People of the World where are you going? Turn back to God! Back to your faithful principles!
REPROVE THOSE WHOSE WORKS DENY GOD
The Judaizing teachers, who insisted that men must become Jews before they could be Christians, were always on Paul’s heels, visiting his churches and diverting his converts from the simplicity of the faith.
CHRIST HAS SET US FREE HOLD FAST YOUR FREEDOM
I wish that those who are troubling you [by teaching that circumcision is necessary for salvation] would even [go all the way and] castrate themselves!
PAUL ACCEPTED BY THE APOSTLES
But [all went well, for] not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled [as some had anticipated] to be circumcised, despite the fact that he was a Greek.
DANGER FROM A PERVERTED GOSPEL
The age which preceded the fall of Jerusalem was notoriously corrupt. Speaking of the Jews at that time, Josephus says that they exceeded Sodom.
A REMNANT OF ISRAEL SAVED BY GRACE
But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
Philip and the other Christians must have been startled to see how soon their forebodings were fulfilled as the great missionary, from whom they had parted with so many tears, rode through the streets surrounded by soldiers.