Confrontation in Antioch

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

All Christians must be careful not to compromise the message of God’s free grace. For even the Apostle Peter was tempted to undermine the gospel. Today, Derek Thomas shares the cautionary tale of Paul’s rebuke of Peter.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is featured teacher for the Ligonier teaching series The Life of Peter and author of many books, including Heaven on Earth, Strength for the Weary, and Let Us Worship God.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	He was introducing a form of legalism into the gospel.
0:04.5	It wasn't a gospel of free grace.
0:06.7	It wasn't a gospel that said,
0:08.5	Nothing in my hands I bring simply to thy cross I cling.
0:11.6	No, Peter was now singing a different song.
0:14.0	Something in my hands I bring.
0:16.2	He was bringing a plus.
0:18.3	It was faith plus, and it was a damnable plus for Paul.
0:28.9	When the gospel is at stake, R. C. Sprold would often say, everything is at stake. And so throughout
0:36.1	church history, there have been men who took bold
0:39.0	stands in defense of the gospel. And this was also true in the early church. As we continue this
0:45.2	study of the life of Peter, we now come to the confrontation between Paul and Peter in Antioch.
0:52.3	Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and you're listening to Renewing Your Mind, a daily outreach
0:57.8	of Ligonier Ministries.
1:00.4	Throughout his ministry, R. C. Sproles sought to be crystal clear in his proclamation of
1:05.4	the gospel, never wavering.
1:08.1	The gospel we believe and proclaim must be preserved and reaffirmed in every
1:13.9	generation. So today's message, and this moment in the life of the Apostle Peter, is a welcomed
1:20.1	reminder for each of us to never compromise or even give the appearance of compromise.
1:26.4	Here's Dr. Thomas as we continue our study of the life of Peter.
1:32.9	Let's go back to Acts 11 and pick it up just where we left off, and we're not going to spend
1:38.2	more than half a minute here. In Act 11 and verse 19, now those who were scattered because of the persecution that
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