The Truth Of The Gospel
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Twice in Galatians 2 Paul
speaks of “the truth of the gospel.” In both cases the Apostle had been forced
to speak out to defend the purity of “the gospel of the grace of God.”
n Verses 4,5 he refers to
his contest with those at Jerusalem who would have brought the Gentile
believers under the law of Moses. Among them were “false brethren,” he says,
“unawares brought in… to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus,
that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place by subjection, no,
not for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.”
n the second case he
refers to a controversy with Peter who, having enjoyed blessed fellowship with
Gentile Christians, had been intimidated by some of his Jewish brethren into
separating himself from the Gentiles. Concerning this, Paul writes: “But when
Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be
blamed” (Ver. 11). Why was Peter to be blamed? Verse 14 answers: Because
he“walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel,”i.e., “the gospel
of the grace of God,” in which believing Jews and Gentiles are “one body in
Christ.”
How we should all thank
God for Paul’s vigorous defense of the gospel of grace, under which all who
trust in Christ as Savior are baptized by the Holy Spirit into the one true
Bible Church (I Corinthian 12:13).
Doubtless Paul’s stand
for “the gospel of the grace of God” stemmed from the fact that he himself had
experienced the truth of this blessed message. As the chief of sinners he had been
gloriously saved. All his power and prestige as a Pharisee, all his
intellectual achievement, all his rigid Law observance meant nothing now, as in
the presence of the glorified Lord he saw himself a sinner, the chief of
sinners, and was saved by the matchless grace of God.
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