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The doctrine of justification by faith alone does not require a Ph.D. in theology to understand. It's simple. But to get it in your head is one thing. To get it in the bloodstream where you live on the basis of justification by faith alone is so hard that even the apostle Peter was caving in to this Judaizing heresy.
Justification by faith alone. It's central to the good news, and it's always under attack. That's why R.C. Sproul preached and taught this doctrine with such passion and clarity, and why Ligonier Ministries and Renewing Your Mind by God's Grace will never waver or shrink back from the clarity and precision of gospel truth.
Welcome to the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind where each week we feature the preaching ministry of R.C. Sproul. This week we're starting a new series in Galatians, an important epistle that responds sharply to attacks against the gospel and one that we need to read, study and meditate upon as we continue to have our minds renewed according to Scripture.
This is a four-message study with Dr. Sproul, unpacking the gospel and the dangers of legalism. But if you'd like to study the entirety of Galatians until midnight tonight, you can request Dr. Sproul's hardcover commentary on Galatians when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. Well, if you have your Bible with you, open it to Galatians chapter 2. Here's Dr. Sproul.
But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. Where before certain men came from James, he was eating with the Gentiles, but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing the circumcision party. And the rest of the Jews, hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
When I saw their conduct was not in step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, if you though a Jew live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?" We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ.
So we also have believed in Jesus Christ in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified."
Before we look at this text that I've just read, let's remember the full context of this letter to the Galatians where Paul is writing to address a very serious heresy that had arisen among the Galatians, what's called the Judaizing heresy.
where certain converts under the apostolic ministry then changed their position and began to think of justification as a combination between faith and works and insisted upon the keeping of the Jewish law, both ceremonial and moral, even among the Gentile converts. at the center and at the core of the problem is the question of the truth of the gospel. And then in a secondary sense,
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