Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, April 9th.

Ephesians chapter 2 makes it clear.

We are saved from the penalty of sin by the grace of God alone.

Discover why human effort can never earn God's favor.

Do you value what you believe enough to defend it? Now somebody says, well, when somebody

just disagrees to me, I'd just be quiet. It does make a difference what you believe,

and it does make a difference whether you defend it or not. And the scripture that I want us to

deal with this evening is a perfect example.

If the Apostle Paul had kept quiet about what he and Peter got into, we, listen, every single

one of us would be suffering today from it.

Now, I want you to turn to Galatians chapter two, because in this second chapter, Peter and Paul now are having a conflict. And the conflict

is over a major issue that affected all the people of his day and is affecting us today. So let's

look at this passage. We're talking about voiding the grace of God. But he says here in the 11th verse,

but Peter, writing to the Galatian church, he says, now, when Seifers of Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face,

because he stood condemned. For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat

with the Gentiles. But when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself

aloof during the part of the circumcision.

Now, what happened was that he'd been fellowshiping with the Gentiles and everybody was

happy and so was he.

And then this group of Judaizers came down from Jerusalem.

They said they were sent by James, who was sort of the head pastor. And the truth is,

according to Acts, that he did not send them. But they came down, and when they came, all of a sudden

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