Hey, everybody's Matt, this is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast, and I am a rule breaker. I am a person who has been grounded. I am an offender. I have been disciplined and corrected for that. When I was in high school, actually, I got grounded quite a bit for breaking curfew. That's always what I got in trouble for. But one time I remember, I thought I had a pretty valid plea for why it shouldn't be my fault. I went into town with my friends. We weren't doing anything naughty and we were all pretty well behaved and we were just cruising and listening to music and having a good time. But because we were cruising, I dropped my car off. And I was in somebody else's car. It was kind of at their mercy. And I told them, you got to drop me off in my car again now because I got to go home and it's a little bit of drive home. And I can't be late because I always get grounded when I'm late. My parents are really serious about the curfew thing. And they blew me off. They didn't drop me off at the car. And we were a long ways from my car. And as a result, when they finally got around to be like, okay, fine, I'll take you. I was way late getting home. There were no cell phones back then. My parents were very angry, and I got grounded.

I, of course, made the plea. It's not my fault because I asked to get taken back to my car.

There's nothing I could do. It was out of my control. Somebody else did this to me. And my parents did not accept that. What do you make of that? You think I have a

point there? Is it a valid defense on my part? Who is to blame for my lateness, my breaking of the

household rules? Well, my parents' case was like, hey, it's up to you to manage your night. You know

what our expectation is. We give you a lot of freedom to go and do things and have fun. But you have to manage the situation so that you can live up to our expectations. And you didn't manage the situation. So you're responsible for it. However you got into it, you're responsible for it. Okay. It might sound harsh, but looking back on it, to me, I think I actually side with them and not teenage me.

I think they were right.

Well, we got another question like that that we've been working over here in the first two chapters and change of the book of Galatians.

The question is one of culpability.

Whose fault is it here that the Galatian Christians

who initially heard the message of Jesus and believed in Jesus and received the Holy Spirit,

but then got suckered into believe in a different version of the gospel that was all about them

and human effort? Whose fault is it that this situation has arisen?

Is it the fault of the Galatians who wandered from the truth and were dumb enough to listen

to fake competing versions of the gospel? Or is it the fault of the people who inflicted that

upon them? Now, we went and looked at a bunch of voices

from church history to feel that out from a bunch of different angles. And I think pretty much

everybody who we looked at, St. John Chrysostom, Martin Luther, John Calvin, St. Jerome,

and they all more or less said the same thing. There's culpability sufficient to go around.

Everybody has a hand in this.

The Judaizers, the agitators, the bad guys in the book of Galatians. They certainly have

culpability in this because they went out of their way to screw up this church that have been

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