Contending For The Narrow Road

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Galatians 2:1-21

No one likes a person who is contentious and always looking to pick a fight.  Sometimes the fight erupts around you, though, and you can either surrender or contend for that which is dear to you.  The Apostle Paul did not look for a fight in Galatia but the fight was brought to him as false teachers came and tried to get people to believe that they needed to be circumcised in order to be accepted by God.  Paul is willing to stand up to anyone, including the Apostle Peter, to make sure that the Gospel of grace is faithfully proclaimed and lived out.  He fights because he knows that Jesus died on the cross to open up the only way to God, and if there are other paths to God then Jesus’ sacrifice was meaningless.