JOB UNSEEN
therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?” Peter is securely founded in his new mindset. The pull of his old tradition pales by comparison. His defense is effective and his opponents acquiesce to this new place of understanding in the Spirit. When Peter’s opponents “heard these things, they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life” (Acts 11:18 NIV). Another Gospel? In that car on I-85 South, the Lord revealed to me how Cornelius and Peter in Acts 10 emphasizes how we can easily be deceived by leaven and be misled for decades while we are serving and seeking God diligently. There I was contemplating how I had been blind for so long. How could someone who prays and tries to seek God be deceived for so long? Galatians presents a powerful answer: “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ” (Galatians 1:6-7).
We are called to the “grace of Christ”. Paul is warning the Galatians that there are those who are a preaching a different gospel. Paul clarifies this by saying they are not preaching another gospel but rather a perversion of the real gospel. This is extremely significant because the spirit of bondage enters into those who are called into the grace of Christ. You only believed and you were born again by grace and by grace alone. You did not perform any works to receive salvation. It was a gift. The way you received salvation is the way you now will receive from God in every need of your life. You who have 248