In our humanity, what we try to do is manage the flesh, but that's all you're doing.

You haven't changed the bit.

Dr. Tony Evans says God isn't looking for behavior control. He's after heart change.

God wants transformation, not management. He wants change from the inside out.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives

of Dr. Tony Evans.

Peer pressure isn't just a teenage problem, and it's certainly nothing new.

Today, we'll hear about a moment when culture clouded conviction in the early church, an incident

that reminds us of the crucial role God's grace plays in our lives. Let's join Dr. Evans as

he continues our study in Galatians chapter 2. We left off with Paul's confrontation with Peter

when Peter was eating with the Gentiles. He was raised as a segregationist.

The Jews segregated themselves from the Gentiles. They only dealt with the Gentiles if they had to

because the Gentiles, like the pork, was viewed as unclean. They justified their segregation by religion. Paul, however, was

eating two. And it says that in verse 11, he opposed Peter to his face because he stood condemned.

In other words, he wasn't practicing his real Christianity.

He says in verse 14, Peter was not acting straightforward about the truth of the gospel.

So it wasn't a social issue alone or a racial issue alone.

It was a theological and spiritual issue that the gospel was at stake.

The very issue and message of the cross was tied up in this segregation.

Paul didn't care how he was raised. He didn't care what his mama taught him, what his daddy taught him.

All that was irrelevant when he came to the cross.

There was a new standard by which he was to evaluate and measure his actions.

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