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Unveiling Supernatural Suffering in Galatians: Understanding the Missionaries' Tactics

Explore the unsettling actions of missionaries in Galatia, Jerusalem, and Paul's other letters, uncovering their oppressive demands and false teachings. Discover the profound suffering endured by believers as they navigated conflicting ideals and confronted deceptive forces. Gain insights from historical contexts and universal principles revealed in the book of Galatians.

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Unveiling Supernatural Suffering in Galatians: Understanding the Missionaries' Tactics

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  1. Supernatural suffering - Galatians 3

  2. What was happening in galatia ?

  3. Profiling the Missionaries from Jerusalem (Galatians) • They wanted the Gentiles who followed Christ to be circumcised (Gal. 6:13) • They wanted Jews who followed Christ to refrain from entering the home of a Gentile (Gal. 2:12) • They wanted Gentiles to embrace Jewish traditions regarding the law of Moses (2:16) • They wanted to set up a hierarchy based on ethnic, social or personal factors (3:28; 4:18) • They wanted to place spiritual significance on certain days, seasons and years (and places and colours and the rest) (4:10) • They wanted the focus to be on external behaviour that was produced by human effort (6:13)

  4. Profiling the Missionaries from Jerusalem (Acts) • You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them (11:3) • You can’t be genuinely saved unless you are circumcised. (15:1) • It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses (15:5)

  5. Profiling the Missionaries from Jerusalem (Paul’s other letters) • Paul was not a real apostle (2 Cor. 3:3; 12:13) • Ordering people to observe the festival and food stipulations of the law of Moses (Colossians 2:16-23) • Promoting myths and speculative complex genealogies (1 Tim. 1:4)

  6. Exposing the core problems - paul ?

  7. The HISTORICAL PARTICULAR DETAILS a false gospel posing as the “full gospel.” • Deserting Christ; severed from Christ (1:6; 5:4) • A false gospel (1:7-10); man’s gospel (1:11) • Foolishly coming under a spell (3:1) • Slavery rather than sonship (4:1) and freedom (5:1) • Cut off from the supply of God’s grace (5:4) • Independent human effort (flesh) not Holy Spirit transforming power (5:16)

  8. The UNIVERSAL PRINCIPLES

  9. UNDERSTANDING EACH PIECE OF STAND ALONE INFORMATION Understanding each part in the context of all of the relevant information

  10. WHAT KIND OF SUFFERING? from the text of Galatians • When you do things that are not approved of by those around you (1:10) • When you are tested by people who are against you, regardless of what you say or do (2:4) • When you have to publicly confront the people in your sphere who have status and influence (2:14) • When what you say is misrepresented by those who need to oppose you (3:21) • When those with whom you had a close relationship take a side with others against you (4:16) • Being opposed just because you are speaking eternal saving truth e.g. the message of the cross (5:11)

  11. this and other stuff is available at www.brianmedway.com.au

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