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Galatians Chapter Two
The only difference between the gospel of the Kingdom, preached by John the Baptist, Jesus Christ and the Twelve, in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and the gospel preached by Peter in the early part of the book of Acts is…that Peter’s gospel does not have a date. In other words, Peter says “repent and be baptized.” He says “repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing come, when Christ comes and all things are restored.” But he doesn’t say when that will be. In other words, he is preaching the Kingdom, he is offering the Kingdom, but he doesn’t say the Kingdom is AT HAND.
The reason he doesn’t say it is AT HAND is because of the Lord’s answer to their question in Acts chapter one. On the day the Lord ascended back into Heaven, the last question the disciples asked him is this:
Acts 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
Now if you look carefully at his answer you see that it leaves no room for the popular teaching of “replacement theology,” or the teaching that the church has replaced Israel. He simply answers their question with this:
Acts 1:7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
So it’s obvious then that the Kingdom will be restored again to Israel. We just don’t know, and neither did Peter know, the times and the seasons. As a matter of fact, Paul writes to the body of Christ and tells us what we need to know about that:
1 Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
So all of the current interest in world events in relation to the fulfillment of prophecy is just so much speculation on the part of writers and commentators and would be prophecy-preachers. Paul says that we have no need for further details about the times and seasons. The main reason being, we need to be concerned about the preaching of the gospel, because when the fullness of the Gentiles be come in…….the Church goes up. The Rapture will occur and we will be delivered from the wrath to come.
But in the book of Galatians there is a pressing problem for Paul. It was a problem then, and it continues to be a problem now. It is a blended, a mixed message. What was happening then, to the Galatians, is what is happening now in the majority of the fundamental, denominational Christian religions around the world. They are mixing LAW AND GRACE.
Now the problem didn’t stem from the leaders of the church in Jerusalem. James makes that plain in the letter they wrote to the members of Paul’s churches:
Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
In other words, “that certain which came from James” had no instructions whatever to instruct anyone to be circumcised and keep the law, but that is exactly what happened. So in Galatians chapter two, Paul is writing about the meeting which took place in Acts chapter 15:
Galatians 2:1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.
The fourteen years he is talking about here is a reference to being 14 years after the Lord appeared to him on the road to Damascus. We believe that happened in about AD 35 or 36. There are certain historical events which can be pinpointed with a reasonable degree of accuracy, such as Gallio being the deputy of the country in Corinth.
In Corinth Paul reasoned with the Jews in the synagogue, they opposed and blasphemed, so Paul goes into a mans house next door to the synagogue, and the Lord appears to him in a vision, telling him that He has “much people in this city” and Paul preaches there for a year and a half. Afterwards Paul is confronted by the Jews, and they haul him into court and he appears before Gallio, the deputy of Achaia.
Since the Roman proconsuls, the deputies, entered their office each July 1, it is very likely that Gallio took office on July 1, of A.D. 51 or A.D. 52. Historical records indicate that Gallio evidently did not remain in this office for too long because his stay was terminated by an attack of malaria. There is a reference to him and his official capacity in Corinth, in a written inscription.
The inscription was uncovered in about 1885 in Greece. It contains about eleven lines of writing, attributed to Claudius the Emperor. It refers to Gallio as “my friend.” Other evidence points to the first half of A.D. 52 as being the date of that record. So at about that time, Gallio took office in Achaia. Paul was in Corinth for 18 months preaching, and after this he “tarried there yet a good while.” So their stays in Corinth obviously overlapped and we have the actual date, within a year or two.
We know that Paul preached in Corinth for a year and six months. Taking into account a period of time it would take Paul and Silas to go through the cities and deliver the ordinances approved at the Acts 15 meeting, you would come backward to a date of about 49 or 50 AD, for the time of the meeting in Acts 15, which is the meeting we are looking at here in Galatians. It takes place 14 years after Paul was saved:
Galatians 2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
Now there are several things we need to note in this verse. First, look at the reason Paul says he “went up.” He says he went up “by revelation.” Now Paul has already said that he is not concerned with pleasing men. He said if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. So the reason for the trip is not to please men. The reason for Paul going to Jerusalem was number one, BY REVELATION. The Lord told him to go, and he told him to go for a reason: TO COMMUNICATE
This word, COMMUNICATE means to set forth, or to declare. When you communicate with others, you SHARE something with them. And that is exactly what Paul did. He went to Jerusalem and set forth, declared and shared with them, what? THAT GOSPEL WHICH I PREACH.
But notice what he did. He did it privately. Can you imagine the reaction in a town full of circumcised, law abiding, pork abstaining, Sabbath keeping Jews if he publicly went there and started to preach “You can be saved without being circumcised, without keeping the law, or without any kind of religious effort or activity of any kind simply by placing your faith in what Jesus Christ did for you on the cross?” So he went by revelation, not to get information, as religion would have you to believe, but to give information, and to give it privately so that his trip would not have been in vain. And besides all that he took an uncircumcised Gentile, a Greek, along with him:
Galatians 2:3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 2:5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
So there were some “false brethren” brought in. Now these were not false in the sense that they were UNBELIEVERS, they were false in the sense that they were not GRACE BELIEVERS, as this verse shows:
Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
So you see they were believers, but they were not “grace believers,” so Paul refers to them as false brethren. Now lets look for a moment at the truth of Paul’s gospel, and especially the message he preached to the Galation churches. His Galation ministry is in Acts 13 and 14. First of all note the makeup of his audience in the synagogue of the Jews:
Acts 13:16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.
Obviously then, his audience was the men of Israel and “ye that fear God,” a reference to the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue. Remember that they are consistently identified as Greeks in a King James Bible.
So as Paul preaches in Acts 13 he gives them, basically an overview of the history of the nation of Israel from the time Moses led them out of Egypt to Samuel the prophet, to David, the king of Israel, and then he says:
Acts 13:23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
Obviously when he refers to Israel in the verse he has in view “the commonwealth of Israel” because he then says:
Acts 13:26 Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.
Then he gives the account of the crucifixion of Christ and then he says:
Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead:
Acts 13:31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
In other words, his witnesses is a reference to the 12 apostles who are witnesses to the people, the people of the circumcision involved in Peter’s ministry.
Acts 13:32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,
Acts 13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Now come to verse thirty-six and notice the difference between Paul’s preaching here and Peter’s preaching earlier in the book of Acts. Notice Paul never says repent and be baptized for the REMISSION of sins:
Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Acts 13:39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
In the whole context in Acts 13, Paul has never once referred to circumcision. He has not preached the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. In fact he says that by simply BELIEVING that you ARE JUSTIFIED from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. Total justification by faith alone in the finished work of Christ, without the works of the law. As he said in Romans:
Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
When he says that Abraham is the father of us all he is referring not only to the Jews, but also to the God-fearing Gentiles who have faith in the God of Abraham. That is Paul’s consistent message throughout the book of Acts. This is the message he went to Jerusalem to COMMUNICATE unto them:
Galatians 2:6 But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
Galatians 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
Now religion, and theologians and bible revisionists have done everything within their power to change this, to hide this, to disguise it….but they just can’t get rid of it. They change the word OF to the word TO…in an attempt to make it appear that both Peter and Paul preached the same message but that Peter simply went to the Jews and Paul simply went to the Gentiles…with the same message.
That won’t work at all because you have just read where Paul preached in Acts 13 and he was preaching to MEN OF ISRAEL…that’s Jews…and whosoever among you feareth God…that’s Gentiles. Paul’s message is consistently to the Jew first and also to the Greek in all those synagogues of the Jews he goes into all the way through the book of Acts.
No, the gospel OF the uncircumcision is a SPECIFIC gospel. It is a DIFFERENT gospel than the gospel OF the circumcision. One message was committed to Peter and the other to Paul. Remember that Barnabas came to Antioch and “saw the grace of God?”
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
The gospel OF the uncircumcison predates the gospel OF the circumcision. First of all, it is in reference to an uncircumcised Gentile named Abram, before he was named Abraham and before he was circumcised. It goes all the way back to Genesis chapter twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen and up to Genesis chapter seventeen.
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis 17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
Genesis 17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
Genesis 17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
So here, in Genesis chapter seventeen, BEFORE God gives Abraham the covenant of circumcision, he changes his name to Abraham and tells him “a father of many nations have I made thee.”
So Paul preaches the gospel of Christ, salvation by grace alone through faith alone, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. He travels to many nations. He goes into the synagogues of the Jews and preaches to them and tells them:
Galatians 3:9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
They which be of faith are not only the natural descendents of Abraham who have faith, but also the Gentiles who have faith in the God of Abraham:
Galatians 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
So Paul has gone to Jerusalem, by revelation from the Lord, to set forth, declare, to communicate unto them his gospel and in verse seven it says THEY SAW that Paul had a different message than theirs. Now watch:
Galatians 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Now you should be able to see that there, in that private room, after Paul had preached to them, they saw and they perceived Paul’s DIFFERENT message. Now look at what they have done. They shake hands and make a “gentleman’s agreement,” so to speak, that they will NEVER AGAIN preach to anyone but those of the circumcision. They DO NOT go into all the world and teach all nations, baptizing them. You can go in search of the Apostles all you want but you won’t find them. In Acts chapter 12, Peter goes to another place and we are NEVER told where that is. We will find that he shows up in Antioch and Paul confronts him to his face because of what he did. Now look at this:
Galatians 2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Why are there poor saints at Jerusalem? Didn’t the Lord tell them to sell all that they owned and to take no thought? Didn’t he tell them to fear not?
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Luke 12:33 Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
Peter in the book of Acts had a powerful ministry. Mighty signs and wonders were done by the Apostles. There were miracles and healings and none of them lacked:
Acts 4:34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Acts 4:35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
So in the early part of the book of Acts the preaching and teaching was with great power and with signs and mighty wonders and nobody lacked anything….but now, there are collections going on for the poor saints at Jerusalem, the money had run out, but something else had happened too….the time had run out. The acceptable year of the Lord had ended and Israel had not repented. Peter had said, repent and be baptized every one of you….but every one of them did not. Christ had prayed on the cross, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” That prayer was answered with the acceptable year of the Lord, which can be seen here:
Luke 13:6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
Luke 13:7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
Luke 13:8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Luke 13:9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
So that year had gone by like clockwork in Acts one, two, three, four, five, six and seven. The apostles had pleaded with Israel to repent, but the leaders of Israel would not. The last straw was the preaching of Stephen in Acts chapter seven:
Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Somebody please show our Calvinist friends that the will of God is not irresistible. God WILL HAVE all men to be saved, but he does not force them against their will. The leaders of Israel resisted the Holy Ghost. This was blasphemy. Israel fell and never again, yet, has repentance been offered to Israel. So there began to be persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem, they were all scattered abroad, except the apostles and the book of James, chapter one, verse one, and 1 Peter chapter one, verse one are addressed to these people.
Saul of Tarsus is the ringleader of the persecution. And contrary to the opinion of some, he is not on the road to repentance, but on the road to Damascus to put believers in prison and have them put to death, when he suddenly and unexpectedly encounters Jesus Christ and there is a dramatic change in the course of events. James the apostle is killed in Acts chapter twelve, and Peter escapes the same fate by an angel letting him out of prison and he goes to another place. The only hint in the bible of where Peter might have went is here:
Galatians 2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
Galatians 2:12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
That certain which came from James is evidently this:
Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
So when the men from Judea come, Peter’s withdraws himself. It creates a big problem:
Galatians 2:13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
Remember that Barnabas had been with Paul throughout all his Galation ministry in Acts 13 and 14. But the legalists evidently struck fear into Barnabas too. If you are not firmly grounded and settled in the truth, the winds of doctrine will come and they will toss you about.
Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
Now the reason for Paul stating his case like he does here in the book of Galations is that the Galations were having the same exact problem that Paul had had to face at Antioch. The problem which had led to the meeting in Acts 15. So Paul continues with what he had said to Peter:
Galatians 2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
In other words, Peter, you and I are both Jews, natural Jews. We are not “sinners of the Gentiles” but we are no less sinners. The sinners of the Gentiles is a reference to the Jewish segregation, the fact that it was “an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company with one of another nation.” It doesn’t mean that either Peter or Paul would have thought they were not sinners, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Now in Peter’s case, he knows that his salvation is at the end. But he knows that he is being kept by the power of God. Peter understands that he is not justified by the works of the law, nevertheless he was told to keep the law and endure to the end. So Peter writes to the little flock:
1 Peter 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Peter’s doctrine, in the books of First and Second Peter, is decidedly different than Paul’s doctrine to the Body of Christ. Remember that Peter’s ministry is TO the circumcision and his message is the gospel OF the circumcision, which, particularly, is the Israel of God Paul refers to in Galations 6:16 and is a NEW nation and that the salvation of THAT nation, that royal priesthood is the CLEANSING, the atonement at the second coming of Christ. In our case we already HAVE the atonement that Israel will receive at the second coming. All salvation centers in the cross of Christ and is the result of the faith OF Christ. It was HIS faithfulness that resulted in our salvation.
Notice that the bible says that we are justified by THE FAITH OF CHRIST. It is not a salvatlion maintenance program demanding great faith IN Christ. Our justification rests in the faith OF Christ. Watch out for those “new, easy to understand” translations, because they cause you to MISUNDERSTAND whose FAITH it is that gets the job done. Now Paul is about to make an astonishing statement:
Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
So Paul is saying that WE seek to be justified by Christ. We in the body of Christ are justified by the finished work of Christ alone, apart from the works of the law or from any other performance based system. So if we place our faith totally in Christ alone and stop trying to work to gain salvation and while doing that we find that we are carnal, sold unto sin and we consciously TRY to do good but instead wind up with evil attitudes or evil motives and end up doing an evil we don’t want to do. Paul says, if we do that, does that make Christ the minister of sin. He says, God forbid. Don’t even think it.
Now this attitude of legalism was a big deal during Paul’s life time, but, is it any different at all right now? No, it’s the same old, arrogant, religious prideful carnal nature of man to think that somehow he can fix it. He can work it out. Or he can somehow help God or find favor with God by doing good or by being good, and on and on and on.
People say, “well, if I believed like you do I would go out and rob a bank. I would just go on and commit adultery.” Does that mean that they are already thinking about robbing a bank? Does it mean they are already toying around with adultery? As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he, the bible says.
Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever, in your life, taken something that was not yours to take? Have you ever looked upon someone to lust after them? Look at what Paul says in Romans:
Romans 2:21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
Romans 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Paul says that they desire to be teachers of the law, they boast in the law and don’t have a clue what they are talking about:
1 Timothy 1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
The law does not, has not, and never has had the power to save anyone. The law cannot save you. To put yourself under the law is to put yourself under a curse and your are cursed if you continue not in all things written in the book of the law TO DO THEM. James says:
James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Do you REALLY want to be under the law? Law and grace are two different things. It is either/or….you cannot have both. You either have grace or you have law. There is nothing in between. There were some slanderous reports being circulated about Paul. It is no different today:
Romans 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
In other words it’s as if the grace message is “go out and sin up a storm, God will just cover it with more grace, the more sin the more grace.” Is that REALLY what you think the message of grace is? Now back in the passage:
Galatians 2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
In other words, if our trusting in Christ alone for salvation could possibly be wrong, and it is not….then I know that if I were to put myself under the law it would be to say that Christ is the minister of sin. Trusting simply in the shed blood of Christ alone would make Christ the minister of sin IF it is true that I should abandon that simple faith alone and put myself back under the law. Which, if I do, I know that I make myself a transgressor because I know I have never and cannot ever keep the law perfectly. I either did wrong when I left the law or else I would do wrong to try to build back the things that were destroyed by my identity in Christ. So Paul is about to set forth his own position, which Peter can’t deny but instead can’t help consenting to: These are some MIGHTY POWERFUL words:
Galatians 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
So Paul says he is dead to the law. How is he dead to the law? By the body of Christ.
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
We know that the baptism in the passage is the identification by the Spirit. It is not a water baptism. Christ was not drowned in a baptistery, in a watery grave. He died on the cross and there was not a drop of water in sight. This is a Spirit baptism. It is an identification.
Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Buried with him BY BAPTISM INTO DEATH. The idea is planted, that is to say, united together with him, crucified with him:
Romans 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Now Paul has one more last thought. Legalists, Judaizers, religion of all types, by adding works to grace frustrate the grace of God:
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Think of it! The blood of God in the veins of the Lord Jesus Christ poured out and shed for nothing. God sent his son into the world to live a life of sorrow and pain and rejection and to suffer the cruelest death imaginable if…..all along we could have just tried a little harder, worked a little harder and get back to God by keeping the law. What a cruel and heartless God he would have to be if you could be righteous in the eyes of God by keeping the law. Christ would have died in vain.
It is the mark of a HEATHEN and of ALL RELIGION to offer the hope of salvation only to those who by works can attain it. If a man, by all that he could do could make himself righteous in the sight of God, why should Christ have to come down from Heaven and to die for our sins? If the price of salvation is any less by any means, then why did God give his Son?
It is not by works of righteousness that we have done or can do, but because of His mercy he saved us:
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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