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Buy now Galatians 2 Restored Galatians 2 Sha’ul is trained in The Yahushaic Covenant & Spiritual Circumcision of the Heart 1 Then, during those fourteen years, I repeatedly went up to Yerusalem to keep the Feasts with Barnabas, and also took Titus with me. 2 And I went up by revelation; facts and truths were uncovered and unveiled, and I put before them that message 'to keep The Law with a Loving Intent' which I preach among the Gentiles. However, I presented the matter of 'physical circumcision of the Lost Sheep coming out of the nations', privately, to those of repute, to make sure the course I was running, or had already run to Circumcise their hearts, foremost, through The Law, would be allowed. 3 Among those of repute, I argued that those with a heart for His Law would naturally desire to be physically circumcised, for did not even Titus who was with me, although he is a Greek, feel compelled to be circumcised? But the Pharisees intervened claiming physical circumcision was required to be saved as to oppose the Lost Sheep who had come to have a heart for His Law as prophesied. 4 We opposed this intervention, by false brothers, who secretly smuggled in to spy on our Liberty 'to lead the Lost Sheep into the Faith first by Circumcising their hearts', Liberty which we have in The Yahushaic Covenant. These Pharisees, who reject the undeserved pardon of the Messiah, were trying to bring us back into bondage of obedience out of fear of death. This would create enmity toward The Law in those I was trying to reach. 5 We did not yield to these false brothers in submission even for a moment, in order that the truth of the message 'that in The Yahushaic Covenant Obedience to The Law is defined by “Intent” not “the letter”' might remain the same with you and we would all be one accord in our presentation. 6 I presented, in a conference, this message of Loving Obedience to the Intent of The Law to those in authority (whoever they were, it made no difference to me; Yahuah is no respecter of the person of any man), after hearing this message, they did not require anything additional of me as the Pharisees and false brothers did. The leaders in the called-out assembly did not require physical circumcision and agreed with my message of Loving Intent. 7 But on the contrary, upon hearing my message, they then realized that the message to the uncircumcised (Gentiles) was committed to me, just as the message to the Circumcised (Yahdiam/Jews) was committed to Kepha. 8 For He Who was at work in Kepha to the ministry of the Circumcision; Yahdaim (Jewish), was also at work in me to the Gentiles. 9 And understanding the blessing given to me, Yaaqob, Kepha, and Yahchanan, who seemed to be the pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; in order that we should go to the Gentiles with the message that 'The Law had been written on their hearts', but they to the Circumcision (Yahdaim/Jews) with the message that 'the Death Decrees in The Law had been covered by the blood of the Lamb', Yahusha the Messiah our King. 10 Only they stipulated that we should remember the poor, the same which I also was eager to do. 11 However, when Kepha came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face because he was acting hypocritical. 12 For before certain men came to Yaaqob, he would eat with the Gentile converts; but when the Yahdiam (Jews) came, he drew back and separated himself from the Gentiles, being afraid of those of the Circumcision (Yahdiam/Jews) that they might accuse them of "eating meat sacrificed to an idol" as they have accused me. 13 And the other called-out Yahdaim (Jews), also behaved like hypocrites in the same way fearing self-righteous condemnation; with the result that Barnabas was also carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the message that 'they had Liberty in The Yahushaic Covenant and could eat with Gentiles', I said to Kepha in front of all of them: If you, a Yahdai (Jew), start to live after the manner of the Gentiles and not after the manner of the Yahdaim (Jews), how can you compel the Gentiles to live as do the Yahdaim (Jews)? I told him to his face… practice what you preach because he was destroying my witness to the Lost Sheep among the Gentiles! 15 We who are Yahdaim (Jews) by nature, and not sinners among the Gentiles 16 Know that a man is not justified from among the works of The Law alone; if there is no Faith through Yahusha Messiah. For we in The Yahushaic Covenant have this trust: That we will be justified through the Faith in Yahusha, and not through works of The Law only, because through works of The Law alone, all flesh will not be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Covenant with the Messiah, we ourselves are discovered to be sinners because The Law helps us identify sin, that is why we keep it. But just because we continue to keep The Law, does that mean that Messiah promotes sin? By no means! We are made whole in keeping The Law by our Faith in The Yahushaic Covenant and all Righteousness is fulfilled in us through Mikveh like it was Yahusha the Messiah. 18 For if, with the things I have destroyed by abolishing The Law, with these things, teaching The Law is abolished, I again build The House of Yahuah, I have placed myself with the transgressors because sin is breaking The Law. 19 For through the Promise of the Passover Lamb in the Law, I avoided the Death penalty of The Law being in Covenant with Yahusha. The ‘certificate of debt’ consisting of Death Decrees has been paid, in order that I might live a new life for Yahuah after following The Way of Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering. 20 Like Messiah who set the example of Mikveh, Circumcision, and Offering on Passover, I have been sacrificed too, as a Passover Lamb, by following his example; and now it is no longer I who lives, but Messiah lives in Covenant with me (we are one through Marriage Covenant). And what I now live in the flesh in Obedience to The Spiritual ‘Intent’ of The Law, I live by the Faith in Covenant with the Son of Yahuah, who loved me and gave himself for me as The Passover Lamb, demonstrating the ‘greatest Love’ by dying for his brothers to show them The Way. 21 I do not reject the Merciful pardon of Yahuah by abolishing His Law, where all His Promises are made; though no doubt through Obedience to The Law comes Righteousness. Truly Messiah was sacrificed to reconcile all men to Yahuah in this way. HalleluYahuah!

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