10 - The Jerusalem Council -The Itineraries Of Paul
The Jerusalem Council We saw in the last session how in Acts chapters 13 & 14 you have a period of about 7 years. In Acts chapter 12 you have the record where Herod was eaten up of worms which happened in 44A.D. Then in Acts chapter 15 you have the record of the Jerusalem council and that happened about 51A.D. In between there you have a period of about 7 years. That doesn’t mean Paul’s first itinerary took that long. It may have only taken a year or two or maybe 3 years. It says at the end of chapter 14 that he was in Antioch for a long time. Acts 14:28: And there they abode long time with the disciples. It doesn’t say how long it was. It could have 2 years. It could have been 5 years. It could have been 6 years. Before we go into the Jerusalem council, I want you to remember that a lot of his first itinerary was taken up by his time that he spent at Antioch, in Pisidia, at Lystra in Laconia and then over in Derbe. This whole region in here is called Galatia. It’s to this area that Paul later, under God’s guidance and direction, wrote an epistle to the people. That was the epistle of Galatians. This epistle was written to correct the doctrinal error that had crept into the church in Galatia. The doctrinal error: meaning the error that resulted from not walking by the revelation as we know it in the book of Romans. In other words, Paul had taught them the greatness of what he later recorded in Romans. They knew they were justified by believing, by God’s grace. It wasn’t justification by the law. They were justified by grace. They had started getting off of this. Why do you think they had started getting away from that? Who do you think was in there prompting some of this? The Judi-izing Christians. Some of them were just plain old Jews. The Judi-izing Christians were Christians who were born again but still zealous for the law hanging on to their old traditions and especially on some of the traditions like circumcision. They wanted to hold on to some of these laws.
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that Paul later, under God’s guidance and direction, wrote an epistle to the people. That was the epistle of Galatians. This epistle was written to correct the doctrinal error that had crept into the church in Galatia. The doctrinal error: meaning the error that resulted from not walking by the revelation as we know it in the book of Romans. In other words, Paul had taught them the greatness of what he later recorded in Romans. They knew they were justified by believing, by God’s grace. It wasn’t justification by the law. They were justified by grace. They had started getting off of this. Why do you think they had started getting away from that? Who do you think was in there prompting some of this? The Judi-izing Christians. Some of them were just plain old Jews. The Judi-izing Christians were Christians who were born again but still zealous for the law hanging on to their old traditions