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Bold Moments in History
A number of years ago, Mark Mandio got me reading some books on Vikings and the Danish invasion of England.
They were some pretty fun reads.
I learned about where the Vikings came from, what they were pursuing, and how they fought.
At the same time, I also learned a lot about the history of England.
What helped shape her as a culture and a nation.
These books were what would be classified as historical fiction.
The main character was fictional, he was made up, but he went in and out of historical events.
At the end of the books, the author would come clean.
If there was anything where he stretched the truth, or embellished it a bit more than what happened, he would say where he did that.
If he invented a character he would say who was real and who wasn’t.
My favorite part of these ends was where the author would explain in detail the significance of the story.
How it affected the rest of history.
One of these books came to a head in 878ad.
Alfred the Great, was king of England.
England was hardly a nation.
They were really struggling to survive.
They were a bunch of mainly disorganized peasants.
Alfred the Great was a unifying part of the foundation of the nation.
By the way, he’s also the only British King to ever be called … The Great.
He was Alfred The Great.
In the early part of 878ad, England was really just a few swamps.
They were on death’s edge.
The author said, “One more defeat and there would probably have never been a political entity called England.
We might have had a Daneland instead, and this novel would probably have been written in Danish.
Yet Alfred survived, he won, and that is why history awarded him the honorific ‘the Great.’”
Basically, it all came down to one battle.
If Alfred lost that battle, there’d be no England.
And we probably wouldn’t be speaking English.
I remember reading that line, and I became angry.
Are you telling me that one little battle in the swamps of England in 878ad, could have changed the scope of history?
There’s a possibility we’d be speaking Danish instead of English?
Honestly, it freaked me out, and I had a huge appreciation for history.
That little battle made me want to root for Alfred the Great.
The events of history can have far reaching repercussions.
Today in Galatians, Paul tells us of an equally historical event.
This is one of those moments where if things go wrong … you’re speaking Danish, and there’s no England, it’s called Daneland.
We are going to be in to get Paul’s perspective of the event.
And through this, we learn of Paul’s boldness for the Gospel.
Let’s read Galatians 2:1-10.
Our first point is Boldness Requires Conviction
This all picks up 14 years after Paul’s conversion.
When I was in my late 20’s I applied to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
The biggest threat wasn’t outside the church.
My dad was a deputy.
There
I wanted to be a deputy.
It’s not like applying for any normal job.
It’s not the type of job where you turn in an application and they call you back when they’re ready to hire you.
It wasn’t persecution, or governmental powers.
It was a very long process.
It began with a written exam.
The exam took a couple hours.
The biggest danger upon the young church was going to come from within.
Then at a later date, there was a physical assessment.
Paul knew that the day would come when danger would rise from within the walls of the church.
This was Paul’s greatest fear.
I had to run a mile and a half within a certain time frame.
That’s why in , he said, “I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.”
Or in , he said, “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
, “I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.”
Be able to drag a 150 pound dummy.
Hop some fences.
Run an obstacle course.
It would seem that, 14 years after Paul’s conversion this evil day had arrived.
, “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
There was a very extensive background check.
There were people in Jerusalem that were preaching another Gospel.
They needed to know every place I’d ever lived.
It was a hybrid gospel.
It was a false gospel.
I felt like they wanted to know every single person I was related too, as well as every friend I’d ever had.
It blended works and grace.
It didn’t deny Jesus directly.
The most stressful part of the process was the lie detector test.
But it lessened Jesus by saying Christians needed to do certain things to receive forgiveness from Jesus.
Before I took the lie detector test, I had to answer what seemed like a 400 question questionnaire.
The false teachers specifically, were telling Christians that they needed to hold to the Jewish law while being Christian.
They wanted to know everything about me.
The presence of these false teachers in Jerusalem was definitely a call for alarm.
They wanted to know all my dirty laundry.
Just like how Commissioner Gordon shines the bat signal into the sky to summon Batman’s help.
They wanted to know my all my sins.
They wanted to know how truthful of a person I was.
Once you fill out the questionnaire, the person who oversees the lie detector test, makes a custom test for you.
Paul was summoned to Jerusalem to make a defense of the Gospel.
They want to hear you tell the truth about all the things you’ve done that you wished you’d never done.
Somehow, God revealed to Paul that he needed to go to Jerusalem and meet with the important people there.
And the only way to make it through that process is to be convicted of the truth.
Because if you hide any details, you’re gonna fail.
Our text begins 14 years after Paul’s conversion.
The armies were mobilized.
Paul was never taught the Gospel from any man.
I had to tell a complete stranger my deepest darkest secrets.
He didn’t go to college.
Paul went to Jerusalem, to something called the Jerusalem Counsel.
He didn’t go to seminary.
Paul never
And there he was tested.
Jesus Himself taught Paul.
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