Galatians 2:20-21

I am crucified with Christ:

『I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. 』(Galatians 2:20-21)

The values of Jews looking at Gentiles are different from those of Gentiles looking at Jews. First, if you look at the Jewish perspective, it appears 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. 』

The Jews had the idea of a chosen people who had been chosen by God, and they thought they were not sinners because they kept the law well. So, when they look at the Gentiles, they think they are sinners. The Jews thought it was against the law to associate with the Gentiles. Likewise, the Gentiles generally knew the Law, so they purposely evaded the Jews.

However, the Jews preached the gospel of God to the Gentiles. During the vision, Peter saw an unholy animal wrapped down in furoshikis in the sky, and God said to eat it. The unholy animal symbolizes the Gentiles. And God told Cornelius to appear in vision and meet Peter. So Peter and Cornelius meet, and Peter preaches the Gospel to the Gentile Cornelius. In Acts 11:2-4, 『And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them. But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying, 』

In Acts 15:1-2『 And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.  When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question. 』 Thus, at the Jerusalem General Assembly, Christians concluded that circumcision was no longer necessary. Peter explains 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. 』

In this way, Peter thought and said that he had strayed from the law, but there were times when he acted legally without his knowledge. Peter visited the Antioch Church and was having a meal with Paul, Barnabas, and the Gentile Saints, and the Jews from James came to Jerusalem to enter the table. Peter inadvertently moved to the Jews who came to the restaurant after having eaten with the Gentiles, so Barnabas did so, and all the Jews who were sitting there moved. So Paul was forced to rebuke Peter for this situation.
In 1 Corinthians 5:6, Paul『 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 』 It means that the church can be, just as the leaven spreads, because the fornicated ones are not left at once. Likewise, wrong thoughts about the law can become like yeast when they are misrepresented.

In Galatians 2:15-16『 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. 』 Both Jews and Gentiles are sinners, but they say that to be justified is not through the law, but through 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 that we must be justified in Christ to be saved. In Romans 3:20, 『Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 』

The absence of a body to be justified means that everyone on earth cannot achieve righteousness with the body because there is a greed in the body to be like God. The law makes it understandable. So, take off your body and enter into Christ. Entering into Christ will enter only those who die with Jesus. Those who obey God's Word are those who deny themselves. Thus, obedience to God tells us that those who do not die with Jesus Christ cannot obey God's Word because of their physical body.

No one can be righteous by the law, but only by faith in Jesus Christ. Today, most believers in the church will not know this. But why are you telling this story? The reason is that they say that they are saved by faith by mouth, but they do not do so by action. The act is that our old man dies on the cross with Jesus.

In Romans 8:3-4『 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 』 Those who make the demands of the law fulfill are those who follow the Spirit (the Holy Spirit). This is because the Holy Spirit does not come into the body. So, in order for the Holy Spirit to come, we must be born again with water and the Holy Spirit.

In Galatians 2:17 『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. 』

It is said that in Christ we do not have to obey the law, but we have sinned because we have flesh. So, if you had tried to see if you had sinned through the law and tried to hold on to it, there would be people who said that if you hadn't sinned, it would be wrong to say that you don't have to keep the law in Christ. It says no way. In Chapter 2, verses 18-19, 『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. If people say they are in Christ, but live as sinners, it means that the old man with Jesus did not die.