Fourteen years after that first visit, Barnabas and I went up to Jerusalem and took Titus with us. I went to clarify with them what had been revealed to me. At that time I placed before them exactly what I was preaching to the non-Jews. I did this in private with the leaders, those held in esteem by the church, so that our concern would not become a controversial public issue, marred by ethnic tensions, exposing my years of work to denigration and endangering my present ministry. Significantly, Titus, non-Jewish though he was, was not required to be circumcised. While we were in conference we were infiltrated by spies pretending to be Christians, who slipped in to find out just how free true Christians are. Their ulterior motive was to reduce us to their brand of servitude. We didn’t give them the time of day. We were determined to preserve the truth of the Message for you.
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Follow along as Professor R.L. Solberg guides believers who are seeking a firmer grasp on Christian truths. Learn from the Apostle Paul's message to the Galatians, bringing light to the truth of God's promise through Christ. This is a pivotal read for anyone looking to deepen their grasp on the gospel and defending it today.
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The book of Galatians is dynamite; an explosion of joy and freedom. Why? Because it brings us face to face with the gospel. In this plan, best-selling author Dr. Timothy Keller takes you through Galatians 1 – 2 v 10. This is a free sample of Explore daily Bible-reading notes, published by The Good Book Company.
Faith is living each day with an awareness that although we do not deserve anything but God’s judgement because of our guilt and sin and failure, He has done something about it through the Lord Jesus Christ! That is our freedom, just knowing this and trusting Him day by day.
Galatians was written as a strong rebuke of false teaching that infiltrated the churches in Galatia. Paul’s central argument reaffirms the foundation of the gospel: “a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ” (Galatians 2:16). Galatians reminds us to walk in the freedom of the true, untainted gospel and warns us against submitting again to the slavery of works-based salvation.
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