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 altars』So, 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 8:1-2『There 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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