do a brief review of of where we are uh and here we start out in chapter two with Paul um kind of reviewing some of the things that he had spoken about in uh chapter one but I want to do a uh little bit of a a program note if I if I can when you um look at the writings you'll find the audience here in uh in the book Galatians was primarily the Gentile Believers in uh galatia however uh there was a sprinkling of the the Jewish Believers there as well so uh when you look at this writing and you'll see that Paul remember he was educated in the Jewish tradition and in the Jewish tradition you'll see that when they write things they will reaffirm things in a second uh writing uh as what Paul is doing here he reaffirms what he was saying in uh for clarity sake primarily uh in chapter one in chapter two which is validating or kind of going back over the the validity of his apostleship it is likely it is likely that if uh Paul's apostleship was challenged it could be it would probably have been more by the Jewish Believers or those people that had heard before or those people who were familiar with the other Apostles uh more than the ones that recently believe however uh he's reaffirming that uh key points of the first part of uh chapter 2 is this was 14 years after they went to uh the initial um missionary journey it was 14 years after uh Paul and Barnabas uh went and and uh that Paul said he was spread by Revelation to communicate the gospel he went uh up there to meet with them and uh by Revelation to tell them about the gospel they had preached and how uh God had led them to preach the gospel go ahead Dar John I was reading in in U one of the commentaries here um that the 14 years that they that Paul here and um it's accepted by their their comments that this is 14 years after his conversion is when he went to Jerusalem is is that right or well uh I I guess that's possible I have already always um considered this as for 14 years after uh he met with Barnabas um however I guess we could consider that uh any other thoughts on that uh brother bar brother meski yeah my understanding is he spent three years previously in Jerusalem uh discussing things with Peter or sephus as the scriptures call it then he went back into Ministry and then came back after 14 years so at least 17 years after his ministry started that's my understanding right and that's that's pretty much what I had always thought but it's an interesting question interesting question okay uh but he went up to Jerusalem and told them about the gospel how they had preached the gospel and how they had been successful in preaching the gospel during that period of time uh and in that uh time the dispute came up about Titus not being circumcised and he refused to allow Titus to be circumcised because he did not want to bring in the Spectre of the law into the uh into Titus or into the uh uh the Salvation plan or the Plan of Salvation for the Gentiles he not want to bring in spect of the law didn't want to in you know infect uh any of the message with that uh even though Paul himself uh says at a point that it means nothing however he uh did not want to bring that image of bondage being uh brought back into the bondage of the law again with Titus so he refused to allow Titus to be circumcised uh when they uh brought that up moving on you see that uh they did at some point meet with those that were of some note of uh reputation of respected of the people and then Paul makes a a point to point out that although that they met with these people that were uh respect of the people that God has no respect of persons and uh they didn't really add or take anything away from him uh but these are people that were respected by the people or of some note uh by the people he met with them privately and then he met with them publicly and uh met with other publicly and that they did receive him that he did re receive the right hand of Fellowship now this is as Paul has uh is completing his uh defense of his apostleship and understanding that they received him and accepted him as an apostle joint in this uh Mission with the rest of them that were Apostles there so he's kind of using that to kind of Define that or bring it back up defending his gospel defend defending the ministry that God had placed on him at this point in time again he has been preaching now actively for 14 years with Barnabas uh uh and he has you know had time of the time in there between the time he was uh you know uh after he had the Damascus R experienced so this is some time had passed sometime it passed so Paul had gained if you will a reputation of his own he wasn't a novice or he wasn't uh someone that just came by at this point so when they accepted him and offered him the right-and of Fellowship as they put it uh it was the right thing to do based on the evidence that what God had presented and what God has been able to how God has used Paul to this point any thoughts on that on the the first uh half there of uh chapter 2 anything else we want to point out okay one question I um over the years I have often heard these passages used to show the necessity and the validity of of evangelists who come into a city or into a town and establish churches and the need or the necessity for them to go back to check on those churches to make sure that they are continuing in the doctrine they taught because it's easy for somebody to a lot of lot of our older congregations had preachers who came through like you know once or twice per Sunday at a you know a month and so it would be easy for in in those other Sundays for some some leading brother or somebody in the congregation to get up and do a sermon type discussion but it might not necessarily be in conjunction or in accordance with what had been taught by the previous evangelist and so they say this is this is a good example why you need if you establish congregations you need to go and check on them I guess that's that's a uh it could be used as an example that uh however I want to make kind of clarify something everyone who's a member of the Lord's Church uh should be and uh are associated with a body uh C with a local church even if you're an evangelist that travels or a missionary or or or any of those they still are associated with local church when you're associated with local church that means you are under the leadership or oversight of the eldership of that church so when you're out regardless of what you do it is in in light of that oversight that you should report back you should let the people of of the congregation that you're associated with know exactly what the activities the evang Evangelical activities that you've been involved in and that that's how I've all always looked at it because when we uh travel when we do things or when we preach at other churches we always it is some it is a thing to make sure that the eldership understand that the local congregation should also be aware because of you know we are all one and we're under that oversight and we're under you know we should have that level of communication and that level of humility I guess if you will uh to ensure that we stay in line with the organization structure of of the Lord's Church um none of us are are alone none of us uh operate uh if you will alone uh we should always operate in line with how the Lord has structured the church and that would somewhat require uh for lack of a better word uh us to give an account for what we do to those uh that the Lord has appointed to uh those leadership positions but that does not take away from your uh your your observation here that this is something is an example of going and reporting that which you have done especially when uh they made both the private and public report of what they uh the the ministry that they had given and how they had preached the gospel long answer to a short question I guess but uh you know it's it's just that it's important because we see a lot of there's a trend out there where we have ministers or evangelists that um seem to step outside that that structure that God has designed and um that is is troublesome at times uh when we see that because we all like I said we're all one and we're all accountable one to another so we should operate and act within that accountability okay other thoughts all right then let's go ahead and move into tonight we're we're talking from uh verse 11 on down and this is the time where they are recounting the issue that uh Peter and Paul when Paul had to confront Peter on his hypocrisy that he displayed in Antioch the hypocrisy he displayed in Antioch and there was a situation where uh there were Gentile Believers with them and Peter shrank back uh from being around them because of what he thought those from Jerusalem or J from Judea would think uh so he kind of stepped away from what uh God would have him do he kind of stepped away from uh the grace that we know uh it's in in Christ and step back a little bit into that which before but let's look at that beginning at verse 11 I'm going to bring that up here there we are uh should be able to see that now uh beginning in verse 11 and I'm going be coming from the new King James version tonight and it says now when Peter had come to Antioch I with stood him to his face because he was to be blamed for before certain men came from James he was talking about Come Those coming from uh Judea from Jerusalem he would eat with the Gentiles but when they came he with Jew and separate himself fearing those who were of the circumcision now I want to uh add a note in here this had to have occurred well is likely according to the historians and commentators uh most of them believe this occurred between uh the time period of Acts 13 and acts 14 uh a matter of fact in the beginning of Acts 14 there is a brief statement about the uh of a a minor conflict does not mention uh Peter or anything being involved in that but there is a a a mention of it let's take a quick look at that uh real quick look at that and uh right here and they said uh now it happened ionium they went together to the syn theog with the Jews and so spoke great multitude both Jews and Greeks believe but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the Brethren so we see that there something happened here something happened uh and you look down in verse four it says but the multitude city was divided part uh sided with the Jews and part with the apostles now that does not mention it does not mention uh Peter but however it happened about that time but we know that when by the time they got to the Jerusalem Council Peter stood up in the Jerusalem Council and defended how the gospel was presented to the Gentiles so whatever happened whatever happened in this uh this dispute it was resolved uh it were resolved in a positive manner because Peter was the one to stand up in Acts 15 and defend how the gospel was being brought to the Jews so I mean to the uh Gentiles in uh in that area so uh just to give you just a little bit of time frame but we start thinking about this uh that Paul said he had to confront him to his face because of his withdrawing from the Gentiles what do you think about that anybody have any thoughts on that well I think that Paul wasn't necessarily being disrespectful to Peter once again it goes back to what Paul's purpose is and that is to to uh to teach what it what true Christianity is all about and to have have a man like Peter kind of sidetracked and do what he did you know that that in itself could have proved detrimental to what Paul was trying to do too because you know the whole thing about what the judaizers were trying to do and that is emphasized circumcision to the Gentiles and all that kind of thing it it almost kind of plays right into what they wanted and so he had to talk to Peter and you know the other thing is that he had to kind of also display that he was on equal footing with Peter as an apost so uh so that's kind of what my take is on it you know is that Peter had to be confronted about that a good point other thoughts well I don't know how good the point is but that that's what I had that's my take anyway other thoughts brother brother teacher I've always thought it interesting that uh our beloved brother Peter didn't uh push back uh probably because he knew anything in a push back manner he accepted Paul's rebuke of what had happened and uh uh uh brother durl being an elder I'm sure there are times when elders probably have to correct one another in this manner of course we're talking about Apostles in this sense but that always stood out to me that and that and that Paul had the love and the courage to do that and Peter Peter suame he he he uh to a large degree succ came to peer pressure I think in this situation so so uh those are kind of what I've always grasp from this particular uh part of chapter 2 I your Point's well taken especially when uh if Peter championed the cause of of the Gospel how the gospel being preached in genti in Acts 15 it would seem like he wouldn't he didn't push back and he did receive it well it did uh that does what seem like that this although it was a point where there was a minor confrontation he did receive it in the manner it was actually being offered that's what it seems like other thoughts other thoughts I think it's interesting is also mentioned in the Book of James and I was looking at When It Was Written uh James was written about the same time as Galatians was written uhuh you look at the first chapter I'm sorry the second chapter it mentions uh something about what is it called um you just mentioned you just mentioned what what uh the phrase that describes this favorite we call it favoritism or they call it something else what they call it darl was mentioning it what was that well I don't know respected persons respect to persons yes respective persons yes it says here oh where is it for if there come unto you this is verse two chapter two in the Book of James for if there come unto you your assembly a man with a gold ring you all are familiar with that right man with a gold ring said he mentions it too so I don't know I don't know if he got it from the Galatians letter or even if he had uh James had uh access to the galatian letter all but I don't know it's that saying the same thing isn't it it is and uh Jesus also pointed out about uh giving people you know respect to person and God has no respect to persons uh everyone's the same in in him so it's it's definitely an important point and it's also when we start looking at evangelism uh as a whole as we try to bring people to Christ it's important that we don't have respect to persons that we don't favor one person or the other or or a person's status here or status there or or what they may have what they may not have but because that throws roadblocks in the way of people believing and people serving God we're all the same in Christ we're all the same uh regardless of where we come from regardless of where we are and wher where we are on this road that that God is leading us on uh we're all the same and that uh essential nature uh is something that we need to express uh across the board make sure that people understand that uh it lowers the barrier and allows people to come in the next verse here the next verse kind of indicates some of the effect that you know here it is Paul had just defended and stated how they're the same the apostles uh Peter and apostles and he were the same and yet when they came this this little Schism occurred uh but the effect the immediate impact of it seems to be seen in verse 13 it says and the rest of the Jews also played I like the way they use the word played played the hypocrite with him so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy so even Barnabas Drew back you know this is what do you all think what do you all think because I have some thoughts what do you all think about that the immediate impact is there another verse 11 is there another translation for the word fearing says Paul I mean not Paul it says Peter fearing those is there I don't know if the fearing means it's like the fearing we understand that today or what is is it what is the fearing supposed to mean in that verse I don't know was he fearing them for his safety for his life or well uh possibly uh or his position uh sister Gil for something in the chat if you all can see that and it's kind of right on the point here it says while we might not be an apostle with immense influence in the public like Peter we all have to do an we all do have influence as disciples and someone uh some people or somebody is watching and following us so just like barabus was influenced by Peter we are influencing Somebody by our actions uh it's kind of dead on the point here good point somebody's always watching us some somebody's watching you you don't know who you could be influencing at any given time and what is happening here is Peter someone of the commander great respect Drew back and fell back into this this mode and carried a lot of people with him into this era I mean this was an ERA that uh that he had had made it was a mistake he had made but that mistake carried people with him into that you know any comment brother bar you got a look on your face go ahead and say what you got to say oh man I'm GNA have to take my face off the screen see this is this is plain old everyday very simple peer pressure uh Peter is there he's a person of influence uh and his people don't like the Gentiles so they separate themselves and and and fearing that fearing his position and the peer pressure he did the same as well and so much so that it influenced even Barnabas who was the um you know uh a brother who loved all Brethren right he was the one chosen to take Paul and introduce him to the apostles um when everybody else was fearful of Paul so this is just plain old peer pressure and we fall for the same things today we do it along racial lines we do it along socioeconomical lines we do it ourselves we we allow the actions of others to influence us if you walked in a room and on one side of the room was a bunch of black people and on the other side of room was a bunch of white people I would dare to guess most of us would tend to walk towards the black people unless we were white then we would walk towards the white people or if we walked into a room and there's a there's a table of Church of Christ members on one side and Baptist on the other side we would probably go and sit with the Church of Christ people you know so I don't think we need to draw Peter into some hard disrepute here uh he's human he has errored and we need to be careful not falling into the to the same mistake here I think what we have in verses 11 through what is this 14 is the holy spirit showing us that there is only one gospel and no matter where you fall in that hierarchy in the gospel you are answerable to the gospel no matter who calls it right so you could be called in line by my wife could call me out of line you know a regular church member can call a deacon out of line a deacon can call an elder out of line Elder could call a preacher out of line we are all subject to the gospel and that's Paul Paul's main point is is that even these judaizers are there's one gospel there is no other he said that earlier in the letter and um this just demonstrates that uh in his ability to uh call Peter out for his misjudgment yeah and what's what's interesting too is that you know this is several years after Pentecost several years after the conversion of Cornelius and all these things and even the apostles are still struggling with being able to well at that point now I believe I believe after Paul did what he did things started aligning right with the rest of the Apostles to treat to preach the true Gospel of Jesus Christ because that was that was primarily Paul's Mission and so you know to to point out the era was ju just think if Paul had not done that yeah Hey Brother Moore to bolster your point what's lost in the background here is Antioch is the first church where there was an attempt to bring Jew and Gentile together right right and so this is you so in order to keep them together you can't continue to allow this kind of behavior where you separate yourselves just on the site of seeing the other one and so Antioch is the first place where that which was the New Testament Church's biggest challenge was to bring Jew and Gentile together and so that that also we find in verse number 11 in the background part of of what's going on here very very very important well you know they were called Christians first at Antioch yes and according to the prophet saying they would be known by a new name and so this is where Paul you know Paul is like he Paul should be the hero to all Christian folk well we're looking at this and uh going back that by them getting the name Christians the title Christians it gave opportunity to shed all of the things in the past exactly opport to walk away from it uh look at verse 14 it says but when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the Gospel I said to Peter before them all if you being a Jew live in the manner of the Gentiles and not as Jews why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews you know why you want them to live in your kind of Mis misery like uh well uh uh brother Jones used to put it uh you know and we who are Jews by nature and not Sinners of the Gentiles knowing that a man is not justified by works of the law but by faith of Jesus Christ even we who have we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by The Works of the law for by The Works of the law no flesh shall be justified right but if we seek while we but if while we seek to be justified by Christ we ourselves are also found Sinners is Christ therefore a minister of sin certainly not and what he basically saying here is if it is correct that we should not do the things that uh you're doing not accepting of all or we should act according to how Peter was acting then aren't those who are preaching the gospel falling in sin against the law so uh he's saying it can't basically long story short you can't have it both ways if uh Christ if the gospel is true then the gospel is the fact that we are justified by faith in Christ and not Works stands we cannot can no longer look to be justified by anything associated with the law in any way form or fashion uh let me see I thought I saw the chat come up uh oh yeah uh and uh Sister Mary I put there preachers who feel that no one has any authority over them that's true and that's that is an issue that we have in the Brotherhood but it's issue in all all churches and churches socalled where we get a little bit outside of the gospel and we need someone we need someone God you you cannot I mean the wisdom in how he formed the church is unfathomable because the fact that we need someone we need someone to talk to we need someone to help us we need someone to correct us when we wrong we need someone to lift us up when we're right uh we we need someone there and uh this whole iron sharpen iron idea uh uh is God's plan is God's plan but here we're looking at this particular text uh we're we're looking at situation where Paul is stating if it's necessary to follow the law or any part thereof in order to be justified then Christ is dead in vain uh because of the fact that if the law is still required then the sacrifice is nullified as as he goes forward in this he says for I through the law died to the law that I might live to God that we're living to Christ Our Lives are hidden in Christ I have been crucified of Christ it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God we live according to what God or what Jesus has put forward for us we live in that Grace we live by faith in Grace and that's how we are Justified that's how we we are able to come before the throne of grace it is the sacrifice that Christ made for us not those things not those acts not those words associated with the law or as I as it's going to be even more important as we go into chapter three any part of the law any part of it you have to uh separate yourself from any of that I'm not saying personally for those who are in the class but a person has separated himself from those things but not only are we looking at as an example to Believers not only are we looking at those things that we're Paul's directly talking about the Jewish law but we may have things in our current tradition and our and our uh belief system that we need to separate ourselves from from in order to live in the purity of the Gospel in the purity of the uh salvation and the grace that God has given us because he's saying here that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me and did not has set aside the grace of God do not set aside the grace of God other words not going to put anything or add anything or put any stumbling block or any step or measure there that impedes or changes or modifies the grace that God has given us the grace that God has put forth towards us in uh in order for us to obtain the salvation for if righteousness come to the law then Christ died in vain if righteousness comes in anything of us or any act or any uh way we carry ourselves and any action or any group or anything like that then Christ died in vain Christ died for all of us and it's through him we're justified through his blood that we're cleansed through the gospel we live by faith in him in him alone there's no other ways and anything else that get in there actually is in exact same category if you would with the Jewish law uh go ahead brother har yeah brother teacher I mean you can't help but applaud our beloved brother Paul Paul is right on point and he did it in a spirit of love and courage but we also find out in this particular text that the Spirit uh could not necessarily keep a a person from sinning uh many quenched the spirit and and there was some repentance that was in order and that was the case of Peter and the others but uh uh Peter was in D with the spirit as was was Paul we talking about two inspired Apostles but it lets us know that even being endowed with the spirit you still a free moral agent and can make your own decisions and you can quench the spirit and and so uh uh that's probably as was stated that Paul didn't uh push back uh Peter didn't push back excuse me because he understood that Paul was right on point and that Paul was right and I I really applaud Paul for for uh reminding Peter his fellow Apostle and the others of these points of the uh vainness of following Judaism versus what Christ has brought to the table exactly other thoughts anybody have any other thoughts so uh brother when Peter preached on the day of Pentecost was it just to the Jews I thought it was to all the people in the it was to all the people that were there everybody heard heard him but remember it was later uh that uh Peter was called To Go teach Cornelius and it was then then and the in situation with Cornelius that Peter saw that God accepted all people uh whatever he Clans you know we can't call unclean uh but he preached to all that were there now you bring up a very good point the fact that God chose that time God chose that day that moment in the presence of all those different people from different places for him to start the church but go ahead with your point so at that time I'm getting back with brother Harris that about the Holy Spirit we know that the Holy Spirit was guiding him on the day of Pentecost because it was filled the whole place was filled with the Holy Spirit and this is just a lesson for us to looking at what happened with Peter we can uh we can fall short you know even after we study and know these things and that's why it's good to to interact with other Christians and uh especially the ones if you could get you some Paws around you you know to kind of the kind of help make sure that what you're doing and what you're saying is is is still you know in accord with what we've learned and what how Jesus says we should live it's good to have good friends that you can call and bounce things off sometime when you're not sure you know not just friends but I'm saying Christian friends to just talk to I think it just goes to show that we do need each other um somebody like Peter who preached like that message on Pentecost and and then like you said with conelius you just goes to show I think it's showing us for ourselves um don't ever think that you you just got it all together you know don't ever think that that you don't need to maybe bounce things off with with your Christian brothers and sisters just to make sure we're we're still going in the right direction that's it yeah I I want to add one thing is it's not that we can that we do and we will fall short from time to time and different ways we all have our own shortfalls uh uh and and issues that we we overcome however uh what Paul's point is is that we live by faith and Son of God is Christ lives in me when he's making that point you know the life we now live is in Christ therefore although we may be imperfect and we may have faults and we may have shortcomings is the Perfection of Christ that we live in and that we live through so that we can be acceptable to God um and that is something we have to to to to look at is not uh in ourselves but it's in Christ uh that we find truth that we find Salvation that we that we find perfection we will fall short and we do need each other so that we can learn from each other so that we can lift each other up so that we can continue this race so we don't have to none of us have to run this race alone and we have each other uh and none of us are perfect none of us are better than any of the other we're all the same in Christ because there is no respect person than God so that you know your Point's very well taken other thoughts um one of the things I I thought about as we're going through here this makes this kind of explains Paul's statement early on as in he as he began this discourse with them and said I'm so quick I'm s surprised that you are so quickly removed from what I have taught you before because he spent a lot of time laboring with them and trying to help them understand that being a Christian meant you were released from the law but you were joined or or I guess married or bound to Christ and if we keep that in mind then you wouldn't let these other asides mess up your mind but but being human you know and and not having somebody strongly articulate and remind them of how they were now bound to Christ and they didn't need to be under the law it got hard for some of them to accept that and I sometimes wonder you know we have not been challenged as a as in general you know we we build a church we believe we hear the sermons we agree with the sermons we go home but if we have somebody who comes in or who has a different slant on things and starts telling us their views we need to be strong enough to say no brother that's not right or that's not the way we see things or that's not what we believe the scripture says and a lot of times we don't no you're you're right your Point's very well taken um but one thing I I I I want to kind of stress here now this seems to have been a common theme in the last several days speaking with several several members of the church when we um Paul corrected Peter and Peter was able to receive that correction and again uh by the time we get to the events in Acts 15 Peter was championing championing the cause of the Gospel being preached to the Gentiles and how it was being preached to Gentiles there was a turnaround there was a uh an acceptance and they continued on although Peter made an error that did not diminish Peter uh in in anyone's eyes or they diminish Peter from the role that he that God had chosen him for he made a mistake he made a mistake then he got right back up on that horse and he uh you know kept going forward but I say that to say this keep in mind that as we are together we should benefit from each other but how we do that is how we love one another how we relate to one another how we are together as one one of the most hurtful things that can happen in the church is someone can correct someone and they could be 100% right how to correct them but if it's the only time you ever talk to the person when you correct them that's probably probably not going to be received very well we need to love each other communicate each other see each other be together be as one be as a family and then when we run into that rough patch where we have to you know give each other a nudge here or there it will be received a lot better we received a lot better from someone that you know that you know that you know cares about you amen go ahead I just said amen oh go ahead Dar I don't know why my hand was up oh okay all right any other thoughts I can't believe we're actually on time today well are you you were on time last Wednesday too John so you're doing good any other thoughts I don't want to get into chapter three today we'll we'll do that uh um on yeah we meet next time and Sunday after I mean Wednesday after that we're together uh so I will get into that on on next time but uh let me drop this down and look back at the uh at the uh overview here for a second and uh see where we are there we go okay so um well we looked at we looked at how he had to uh confront Peter face to face uh uh and not through rumor and propaganda I not not behind his back face to Faith yeah confronted him on the issue and and straightened that out and how uh that Peter's example Pet's example uh did influence Barnabas someone who was powerful in God someone was powerful in the spirit was influenced by that by that uh you know the actions of Peter and then going on down looking at a summary here of what uh Paul's saying you know the Jewish Christians realize they are justified by faith you know it kind of eliminates the whole idea of of the works of the law the thing is as and and we're going to talk about this more uh next week but there's so much of a tendency for us to grab little pieces here little piece of that little piece of that and try to bring that forward and and uh there's no room for the law the law is fully fulfilled completely fulfilled in Christ um so there's no room for it but we have that we have that tendency to grab even even now uh we have tendency uh I'm going to uh Tina I'm going get where you can get access to the to the video uh we we are recording them we have recording to all of them okay and uh um if we seek to be justified by Christ the point B if we be by Christ uh through a means which cannot justify isn't that making Christ a minister of sin that point uh is is well made here in this text as well because if the law had ability to justify then preaching Christ would be contrary to that justification or that law and would make preaching Christ sinful you can't really have it both ways you have to be all into this I mean you have to you have to decide who you're going to serve who you going to serve uh if we rebild that which cannot justify and has been destroyed won't you become a transgressor again because if you rebuild the law which you cannot you cannot adhere to aren't isn't that just making yourself a sinner again it makes no sense it makes no sense and through the law when he says he had died to the law having been crucified Christ Christ now lives in him we're living through God we're living by faith in God we're walking the pathway according to God's Will and God's way there's no purpose in actually veering off that pathway to pick up things which no one could adhere to before in the past and then if righteousness comes through the law then Christ is dead in vain and Christ died in vain because if righteous could be obtained in any other way there would have been no purpose in someone giving their lives for it so Christ died for each and every one of us his spelled his blood for the remission of our sins so we start looking at this there's no other way uh there's no other way to God but through Christ and if that is the only way then there's no room for those things which are outside of Christ there's no room for those things which are contrary to the gospel and uh Paul makes a very good point here in these examples that the purity of the Gospel is maintained and anything else when you look at the scripture when you look at the prophets when you look at how everything is written and and the words of Christ himself anything else really doesn't my words uh make any sense it really doesn't make any sense uh because uh the Holy Spirit has laid it out for us Jesus proved the pathway the Holy Spirit laid out for us plainly so we can understand that we the only way to God is through Christ he died for all of us and through his blood the spilling of his blood we have remission of our sins that we can come before the throne of grace in it's the only way so brother yes brother P yes example Paul not pulling Peter aside but doing it right there with all of the people um is this would not be an example for us right this is just because he was an apostle I mean the way to do I think we said something you said something earlier about having a relationship with the person to do it but uh I'm sure Paul was being led by the spirit to do it the way he did but this is not an example maybe for how we would talk to a brother or sister if we see them um interacting with someone who you know they can be leading astray with how they may be treating them or whatever would it not col to the side right yeah you're 100% correct what you're saying however uh I would just by reading his scripture I think uh and I have to say this is my thoughts on the scripture when he said that he did that face to face he is linking all of this together here uh that uh it was hello and the people who went with him and Barnabas were the primary audience of what he said I think that I'm not sure if the scripture is representing that he did this in front of all the people that were there or did he do this in front of the people who uh actually committed the offense I'm not really sure now there could be value in doing front all people there because he just made the case to how they're all the same uh and this was a divisive action so there could have be some value in in healing that division however uh I think that when you when you did that in front of people probably is is there is some value in stating he might have been speaking of the people who were involved in the offense um but like I said there's value on both sides the scripture doesn't really clarify brother Pinkerton it appears to me this is Mary I apologize if I cut you off but it appears that in verse 14 it says but when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the Gospel I said to Peter before them all now it's all referencing the entire Council and any everybody that was there if you being a Jew live in the manner of Gentiles and not as a Jew I think it was critical at that point for him to openly make that known based on the repercussions from from his reaction is that am I missing something right but if you look at that statement there that I highlight I said to Peter before them all if you being a Jew so was he talking to just the Jews the doesn't really like I said TR really clarify there's value on both sides of this because of the fact that um um you know he may have been speaking to those who you know uh committed the offense he might have been speaking to the entire group so that everyone could learn from it the scripture doesn't really doesn't really clarify and I do think there's benefit and there's a manner in which to do that to GL us this point and the other point in terms of us edifying each other so in love and I think there are times when maybe if something openly happened before the congregation not that you're trying to put anybody down but to make sure that truth is been for for yeah and I I agree I agree definitely uh our time is is up at this point uh and I think we're get ready to get started with devotion I appreciate everybody being here um but it's time for us to go on and we can continue this if if uh anyone would like to continue this on next week um but it's time for us to move on to devotion I appreciate everybody being here thank you thank you sir thank very much night everyone good night thank you thanks all for your participation thank you thank you thank you class thank you brother Pinkerton keep up the good work you're very welcome s