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Oct 28, 2026
Brandon FogalHOST
They received the spirit with joy.
Brandon FogalHOST
But now some Judaizers, who we've known as Judaizers, these are people that are trying to get them to go under the yoke of the law, which would mean to become a proselyte to Judaism, to become Jewish.
Brandon FogalHOST
And that's the argument Paul's... debating with and fighting against.
Brandon FogalHOST
He doesn't want these Gentiles to become Jewish.
Brandon FogalHOST
He received the gospel from Christ, which was trusting in Christ alone, faith alone.
Brandon FogalHOST
And if anyone was adding to this gospel, it was a different gospel.
Brandon FogalHOST
And that's what these—he saw these Judaizers, which they could have been Gentiles who had become Jewish themselves.
Brandon FogalHOST
Like, this is being a proselyte, a God-fearer, a person— going under the yoke of the law.
Patrick MadridHOST
It's just simply a custom.
Patrick MadridHOST
I'd draw your attention to a similar thing, and that would be in Acts chapter 15, we see in the Council of Jerusalem, where Judaizing was rejected, circumcision to be a Christian was rejected, keeping the kosher food laws, et cetera, was rejected.
Patrick MadridHOST
But in the aftermath of the Council, we read that the apostles and the others were sent forth to spread the word about what happened, and it doesn't join upon the believers at that time not to eat any meat that has blood in it and that was one of the deliberations that were um that were held at that council but it was provisional and if you were to go to a steakhouse and have a steak with blood in it you would not be committing a sin because that custom that mandate even that requirement was enforceable and obligatory for those Christians at that time, but eventually the Church dispensed with that as a requirement.
Patrick MadridHOST
So that would be an example, biblically, of something else that had the force of law, you might say, in the moment, but eventually that law was changed.
Vince BrackettHOST
I mean, there's a lot of pop theology on the internet, so Gemini's got a lot to work with.
Vince BrackettHOST
You will get something like, Paul's opponents are, they will probably use the word Judaizers.
Vince BrackettHOST
I don't know, somebody can confirm this right now if you want to look on your phone.
Vince BrackettHOST
The term is Judaizers in old school biblical scholarship.
Vince BrackettHOST
It will probably discuss something like legalism.
Vince BrackettHOST
And the idea behind this traditional read, which we are pushing against, is that ancient Jews were trying to earn God's love and salvation instead of receive it by grace through Jesus.
Vince BrackettHOST
That's the real antagonist hiding in the background.
Vince BrackettHOST
And there's this stoking of... condescension of if we stoke the divide and conquer stuff, Jews will condescend Galatians, Galatians will resent Jews, and that's what's going on in this letter.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
These are influential churches, growing churches.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
And Paul writes these letters to protect, to warn, to chastise a group of people called the Judaizers.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
This is a group of people that are coming in and what they're doing is they're adding on to the cross of Christ.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
They're saying, you know, Jesus, that's a great starting point.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
You need all these laws.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
And I love what one commentator said.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
He said this, the Judaizers resisted the idea of God's salvation being offered freely to believers.
Kaiden RitchieGUEST
They reasoned that such a great gift must require payment and that God expects humans to somehow earn grace.
Kerry HardyGUEST
Well, the book of Galatians even is about all this.
Kerry HardyGUEST
Judaizers, they were called, had come into the churches in the region of Galatia and were teaching people that, well, yes, sure, you need to believe in Jesus.
Kerry HardyGUEST
That's part of it, but you've got to keep the law as well.
Kerry HardyGUEST
You've still got to be circumcised and so forth.
LukagwaHOST
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LukagwaHOST
This was the problem of the Judaizers and the Gnostics in the days of Paul the Apostle.
LukagwaHOST
Era ky'ova olwo baaba bamulumbanga ne bagamba, talina ssente, si mugagga, talina linnya, tali orator.
LukagwaHOST
Tasobola kwogera nga abalala.
Léonce B. Crump Jr.GUEST
And the Roman imperialism under which they were living.
Léonce B. Crump Jr.GUEST
Remind yourself of why the Judaizers were so frustrated with Peter for going to Cornelius' house.
Léonce B. Crump Jr.GUEST
Like, remind yourself of these things.
Léonce B. Crump Jr.GUEST
And remember that at the end of the day, especially for my Reformed brothers and sisters, if God is truly sovereign, then we can't live in panic.
Steven PerkinsGUEST
These folks would follow Paul around.
Steven PerkinsGUEST
And after Paul would lead people to Christ and believers would form together and make churches, these Judaizers or whatever you may call them, these different people with their Jewish tradition, they would come along and they'd say, well, Paul's right and that's all real good, but you also got to keep the law.
Steven PerkinsGUEST
And so they would try to corrupt Christianity.
Steven PerkinsGUEST
And Paul warns about this in this epistle.
JimHOST
We have it today.
JimHOST
Judaizers, legalism, legalists, the same people we have problems with today.
JimHOST
You say, who are the Judaizers? Well, for you that don't know, if you haven't been studying anything else in the Bible like Galatians, Those were the circumcision people, the people who believed that Jesus was the Messiah, who should accept Christ.
JimHOST
But you couldn't do that unless you were a Jew.
JimHOST
So if you're a Gentile, you've got to get circumcised first, become a Jew, and then you could come to Jesus.
JimHOST
It was their life.
JimHOST
their culture, their tradition.
JimHOST
And what these people, these Judaizers were doing was undermining Paul by saying he doesn't want anything to do with Judaism.
Paul AxtonHOST
You know, the building blocks of the universe are earth, air, fire, water, these opposed pairs, these antagonistic pairs.
Paul AxtonHOST
these binaries that are the structuring principle of the universe for Paul, I think, is picturing this for everybody, so that when he's attacking the Judaizers who would divide up the world according to these basic principles, these building blocks, the principalities and powers, He's saying, no, this is a new creation, that it's not male, female, slave, free, Jew, Greek, circumcised, uncircumcised, law, no law.
Paul AxtonHOST
The whole notion of the binaries, the building blocks, the universe as we have it, is undone.
Paul AxtonHOST
That's Gerard.
Paul AxtonHOST
I think that's the difference between early Gerard, late Gerard.
Paul AxtonHOST
But I think that's the difference between an understanding of Paul, you know, in which Paul is not advocating covenantal gnomism.
Paul AxtonHOST
You know, that's sort of on the order of Judaism or the Judaizers who would say, yeah, that there is a continuum, circumcision, baptism.
Paul AxtonHOST
It's all the same, you know.
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