Welcome to Studies with Stearman. Join us as we look deeper into the Bible. Strengthen your

faith with us, even as we see the day approaching. And now, here's Gary. A few weeks ago, we started

talking in very general terms about the Holy Spirit and the coming of the Holy Spirit to the early church.

And we've been going through acts.

We've been sort of traveling along with the disciples, with the apostles, as they began their work, and we have seen that they

are dealing with problems at every turn, as we are. I think that problems and challenges are the

norm, and God really wants us to ride through them for our own betterment, and the betterment of the kingdom, for that matter.

We were in Acts 15 and talking about the Jerusalem Council, and then last week we turned

to Galatians chapter 2, which gives another view of the same event. And so let's continue

now in Galatians chapter 2. Galatians chapter 2 is a view of what

happened after Acts 15. That is the outgrowth of events after the Jerusalem Council.

Last week we were looking at an event, which I think is a very important event in the life

of the early church, starting in Acts chapter 11, where we left off last week.

But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face because he was to be blamed.

Boy, would I ever love to have a movie of that.

I mean, I would love to see Paul standing up to Peter.

Now, Paul was a little guy, history tells us, and Peter was very tall man.

Early church history says that Peter was a tall, slender man with black hair and a black

beard and blue eyes. And actually goes into some lengthy description. So you've got little

bandy-legged Paul. And by the way, Paul was described by

Turtulian as bandy-legged and bald-headed. And so that kind of, you know, endears him to me.

Paul was not Gregory Peck. You know what I mean? It would be bad casting. But Paul was a fighter. He was an

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