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10 Friday Jul 2020
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Our friends in Jesus are amazing. We are to look out for our brothers and sisters.
Paul presents a hypothetical case of a believer who is suddenly tripped up and misses God’s goal (falls into sin). The word overtaken carries the idea of being surprised, so it is not a case of deliberate disobedience.
Why does Paul use this illustration? Because nothing reveals the wickedness of legalism better than the way the legalists treat those who have sinned. Call to mind the Pharisees who dragged a woman taken in adultery before Jesus. Or that Jewish mob that almost killed Paul because they thought he had defiled the temple by bringing in Gentiles.
Legalists do not need facts and proof; they need only suspicions and rumors. Their self-righteous imaginations will do the rest. So, in this paragraph in Galatians, Paul is contrasting the way the legalist would deal with the erring brother, and the way the spiritual man and true friend would deal with him.
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