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Becoming, 12
Paul became like them
Not embracing their wrong beliefs
Not embracing their bad behaviors
Embracing their general culture.
The Gospel has always caused the development of a hybrid culture.
But our hybrid culture is not the Gospel.
We do not seek to outsource our hybrid culture, we seek to present the Gospel and let it do its thing, aware that it will create a different hybrid culture in a different place.
Paul wants them to become like him.
In what way? in embracing Christian liberty and not turning to religious law.
The harm (injury) they were doing was to themselves, not him.
Accepting, 13-15
Because - by means of.
His physical infirmity did not cause him to preach to them, He preached to them despite his physical infirmity.
What infirmity?
The context mentions that it was a trial in his flesh, that it was something that could naturally caused them to despise or reject him, and that it had to do with his eyes.
Paul may have been out of circulation a bit, but he knew who all the major players in judaism were…even if he could not see them when they spoke.
Paul’s conversion experience left him blinded
While we do not know for sure, there is ample evidence to suggest Paul had ongoing problems with his eyes that caused blindness but also may have been caused seepage of his eyes and ongoing medical attention.
It is probably not coincidental that one of his closest companions was also a doctor (Luke).
In the ancient world (and very often in the modern world too, despite our protestations) people with chronic ailments are looked upon as somehow inferior and rejected rather than embraced.
Despite this tendency, the Galatians had embraced Paul and the message of the Gospel.
Questioning, 16
Why is it that those who are being truthful with us are sometimes deemed to be our enemy when they are really being more of a friend than those who mislead us?
Passion, 17-18
Zeal is what we would think of as passion.
The Judaizers were passionate in recruiting the Galatians
The Judaizers wanted the Galatians to be passionate about their religion
Paul agreed that it is good to be passionate…but about the right things
The passion that the Judaizers had was to “exclude” the Galatians.
They wanted to pull them away from the liberty that the truth afforded them and into the bondage that a counterfeit allowed them.
They had not lost the experience of salvation—they were still Christians; but they were losing the enjoyment of their salvation and finding satisfaction in their works instead.
Sad to say, they did not realize their losses.
They actually thought they were becoming better Christians by substituting Law for grace, and the religious deeds of the flesh for the fruit of the Spirit.
We tend to be be passionate about a lot of things, but not always about the right things.
Paul’s passion here was for their continued freedom in the truth.
What is our passion?
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