386 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 33 - Salvation By Grace + Faith + Nothing

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 33 SALVATION BY GRACE + FAITH + NOTHING - PART 2 We're going to start where we left off in Galatians chapter 2 where Paul and Barnabas have finally gotten the okay from the leadership at Jerusalem that they can continue their ministry to the Gentiles and Peter and the leadership there would continue their ministry to the Jews. So God is now providing for them providentially with the offerings from Paul's Gentile converts. Now let's read verse 9: Galatians 2:9-10 (Jews) 10. It's kind of interesting that Peter had finally come to Paul's rescue. And if he hadn't, then Paul's Gospel would have died right then and there, but of course God is Sovereign. Now looking at verse 12. Acts 15:12 "Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them." "For the Jews require a sign..." John 20:30-31 Verse 13. saying Men and brethren, hearken unto me: 14. Simon (Peter) hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name. Verse 21 gives the reason. Acts 15:21 Now verse 22. "That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." Even though this was part of the Law yet it was such that God could sanction it's going right on through the Gospel of Grace. Leviticus 17:10-11 What had to happened to the blood in the Old Testament sacrifices, as well as Christ's Blood for the atonement of sin? Because you see in verse 3. Leviticus 18:3-4 Now come to Galatians chapter 2. Yes I do, because I understand Peter's position. Peter was still steeped in legalism, Peter still had not had his eyes totally opened to these Pauline truths and so Peter was in perfect accord with his Lord as far as it went. So sometime after the Jerusalem counsel, and this had all been supposedly settled that these Gentiles, under Paul's ministry who had been saved like you and I by the Gospel of Grace, were free to eat whatever they wanted to eat. Galatians 2:11a "But when Peter was come to Antioch, (sometime after the Jerusalem counsel) I withstood him to the face,..." Paul may have had to have gotten on a soap box to look Peter in the face because I think Peter was a tall Galilean, and Paul a typical Jew. So Paul withstood him to the face publicly. Galatians 2:11b-12 (Peter was at fault. Peter was just as human as all of us, and here he stumbled, and Paul called him on it. James is now the head man in Jerusalem and when emissaries came from James' congregation, before they arrived Peter ate with Paul and the Gentile believers regardless what the meal was. But after these Jewish people arrived what does Peter do? Peter gave in and refused to go in and eat with Paul's Gentile converts. Can you imagine what this did to the apostle Paul? Now I know Paul had that little short temper side of him. I think Paul just got real upset with Peter. "Now Peter you're being two faced." So Paul calls him on it. Looking at verse 12 again. Galatians 2:12 (the men from Jerusalem) I've always given Peter credit, and I still do. Remember, leading up to Christ's crucifixion and suddenly when Peter saw Christ arrested and when he denied he knew the Lord those 3 times. Peter was a different person. Now verse 13. Galatians 2:13-14a "And the other Jews (because of what Peter did) dissembled (or withdrew) likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas (Barnabas that had seen everything that Paul had accomplished with the Gentiles) also was carried away with their dissimulation. (or hypocrisy that they couldn't eat with these Gentiles.) 14. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly (Peter not walking uprightly? What Gospel? Paul's Gospel of Grace which sets us free from these dietary rules and regulations. There is now no difference between Jew and Gentile, and Peter was not yet ready to recognize that. Now remember this just shortly before he and Paul were martyred. II Peter 3:15-16 "And account (or understand) that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation: even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16. After all these years Peter still can't quite comprehend what Paul is driving home. Peter wasn't the only one that didn't understand. II Peter 3:16b What's Peter still talking about? Paul's epistles. "But when I saw that they (Peter, and Barnabas, and these other Jews) walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel. I said unto Peter before them all, (this was a public rebuke) If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, (if you're going to admit that the Grace of God has set you free from the Law) and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible