Galatians: Starting Over {Yet Again} The "Professionals"

Galatians:Starting Over {Yet Again}

The "Professionals"

Jelly Beans…

Jelly Beans

- Temple

Jelly Beans

- Temple- The Weaker Brother

Jelly Beans

- Temple- The Weaker Brother

- Lives ruined and cut short

It makes senseI've got Scripture on itLove for the Weaker Brother

Maybe I'm right

Prove I'm not…

2 Diamantes and a Bookshelf

Do I sell?

You have to get baptizedIn order to be saved

"Repent and baptized…"

You have to get baptizedIn order to be saved

"Repent and baptized…"Even if…weaker brother

Legalism

You must do thisIn order to really follow Jesus(Even if Scriptures don't say it)

Weaker Brother- untaught

…not all possess this knowledge- 1 Cor. 8

Whatever is not from faith is sin- Romans 14:23

Professional Weaker Brother- Legalist, False or Religious Bro.

…false brothers secretly brought in…to make us slaves

Export convictions/misuse Bible

The Knowing Brother- Well-Grounded and Mature

…the mature…by constant use have trained themselves to

distinguish good from evil- Hebrews 5:14

Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation…

You have a Call on your life

…that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to

himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and

entrusting to us the message of reconciliation

With the Call comes evidenceOf God's great love

To show a watching world

With the Call comesWell-intentioned Dragons

And Hypocrites

To neuter the message

Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up because of a revelation

To the heart of Judaism…

To the heart of Judaism…With a (Fully) Gentile Christian

To the heart of Judaism…With a (Fully) Gentile Christian

And Jesus told him to do it!

I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those

who seemed influential)…

Issue of due respect & wisdom

…the gospel that I proclaim among the Gentiles, in order to make sure I was not running or had not run in vain

God said "Go!" check inBecause although it's rightTo refuse to change truth

To win man's favorIt's not OK to be divided

On major issues

They don't pull my stringsBut we are Family

They don't pull my stringsBut we are Family

This is the line we're walkingLegalism is wrong and…They're still Family

When we're dividedAnd undermining each other

On major issuesWe do violence to the gospel

Of our King

So God said, "Go, Paul!"

But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be

circumcised, though he was a Greek

There was some "conversation"

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in- who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery-

Jesus set us freeOne of the attacks of the enemy

Will always be to undo

What Jesus has doneAnd steal our joy and our faith

Professional Weaker Brother:Titus needs to convert

to Judaism!

Well, what about others who see his example?

Church Leaders (untaught):Maybe that's best. We don't want to cause problems and division and hurt the faith of less mature believers. We should serve one another

Mature Brother:

…to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment,

so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you

The moment we give inTo something besides Jesus

As our basis for righteousnessWe lose the gospel

…we did not yield in submission even for a moment…

The Professionally-OffendedCan humble themselves

And repent

Or find somewhere elseTo cause problems

To Titus can stay a Full GentileAnd everything is OK, right?

To Titus can stay a Full GentileAnd everything is OK, right?

Problem: What about Timothy?

Paul wanted to take Timothy along on the journey, so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek- Acts 16:3

Hypocrite…

Titus= Full GentileAmong Jewish believers

And PWB's

Timothy= Half-JewishAmong unbelieving Jews

I have become all things to all men that I might by all means save some- Paul, 1 Cor. 9I carry a cross. Here what it Looks like with unbelievers

Love gives peopleWhat they need

Not always what they want

Even if it costs to do soAnd they don't deserve it

Unbelievers need to know Jesus

Bullying legalists needTo hear "not for a moment"Because Jesus is enough

We don't give in to Professional Weaker Brothers

We teach true Weaker Brothers

We carry a cross in all of this

…to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment,

so that the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you

And from those who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)- those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me

Fear of ManBeing Intimidated

Showing Favoritism

Never glorifies GodAnd sets us up for compromise

God shows no partiality

- Who God is- Supplies/Frees me- How God treats us- Who we all are in light of God's

Holiness and our great need

God shows no partiality

- Who God is- How God treats us- Who we all are in light of God's

Holiness and our need

…those, I say, who seemed influential added nothing to me

On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with

the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted

with the gospel to the circumcised

…(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles)…

…and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be

pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the

right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me

…that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do

Unity, not UnanimityOr Clone-making

How do you know God's in this?Can we celebrate Our differences to his Glory?

The Weaker brother meansGod will call me to:

SacrificeTeach Truth to Set Free

= Great Unity and Freedom

The PWB:

ManipulationScripture-twisting

Forced loss of freedomDivision in the body over minors

The Mature BelieverGives no room to PWB's

Esp. when it becomes aMeasure of one's righteousness

But he will carry a crossFor the sake of the Call

What's the answer To Jellybeans?

"Follow your convictions, BrianAnd we'll follow ours…"

Cars and books?

Let's deal with your heartNot my possessions

Baptism or you're not saved?

…he saved us, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but by his mercy- Titus 3:5

Jesus set you free to follow himBy faith

Develop convictions, know truthBut resolve to never export

Convictions to others

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