Imagine a young person who was rescued from a abusive situation ,and adopted into a loving caring family, and then imagine that same young person leaving that loving family ,and going back into that abusive situation. It does not make sense, the loving family are devastated, why they ask themselves? why?. Then consider the great apostle Paul hearing that a Church that had come into being under his ministry, were now turning back, why/?. It is in his letter to the Galatians we discover the reason , they were forsaking the truth, for error. When we forsake truth we are forsaking God, for God is a God of truth, and he expects those who follow him , to hold fast for the truth especially the truth of the gospel. After all it is only the truth of the gospel that can save us. It appears that people ,they are called, the circumcision party , did two things ,they poisoned the minds of the church against Paul. If they had succeeded in this they would have undermined Pauls teaching, and ministry. What were they teaching ?,they were Jews who taught that Christ and his finished work on Calvary was not enough to save ,a person. They taught that one had to be circumcised, to be a real Christian, in other words they had to become legalistic Jews. This basically is what the letter to the Galatians is about ,this is as relevant now, as it was then , as we see next time.
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