“This matter arose because some false believers had
infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus and to make
us slaves.”
Galatians 2:4
Even though the term ‘false believers’ may have seemed
like an oxymoron then, even today we must acknowledge that the tares are sown
among the wheat.
Paul indicates a twofold purpose of false believers –
1. They spy on the freedom we have in Christ
2. To make us slaves
You also may deal with some people whose purpose is
not to come to Christ through the witness of your life but rather to observe
and challenge the freedom you have and to bring you back to slavery.
A Gospel that brings bondage rather than liberty is a
false Gospel.
The Judaizers in Jerusalem were insisting that Titus
be circumcised.
This would not have brought freedom but bondage to the
traditions of man.
God had established circumcision as a sign of the
covenant He had with the offspring of Abraham but the early church recognized
that it was not a ‘new requirement’ needed for Gentile believers in the New
Covenant.
Paul rightly opposed those who sought to push a ‘false
truth’ that those Gentiles needed to ‘become’ Jews before becoming Christ
followers.
Don’t allow the traditions of man to become a prison
cell in your life.
Christ came to set us free!
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