What did Barnabas exhort the new believers at Antioch to do?
Barnabas exhorted the Gentile believers at Antioch, with purpose of heart, to cleave or maintain their spiritual position. He did this after seeing the grace of God among them and being glad. Scripture describes Barnabas as a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and many were added to the Lord.
Les explains that Barnabas saw the grace of God at work in these Gentile converts who had come out of immoral idolatry, and he was glad. He exhorted them all with purpose of heart to cleave or maintain their spiritual position. The passage notes Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith, and much people were added unto the Lord at Antioch. Les also notes that very few people even today understand God's grace, and that grace is not license but is greater than any person's sin.