Book of Galatians, and we're going to look at some expository, preach on some verses that we probably wouldn't preach on otherwise. because you want to learn things and find things that you usually just ain't gonna hear preached. And to me, that's what church is really about. And learning our Bible, say amen. And so we're gonna look over here at Galatians. And I don't know how many weeks we've been doing this, but we're halfway through chapter number two. And we're only covering about three verses tonight. I won't tell Stephanie, they didn't take too long down there. But I just want to cover a couple verses. give you my thoughts on them, amen? And we know that Galatians, the authors of the Apostle Paul, and he's writing to the churches of Galatians. And they were converts of Paul who later were infected by Judaizers. Many of them were convinced by the Judaizers that circumcision was necessary for salvation. You may see a case of that today of a very important person, amen? And the Judaizers, they tried to enforce Jewish circumcision upon the Gentile converts, the early Christian and other things, amen? Dietary codes and all that, you'll see that today, basically. They were trying to force them to add works to salvation after salvation. And I believe there's verses in the epistle that we can see they're trying to add it to salvation as well. But it was a works-based doctrine, which as we have heard is a lot of Christendom, if you will, amen? All of Catholicism, amen? And we know how the Pauline Officials are laid out. This one a little bit different than the others. Many of them half practical, half positional, or half doctrinal, half duty. This one has a two-chapter beginning of a personal explanation by Paul, but then we see two chapters of exposition, and then two chapters of exhortation, or doctrinal and duty, amen? So just like all the other Pauline Officials, you have two sections of it. One that deals with why you are where you're at, and then what y'all do because of where you're at, amen? So in chapter number two, the earlier verses, I got the top of that wrong, but we talked about the conference that they had. They met at the Jerusalem Council. And that was over in Acts 15, I believe, right here. And the conference was a success. Paul went in there, and the men of Jerusalem agreed on doctrine and theology. It was by grace who faced our works. And Jerusalem, which was a heavy Jewish church, They were trying to add that. Those Judaizers were coming up to Galatia and trying to add that worst doctrine in the church. Paul finds out about it and he heads down there to meet with the big three, as we call them, amen, and they decide, a group of men there, I think there was six, wasn't there? Paul, Barnabas, and the three guys from up there, amen, I don't wanna start naming names, They agreed that this thing is by grace, through faith, and in all the works. Amen. And it should have been sealed there, but that wasn't the end of it. So verse 6, we saw, But of these who seem to be somewhat, and whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me. He said, I'm no respecter of persons. God accepted no man's person. He said, it doesn't matter if he's a big-timer. It doesn't matter if he's a dude that ran with Jesus. It doesn't matter. For they who seem to be somewhat in confidence added nothing to me. He said, They will teach me nothing more than God has already shown me. So Paul goes to Jerusalem to face those men who were named for being talented by these Judaizers. You know the Judaizers come here and say, don't you know James down here, the pastor? He's telling us it's my idea. I don't know if James would have said that, but that's exactly what they would have been saying. And Paul says, with all due respect, boys, whatsoever they all were, it don't matter if they're a pastor, it don't matter if they're a disciple, it don't matter if they're an apostle, a child of Christ, it made no matter to me. God accepted no man's person. He didn't care who they were, what their rank was in the church. Paul knew what he'd been taught and wasn't anything going to change that, amen? for they who seemed to be somewhat to conference added nothing to me." That's what he means by that. They couldn't add anything to what the Apostle Paul had preached by grace through faith, amen, not of works. But contrarywise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me and the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter, for he that rised especially in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me towards the Gentiles. Now this is just talking about them going to different One going to the uncircumcision, one going to the circumcision. We know that Paul is the epistle to the Gentiles, right? That's why we study Paul in epistles for our church doctrine, if you will, amen. And we don't let anything else override that. We let it agree with it, amen. But that's only standard. Paul being called as God's special ambassador to the Gentiles. It kind of makes sense that we get our ecclesiastical doctrine for the church out of Paul in epistles. And don't let other areas, amen, contradict that. We've got to rightly divide when that happens and figure out who the Bible is talking to, what the time frame it's talking about, and what's going on there. Verse number 9, we have James, Cynthus, and John. James, Peter, John, that's the big three from the Jerusalem church, amen, who seem to be pillars. The grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas, the right hand of fellowship, that we should go unto the brethren and they unto the servants. So they agreed, this is your ministry, we're going to go to the Jews, you're going to go here. Now God changed all that later on, we know that. But both of these groups of men went to both sides, uncertainty and certainty. Peter had already been used to go to Cornelius, amen. So we know that God was going to use them in both ways, but that was the primary ministry that they had, amen. So they gave to me and Marcus the right hand of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen and that they unto the serfs. And they sealed their mutual understanding with a hearty headshake and the Lord charged them to make disciples of all nations. This is what we just are focusing on a faith promise. In our day and age, it's getting that gospel out, amen. That's what this seminar's about, how we're gonna get it out. You're gonna go over here, you're gonna go over here, amen. Matthew 28, 19, go to the airport, teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, all nations. That's all we've been focusing on. That's Brother Farney, he supports all of them. And that was telling me, Brother Farney's all about foreign missions, amen. We support some home missions. And I'm for that, amen, brother. The Bible tells us we've got to get it to all nations, and America's doing pretty bad, amen. We need some here as well. Let's send a witness for him to the earth in the remotest bounds, amen. And you shall receive power from the Holy Ghost to come upon you. You shall be a witness unto me in Jerusalem, your home, and all that you need in your surrounding areas, and Samaria, the enemies, amen. They are the enemies of them. And then to the outermost parts of the earth, amen. All the earth is going to be trying to get the gospel to you. to go indeed into the world. It was a quote that John Coates said. Then said Jesus to them, peace be unto you, as my father sent me, even so I send you to the end of the earth. Amen. And that repentance and remission seems to be preached in his name among all nations. We're supposed to be spreading the gospel, man. These men were talking about that they had to get the gospel straight. Because they had these Judaizers in here saying, well, there's work stuff in this thing. There's this and that. You've got to change this. Only they would that we should remember the poor, the same which also is for the So Paul was always worried about the poor, wanted to help them, stated in numerous other epistles, he and Barnabas had brought an offering or a relief money to help the poor in Jerusalem. In those days, the family that would follow would have struggled to make ends meet, much as that could have been, told the Apostle Paul, amen. I had a big quote last time about how when he was Saul of Tarsus, he would have murdered men, amen, Christians. He would have put people in jail and different things like that, and murdered men, women, and children. The Bible says, amen, he locked them up, all of them. You can imagine the men, amen, and how many orphans there would have been, and how many widows there would have been, the cause of the Apostle Paul, amen. The conference was over, but the problem did not permanently solve, the process did not permanently solve the problem. The Judaizers did not give up trying to force their works doctrine in the church and followed him around like a yelping dog, the commentator said. Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. I write the same things to you, to me indeed, and to Dr. Emerson, but to you it's safe. Beware of dogs. Beware of evil doers. Beware of the concision. So that was the, man, that works to it. You think they gave up yet? Has Satan given up yet, or is there a works doctrine all over the flesh? Amen. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, having no confidence in the flesh. We know that they went to Galatia, hence the letter that we're studying right now, right? We know they went down there. It may have been written for Manioc shortly after the Council, making it one of Paul's earliest writings. And in it we find, I just studied over there, James may be an artist writing, but neither here nor there, in it we find every major doctrine in the book of Galatians that Paul believed, preached, and wrote about in his ministry. And that's why it's like a little brother to the book of Romans, amen. Romans is a great epistle of theology that tells us all of those doctrines, amen. Now look at, let's look at today's real fast. We've just got three verses I thought we'd look for on here. Unknowingly, we're gonna do these three right here. But when Peter, was cut to Antioch, so sometime after that council, Peter comes back down there to Antioch, Paul's down there, and Peter comes down there, and I don't know why, maybe we don't know what these men said or what, but it says this, I, Paul, withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. He caught him out! He got on him, amen? For before that were certain Jews, and certain came from James, James was more likely But when they would come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. Y'all see what Peter's doing? And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. That word dissimulation is where we get our word hypocrisy. Barnabas was pulled away because they were hypocrites. Amen? But when I saw that they walked not uprightly before the truth of God, so I sent unto Peter before them all, if thou be a Jew that livest after the men of the Gentiles, and all that is due to the Jews, why compelst thou the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? We'll get on that next week. But we've gotta understand that Peter was raised an Orthodox Jew. Being a prayer church Jerusalem under James, who was heavily, heavily Jewish influenced. He gets saved after Jesus died on the cross as his half-brother, amen? And he was heavily influenced by Judaism. So these men, you've got to imagine how hard it would be to be in their work stuff for your whole life, being Orthodox Jews, following the law, doing all that, and all of a sudden everything changes. It was God ordained, but you've got to understand how hard it'd be. Everything changes, and all of a sudden Jesus dies on the cross, all of a sudden it's by grace, new faith, amen? The old covenant's gone, the new covenant is given to you, amen? And here they are, they don't have to do all that stuff anymore. Why do you think it's so hard to win a covenant? Same thing, almost. They take their Israel, their replacement theology, their allegorical and other scriptures, and there they are thinking the Pope is the vicar of Christ, amen? Sitting on his throne, home is scepter. Words stopped for doing what the Pope says, and that's to get a Catholic to change and believe what we believe. It's hard. Me and Josh were just talking about it. Same thing. You've got to thank Peter. Now, even though he was in that council, he's there helping them decide, okay, by grace and faith. But it seems like he's fighting a battle. Now, Peter, he was raised to co-adopt students. The entire change would have been difficult for these men. And he witnessed Christ and all that Christ did, but now he's under this heavy influence of the Jews, amen? James is sitting, we don't know what they said, but James is sending men down there with this Judaistic influence. The church would not, and the church would have been growing leaps and bounds, right? Here's all these Gentiles that were never allowed in, and they were never allowed in. All they knew was Judaism. Judaistic proselyte and going over and performing all of the law and all that stuff, amen? They never knew anything about salvation. They knew paganism and all that stuff. And now all of a sudden they can believe in this God-man and be saved by grace through faith? You can imagine the droves of Gentiles coming to the church over there in Antioch. Probably some in Jerusalem as well. But here they are. It's growing. And the church at this time would have been probably more largely Gentile than it would have been Jewish. But still everybody would have looked up to Peter. Right? Paul was the man that used to kill Christians. And Paul was the man that was coming out and said, here's Peter who traveled with Jesus Christ on the big tree. Peter changed his job. He traveled with him, man. He was there to cut that new tear off. He was there to guard the city. He traveled with Christ. So everybody, he would have been a hero. The men that traveled and witnessed all the Christ's giving, he would have been like the celebrity preachers of today. You believe that? If he came to town and preached, you not think everybody would say, that's one of the clowns, that's one of the ones that was with him. Let's go hear that dude preach. Man, he came up under some good stock, man. Let's go hear Peter. He would have packed out places. People would have come. People would have flocked to hear him. They would have come to his meetings. He would have been packed out. Everybody would have been sitting at that table. He would have been sitting with that kid down at that table throwing them out. I'd imagine it was important people. It was the big people. I met him time. I didn't want to be around him. He was not in any way a celebrity preacher, but back then he would have been the popular guy. And here he is down in Antioch. Therefore, the cause of who he was, He had a vast amount of influence. A vast amount of influence in the church at Antioch and the church at Jerusalem. But he was making choices that did not line up with scripture. He was being a hypocrite in the first tenses. He was not separating from false doctrine in the first tenses. Now I believe, I don't know, but he was leaning towards false doctrine. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I would stood him to the face because he was to be blamed. We noticed there was something wrong going. You have a man named Paul that is angry now. And if you know anything about the Bible, you know this man named Paul. He might have been a little dude. Amen. He might have been an ugly dude. We don't know a lot about him. We've all tried to take a lady's torn. Amen. But this dude, amen, was angry. Could you imagine an apostle Paul that was angry? He don't pull no punches in them epistles, man. Right? Yeah. And if he lived in the days and age and nobody would have put Paul, they'd be scared they'd get called out for something. Amen. Peter, as we'll see in a minute, was flirting with that false doctrine. He was believing the false doctrine, or either he was in so much fear, but the verse tells us he was in fear of it. He was in so much fear that he would not stand against it, but he fellowshiped with it. And he's a bad influence. He turned his back on the ones he should have been with. And as always, when one does not stand up for what's right, he was a horrible influence for those around him. Paul was aroused, he was angry, and was treating his beloved Gentile converts against Judaistic chivalrous, amen? And he was a man to be feared, Dr. John Philip said. He said, I withstood him to his face because he was in the wrong and was to be blamed, is basically what he said. They couldn't. We can imagine, Dr. Phillips I believe said, we can imagine Peter must have quailed before the fire in Paul's eyes. The blistering eloquence of his tongue, the driving force of his will, and the irresistible logic of his words. Peter had no decency. He had no decency. Man, he was being a punk, for lack of better words. He knew what had been decided. He knew what the church believed. And here he stands and he fell victim under pressure and walked away and sat with the wrong guys. In the next verse, we're gonna see what insuriated Paul so much that he did what every single one of God's truly called preachers ought to do today. But what a lot of them won't do for the love of money. Because they want to keep their appointments and they want to keep their crowds going up. They don't want to offend nobody. They won't call out nothing. But Paul does the right thing here. Let me just ask this. Let me ask this just for fun. The Catholics claim that Peter is the first pope. Y'all have heard that, right? Because those verses where they had Jeff, those verses over there talk about going to church. I'll build my rock. Amen. It's talking about Peter right there in the same verse, but they So he's their first pope. He's the one in their church. The Catholic Church is built on fun. He's making a mistake and knocks them right here. That works to it. He's sending the guys that are. He made mistakes in His speech in Acts 10-14. He said, No, I'm not, sir, Lord. I've never eaten anything that's commoner. And then it's talking about the vision and Him talking to the Lord. Amen. He made mistakes in spiritual discernment, Matthew 16-23. Then Peter took Him and began to rebuke Him, saying, Be apart from me, Lord. This shall not be unto thee, because of great Jesus. Then He turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan. Amen. He made mistakes in His self-control. saying, I know not the man, and immediately the top crew. And then today, he makes the mistake of being a heretic in doctrinal matters, is one commentator said. That don't sound like the first pope, amen? That ought not be the first pope, but yeah, that probably is the first pope. He made a lot of mistakes. For before that, certain came from James. There's the men coming down from James. He did it with the Gentiles. There's Peter over there, standing at the table, fellowshipping, eating with the Gentiles and the converts. But when they would come, and the dude would come down and put that pressure on him, he withdrew from that table, away from them Gentile believers, and separated himself, fearing them, which were of the circumcision. So Paul saw the cowardice and compromise in Peter. Probably the two things he detested the most in a man of God. Amen. This ain't the separation of the Roman ones that I'm probably going to preach on in a couple weeks. This ain't the separation of 2 Corinthians chapter 6 that I'm going to preach on in a couple weeks. Amen. Here's what one man said. It is fashionable nowadays among ecumenical advocates. Y'all know the ecumenical system. That's bringing everything together. Amen. It's one world order stuff. That's why we don't do contemporary music. So that's what all of it's about. Amen. And it's really end time stuff. And most of the guys that are pumping that stuff don't even understand that stuff. But it's bringing everybody together to worship under one music and one system, amen. The Catholic Church has accepted CCM, amen. But the Methodist and all others are accepting it, amen. False doctrine folks are accepting it. And when the Antichrist comes in and turns on that Caleb, amen. And everybody starts singing 7-Eleven songs. How great is our God, never mention the name of Jesus. Her blood, amen. You'll have them all! That's that comministant, right? That's our Lord. There's a whole lot of stuff behind it. And you can look at it and find out. It's fashionable nowadays to accuse separated Christians of being self-righteous, ultra-separatists, refusing to be Republicans and Senators in order to reach man and influence for Christ. They don't ever really pay attention to what the Bible says, even when they quote it to prove a position. When Christ ate with the Pharisees, there wasn't any fellowship, not in Hebron for the first, but it shows He goes there to eat with them and He's instantly correcting them. Instantly. Is that how y'all fellowship? Sit around people telling you wrong? Verse 12, for before that, sir came from James, we done read this, he did eat with the Gentiles, but when they were come, he withdrew himself, separated, fearing them, which the sir said, I'm just explaining here, I just kind of did it on the last one. The separation took place because Ben came down from James at the church of Jerusalem, he was eating with the Gentiles, which would not have been allowed for these two to be out, so when they came, he was in fear of them and quit eating with them and separated from the Gentiles. Peter's separation, quote, was running from an obligation because of the fear of man. Public opinion has reared its ugly head. This is the reason why liberals and modernists separate themselves from biblical Christianity and the A.V. authorized version 1611 King James Bible, because they're in fear and they're in places. Likewise, what's that talk about? That's about when Peter gets up from that table, he's got such influence, he's got such authority, he's the celebrity preacher. When he gets up and walks away, all the other Jews do. Even the great man that we know in our Bible, he's so much that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy, dissimulation. That's where we get our word hypocrisy. Not only did Peter get up and leave the table of fellowship with the false doctrine crowd. Man, y'all seein' this stuff happenin' today? Not only did Peter get up from the table of fellowship with the guys who were false doctrine, amen, because of pressure, amen, and probably was bein' swayed that way, but the other Jews were influenced by him as well as the great man Barnabas. Now it doesn't set up that word dissimulation as hypocrite. Imagine the division they caused for the future in that Gentile church, that young Gentile church at Antioch. Right after a council had agreed on proper doctrine, here comes a very high saluting, if you will, important man at that headquarter church, if you will, coming down and doing things that are a little bit weird. Now, let me give you shots of my last two slides. That's pretty cool stuff, in my opinion. I need a little shots of my opinion. That was the expository part, this is the spark-offatory part. Modern day, language and illustration, relevant. Years ago, some men came together to call it some false doctrine. They had a Niagara Conference, which is where the word fundamentalism was really put together. It was made of different denominations. But burping out of that, I've not read the whole book, but in the pursuit for purity by David Beale, who studies the history of fundamentalism, I'm halfway through. That's where the independent fundamentalists come from. Men that wanted to follow the fundamentals. I was doing it on this podcast. When you're a fundamentalist, you follow what your book says. and you're polemic about it, you're serious about it, you will attack error and you want to do it right. That's who we are. And on the other side of that was the Southern Baptists who were going away from the right Bible, amen, they got women preachers and gays now, right? And their music's loud, all that stuff, but the Bible stuff's really important, amen? And they're going the complete wrong direction, and here we are trying to stand straight. And it happened years ago. Some men come together and said, this is it. This is what we ought to believe, and I believe they're right. I've said it over and over, I believe. Listen, we're independent fundamental Baptists, and yes, yes, they'll get mad at me online. I believe everybody in here is going to be independent fundamental Baptists. You know why? I believe some Baptists will go up there, they say, when they see me up there, they will find out we had it right. And they're going to be like, I'm independent fundamental Baptists. Yeah. You can't have permanent interest if you believe there's a Bible right, if you believe in church security like we do. If you believe in the inerrant, infallible Word of God, in the T.J. Bible, permanent of the place, amen? So we got it right, and we have to counsel, if you will, to the place. Come out, and there we are. We believe in separating from false doctrine. You understand that's part of the thing that we are? We're separatists. We separate from those that are false, and guys like Paul are polemic. They'll attack you and they'll kill them about it. We believe in separating from false doctrine, being polemic in our politics. We make decisions on what we believe that the Bible is truly teaching and I believe is right. They're eliminating the separation stuff, like it's not in Galatians, like it's not in the Bible, in the book of Matthew, like none of them said that! Right? That fellowship with Pentecostalism? Right? You see the pictures? a word about it, you go preach for it to your pope in it, and you preach on eternal security, I'm for you. I'll preach anywhere is what some of them say, and I agree with that, but I want you to listen to it and see if you really preach it. Or if you just don't happen to mention the eternal nature of salvation, ow! Because you're mixing with the worst. And that money talks. You won't get anybody back! That money talks! And including men, with false verses of the Bible. When I was young, when I'd finish things, you didn't even sit on a stage with another dude and talk another Bible. Now that's legalism for some reason. You definitely didn't sit and preach before or after one and preach with another. And you definitely didn't invite them into your church and just say, well, I guess you suck. This is why you're here. You didn't do any of that. But things have changed. Amen. And there's a lot of other great areas that we need to find out. Music, drinks, all that stuff. Amen. I'll tell you a lot about that. And all this does, all this does, all this does is exactly what it did here, is approve these non-biblical things in the eyes of everyone that follows them. All followers now will attack anyone that is like the Apostle Paul and says, I disagree with this. Says right here it is in the Bible. Says here's quotes from every preacher you're quoting and every big hero of the faith. 10, 15, 20 years ago, the preacher gets every bit of it. But in the culture, Peter's doing it. And the men that are doing this stuff are so hypocritical because not a percent of the time, they used to be just like us. years ago. But now, seemingly, seemingly, and I don't know why, I don't know if he's part of it, seemingly because of money and popularity, they've acted just like Peter was, and they've followed the crowd. They've followed the crowd and went and sat with false doctrine. Now, Peter wasn't doing it for money, but he was doing it for fear and treachery. But because he was fearful of them, he probably didn't want to be ousted by them. He probably wanted favor with them. That's why a lot of And men like myself are made fun of, we're poked at consistently, we're scoffed at, and we're ridiculed for being just like the men of God we sit under, and trying to be just like the Apostle Paul, and trying to stand firm on that Bible, and be a fundamental Bible believer. We're being made fun of. And I don't preach this for anybody online. I don't care if anybody wants to. We don't get a lot of views. I preach this for y'all. If y'all understand the passion, understand the direction this church is going. Amen? I'm going to continue to be like the Apostle Paul no matter how many people dislike me, say things to me for what they do. And I'm doing it for every one of y'all. Because these men, they're in love with money and popularity and doing whatever, and they're man-worshippers and following other men that are messing up. They're not worried about their own single children. You hear me? If we all go that way, and we all go ecumenical, and we all go contemporary, and we all go fellowshipping with false doctrine castes, there ain't gonna be a Bible-preaching church from here to Kansas where our children, these little babies are older. Where are they gonna go find a church to truly be born again in? Where are they gonna find? But we've got to think of our children and what they're going to have. I want my kids, I want my grandchildren to have what I have. You follow that book? You understand that book? Lord, we love you. Thank you for your glory.