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April 23, 1989
The apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians in an attempt to address what amounted to spiritual espionage in the developing church with regard to Christian freedom. Alistair Begg helps us to understand the question of orthodoxy, the matter of urgency, and the picture of unity his letter conveyed. When we join hands not at the expense of truth but on the basis of it, we will be compelled to intentionally teach and clearly display the love of God shown through the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. 2I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those lwho seemed influential) the gospel that mI proclaim among the Gentiles, nin order to make sure I was not running or had not orun in vain. 3But even Titus, who was with me, pwas not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. 4qYet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who rslipped in to spy out sour freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, tso that they might bring us into slavery— 5to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that uthe truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. 6And from those vwho seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; wGod shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential xadded nothing to me. 7On the contrary, when they saw that I had been yentrusted with zthe gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised 8(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), 9and when James and Cephas and John, vwho seemed to be apillars, perceived the bgrace that was given to me, they cgave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10Only, they asked us to remember the poor, dthe very thing I was eager to do.
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