Is God's grace really for everyone?

Yes. In Galatians 2:1-10, the Apostle Paul shows that God welcomes outsiders into His family by grace, without making them earn it. Dr. Toby Holt explains why this was such amazing, unexpected good news. For centuries Jews and Gentiles were bitter enemies, so it shocked many to learn that God planned all along to bless "all the families of the earth," as He promised Abraham. Paul brought Titus, a Gentile believer, as a living test case — and the Jerusalem leaders did not force him to be circumcised, proof that faith in Jesus needs nothing added to it.

Questions this study answers:

1. Did God always plan to save people from every nation? Yes. His promise to Abraham was that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him; welcoming outsiders was His design from the start.

2. Who were the Judaizers? Teachers who said believing in Jesus was not enough, and that people also had to be circumcised and keep the Jewish law. Paul resisted them for adding human rules to God's free grace.

3. Why is there no "first class" or "second class" in the church? Because everyone is saved the same way — by grace through faith in Christ. In Him there is "neither Jew nor Greek."

"Yet not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised." — Galatians 2:3 (NKJV)

Dr. Toby Holt is President of New Geneva Theological Seminary, and his sermons have been downloaded more than 1.9 million times on SermonAudio. Find more verse-by-verse Bible teaching at newgeneva.org; support this ministry at newgeneva.org/give.