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Acts chapter 15 v5-11:
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Acts chapter 15 v5-11:
V5: Despite the general welcome from the Jerusalem church, Paul and Barnabas now face critical opposition from ” some believers …of the party of the Pharisees.” They are called believers, but they are still caught up in their legalistic background, and say that Gentile converts need to accept circumcision and the full weight of the law of Moses. Paul would later write of how he was set free from such legalism by God’s grace. ( Philippians 3 v5-9.)
V6-7: The Apostles and Elders gather to consider this – clearly it is still a point of contention for some, but Peter reminds them how God has already sent him to the Gentiles ( the household of Cornelius, inch 10.) and brought them to saving faith.
V8-9: And how the Holy Spirit sealed their conversion, and taught Peter that there was no difference between Jew and Gentile in the matter of faith – all is by God’s grace, through faith in Christ, with no other conditions.
V10-11: How then can any seek to oppose God’s will, and lay the burden of the Law on Gentile converts, when the Jews themselves could never keep it or be saved through it? ( Compare Galatians 2 v15-16.)