Shingi's Bible Commentary: Galatians Chapter 2

[00:00:00] Speaker A: What place has the Ten Commandments in this? What place has the law of Moses in this? What place has thou shalt not. Thou shalt. Thou shalt not. Thou shalt have in this. There's no place in this, says the life that I now live in. This physical body says, I live by the faith, says it's the life of Christ. Why do you want to live according to a lesser glory? The word of God tells you that the law of Moses was a lesser glory. You have no business. You have no business. There is no Christian who has the business mixing the law of Moses with the faith of Jesus Christ. So now when you receive the word of God, it comes, and it gives you the boldness that you require to be able to deliver it and to stand for it. There's a joint death, and then this is buried together. That's the joint burial. Now there's a joint burial. What is crucified with that is a joint crucifixion. This is the gospel of identification. It says, like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we should walk in this newness of life. It says, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ lives 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. Yes. Welcome to Shingi's Bible Commentary. And we are going to get right into what we know how to do, which is look at what the Word says. I trust that you are blessed with Galatians Chapter one. We're gonna get right into Galatians Chapter two right now. So you know how we do it. If you listen to the previous one, we're gonna read the whole chapter first, right? We're gonna read throughout the whole chapter first, and then we're gonna come back and go through verse by verse. And then after we have done the verse by verse, we'll do a word study. We'll probably do a word study there, get into those details, and we'll try to give you as many details as possible, possible here on this Bible commentary so that you can get a fuller understanding, you know, of the context, the background, you know, so that you can know, so you can have a greater understanding of the Scriptures and the things that the Apostle Paul was communicating. We are now in Galatians Chapter two. And if you want some more background on this letter to the Galatians, to the Galatian Church, you just need to go to and listen to Galatians Chapter one, so that you can get more of the details. But I do recommend that you actually go through Galatians Chapter one so that you can get the context that we are bringing into Galatians Chapter two. Okay, so we're going to get right into it. Galatians chapter two, from verse one. Then 14 years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also, 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. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised, 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, to whom we gave place by subjection. No, not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with us. But of these who seemed to be somewhat whatsoever they were, it makes no matter to me, God, except no man's person. For they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me. But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. 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 only they would that we should remember the poor the same which I also was forward to do. But when Peter was come unto Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed 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 and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, if you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? Verse 15. We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 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. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I, through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God. For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. That's it right there. Galatians, chapter two. A beautiful, beautiful portion of Scripture that we're going to dive into now. We're going to go back now verse by verse, and we're going to pick up certain things, you know, by the Spirit of God that will stand out and that will communicate wisdom, communicate understanding, communicate knowledge, a higher knowledge, a higher revelation, a higher understanding of the Scriptures and of the Spirit, of the Scriptures and of the Spirit of the word hallelujah and of the Gospel of Christ that the Apostle Paul was communicating. Glory to God. So let's go to verse one. Okay, then 14 years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me also. So now, 14 years after, what is he talking about when he says 14 years after? So now Bible scholars have certain differences, but they're not major ones, on which timeline he was using here, which, which reference point in time he was using here to say 14 years after. So now let's, if we go to Galatians, chapter one, verse 15, you know, we can now, so, so some Bible scholars actually believe that it's either between 14 years after his conversion, or it is 14 years after he left the desert of Arabia and went to Jerusalem for the first visit. So now to give another back a background of the visits of Paul to Jerusalem, because a lot of what he's communicating here as well has to do with the number of visits that he went to Jerusalem. So, you know, for historical evidence purposes and for other purposes, so you can actually get to know in Paul's missions, in Paul's travels, how Many times did actually go to Jerusalem. Some of the scholars have these details, like, marked out. They're very. They're important details to have. So according to the. The evidence that we have, the AAPostle Paul made five visits to Jerusalem. All right? Five visits to Jerusalem. But the evidence that we also have shows us that the church that he was really. That he spent a lot of time with was the church that was in Antioch. Okay. Because that is where he was prayed for, that is where he was ordained, and so on and so forth and stuff for his second. For his second. For his second missionary journey. All right, cool. So what is he referring to here? 14 years after. Okay, so is it 14 years after the first visit? So now there's the first visit. Okay, when was the first visit? Let's read it here in Galatians Chapter one. And we can identify what that first visit to Jerusalem was and what he said about it. Okay? And then we can now see, was it the first visit? Was it the second visit? Was it the third visit, or was it the fifth visit? All right, okay. That he's referring to here when he wrote this letter to the Galatian church. All right, so it is estimated that this letter to the Galatians was written between AD50 and AD55, you know, that time. All right, AD50 and AD55, or maybe 80. Somewhere in the middle. Between AD50 and AD60, somewhere in the middle of that time period. That is when he wrote this church to Galatia. All right? So now he was telling them what had happened at the church with the Christians and the Christian Jews in Antioch. And he was now giving details as to where this challenge started with this gospel message, this gospel mixture that, you know, the Christian Jews were trying to impose on the Gentiles, okay? And now how it had crept away from Antioch. They thought that they had dealt with it in Jerusalem on one of his visits, you know, with the council in Jerusalem, which they called the council visit. So this is what they call the council visit that the Apostle Paul made to Jerusalem, where he was addressing this issue of where some of the Jewish Christians from the church in Jerusalem and the church in Judea were trying to force the Gentiles church to also observe and follow the law of Moses in order to be saved. Okay? So now the Apostle Paul now coming here and saying that, listen, there's a gospel message, all right? Why was the Apostle Paul so passionate about this thing? Because remember what he said in Galatians chapter one, in our Galatians Chapter one study, he said that the Gospel that I preached it says it is not after men says, neither was I taught, it says, but by revelation, by apocalypses of Jesus Christ. So now he's saying that I have a responsibility from Jesus Christ himself to communicate this message and what you are telling us and what you are telling everybody or the Gentiles church, well, in Antioch and in Galatia, so that they might follow the law of Moses and also observe, you know, the Christian doctrine for them to be saved says that that is false, okay? So now he comes here with some strong arguments saying that, listen, I went by revelation, I got this gospel. No man taught me this message, right? And when Jesus Christ was appearing to me by apokalupsis, I'll show you. Remember in Galatians chapter one, what we revealed there, what we saw there is that the apostles, the disciples that Jesus chose, spent three years with Jesus Christ before his death, burying resurrection, okay? And then after his resurrection, in his replacement of the. Of the. Of the bishopric of Judas, which the scripture through the mouth of David was spoken, that his bishopric shall someone else take. All right? And then remember Peter and the other disciples in the upper room before the Holy Spirit came, right? They now cast lots and the lots fell on Matthias. And then they appointed Matthias as the replacement of Judas, okay? But the scripture now the Holy Spirit had not yet come to start the church. So now if you listen to Galatians chapter one, you actually find out how who actually, okay, was the replacement of Judas as the 12th disciple. And then now the apostle Paul. Now, like that detail is very important because after, after his resurrection. After his resurrection, the AAPostle Paul spent three years in the desert of Arabia, where he said by apokalupsis, all right? He received the gospel message for three years. So it would be only right to say that because of this, the apostle Paul was Jesus's replacement and choice for the bishopric of Judas and not the apostle Matthias, okay? Because the disciples spent three years with Jesus before his death and resurrection. And then the apostle Paul and obviously in that transition, one of the apostles was lost, okay? And then now in that transition, now on the other side of the death of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ comes back and appears by apokalupsis to the apostle Paul in the desert of Arabia for three years. That three years detail is very key, which now further validates the apostleship of the apostle Paul as the replacement for the bishopric of Judas that the Spirit of God through the mouth of David spake, that his bishopric shall another take, okay? So that scripture must needs be fulfilled, okay? And it was fulfilled in the apostle Paul. Glory to God. Okay, all right, now let's. You see it here. You see that detail here? Okay, says. But verse 15. So now we need to figure out 14 years from when. Okay, but this. This context here will give us an idea of which one is most likely to be the year that. That The. The detail of the year that the Apostle Paul was referring to when he said after 14 years in Galatians, chapter two, verse one. Okay, let's read from here. It says, but when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his. When was that? That was in Acts, chapter 9, when he encountered Jesus. And in verse 17, Ananias went and laid his hands on Paul and scales fell off his face, and he received the Holy Spirit and got born again. Okay, so he got born again there. So now that's why he's referring to here. When it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace says, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, neither went I up to Jerusalem. So he says, when that happened, so clearly he could be referring to 14 years from his conversion. Okay, but let's continue to read and find out what is he referring to when he says after 14 years? Okay, so he says then three years after he was three years in the desert of Arabia having apocalypses with Jesus Christ, Jesus was appearing unto him. And that's where Jesus Christ taught him the word, taught him the gospel message. All right? So now when these. These Jewish Christians from the church in Judea and the church in Jerusalem came unto Antioch and said, no, this gospel of yours is false. Okay? Paul, that's why Paul was very bold. Glory to God. Why? Because he had received the gospel message from Jesus himself. So you see, where Paul's confidence was coming in his calling, where Paul's confidence was coming in his message, where Paul's confidence was coming in. All right, so now when you receive the word of God, it comes, and it gives you the boldness that you require to be able to deliver it and to stand for it. Even as a child of God in this generation, you have to stand boldly and declare the truth of the gospel and declare the truth of the word of God. In that word, there is the boldness that you require. In that word, there is the strength that is required. In that word, there is the power that you require. Remember Triumph. Now, I'm referencing triumph here. I didn't mean to reference triumph. Okay, okay, Anyway, so remember what we shared, you know, on this platform again, what we said is that the word of God is the power of God in writing. So in that word, that word of God is what you need. And that word of God is what the Apostle Paul had because he received it by apokalupsis. And he went about and he turned the Asia Minor right side up. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:16:41] Speaker A: So that's why. That's where he got his boldness from. So now, 2,000 years later, we are here and we have the same message. The message hasn't changed. The message still has the same power. The message still has the same authority. The message still has the same grace. The message still has the same efficacy. [00:16:59] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:17:00] Speaker A: As it had back then with the apostles. [00:17:03] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:17:04] Speaker A: In the first church. Amazing. Okay, it says, then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him 15 days, but other of the apostles. Now, this is the first visit. Okay, so that's the first visit after he came back from Arabia. He says he went up to Jerusalem. So this. So now there's the. Remember the. The official visits that we have recorded in history. We say that there are five of them. Okay, so there's what. There's this first visit, and then there's the second visit, which they said it was the relief visit of the Apostle Paul to Jerusalem, where there was a drought and a famine in that region in Jerusalem. So from Antioch, the Apostle Paul championed to go and deliver a relief aid to the Christians and the church in Jerusalem. That was the second visit. And then the third visit is the council visit, where he went now to address this issue of this mixture gospel where you can now, in order for you to be saved, you know, you must observe the law of Moses. You know, he said, jesus didn't share with me that salvation is going to come through the works of the law. Okay, so that was the council visit. All right. And then afterward, there's the fourth visit that came. That had to do with the fourth visit. Had to do with him coming on his way back from his second missionary journey. The scholars believe that it was not a visit per se, but he was. He passed through Jerusalem and he gave them a report where he gave them a report of the things that the Lord had done in the region in his previous mission trip. And then he went back to Antioch. And then the fifth visit, that's the visit where he went to Jerusalem and there was trouble in one of the. In the temple. Okay. And the Apostle Paul, that's where he got arrested and was later on transferred to go to Rome where he wrote the other letters while he was in prison. Okay, so there was a. There was a riot in that temple. Okay. And I would. Why would Paul be arrested for the riot in the. I trust. I believe that. Obviously they said somebody set him up and to get him arrested because some of the Jews there did not like this message of his. Okay. Because, you know, you need to understand the hostility that Christians were facing there. Okay. And how people were the betrayals. So it was a very tricky time that the first church was existing in. Okay, so it Sundays, then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem. That's the first visit. Okay, all right, so now is it 14 years. Is it 14 years after this first visit? Okay, and then let's continue to read. Okay, Says then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and I bought with him 15 days. But other of the apostles saw I none save James, the Lord's brother. Now, the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Afterward, I came into the regions of Syria, Cilicia, as ours unknown by faith unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ. But they had heard only that he which preached, which persecuted us in time past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. And they glorified God in me. Then it says, then 14 years after I went up to Jerusalem. So it's 14 years after when it seems like it's 14 years after his first visit. That's probably what he's referring to. So from the time of his conversion, I.e. aD 33, between AD 33 and AD 36. And then he says three years after he. Three years he was in the desert of Arabia. That is probably AD 49, AD 39 or AD 40. All right? Then he went to Jerusalem. So probably his first visit to Jerusalem was in A.D. 40. All right, and then he says 14 years later. Okay, which would make that, what, A.D. 54. All right. Or A.D. 55. That's probably when he went to do the second. All right, the. The third. That was the third. All right, because here is his reference of 14 years later is in reference to the Council visit. Okay? So in between that. In between between that 14 years, there was another visit. Okay, that he said was a relief visit. Okay. So it's not really clear whether this one that he refers where he only saw Peter was the relief visit. That could be possible as well. That. This one, when he said that was the relief visit. Okay. That also is a possibility. You know, there's not much detail about it, but we do know that there was a relief visit. Okay, so was it 14 years after the relief visit, or was it. Is it 14 years or after the first visit? Okay, so you have to do a little bit more research and to come up with a conclusive argument that sits well with you. All right. In understanding. Okay, But I would like to, after my research, I would like to believe that it is the 14 years after this first visit. And then after this first visit, there's the famine, okay, where he went and he did a relief visit. And then a few years back, a few years after that, that's when he went and he did the council visit that he's now talking about here in Galatians, chapter two. Okay, so now let's continue to read. Galatians, chapter two. Says, and I went up by revelation. Says I went up by revelation. [00:22:43] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:22:44] Speaker A: He says, fourteen years after, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation and communicated unto them the gospel which I preached among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run or have run in vain. What is he saying here? He says that this message, there's a particular message that the Lord Jesus Christ that by revelation I received, I went to deliver that gospel that I had received from the Lord Jesus Christ by revelation. [00:23:18] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:23:19] Speaker A: Says it's by that revelation. When he says revelation here, what revelation do you think is making reference to it? He's making reference to the one here In Galatians, chapter 1, verse 12. Says, for neither received it, I of men says, neither was I taught it, but by revelation of Jesus Christ. Okay, Hallelujah. Okay, so he's saying, by that revelation of Jesus Christ where he received the gospel in the desert of Arabia for three years. He said, now I went up to Jerusalem by that revelation and I communicated that gospel message. And that's the same message that I was preaching to the Gentiles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:23:56] Speaker A: That's so amazing. And I went up by revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which I preached among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run or should have run in vain. Verse 3 says, but neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. Says, and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which have which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage. So now there are two thoughts of which. Which of these gentlemen is he referring to? Okay, so now when we go to Acts chapter 15, we'll see that before they actually went up for that council visit, there was certain brethren that came from the church in certain Jews that came from the church, Christian Jews that came from the church in Judea. Okay, Is he making reference to them or is he making reference to certain of these Pharisees, A sect of these Pharisees that came and infiltrated the meeting of that council, all right, and was trying to stir up, all right, the council to ensure that they give instruction to Paul and Barnabas to go back to the Gentiles and tell them to observe the law of Moses. So it's either one or the other, okay, that he's making reference to. So with that note, let's go to Acts chapter 15 so that we can actually see who is he making reference to when he's talking about this, because he did not have kind words to say about these people. Okay? All right, so let's finish what he had to say about them before we go to Acts chapter 15. And then. But I think he's referring to the sect of the Pharisees that came in because of the description that he gives here. Let's look at the description and then let's go to Acts chapter 15 and see who fits that description. Okay? All right, Says. And that because of false brethren, he called them false brethren. False brethren, okay? Mark that phrase. False brethren. Because of false brethren, unawares brought in, they were brought in, okay? And the Apostle Paul was saying that we had not. We had no knowledge of that these people were going to. So it was sort of like an ambush how these people just came in and hijacked the meeting, the council meeting, okay? We brought in Says who came in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus that they might bring us into bondage to whom we gave place by subjection, because we were there under the authority of the council. So now that now reveals to you that I believe that he was referring to the council of the sect of the Pharisees that hijacked that council meeting, okay? He said that now they wanted to now influence the council, the authority, okay, the leaders of the church in Jerusalem to give instruction that Paul and Barnabas should not preach this Gospel, that the Apostle Paul had been preaching to the Gentiles, which he received by apocalypsis from Jesus Christ, but rather that they should observe the law of Moses together, mix it, okay? So they wanted to kind of bring that gospel message that the Apostle Paul was preaching to an end. Okay? All right, so let's continue. It says, to whom we gave place by subjection, he says, I had to submit to the authorities of the people that were there, to the leaders that were there. So it says, I gave place by subjection. Says, no, not for an hour that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. So he says he opposed them, okay? He says he didn't even. He did not even give them an hour, all right? To, to. He didn't give them time, okay, to persuade people with this message that they wanted to. To. To impose on the freedoms of the Christians of that time, okay? Says, but of these who seemed to be somewhat. Listen, now his description says, but of these who seem to be somewhat says whatsoever they were, okay? Who is this? So now those other gentlemen that you will read of right now, the Christians, the Jewish Christians from Judea, I don't think that he would have. The Bible says that he did have some disputes with those ones, but I don't think he would have this strong language for those guys. I think it is the sect of that Pharisees that came and hijacked that cancel meeting that he's describing here because of the strong language and the strong communication stance that he's giving here. Okay, all right, so now what is the challenge here? Okay, so now there's this challenge about this gospel message that some of the Jews want to impose on the Gentile Christians that they should observe the law of Moses that the Apostle Paul is fighting against. So it was. It started. They brought it into Antioch first, okay, when they heard that the church is there in Antioch. All right, okay. And then clearly this message continued to happen and it infiltrated the Galatian church. Okay? And this Galatian church is the church that the Apostle Paul had planted, okay, from his mission trip, his first mission trip, okay, where he now planted this church in Galatians, all right, to the Galatians. And then, so this message of the law of Moses mixed with the faith of Jesus Christ for salvation is what now he was challenging them, saying, so how did this get to you? Okay, let me tell you where this story began, and let me detail to you how I actually went to the council, to the leaders in Jerusalem to address this matter. And I preach this gospel to them. And this is the true gospel message, the one that I received, the one that I preached unto you. So don't believe this other gospel all right, so that's why you find in Galatians, chapter one, it says, if anyone comes with you with another gospel than that which I preached unto you, let them be accursed. Strong communication, strong warnings. Okay? All right, so that is the challenge that he's. That is the backdrop of where he's writing this letter from, okay? This message of the law, okay? Thou shalt not do this, thou shalt do that. Thou shalt do this, Thou shall not do that. Okay? All right? Those thou shalt nots the law of Moses trying to be justified, but fulfilling the laws that God gave to Moses, okay? He's now saying, no faith in Christ alone is what gives a man justification and righteousness before God and right. Standing before God, not by the works of the law. Okay, all right, so now who are these guys, I believe is the sect of the Pharisees that hijacked the council meeting, okay? It says, but of these who seemed to be somewhat. So obviously, they probably came in an entourage of some sort, all right? And says whatsoever they were. So clearly they were of some reputation, okay? In the. In the churches there, they had gained some reputation. They had kind of infiltrated in the leadership, and they were voicing these concerns that, no, yes, believe in Jesus. Yes, believe in Jesus. But every time you hear that, okay, you should. Now this. This spirit that was in Paul should rise up in you. Glory to God. Okay? Yes, believe in Jesus Christ. But so now they were coming in. They were infiltrating the leadership in the church in Jerusalem, and they hijacked that council meeting because they knew of the. They probably would have heard of the impact and the power and the miracles that this gospel that the apostle Paul was preaching had been doing, okay? Says whatsoever they were. It makes no matter to me. God accept no man's person says. God is no respecter of any man's person, okay? So for they who seemed to be somewhat. They seem to be of some level of importance. So they probably came with a lot of intimidation in that meeting, okay? They came with a lot of intimidation, okay? Says in conference, added nothing to me. Says they came and they came with to attack this message, but they added nothing to me, says, but contrary, wise, when they saw that the gospel of the circumcision was committed unto me as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter. For he that wrote effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles. Okay? And then. Now let's go to Acts, chapter 15. Before we get to verse nine to see who. Which of these guys was he referring to? Acts, chapter 15. Was it the Christians from. From the church, the Jewish Christians from the church in Judea? Or was it this sect of the Pharisees that hijacked the council meeting? Okay, Acts chapter 15, verse 1. So now that Galatians chapter 2, that first part, or from verse 1 all the way to verse 8, he's making. He's talking about this encounter here that we're now about to read in. In Acts chapter 15. Okay, so that's what he's talking about. So that's why we're going to it. All right, cool. Acts 15, one says, and certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren and said, except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. So in Galatians chapter, is he referring to these guys? It's possible. Maybe he's including them in the same. You know, he's grouping them as one group of people with one group of messages. But then the thing is that the council in Jerusalem denied that they sent these people. All right? They distanced themselves. They said, we had nothing to do with these guys coming to Antioch and preaching the Gospel. So now remember Acts chapter 9. The apostle Paul is saved, and then he goes to the desert of Arabia for three years. He has apocalypses of Jesus Christ, visitations from Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ gives him this gospel message. Why would Jesus Christ do that? Because he understands that the Jews, the disciples, the twelve, the Jewish Christians, their message had been compromised and their message will be compromised. So God, in his wisdom, now had to raise up somebody who was not from among them. Because you will see here in Acts chapter 15, how these disciples, these apostles of Jesus, how they had been compromised by this sect of the Pharisees, and how they were compromising the message of the salvation that is of faith in Jesus Christ. So the Apostle Paul was God's wisdom to now to what? To counter that? That was God's wisdom to counter that. So the gospel message that Jesus Christ died, was buried, and was raised for could flourish and continue. And he used the bishopric of Judas, replacing Judas with the apostle Paul and giving him the grace and the abundance of these revelations by apokalupsis in the desert of Arabia for three years, okay, so that he could now have the boldness to withstand. All right, the attacks that the gospel message was going. Was under in the first church. Okay, I trust that you get that. Okay. So it says, when, therefore, Paul and Barnabas. So now what I was saying is that they, they. Acts chapter nine, that's his conversion, that is AD 33, 36. That's when he got saved. He spends three years in the desert of Arabia and then he goes, and then he visits Paul and, and James, and then he comes back and then he goes for the relief visit and then he comes back to Antioch. But then before he, before all those visits, in between all those visits, actually, he now went for his first mission trip. Okay, he went for his first mission trip, and then he. When he came back from his first. From his first mission trip, how did he get to go to his first mission trip after the prophets and teachers in Acts, chapter 13 here, I'll read it to you. The first verse says, now they were in the church that was at Antioch, all right? Certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon, that was called Nigeria or Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene and the Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the Tetriach and Saul, as they ministered unto the Sunnah, these prophets and teachers, now as they ministered unto the Lord, the Holy Spirit said, separate me, Barnabas and Saul, for the work where unto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and they sent them away. And then they went on the mission trip. And then after they came back from the mission trip, that's when these guys here in Acts chapter 15 had come to Antioch from Judea and they were saying, yeah, we know that the Apostle Paul told you, you know, that just believe in Jesus Christ, but for you to be saved, you need to be circumcised. Okay, verse 2. When therefore, Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question, okay? So clearly there was this. It was a big issue. It was a big issue and it needed to be addressed, okay? And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenix and Samaria declaring conversion of the Gentiles, and they caused great joy unto all the brethren. Okay? So now from that encounter with these Christians from Judea, these Jewish Christians from Judea, they now went to the count to see the council in Jerusalem, that is the council visit of the Apostle Paul to Jerusalem that he's now writing, explaining to the Galatians in Galatians chapter two of what happened there. And here Luke the physician, who is supposedly the guy that wrote Acts, is now detailing the same incident here. Okay, all right, so now let's read. So now there's the first guys from Judea. These Jews says, and when they were come to Jerusalem, that is Paul and Barnabas. Now. Now this is the council visit, which is the third visit, okay, that the Apostle Paul made to Jerusalem. Okay? All right. Says now when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all the things that God had done with them. Verse 5. But they rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees. So now these guys, I think these are the ones that he's addressing here in this kind, with this aggression in Galatians, chapter two. I think these are the guys. I think they fit the criteria because they would have the agenda, all right? They would have an agenda with this that is beyond just, you know, misinformation. The misinformation of the Jewish Christians from the church in Judea that came to Antioch and were saying, you need to observe the law of Moses to be saved. Okay? So these ones would have a greater agenda. So that is why they got this kind of recognition. In this letter from Paul, he says, but of these who seemed to be somewhat. Okay, he says of these who seem to be somewhat. Because here the way now that the Bible gives us a description of who these guys and how they came and says, but they rose up, all right, 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. Ah, okay, so now these are the guys that the Apostle Paul, he says that whatsoever they were, it makes no matter to me God, except no man's person. For they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me. So now he's talking about this confrontation with the council and this sect of the Pharisees that believed that wanted to impose this. Imposed the law of Moses on the gospel of Christ. Okay, so what am I. What does this. What does this reveal to us? Okay, The Apostle Paul, who was. Was vehemently and passionately opposing for the law of Moses to be mixed with the Gospel, with the faith message of the Gospel of Christ. So why would you want to do that now? Why would you want to include the law of Moses in your faith in Christ, in your salvation in Christ? When you see the Apostle Paul, who said, I received this message by apokalupsis, he said, I received this message by apokalupsis of Jesus. Jesus Christ taught me this message and how he fought against the law being imposed on Christians. How the law of Moses should not be imposed on Christians. But you have Christians today who are insisting on the law of Moses on Christians. If you're going to learn anything from this Bible commentary, that is a big one. That is probably the biggest one. That is probably the biggest lesson that you should learn from this Bible commentary and this study. How the Apostle Paul was vehemently fighting against the law of Moses being mixed with the faith of Jesus Christ. You have no business. You have no business. There is no Christian who has the business mixing the law of Moses with the faith of Jesus Christ. That's what the Apostle Paul. That is why these letters are so important. Okay, all right. Because that is the whole letter. The whole letter to the Galatian Church is to oppose the law of Moses on Christians. So there is no Christian today that should be trying to put things of the law of Moses to mix it with your Christian faith. As beautiful and as amazing and as powerful as those things that are of the law of Moses are as glorious as the Bible says that they had glory. The law has its own glory. That glory that was shining on the face of Moses. So there is a glory in it, but there's a greater glory that the Lord Jesus Christ brought to us with the gospel. So why do you want to mix it? That's what the Apostle Paul is fighting here. Why you cannot mix these two. They are of a different glory. Why do you want to live according to a lesser glory? The word of God tells you that the law of Moses was a lesser glory. So I don't know what kind of confusion you'll be under to want to mix both. I don't know what deception you're under, because the Scriptures, the Bible, the scriptures here are showing you, all right, the fight that the Apostle Paul had to go through so that you can live in the fullness of the freedom of the Gospel, of what Jesus Christ paid for you. And then you have other Christians that still want to put that yoke on you today, 2,000 years later. But thank God for the Bible. Hallelujah. We can study and go through it and continue to live in the freedom of what Jesus Christ paid for us. With his own blood. With his own blood. With his own blood. Okay, let's continue. Let's do this quickly. Okay? But they 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. And the apostles and the elders came Together for to consider this matter. Hi, the leaders now. Okay, these sect has now infiltrated the leadership. And this is. And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up. Okay, what happened with when Peter rose up? Let's hear the Apostle Paul's account on when Peter rose up. Acts, Galatians, chapter two. I will read from verse nine. And when James, Cephas, that is Peter. All right. 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, only they would that we should remember the poor, the same which I also was forward to do. Now, when did this happen? Yes, the Apostle Peter here in Acts chapter 15 from verse seven. Okay. And James in Acts chapter 15 from verse 13. Okay, so now that is what you know, the Apostle Paul is talking about in Galatians chapter two there from verse nine. All right. From verse nine to ten. Okay. From verse nine to ten. All right, let's read what the Apostle Peter Cephas said here. All right. And when there had been much disputing, remember much disputing, why he says that we were brought, we gave them audience by subjection, by the subjection of the authority of the leaders that were there in the council, says, but we didn't do it for an hour. So there was much disputing, says we couldn't do it for so that we might fight for our freedom. Haha. [00:46:40] Speaker B: Oh, hallelujah. [00:46:41] Speaker A: Says we're fighting for our freedom in Christ. Oh, thank God for the Apostle Paul. Okay. It says Peter rose up and said unto them, men and brethren. You know how that a good while ago God made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel and believe. And God, which knows the hearts, bear them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost even as he did unto us, and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. Ah, so now the Apostle Peter is now preaching the same gospel. All right. He's now bringing a defense. He says he gave. That's why the Apostle Paul here says that James, Cephas and John, who seem to be pillars, says they gave unto me right hands of fellowship unto me and Barnabas right hands of fellowship. All right, how is that? Is that they supported him right? Hands of oneness. They were one with me during that council meeting. Okay, that's what he's saying here. And it's also Detailed here in Acts 15. He says, now therefore, why tempt ye, God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Says, why tempt ye, God? Yes, you must be born again. Yes, you must speak in tongues. You must be filled with the spirit. You must go to church. But also you must observe the law of Moses. You must not do. You can't. Because it's the law of Moses. That was not the purpose. The law of Moses was to expose sin. You can't do it. You have to be circumcised. Then. Now you have to observe all the law, all of them. It's not just the Ten Commandments. You have to observe all of them. He who observes the law says, you must live by all of them. And then he says, even we ourselves, as the Jews says, we couldn't even keep them ourselves. Why do you want to impose it on the Gentiles also? That's what the Apostle Peter is saying here, says, now, therefore, why tempt ye, God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to even bear to carry? It was too much, this thing that you want to hold on to. But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. This is the right hand of fellowship that the Apostle Paul is talking about that Peter gave to him. And Barnabas says, then all the multitude kept silence, fear. They were not sure, and some of them did not agree. Okay, all right. Let's see now. James, testimony, James, right hands of fellowship. Okay, verse 13 says, and after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, men and brethren, hearken unto me. Simeon had declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles to take out of them a people for his name. Hey, I'm a part of those people. [00:49:46] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:49:47] Speaker A: I'm a people for his name. I am a people for God's name. I am a people for the name of Yeshua. [00:49:55] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:49:56] Speaker A: Oh, glory to God. Okay, all right. And then it says, and to this I agree. It says, and to this agree, verse 15. And to this agree, the words of the prophets says. To this agree the words of the prophets. Oh, my goodness. Now he's quoting Scripture. Says, after this, says the prophets, as it is written, after this I will return and will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen down, and I will build again the ruins thereof. I will set it up that the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. The Apostle James now quotes this scripture, quotes this prophecy, says, but that we. Okay, and then it says, wherefore my sentence is my judgment? And this is the Apostle James says, wherefore my sentence is that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God. Okay? That is James's right hand of fellowship here. We don't have account of. Of John's right hand of fellowship in the book of Acts, okay? But the Apostle Paul said that he did give his support, all right, he did give his support. But then now James said that. Let's write them a letter, okay? And then let's write them a letter. Verse 22. Then it then pleased it, the apostles and elders and the whole church to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas, okay? Because some of them, there was a lot of fear. Nobody really wanted to come out. So the Apostle James, this suggestion that he had that, yeah, just write them letters, okay? Just write them letters that they abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood. They must just, you know, keep it tidy. You say, okay, they must keep the whole law, be circumcised and keep the. He says they must just, you know, stop doing these other things. All right, all right. And then they'll be fine. They'll be sharp. Okay. All right. Okay. So you see the. The challenges that the Gospel message was going through with the early church and how the people there that were standing up. The Apostle Paul was standing up for the Gospel message even amongst his own brethren. Even amongst his own brethren, okay? So the responsibility continues even today. Glory to God, it says. And they wrote letters by them. After this manner, the apostles and elders and the brethren send greeting unto the brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia. For as much as we have heard and certain which went out from us have troubled you with words subverting your soul, saying you must be circumcised and keep the law. To whom we gave no such commandment. It's. Now they're distancing themselves from those guys that came from the church in Judea, okay? So now they're saying that, all right, this is very. What is written in this letter is very key, okay? So now they're taking a stance as the council, okay, that we will not impose the law of Moses on the Gentiles. Okay, we won't do that. If anybody is coming to you and telling you about. Says, it is not coming from us, the council. All right? It's not coming from us, the leaders in the church in Jerusalem. Okay? So now that is the letter that was sent. Okay, Says. And mark that detail as well, okay? And keep it at the back of your mind. Says, it seemed good to us being assembled with one accord to send chosen men unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, men that have hazarded their lives for the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things that you abstain from meats of offered to idols. So now, okay, we're gonna. Yeah, don't worry about circumcision and the law, but let's just. We're gonna give you certain things that you need to abstain from, all right? Even that. The Apostle Paul was very opposed to that. Okay? But remember, he had to be humble and also submit to the judgment of the council of the time. But then you'd find that in these other epistles, he attacked these things. He even attacked. This letter says, let no man judge you on meat and on noondays and on Sabbath days. [00:54:47] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [00:54:48] Speaker A: Says, but just. You know why? Because all you need is faith in Christ alone. Okay? And why did the Apostle Paul continue with that? Because that is the message that he received from Jesus Christ himself. So there's a message that the Apostle Paul received from Jesus Christ personally. And then there's a message of the Gospel that these apostles and disciples were now trying to bring in to mix with the gospel. That is the fight that the Apostle Paul was dealing with here. Okay, all right. Okay. It says, abstain from things offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication, from which I. If you keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. All right. And then they were dismissed. And so on and so forth. Okay, great. So now that was the council visit of the Apostle Paul that he addresses here in Galatians, chapter two. That's what happened there in a different account from Acts 15 as we have read it. Okay, so now, what was that? Now the conclusion, and so on and so forth. So now verse 11. Now things get interesting. So now after this council visit and when Judas and Silas were sent with Paul and Barnabas back to the churches and to the Gentile churches with the letter. Okay, you can go and finish acts chapter 15, because we still need to go through and finish this Galatians study. So you find out what happened there, so on and so forth. So now what happened is, what happened is that after Paul, Barnabas, Judas and Silas came with that letter. Sometime afterwards, the Apostle Peter went to Antioch to visit the churches there and to visit Paul and the church in Antioch. And that is when things took a different turn and Paul and Peter clashed, all right? And Barnabas also got rattled by the same situation. And Paul and Barnabas relationship got strained and they later on parted ways in a good way, you know, and the Apostle Paul now went on the other mission trip to go visit the other churches with Silas. Okay? All right, so you also see that as you continue to read Glory. So now things took a. So now here, what is going on? In verse 11, Galatians, chapter 2, the apostle Peter has come to visit, you know, the church in Antioch. And now he's fellowshipping with the brethren. Now, the church in Antioch, remember, these are Gentiles, okay? These are Gentiles. The church in Galat in Antioch, they're Gentiles there, okay? So now the Apostle Peter comes for the visit. But then what happens is that James, shortly afterwards also comes with some brethren, also some Jewish Christians from Jerusalem. And then when James comes, the apostle. Let's read what the Apostle Paul said happened, okay? And then you can see why this became an issue. Verse 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed, okay, to be blamed for what? Okay, to be blamed for this confusion. Now, okay, remember there was a letter that came, okay? And everybody said that it is cool. No issues. Just make sure that the Gentiles don't eat things that are strangled to idols, they abstain from fornication, and so on and so forth. Simple rules. Do you understand? So we are cool. We are all saved. Peter the same Peter, right? He said that through the vision and what God showed him when he ministered to the Gentiles, that how he had made the Gentiles one with us in Christ. Okay? So now when he visits the Apostle Paul, okay, the Apostle Paul thinks, oh, we are cool. We can all fellowship together. All right, now. But what happened? Says he was to be blamed because what he said at the council meeting, I remember I told you, Mark, what the Apostle Peter said, all right? Mark that. So what he said at the council meeting regarding the Gentiles, okay? And Then how he started to act or respond in Antioch when Christians, Jewish Christians from Jerusalem came to Antioch after him. It was not his declaration. His stance and his actions were not aligned. Okay? That is what the Apostle Paul was angry about. Okay, let's hear. So he says, for he was to be blamed because now he's saying that what you said at the council and the letter that we came with, all right, and what we had agreed from that meeting, right, with the whole council, there should not be a problem here. But you now are causing further confusion because you're now acting differently from the things that you said, all right, Regarding the Gentiles before the council and the whole agreement that the leadership at the council came up with regarding Christian Jews and Christian Gentiles and Gentile Christians, that there is no difference between the two. So now that is why the Apostle Paul is saying that Peter is to be blamed because he started to cause this confusion, all right, between the Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians in Antioch. Okay? So it says, but when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed. He was to be blamed for that same thing. All right, Says for before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles. So he says when before certain came from the Apostle James, that is probably from Jerusalem, certain Jewish Christians from Jerusalem, before they came, Peter was fellowshipping and eating with us. We were all one, like he had said. But then when they came, he started to act like, you know, he says he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. So clearly there's a problem here because Peter is still afraid. He's still afraid. He's still afraid with this thing. It's taking time. It's taking time for a lot of the apostles and the disciples to accept that the Gentiles were now a part of God's people through Jesus Christ. Okay, yes, they're very different. The way of life was very different. Cultures and traditions were different. But we all want people in Christ. And the Apostle Paul had understood this message in a greater, obviously in a greater revelation than a lot of the apostles, the disciples and the leaders of the church in Jerusalem did. Okay? Which is why he obviously got the grace that he got to write all these letters to explain to us. To explain to us. To explain to us the revelation of the Gospel of Christ and the church of Jesus Christ through the Epistles, okay, says and the other Jews dissembled likewise with him in so much that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. So the apostle Paul is blaming Peter for starting this thing where now, when certain Jews come from, James and stuff, they were now afraid of them for fear of them. They now began to act differently in Antioch. All right, with the Christians there, okay? That was what Paul was now attacking. Says even Barnabas was also carried away with their dissimulation. But Barnabas is the one that traveled with the apostle Paul and saw how God filled the Gentiles with the Holy Spirit, how they were cleansed, how they were purified. The apostle Peter said that they were purified in the heart like as we were, and now are part of the family of God. Okay, says verse 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 you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews, why are you compelling you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? Okay, he's saying that this is kind of hypocritical, okay? This is hypocritical behavior. You're saying one thing and you're asking the Gentiles to live as the Jews. But then when you're with the Gentiles, you're living as with the Gentiles, but you're a Jew, right? And then. But then when other Jews show up, you want to pretend, okay, like you're not with the Gentiles in that way, that you don't mix with the Gentiles in that way. So that's what the apostle Paul is calling out here. Verse 15 says, we who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles, 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 the apostle Paul here, he starts to preach the message. [01:04:24] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:04:25] Speaker A: That he received by apokalupsis of Jesus Christ for three years in the desert of Arabia as Jesus Christ appeared to him, he now begins to give the details, the technicalities, how the apostle Paul understood the Gospel. He understood it. Oh, my goodness. Okay, Say that by the deeds of the Lord there shall no flesh be justified, only through the faith of Christ. [01:04:49] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:04:51] Speaker A: Through the faith of Christ. [01:04:52] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:04:53] Speaker A: Do you believe in Jesus Christ? He Says, you are justified. You are justified. [01:04:57] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:04:58] Speaker A: You are complete in him. So now he begins to expound on that gospel message that he said that he received from Apokalupsis. Oh, glory to God. 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. Verse 18 says, for if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I, through the law, am dead to the law. Ah, I wonder, because he's saying that this is what happened. I preached this message to them. Hey, can you imagine? The apostle Peter is there. James is there. And those that came from James, these Jewish Christians that came from. They probably came from Jerusalem. They were also there. Barnabas was there. The other Gentile Christians from the church of Antioch were there. Other leaders from the church were there. Now he's preaching this message in front of them. Gloria. Oh, my goodness. It says, I withstood them to the face. Says, this happened. There was a showdown. Oh, and then he started to deliver this message to them. Oh, glory to God. [01:06:08] Speaker B: Hallelujah says, for if I build the. [01:06:11] Speaker A: Things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I, through the law am dead to the law that I might live unto God. Verse 20, that's the famous one that you probably know. Hallelujah says, for I am crucified with Christ. I am crucified with Christ. That's why he preached to James. He preached to Peter, and he preached to Barnabas and to those leaders that were there that had come from the church in Jerusalem. And now Peter had been acting differently because those guys had come from Jerusalem. They had come from Jerusalem. And then now the Apostle Paul, Hallelujah. In his passion for the gospel, in his passion for the gospel that he received from Jesus Christ, he says, I am crucified with Christ. He says, you want to do this thing about, okay, touch this, don't touch that, do this, don't do that, eat that, don't eat that. Don't eat that which is offered to idols. Don't eat meat that has got blood in it. Don't all these things. It says, I am crucified, says, through the faith of Christ, I am justified not by the deeds of the law. [01:07:16] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:07:16] Speaker A: Then he says, I am crucified with Christ. What is this? This is the gospel of identification. This is the identif. He begins now to detail the gospel of identification. [01:07:29] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:07:30] Speaker A: Says, I am crucified with Hallelujah. What's that word that is sustoro, that means that what is sustoro? It says I was joint crucified. That's what he's saying here. He said that there was a joint crucifixion. Sustoro means joint says it is a joint crucifixion. [01:07:48] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:07:49] Speaker A: This is the gospel of identification that the apostle Paul begins. The revelation of identification that the apostle Paul begins to deliver here. Hallelujah. He further expounded on it Hallelujah. To the other epistles that he began to wrote. But this was the first time. Now he will start to now delve into the technicalities of this gospel message, the technicalities of identification. Then he says, I am sustoro. There's a joint. I am joint crucified with Christ. [01:08:19] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:08:20] Speaker A: So now there's a joint crucifixion. [01:08:22] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:08:23] Speaker A: Now I'm identifying myself with Jesus that when he was crucified, I am the one that was crucified. This is our identity. This is your identity in Christ. [01:08:34] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:08:35] Speaker A: This is the gospel of identification that the apostle Paul now delivered to them. He said, I am crucified with Christ. Says nevertheless I live. Says yet not I, but Christ lives in me. [01:08:47] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:08:49] Speaker A: Christ lives in me. Is this a reality in your life? [01:08:52] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:08:53] Speaker A: Do you understand? Do you believe it? Have you meditated on it? Do you walk in the consciousness of this truth that you are crucified with Christ nevertheless you live? Says, but Christ lives in Christ that is living in you. [01:09:07] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:09:08] Speaker A: What does he mean the life that I now live in the flesh? I live by the faith of the Son of God. What does he mean by this? Remember what he said here in Galatians, chapter one, what he said? But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen. [01:09:30] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:09:31] Speaker A: Says when it pleased God. Yeah, yeah. Who separated me from my mother's womb? Says God separated me from my mother's womb. Glory to God. For what? For what purpose? Says to reveal his Son in me. [01:09:43] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:09:44] Speaker A: That I might preach. What is the revealing his son? What is the revealing his son? [01:09:48] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:09:49] Speaker A: Revealing his son every time. [01:09:51] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:09:52] Speaker A: The life that I now live is a life to reveal Jesus Christ. [01:09:55] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:09:56] Speaker A: Everything that I do, I'm doing to reveal Jesus Christ. Why? Because when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb, he separated me from My mother's womb. That what? That I might be crucified with Christ. Sustoro joint crucifixion. [01:10:12] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:10:14] Speaker A: And I have a new identity. [01:10:16] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:10:16] Speaker A: So that. So that God could now begin to reveal His Son in me. Every time that I'm preaching, every time that I'm sharing the word of God. Every time that I'm leading somebody to Christ. Every time that I'm. That I'm. That I'm doing the works in service to God. [01:10:30] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:10:31] Speaker A: It is Christ that is living in me. This is not my life. This is not the life that I chose to live. This is the life that God prepared for me. This is what God predestined for me me to do. This is what. That's what Paul is saying here. He's saying that this thing that I'm doing says, this is God revealing His Son in me. As I'm sharing this message with you. That is God revealing his Son in me. Says, nevertheless, I live. Says, yet not I, he says, but Christ lives in me. Says, and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. What is the faith of the Son of God? Christ is living his life in me. Why? Because I'm out here revealing, revealing Jesus. Every day. Every day I wake up to reveal Jesus to my world. That is Christ living in me. That is the faith of the Son of God. I live by the faith of the Son of God. [01:11:23] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:11:24] Speaker A: Why? Because this is the life of Christ. Me sharing the word of God. Me preaching the word of God. Me revealing Jesus Christ to my world. That is Christ living in me. That is not Shinki living. That is Christ living. That is not Shinki's life. That is the life of Christ in me. Now there is this joint death. [01:11:45] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:11:46] Speaker A: There is this joint death. So what does that mean? When Jesus was dying, I was dying. It says, I was baptized. I was put into his death. Therefore we being buried with him. Now, there was a joint burial. For them to be a joint death and a joint burial, there had to be a joint crucifixion. So now this in Galatians 2:20, this is just the introduction of the gospel message and revelation that the apostle Paul wants to deliver to the body of Christ. So now there's that joint death. There's that joint death. And then this is buried together. That's that joint burial. Now there's a joint burial. What is crucified with that is a joint crucifixion. This is the gospel of identification. Okay, let's read it further. And then he says, therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death, like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father. Even so, we should walk in this newness of life. Says, nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ lives 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. What place has the Ten Commandments in this? What place has the law of Moses in this? What place has Thou shalt not. Thou shalt. Thou shalt not Thou shalt having this there's no place in this is the life that I now live in. This physical body says, I live by the faith, says it's the life of Christ. Why do you want to subject this life of Christ to the law of Moses again into bondage? That's what the apostle Paul was fighting against. Hey. Says there's a newness of life. Says, for if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, there was a joint death. Hi Yah. Says we shall also be. We shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection. What is he talking about? It's a joint resurrection. The King James. Here, you see it's in italics. Because they didn't know what to make of it. That's a joint resurrection. Let's go to Ephesians chapter two. It says, you are raised up together with him. That's what he meant. And this is where he begins to now deliver his revelation of the Gospel of Christ that he received by Apokalupsis. Ephesians 2. Glory to God. I'll read from verse 5. Says even when we were dead in sins, says he has quickened. He has made us alive together. There's a joint making alive. There's a joint making alive. That means that he made us alive together with him. When Jesus Christ there was a joint death, there was now the newness of life. There was a joint making alive. Glory to God. Says he made us alive together with Christ. [01:14:25] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:14:26] Speaker A: By grace. Are you saying verse 6 says, and has raised us up together? There's a joint resurrection. Glory to God. So this is the gospel. This is the gospel that the apostle preached. This is the gospel of Christ. It says raised us up together. It didn't stop there. It says he raised us up. There's a joint resurrection. That means when Jesus Christ was being raised, I was being raised together with him. When Jesus Christ was being crucified, I was Crucified together with him. When Jesus Christ was buried, I was buried together with him. When Jesus Christ. [01:14:59] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:15:00] Speaker A: Was raised from the dead, I was raised together with him. [01:15:03] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:15:05] Speaker A: And it doesn't stop there. And then he says that. And then, yes, I'm seated together with him. Hallelujah. That means that there's a joint enthronement. What more do you want? There's a joint enthronement. [01:15:20] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:15:21] Speaker A: Joint crucifixion. [01:15:23] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:15:24] Speaker A: Joint death, joint burial, joint resurrection. Oh, glory to God. And then also what? There's a joint resurrection, says how you were raised together with him. And over and above the joint resurrection, there's a joint enthronement. What is this? What? What? What is that? Is what now brings you to the place of your. Of your new identity in Christ. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why the apostle into the Corinthian Church. That's when he went on to say, if any man be in Christ, says he's a new creation. Says old things have passed away. [01:16:04] Speaker B: Aye. [01:16:05] Speaker A: Oh, glory to God. Says old things have passed away. Old things are passed away. Says there's no place for circumcision and the law of Moses here. There's no place for that here. Says I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ lives in me. This is my reality. This is my identity. I live this every day. [01:16:32] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:16:32] Speaker A: Says the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me. [01:16:39] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:16:40] Speaker A: Chingi why don't you stop preaching? Why? Because this is the expression of the faith of the Son of God. [01:16:45] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:16:47] Speaker A: For God. [01:16:47] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:16:48] Speaker A: God who separated me from my mother's womb. He separated me from my mother's womb when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb to reveal his Son in me. Every time you hear me preaching, every time you see me preaching, that is God, who, when it pleased him, separated me from my mother's womb. [01:17:09] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:17:09] Speaker A: So that I may reveal his Son. So that he may reveal his Son in me. He may reveal his Son through me. [01:17:15] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:17:17] Speaker A: That is now my new identity says, nevertheless, I live yet not I yet not. Shingi says, but Christ is living. When you hear me preaching, that is Christ living through me. When you hear me serving God. When you see me serving God, that is Christ living through me. That is what the apostle Paul is saying here. [01:17:33] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:17:35] Speaker A: Joint crucifixion, joint death, joint burial. [01:17:39] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:17:40] Speaker A: Joint resurrection. [01:17:41] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:17:42] Speaker A: And then there's joint enthronement. That now brings us to become joint heirs. That is how you become a joint heir. Oh, glory to God. Verse 21. I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness came by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. That is the end of Galatians, chapter two, right there. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll catch you on the next one. And remember that this is your time.