Your Trouble Has Been Judged

"I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be." (Galatians 5: 10)

What mind did Paul want the Galatians believers to hold?

"7Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 8This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 9A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." (Galatians 5: 7-9)

First of all, truth in the Bible identifies fully with grace, because both come to us in Christ Jesus:

"For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (John 1: 17)

When Paul writes about the truth, He is writing about the Gospel of Grace:

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:" (Galatians 1: 6)

and

"To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you." (Galatians 2: 5)

and then

"But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" (Galatians 2: 14)

Truth is identified in line with the Gospel of grace in these passages, too:

"In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise," (Ephesians 1: 13)

and

"For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;" (Colossians 1: 5)

The truth of the Gospel inform us of our full justification in Christ, apart from the law, since the law was a schoolmaster which brought the Israelites to Christ (Galatians 3: 24-26)

Anyone who shames another into thinking that they must keep the law, return to the Old Covenant, approach God based on works-obedience instead of the obedience of faith--those people trouble the children of God in the Body of Christ.

Rest assured, though, Beloved. Those who reproach for walking by faith in what Jesus has done will not last, and they will not get away with it. The greatest accuser is Satan, whose weapon was the law, and because Jesus has fulfilled the law, you can rest assured that he who would trouble you has borne the judgment of God.

Do not fight back, do not shame others who still believe hat you have to live under rules to be holy, and do not doubt your standing of liberty in Christ (Galatians 5: 1)

Know that He is fighting for you, because you are more than a conqueror in Christ (Romans 8: 37)