Galatians 2:11-19

For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God

But when Peter was come to 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 thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? 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 also 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. (Galatians 2:11-19)

Geba is Peter. What was the reproof? The Jews had an idea of the Gentiles, and the Gentiles had an idea of the Jews. The Jews were always thinking on the basis of what God said in Deuteronomy. In Deuteronomy 7:1-4
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;  And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altarsSo, the Jews thought they were God's chosen people, not sinners. So the gentiles were always considered sinners.

Peter had a vision, and a furoshiki descended from the sky, with unclean animals. When God asked him to eat this in heaven, Peter said that he would not eat because it was an unclean food, and God said to him, "Why do you deny that I have said they are clean?" And through Cornelius, he realized that the Gospel had to be brought to the Gentiles. Cornelius did not know the gospel as a Gentile. God appeared to Cornelius and told him to hear the gospel from Peter. In Acts 10:28, Peter And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

The Holy Spirit worked, and Cornelius and his household were saved. After this, Peter was condemned by the Jews as he was talking with the Jews.
In Acts 11:3,
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. Peter went to Cornelius' house and ate together.

What the Gentiles think about the Jews is evident in John 4:9. Jesus traveled with his disciples to the region of Samaria, but when she asked a woman who had drawn water from the well for some water, she said. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. In Samaria, Israel was divided and divided into South Judah and North Israel. North Israel was destroyed by Assyria, and Judah was destroyed by Babylon. Assyria tried to annihilate the nation through a colonial policy. But Babylon tried to annihilate the Israelites by dispersing them to other areas. The capital of North Israel was Samaria, and since the Samaritans were mixed, the Jews of South Judah treated the Samaritans as Gentiles. The Samaritans were also bleeding from the Jews, but they refused to talk to the Jews.

So, the purpose of Peter's going to Cornelius' home is to say that God went to testify of the gospel because he gave favor to the Gentile Cornelius. (Acts 15:7-11) Similarly, the Church of Antioch came up with the question of circumcision, and Paul came to the Church in Jerusalem and consulted with Peter about this matter. So there were many arguments. In Acts 15:7-11 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye 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 knoweth the hearts, bare 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. 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? But we believe that through the grace of the LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

Peter learned completely about the salvation of the Gentiles. By the way, when Peter was in Antioch, Paul rebuked what had happened. "When I came to Antioch, I rebuked him face to face with reproof," Antioch is a Gentile church. The purpose of Peter's visit to the Antioch Church, the Gentile Church, would have come to show that he was a fellow brother with the Gentiles. Peter was eating with the Gentile Saints, and a man (Jewish) came from James in Jerusalem. These Jews were circumcision. However, Peter unconsciously moved away from the Gentiles of the Antioch Church.

The Jews who were sitting around Peter, like Peter, were separated from the Antioch Gentiles. Apostle Paul's co-worker, Barnabas, also went to Peter. It was a brief moment for Paul to see, but he recognized that Peter had moved from the gospel to the law. So, the apostle Paul was forced to rebuke. Peter couldn't say a word about the apostle Paul's rebuke. Based on what the Apostle Paul rebuked Peter, he was speaking to the Galatians.

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. Indicates that all human beings are sinners. A sinner is not justified by the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.

In Romans 3:9-10 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: It is only through faith in Jesus Christ that the believer becomes righteous. To be righteous is to escape from sin. In God's eyes, we are not justified by trying hard to be holy and trying to be sanctified, but because we are free from sin and acknowledge righteously. It is only in the case of death that a person who has sinned in this world escapes without being tried. If the person who sinned suddenly dies, the prosecutor will not sue. Likewise, God is not guilty of the dead. In Romans 6:6-7 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.  For he that is dead is freed from sin.

To fulfill righteousness by obeying the law is an act of showing one's righteousness. So, God never forgives those under the law. God does not ask the sins of the dead with Jesus. In Romans 8:1-2There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

Today, the reason people have wrong faith is because they misunderstand Romans 8:1. I think that heresy became a righteous man because he was completely sinless. But sin remains the same, but because he dies with Jesus Christ, God will not sue. And the reason for the false belief is that God refuses to sue the dead with Jesus, but he continues to insist that he is a sinner who sins every day. In God's eyes, he sees such a person as not dead with Jesus. So, in the end, God will prosecute and judge by law (law).

They think that they must repent and be forgiven of their sins with the blood of Jesus because they sin every day. God will judge all of these iniquities of all their lives in accordance with the law, one clause, one article thoroughly. Will you stick to your own righteousness, or will you die with Jesus and become a person without prosecution? 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. Those who are in Christ have abolished the law, and if they believe again legally, they are transgressors. Those who are in Christ are dead to the law. Because Jesus died of the law, those in Christ also become dead to the law. That is why God justifies those who give to the law.

 

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