things are It's a good work. It's a good work. Obedience. Yeah. But it is certainly not what saves you.

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Absolutely. And the only thing that does that is Jesus Christ. And you are right to point out what Paul said in chapter 1. He said, I am astonished that you were so quickly deserting the one who called you. Trying to go back to the law. Look at verse where we at verse 5? No, verse 6, where Paul says, but from those who were of considerable repute, what they were makes no difference to me. God knows no favoritism. Well, those who were of repute contributed nothing to me. But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised, for he was he was at work for he who was at work for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised was at work for me also, to the Gentiles. And recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me Barnabas, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand fellowship so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do. And Paul points out, you know, this ain't about Peter and James and the apostles and how and the ivory tower that they're in. He's like, you know what, they didn't do anything to get me where I am. That nothing to do with this. Yeah, my authority came from Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Just like the authority that Peter has, right, was directly from Jesus, who said, On this rock I will build the church. Yes. Right? That was commissioned by Jesus. Oh man. Just like Paul is commissioned to go to the Gentiles. But he does, he does, I think it's interesting though, he does say, like, hey, they gave me the right hand of fellowship. Yeah. Which is saying they welcome them as brothers in Christ into the family of God. Guy who sent papers to send people off to be killed. Right? That's what that's what Paul, who used to be Saul, did. Which it's interesting he uses the word Cephas here, right? Because Peter used to be Cephas.

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Right.

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Now he's called Peter the rock. Yes. Interesting. Right? And then he's then he throws out, hey, they asked me to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do. He didn't say you have to remember the poor to be saved. He just said, hey, don't forget to take care of the poor.

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Absolutely.

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Which James wrote about that later, too, right? Right? Yeah. Interesting.

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Yeah, but I I love this that they they they meet privately, they compare notes, and they realize, oh, okay, you've We're preaching this. The same spirit that is in you is in me, and the same spirit that's in me is in you, and we've we've God has given us these two people groups to go after, and brother, let's do it.

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Yep, and they right hand a fellowship.

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Yes.

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Yes. Keep doing what you're doing. We'll keep doing what we're doing. We're gonna praise God together.

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Yes. Even though, you know, you've got a past, and Peter's got a past, that's behind them. It's it's we're we're moving forward for the gospel.

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Mission.

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Absolutely.

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Then it gets interesting in verse 11, right? But but when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles, but when they came he drew back and he separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 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?

SPEAKER_00 16:22

Right. Right. I love that.

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So this is this is more a reminder of we all sin and fall short. Yes. Right? Peter is not the uh oh holy one that some churches have put on a pedestal. Like he's the first pope.

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He's not? What? No. What?

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But look at what look at what Peter got wrapped up in. Yeah. He got wrapped back into the oh wait, I forgot about the freedom in Christ. I forgot about the vision I had when I saw all these animals that I could kill and eat. And then when the Jews show up, uh, because I'm eating like they are and hanging out with Gentiles, oh, then he blows them off.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

Yep. Oh, I guess I better go back because the Jews from Jerusalem would hear from James, and I'd better, I better start getting back to that old diet.

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Here comes all the muckety mucks from Jerusalem.

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Right.

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And I gotta put a show on.

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Yeah. And I love what Paul says. He says, I opposed him to his face because he stood condemned. You know, that that helps me to see that all of us, that none of us is beyond being reproached. None of us is above being held accountable. We were talking about this earlier before we started recording that there are consequences to the things that we do. And here Peter's like, oh, the Jews from Jerusalem are here from James, so let me uh let me go back to my Jewishness real quick. And Paul is like, dude, you making all the other brothers follow you in your sin.

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Here he is. Sneaking back to the very quietly sneaking back to the law.

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Yeah.

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And and Paul's having none of it.

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And even Barnabas is like, oh, well, I guess we bet we better get back over here with the with the with the Jews and leave the leave these ham sandwiches alone, you know?

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And so what does Paul do? He does exactly what he told Timothy later on about how you handle elders. You rebuke them publicly.

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Yeah.

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This isn't a hey, let's pull you aside. Right? It's like you're making a really bad example to other people. And I'm gonna call you out. So I'm gonna call you out in front of everybody. That's what he said. Yes. I saw their contact. I said to Cephas before them all.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Absolutely. None of us is above. And we we forget who we are.

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And quite honestly, when you put yourself in a position or God puts you in a position where you are in authority, guess what? You're held to a stricter judgment. So sometimes the correction is a little harder and a little ouch. I just got called out in front of everybody.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Yeah. Yeah.

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That's pretty amazing to see the uh Absolutely. So I here Paul is doing exactly the things that he said. He told Timothy, this is what you have to do. If this situation comes up, an elder is sinning, they need to be called out and be rebuked publicly.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

Absolutely.

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This is exactly how it plays out.

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Yeah. Uh it's it's it's required. Accountability is required. Because like I said, we're we're we're held to a higher standard.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

And I do think it's interesting how Paul wraps this in in a different way when verse 15, right? We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, right? They're Jew sinners, they're not Gentile sinners. 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 Jesus Christ 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. So he doesn't act like it's just a little thing that you decide I'm not going to eat with the Gentile brothers.

SPEAKER_00 20:36

Yeah. Just because.

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He's like, he's calling it out. Like this is the slippery slope.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Yes.

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And I need to tell you why it's so important. When you think I'm overreacting, of saying, oh, you foolish Galatians, who's bewitched you, right? It's not that, it's not that simple. This is a slippery slope that you gotta cut off. If you start going down the road of anything other than justified works of Jesus Christ, you're in trouble.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Yeah.

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You're in really big trouble.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Oh, agreed. And your sin and what you do can affect others and what they do, and if others see how you react and they react the same way, then you've just pulled them into your sin and you've caused them to stumble. And that's what we see happening here. Which is why Paul was like, look, hey, it's it's not about the law. It's not about keeping the law, it's not about keeping the dietary law. Our justification is found in Jesus Christ and Him alone. Not what you eat, Peter, but it's in a person. And Peter knows this, but you know, we we have these weak moments and we forget who we are sometimes. And and Paul was just there to remind him in Antioch. Dude, no, uh I'm I'm not letting that go. Look at what you're doing to these other brothers.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

It's faith in Christ, buddy. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

And how many times does he have to say that here in this little section?

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Yeah, it's a lot because he keeps going. Verse 17. Yeah. You want to grab 17?

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Absolutely. He says, but if while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? He says, far from it. For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a wrongdoer. For purpose statement. For through the law, I died to the law so that I might live to God. I have been crucified. And this is the crux of the matter. I have been crucified with Christ. And it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live not by the law and keeping the law, but I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me, his reminder, and gave himself up for me. I do not nullify the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died needlessly. Wow. Yeah?

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Think about just how these little statements, this one little sentence here, right? It's not such a tiny little thing. We sometimes think doctrine and oh, you guys are getting oh way too about this. All he did was not eat with the Gentiles. All he did was uh say that you need to be circumcised. All he did was say you need to be baptized. Are you kidding me?

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Headed down that slope.

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I do not nullify the grace of God. Holy cow. Yeah. If you nullify the grace of God, that means you're still condemned.

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And what's left? Nothing.

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Nothing.

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Because you can't keep the law. And so you're you you are condemned.

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If for if, here's where, for if righteousness were through the law, here's the crux of it all, then Christ died for nothing. My Bible says no purpose. Yeah. Yours says nothing, right? It's needlessly, nothing. Needlessly.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Yeah. Seriously. If we could keep it, what do we need the Lord for?

SPEAKER_01 24:31

So Jesus went through an absolutely pointless submission, humiliation to come and live a completely sinless life, to die a horrific humiliation, beating, torture. He did all of that for no purpose. No purpose. If baptism is what saves you, if circumcision is what saves you, if keeping the law in any point saves you, Christ died for no reason.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

That's right. So you foolish Galatians, it ain't about keeping the law.

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This is why it's foolish. It is absolutely foolish to go to anything other than the gospel of Jesus Christ and faith in that.

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Amen.

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And how many people do we have show up at our doorsteps trying to give us some little magazine. Magazine, a booklet, some little trinket to hang around your neck, some stupid idol to tell you this is going to protect you. All these little things that you're like, these are just idols. None of this is going to do it.

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The only thing that'll do it is Jesus Christ.

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Faith in Jesus Christ.

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Alone. And that's it.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Paul said it, I don't know how you hit it earlier when he started like it. How many times else does he have to say this? Yeah, we justify it by faith. He hammers it home from 15 all the way to 21.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 26:02

But it verse 21, I need to put to memory. I don't know why I don't have that in my memory banks.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Hey, brother, no better time to start in the present, right? Yeah, I do not nullify the grace of God. For if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died needlessly. He died for nothing. If it means us keeping the law.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

And I don't know how anybody could say Christ died for nothing and say that you are a Christ follower.

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And the fact that God sent him, the Father sent him, and it pleased the Father to crush him.

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And he agreed that before the foundation of the world that I would do this plan.

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Yeah.

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The Holy Spirit would help execute the plan.

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Right? But it's all for nothing. Nothing. Because I want to follow the law and be circumcised, or I want to follow the dietary restrictions, or whatever else it might be. I want to get baptized because baptism is a necessary part of that. No, it's not. You are adding to the gospel, which is a different gospel. It's another gospel. It is a false gospel. And Paul is like, look, if you want to go that route, then there's no hope for you.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

Good luck, because you're the good luck isn't going to do a thing for you.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:18

You're going to be condemned.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

Yeah.

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Because you already are. And that's the tough thing for us to recognize. Right. You're already condemned if your faith is in anything other than the justified, the justification that comes by faith in Christ.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Amen. And you know, if if you if it turns out that you really do want to do this thing on your own, and if it turns out that you really do want to feel like it's it's you've got to do something, just know that if if you think you need to do something in order to be saved rather than place your faith and trust in Jesus Christ and His work on the cross, then you might be one of those who will stand before the great white throne judgment. By the way, we won't be there. Um, where those folks are going to be judged based on their deeds and the things that they did according to the law, according to themselves and their own self-righteousness, and they're gonna find out that they've fallen short. Because unless they've been perfect the last time I checked, there's nobody that's perfect. Save save Jesus. All of us have fallen short, which means that trying to keep the law is futile.

SPEAKER_01 28:38

It is.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

And you will find yourself, if you want to go that route of Christ and you will find yourself uh facing uh the wrath of God for all eternity in the lake of fire.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Plain and simple. Yeah, it doesn't get any more direct or clear.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

No.

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And this is why Paul's pleading with uh Galatians. Like, come on, don't be fooled, man. Yeah, yeah, get your head right. Yeah. I started to say that funny phrase that you heard in the Air Force. Say word. I'm talking about that earlier today. Yeah, just just we'll keep it PG. If any of you know what I'm talking about, you can laugh with us later. But yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Say pop. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

And you want to know the end story off uh the microphone, we can tell.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Uh but this is yeah, this is the wake-up call to the Galatians, right?

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Yeah.

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And we're gonna see this more as he's talking about how foolish it is. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

And it's a serious issue.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

It's a v it's vi because this it seems so foolish on one sense, but on another, it's like the the reason it's not a thing for us not to, or something for us just to blow over. Because our enemy tries so desperately to deceive us into, oh, that's not what's really meant. Oh, that's not what's really being said there. Did God really say this same phrase Satan has used since Adam and Eve, and it has worked in a lot of occasions. Yeah. But I will say the encouragement is in an awful lot of occasions, it doesn't work if we say, yes, God really did say that we should not be trusting in any works of the law. Yes. I should be trusting in being justified by faith in Jesus Christ, in Him alone, the work He did, not anything I could do.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

Right, right. Can I say this? It it may seem here's a word that came to mind. It may seem trivial to most. Oh, it's just it's just baptism. What's what's the big deal? Oh, it's just circumcision. It's just circumcision.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

What's what's it's not like I'm sacrificing bulls. Right.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Right? Oh, it's it's it's just that the I'm just gonna follow the dietary laws. It's just it's it's a healthy thing. It's a it's a health conscious idea. So but if we start to do that, what else are we gonna add? And we begin to add to Christ and his sacrifice, and that's uh that is not the gospel. That is not a biblical gospel, that is a different gospel.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

If you choose for health reasons to take care of your temple to eat differently, that's one thing. Go for it.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

But if you should if it's for your for your piety, for your justification, so that you can be righteous before God, no.

SPEAKER_01 31:38

Yeah, or you think you're gonna be clean before God, because the only way to be clean is to have the blood of Jesus Christ applied to your head, your heart, every part of your soul. Like that's the that's the only way you're made clean.

SPEAKER_00 31:51

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

And again, that's his work.

SPEAKER_00 31:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

It's not my work to apply the blood of Jesus Christ to make me white as snow.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

Yeah. And his work is done. It was finished on the cross when he cried out to Telestai. It is finished, paid and full. Done. There's nothing else that we can add to what he has done. It is by faith in Jesus Christ and him alone. Period.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Isn't that interesting when you say it like that? It's like all we can do is get in the way. Like when we start trying to, oh, let's let's do this and let's do that, and it's no, don't be fooled. Don't get fooled by this.

SPEAKER_00 32:36

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

That's the word of encouragement to us today as we close this out is you can trust Jesus Christ. Yes. His work. That's it. Everything else, we can get fooled by so many other things in life. We get lied to, we get deceived. Right. It's like we can't trust the news, you can't trust all these other things. But one thing we can trust for sure is his word.

SPEAKER_00 33:03

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Because it is the truth. It is it is what provides the way, the truth, and the life, right? Us to see Jesus Christ clearly. That's all I got for that.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

And like Paul said, uh, we are justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law. Because the law will not justify the flesh. Jesus and him alone. And if you're trusting in any other thing, or if you're trusting in Jesus and, let me encourage you to stop. Because it's it's Jesus and him alone. And uh if you're trusting in something other than Jesus, drop us the line. And uh let us know. We like to dialogue with you and help you see the truth of the scripture, that it is uh we are justified by Christ alone, by faith in him. Nothing else, nothing else we'll say. So if you're dealing with Jesus Anne, drop us the line, and you can do that by sending us an email to uh wmthen two guys at yahoo.com. That's wm athenumber two guys at yahoo.com. We love to hear from you.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Lord bless you. Have a great week until next time.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Take care, and we'll see you soon.