The Good News Of Jesus Christ - Steve Justice - May 20 2018

What does it mean to be a Christian? Who can be a Christian? "When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, "You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? "We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified." ‭‭Galatians‬ ‭2:11-16‬ ‭NIV‬‬ http://bible.com/111/gal.2.11-16.niv Cephas was "the rock" or Peter At this time Paul would've been following Jesus for about 15 years. Paul let the gentiles know that they could be forgiven by believing in Jesus Christ. Antioch is between Turkey and Syria, had many christians and unbelievers.