Peter's Capitulation & Paul's Confrontation

SERIES: Topical Sermon

MESSAGE: Peter's Capitulation & Paul's Confrontation

TEXT: Galatians 2:11-21

DATE: July 11th, 2021

MESSAGE BY: Jerry Marshall

SERMON OVERVIEW:

Galatians 2:11–21
11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to with- draw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumci- sion.
13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, “If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?
15 “We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;
16 nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified.
17 “But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!
18 “For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
19 “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.
20 “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
21 “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

Galatians 3:28
28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:28
28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law.

In the passage before us today, we have a confrontation between two pillars of the faith because the behavior of one was in conflict with several major doctrines of the faith.

SERMON NOTES:

I. The ______________________ of the Body of Christ. (Galatians 2:11-13)

II. The ______________________ of the Gospel. (Galatians 2:14)

III. The _____________________ of the Gospel. (Galatians 2:15-16)

IV. The Importance of _______________________ to the Law. (Galatians 2:17-20)

V. The Great Significance of God’s _______________________ (Galatians 2:21)