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Sabotage
Do you know what sabotage is?
1. Fear Man
It means to deliberately destroy or damage something for a political or military advantage.
In a wartime sabotage can be an effective weapon.
One country may have agents or spies behind enemy lines that cause sabotage.
They can destroy a supply chain.
Slow down communication.
Interrupt communication.
Expose or create a weakness in a nation’s infrastructure.
For example, on July 30, 1916, a major explosion rocked Black Tom Island in the New York Harbor.
The explosion was equivalent to an earthquake of 5.5 on the richter scale.
The blasts were felt and heard as far away as in Philadelphia.
The Statue of Liberty took over $100,000 worth of damage.
Black Tom Island was a munitions depot near the New York Harbor.
The US supplied ammunition and powder to England during World War I.
And it was destroyed.
There was confusion.
People wondered what caused the explosion.
It took years to put together, but in the end Germany sabotaged the depot.
2 German spies set off the explosions in an effort to sabotage the British supply line which started all the way in the United States.
Paul is writing to the Galatians because something has happened.
They’ve been sabotaged.
He’s wondering, what is going on here.
In chapter 3 of Galatians, Paul will begin by saying, “O foolish Galatians!
Who has bewitched you?”
Or who has sabotaged you?
They have been sabotaged.
Their growth has become stunted.
Paul isn’t questioning whether or not they are believers.
He knows they are Christians.
he will say that they began by the Spirit.
In he says that the Holy Spirit has been sent into them.
We know that the Holy Spirit is a seal, a permanent guarantee of the inheritance that we have in Christ.
So it’s not as if they have “lost their salvation.”
But something has happened?
Their growth is stunted.
I remember when I was a kid, the last thing I’d want is for my growth to be stunted.
My mom would say if you drink coffee, you’ll stunt your growth.
That’s the last thing I ever wanted.
The Galatians have had their growth stunted.
And what is the cause?
A group called the Judiazers.
They were an influential group of Jewish Christians, that called for new converts to obey the Jewish law.
They promoted legalism
These people, these Judaizers, had sabotaged the church.
Peter was up in Antioch.
Peter was the apostle to the Jews.
Peter was the one that God gave the vision to, that food was no longer unclean.
Eat what you wanted.
When Peter was with Gentiles, he lived out his freedom that God gave him.
He’d eat what he wanted.
He be with the church, no matter who they were.
It was a glorious time.
Then when the Judaizers, when the Judaizers would show up, he’d shrink back.
He acted hypocritically.
One moment he’s a friend of the Gentiles.
The next, he’s offended by them.
Others followed him, doing the same thing.
This is what the Galatians had fallen into.
They were sabotaging their faith.
I’m sure that each of you want to grow.
That’s why you are here.
You love God.
You want to obey God.
You want pursue Him more.
And yet there are common things that we do, that sabotage that growth.
We become our own worst enemy.
By looking at , we are going to see 3 ways to sabotage your spiritual growth.
Let’s read now.
The first way to sabotage your spiritual growth is to Fear Man.
Peter is with the Gentiles.
This is an amazing time.
Before this time, there was a wall between the Gentiles and the Jews.
They were completely separate.
The Gentiles were called dogs by the Jews.
But now with the Gospel, they are one.
Something that has never happened before.
The world dreams about this kind of peace.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream about this kind of peace.
No longer divided by racial lines.
And Peter is experiencing it.
describes it as a beautiful mystery, “This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.”
Peter is having fellowship with the Gentiles.
Loving the Gentiles.
Then the Judaizers walk in.
Understand that Peter knows these Gentiles are believers.
He’s had visions about it.
He’s heard their confession.
They have the Holy Spirit.
He’s even baptized them.
There is no reason to doubt what God has done in their lives.
he says, “Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
Peter knows the Gentiles are his brothers in Christ.
Part of the same royal nation.
Part of the priesthood of all believers.
But Peter has an inner conflict.
If he remains with the Gentiles, living in the work of the Gospel and acknowledging the great work God has done with them, then these Judaizers, verse 12 calls them the circumcision party, will be angry at him.
Peter’s face gets red with embarrassment.
So he slips off.
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