Derek Thomas

It's been brought about by Peter's refusal to allow Gentiles who weren't obeying the Jewish kosher laws to be included within the family of God.

And he's introduced a damnable plus.

It's faith in Jesus plus obedience to the law.

And Paul is now explaining that theologically.

And he's saying it's never about our obedience.

Our justification can never be about our obedience.

Welcome back.

This is session number four, and we are in the second half of chapter two from verses 11 through 21.

And as I was saying at the end of the previous session, this is like a Pistols at Dawn moment between Paul and Peter.

There was a sci-fi series when I was young, many years ago.

And it was called Doctor Who, and it's been revamped since then.

And it has a time machine, the so-called TARDIS.

It's a police box you enter in, and you can go back in time and so on.

And I often wondered if I could go back somewhere to a certain point, and of course, excluding

Meeting Jesus, let's put that out of it.

Where would you go?

What event would you like to sort of see?

And I think I would love to be a fly on the wall in Antioch when there was a showdown between Paul and Peter.

And he tells us here that he withstood Peter to the face.

Let's look at this, and Paul tells us in the first half, 11 to 14, he gives us the historical narrative of what went down.