It should be possible to differ with a man and yet remain friends. That's the position where we stand. Your mind has to be bent in that direction through their writings. Then comes the seed, and the promise is made Yea and Amen in Him all the promises of God. He wouldn't bother correcting me. The forgiveness of your sins and your redemption is totally predicated upon the finished work of Jesus Christ upon the cross.These people were adding to it. The oneness of the saints with Christ Himself is, as we all familiarly know, clearly intimated. And here we may observe that as sin is called the work of the flesh, because the flesh, or corrupt nature, is the principle that moves and excites men to it, so grace is said to be the fruit of the Spirit, because it wholly proceeds from the Spirit, as the fruit does from the root: and whereas before the apostle had chiefly specified those works of the flesh which were not only hurtful to men themselves but tended to make them so to one another, so here he chiefly takes notice of those fruits of the Spirit which had a tendency to make Christians agreeable one to another, as well as easy to themselves; and this was very suitable to the caution or exhortation he had before given (Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:13), that they should not use their liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. Don't become seekers after empty reputation; don't provoke each other: don't envy each other. They had followed Jesus in His earthly path of presentation to Israel. And they say, "Oh, well, I was just waiting upon the Lord and reading the Scriptures, and the Lord showed this to me." And who will venture to say that the indwelling Spirit of God fails to supply power to him who submits to the righteousness of God in Christ? He said. But, in point of fact, he did not see the twelve. For if a man "keeps the whole law, yet he offends in one point, he is guilty of all" ( James 2:10 ). "Yet undergirding all of Pauls admonitions regarding love and service is the reality of life lived by the Spirit, with references to the Spirit being more frequent in Galatians 5:13 to Galatians 6:10 than references to either love or service." And facts tell on their mind. It doesn't really matter, I'm going to walk after the Spirit and I'm going to please God in this. Now take care that you do not use your wonderful . He does not deny that others preached it; but if so, they preached the same truth. Now. . So we, brothers, are children not of the slave girl but of the free woman. "If righteousness come by the law," (he does not merely say, "come of the law," but come by it,) "then Christ is dead [died] in vain." "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?" The most illuminating thing about it is that it is commonly used in the New Testament of the attitude of God towards men ( Romans 2:4; Romans 9:22; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Peter 3:20). That is not what Christian liberty is about. Strife; originally this word had mainly to do with the rivalry for prizes. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. But this was only provisional and parenthetic. There can be no doubt about the matter. He specifies the fruits of the Spirit, or the renewed nature, which as Christians we are concerned to bring forth, Galatians 5:22; Galatians 5:23. Paul now warns them about a consequence of this. And I can just go and pass it by.And so, another issue arises in five minutes. Thus all had been duly prepared of God, with a far-reaching wisdom, to make the call of Paul an evidently and entirely separate thing, to make his apostleship as distinct in fact as in form; to give him fresh communications, even as to the Lord's supper, and to convey anew the very gospel that he preached as the revelation of the Son in him. Help me, Lord. In this case, happily, the brethren near at hand went along with him in heart. Grace brings out the faithful promise of God, and His goodness to him that deserves nothing. it is added, he conferred not with flesh and blood; neither went up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before him; but went into Arabia, and returned again, not to Jerusalem, but to Damascus, the place near which he had been called at first. He has set you free from the power of the flesh. That's the position where we stand. You are saved. And Jesus said, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all thy mind and with all thy strength; and thy neighbor as thyself. His Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God. Undoubtedly such is the assurance of God's word to His children; and thus Galatians 5:1-26 is in contrast withRomans 7:1-25; Romans 7:1-25. It is not merely to seek in love a fallen brother, but to be the succourer of others in their difficulties. And so in the fullness of time, God sent His Son to die for man's sin, in order that through Him man might be born again by the Spirit of God. That would not be a good example of Christian love. Our conversation will always be answerable to the principle which we are under the guidance and government of: as those that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, so those that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit,Romans 8:5. They had been lately brought by the grace of God into Christianity, where they found Jewish brethren, now made one, as it is said, in Christ. Here particularly the Christian is guarded against the inroads of legalism. He was bound to do what he ought; but, in point of fact, all was a failure, and could be nothing else, because man was a sinner. A final appeal to walk in the liberty of Jesus. Once the spirit has come alive, now there comes this striving for the mastery of me. "To Abraham were the promises made, and to his seed.". No man was ever more conscious of the tension in human nature than Paul. Man is only the receiver; and truly, as we know, "it is more blessed to give than to receive." It was partly directed to the hearts and consciences of the Jews, partly in view of the approaching rupture of all ties with Israel. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). It, too, is commonly translated goodness. There was no insult to him, nor injury done, in saying that he did not acknowledge the law for a Christian. It was not merely that Paul was lowered by the carping Judaizers God's grace was being sacrificed. "Thy seed ( i.e., the numerous seed) shall possess the gate of his enemies." Unitarians. The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. How little is man to be accounted of! But the Jerusalem which is above is free and she is our mother. Writing was a somewhat laborious task in those days, and it was a kind of profession to be a writer or scribe, before printing, of course, was known. The fleshly desires will not be dominating your life, but your life will be dominated by the Spirit, and thus, by God. Not all sins are crimes. He warns against "another gospel," i.e., a different one, which was really none at all. What does Galatians 5:15 Mean? I would [wish that] they were even cut off which trouble you ( Galatians 5:12 ). If I am a Christian, I am responsible according to that position and privilege. One of the encouragements, as we know, which God furnished to Abraham was, that he should have a seed like the sand of the sea, and like the stars of the sky. This closes the course of the apostle's argument. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. "Christian freedom is not licence [sic] for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not the man who has become free to sin, but the man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin." Proud member For the foundation was at stake. Even when he has been scaling the highest heights of thought he always ends a letter on a practical note. Let us never confound the two. As for himself, he gloried only in the cross. Walk on the spiritual side of your nature. Those that were used of Satan, both to oppose the apostle in person, and also to distrust that testimony which they had not spirituality enough to appreciate, busily insinuated doubts into the minds of these Gentile brethren, and found too ready an ear among them. He mentions another fact, and of the greatest gravity, closing this part of his argument that when Peter subsequently came down into the Gentile quarters, he had been himself affected by the subtle spirit of Judaism, i.e., the chief of the twelve! Is it against the promise of God? Thus the two totally opposite roads of grace and law would have been leading to the same result. Galatians 5:1-15 New International Version Freedom in Christ 5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. By the Spirit here may be meant either the Holy Spirit himself, who condescends to dwell in the hearts of those whom he has renewed and sanctified, to guide and assist them in the way of their duty, or that gracious principle which he implants in the souls of his people and which lusts against the flesh, as that corrupt principle which still remains in them does against it. but for what he can get out of it. He took care also that the twelfth apostleship should be filled up; for it is a profound mistake to suppose that Peter and the other apostles had been hasty in numbering Matthias with them, and that Paul was really the twelfth apostle according to the mind of the Lord. It is the widest word for goodness; it is defined as "virtue equipped at every point." A double intervention comes between God and man, in contrast with the simplicity of His ways of grace. Reckon that to be. He sees the right, feels the good, desires the holy, but never, accomplishes. An undue regard to the approbation and applause of men is one great ground of the unhappy strifes and contentions that exist among Christians. Not to the place of being ridiculous. This may be concluded from what frequently happens in the divine dispensations, as well as from an express declaration by the hand of Moses. But the son of the slave girl was born in the ordinary human way, whereas the son of the free woman was born through a promise. Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. another; Paul always triumphantly satisfies that test, just as here the whole matter is brought to the acid test of daily living. Whoever despises the facts of Christianity, as if nothing in Scripture were worthy of meditation, or of ministering to others but exercises and speculative deductions, will be found, if he do not find himself often, on the verge of dangerous delusions, both for the mind and for the walk. The very reverse of their system is true. Peter would have been horrified at such a conclusion. parties, and factions; and were attended with envy and malice, Thus the law was ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator. Thus, rightly understood and applied, the law and the promises, while wholly distinct, are in no way inconsistent with each other. Jesus has set us free - free from the slavery of sin, free from slavery to the law. Yet, wondrous to say, when she desires to be under grace by-and-by, all those that are now brought in by promise will be accounted as children to her. ". then is the offense of the cross ceased ( Galatians 5:10-11 ). Some are sins against the first and second commandments, as idolatry and witchcraft. Romans 7 indicates that under the very law by which they are attempting to be justified there is no way, once a person sins, for the inner man to gain control of the tendencies of the flesh. Paul urged his readers to live unbound to the Law of Moses (Galatians 5:1-12). It was, of course, altogether just and right in itself. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. "We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." #1 "It is for freedom" By "freedom," this verse means that we can serve others in the name of the Lord and reap the reward of joy that comes from it (Galatians 5:13-15). Freedom, though, requires resistance against a return to bondage. They had been idolaters before they became Christians; and to take up Jewish principles in addition to Christ is to turn back again to their cast-off idols. The true link is with Jerusalem above, as our prototype is Isaac, the child of the freewoman. If the law, introduced afterwards, were allowed to exercise control, the effect would be to set aside the promise. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. "Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; though it be but a man's covenant, yet, if it be confirmed, no man annulleth or addeth thereto." Villages had an official who was called the superintendent of the village's eirene ( G1515) , the keeper of the public peace. Surely now there was some link with the twelve! In Paul's case the Holy Ghost could go a step farther, and that step He seems to me to take. Nor this only. Consequently, without further preamble, and with an ominous silence as to their state (for, indeed, it could not be spoken of), he at once breaks the ground. God did not intend man to live that way, because man living that way is alienated from God who is a Spirit. He is brought into another condition. The apostle goes up to Jerusalem, not only with Barnabas, who had come from thence, but taking with him Titus, who seems not to have been there before Titus, his own valued companion in labour, but a Gentile. He strikes accordingly at the root of all successional or derived authority. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" Leave room for God, and for God alone. And people to follow after me, you know. It will appear that we are the disciples of Christ indeed when we have love one to another (John 13:35); and, where this temper is kept up, if it do not wholly extinguish those unhappy discords that are among Christians, yet at least it will so far accommodate them that the fatal consequences of them will be prevented. So the stumbling-block of the Cross is removed, is it? The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. They are now controlled by Gods Spirit (24-26). The consequence is, "If ye are led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law;" and more than this, if we are producing the fruits of the Spirit, he can easily say, "Against such there is no law." And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith," not by becoming proselytes of the gate, or entering on a legal basis, but "foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." Don't seek after it. And you can't do this, and this, and this, and this, and this." ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? Secular Greek uses it of the virtue of an Emperor who never lets his private interests influence the government of his people. We find that offensive in our society today, but in those days, the area of Galatia was the center of the worship of Sybil, and the priests of Sybil would castrate themselves. Christian freedom is not licence, for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not a man who has become free to sin, but a man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin. And Paul, far from deriving his apostleship or aught else from Peter, was obliged to rebuke him, and this publicly. Take heed that ye be not consumed - As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. And any kind of a relationship with God that causes me to strive with my brother, causes me to become contentious, is really something that I'm not interested in. They're just revealed by the Spirit. Here it means that tranquillity of heart which derives from the all-pervading consciousness that our times are in the hands of God. "But neither Titus [he takes occasion to say parenthetically], being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised." And so, they started telling people, "Well, Chuck believes this." But they drank it in the proportion of three parts of water to two of wine. It can mean the beneficent use of drugs by a doctor; but it can also mean poisoning, and it came to be very specially connected with the use of drugs for sorcery, of which the ancient world was full. According to the prince of the power of the air, among whom we all had our manner of living. His account proves how independent he was of the very persons whom they would have desired to have seen associated with him. He had made as much proficiency as any of his day it may be, more. 3. (4) Coveting is a sin which best illustrates Paul's statement, "I would not have come to know sin except through the Law" (verse 7). He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. This is all that people's zeal and labour come to. With this paragraph Paul's letter changes its emphasis. Am I going to yield to my flesh, or am I going to yield to the Spirit? Love finds its activity in caring for those that are cast down, "and so fulfils the law of Christ." Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. This shows us the exceeding seriousness of a step apparently so trifling as his abstaining from further intercourse with the Gentiles in mere ordinary life. Certainly not God, nor His plain and precious word. Tender and comprehensive as Christianity is, it is also the most exclusive thing that can be. She did what any wife would have done in those patriarchal times and sent Abraham in to her slave girl, Hagar, to see if she could bear a child on her behalf. It was his to bear in his body a very different brand" the marks of the Lord Jesus," the scars of the only warfare that is precious in the sight of God the Father. And, you know, I mean, you're having now go to . Flesh and blood had not revealed it. How do they stand related? Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. Nothing more in keeping with the wants of those addressed, who had so soon turned aside from the grace of Christ to a different gospel. These things are not allowed in the kingdom of God. "Devour" describes hurtful actions that linger on and on as far as time is concerned. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law ( Galatians 5:3 ). "Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." It was they who had changed, not he. Well, they thought that they had me convinced to their way of thinking. Do you want a law? Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. And what sort of life can this be? he does not say there shall be no flesh, nor any lust of the flesh in them if they walk spiritually; or that the flesh should not act and operate in them; or that they should do no sinful action; all which is only true of christ; and the contrary is to be found and observed in all true christians, though ever so spiritual; but that they When the emphasis of man became on the physical fleshly side of him, he no longer was one with God, who is a Spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Successor to Paul there is none; if so, who and where? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. When in the garden, or when on the cross, Jesus cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" Do you know what happens? Along with himself he takes care expressly to couple others: "and all the brethren which are with me." This is best seen by turning to Genesis 22:1-24, where both facts are found in the same context. This is peculiar to our epistle. True freedom; true Christianity (5:13-26). Thus the apostle had to link together the gospel of grace with his own apostolic dignity; and we do well to take heed to this remarkable fact. How blessed, and how all-important for our souls! (Compare John 1:9; John 1:17.). . They were better off spiritually than some other congregations to which he wrote, or possibly he did not want to deal with other needs of theirs in this letter. The rod was the thing the shepherd used to hit the sheep on the flanks when they started getting out, you know, roaming out. It was to demonstrate his sinfulness, not to gain the inheritance. Heathenism! and circumcision, and the necessity thereof to justification and This passage, however, indicates they are having disputes. Therefore, that righteousness is perfect. And this I say, that the covenant confirmed before by God unto Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, can not annul so that it should make the promise of none effect." For they were saying that was it was necessary to be circumcised and to keep the law of Moses in order to be righteous before God, to be saved. One of the most dangerous errors in Christendom is, that these two things are lumped together. He had felt their wrong, but at the same time had been lifted marvellously above what might be called personal feeling, and so much the more, therefore, could have the grief of love unmingled with that which really impairs its strength, and leaves its sensibilities incomparably less acute. You couldn't believe the things the Jehovah Witnesses believe, unless you read their screwy attitudes and ideas in their books. Nor had he conferred even then with flesh and blood; his mission as well as conversion and call were alike independent of it. Now, what does God say about it? So, they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh. Strange as all this may seem to us, it enshrines one great truth. This therefore the apostle would have us by all means to watch against. In so many things. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. What comforts the soul, what strengthens and keeps it up, is that He "loved me, and gave Himself for me.". too often might be ready to turn aside. Basil called it "grief at your neighbours good fortune." I can say, "Well, this, these are the rules of righteous living. He cannot stop there but is bound to accept all the other rules and regulations as well. Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. How apt the illustration for exposing the judaizers! beware lest you be consumed -- Destroyed. Whom did their principle make them resemble? "Oh, well, He laid down His divinity before He died." David said, "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" ( Psalms 23:4 ). It comes by reading the book of Mormon. Why they thought they were becoming more truly religious, more reverent in their value for Scripture. The apostle's discerning eye at once judged by Christ and by that gospel which he had learned from Him. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." 2. My responsibility is defined by the place in which I am found. As we lived to fulfill the desires of our flesh and of our mind, and we were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. It would be first adding to it, and not only so, but annulling it. And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? "For I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all." He does not even deign to fill up the sketch. It is not a question of my loving Him, though this is and must be true of the saints; but this would tend to throw the soul on self, and it is not the reckoning of grace. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Galatians 5:13 #1 "You, my brothers and sisters," Paul is addressing fellow Christians. That is to say, the covenant that was made between God and Abraham had reference to the seed which was coming, symbolized by Isaac, but really looking onward to Christ. with the affections and lusts [with its desires]. one another is unnatural. The power of Christ must rest upon him. (89) , . Indeed, there is no soul really above them. Consequently we have no allusion to the Lord's coming in this epistle to the Galatians. Once, the Galatians had known that, but now they were turning back to the law. The readers ( Galatians 1:2b ) c. The greeting ( Galatians 1:3-5 ) i. "The theme of love . "Cast out the slave girl and her son, for the son of the slave girl must not inherit with the son of the free woman." (2.) And they glorified God in me.". Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. All that the law can do, even when yielded by the might of the Spirit of God, is to force on a soul the consciousness of being dead before God. against such there is no law ( Galatians 5:23 ). And I'm thinking of God, and I'm thinking upon spiritual things, and the result of life and joy and peace in the holy Spirit. "Are ye so foolish? He intimates also how vain a thing is legalism, because those that were pleading for circumcision in no case carried out their own principle. Joy; the Greek is chara ( G5479) , and the characteristic of this word is that it most often describes that joy which has a basis in religion (compare Psalms 30:11; Romans 14:17; Romans 15:13; Php_1:4 ; Php_1:25 ). He saith not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Whatever might be the apostle's tenderness toward his nation elsewhere, not an earthly link but must be snapped. True to the Spirit. The application of this is as plain as it is conclusive, for those who appealed to Abraham and bowed to the word of God. And so, I have to reckon the old man to be dead each day, and oftentimes, many times through the day.The flesh is lusting against the Spirit. It is evident that the thorn in the flesh was something which left him open to a slight, and made it difficult indeed for any one to understand how a man who was called to be an apostle should find it hard to convey plainly his mind in preaching. The law holds out but never gives blessing. What then is the end of the law? And so with the Mormons. Truth must necessarily be exclusive, and all who hold the truth must, in their adhesion to it and Him who is its personal expression, be exclusive too. Soon all will believe in Christ, and all Israel be saved. Then, further, attention is drawn to another topic his own writing of this letter. Here one may be very brief: "The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father. Here he takes up, not the mischievous troublers of the Gentiles, whom he does not hesitate to call "false brethren," but the highest in office he found there. There you have in a figure the two parties that are still found on the earth: the law party symbolized by Ishmael, the child of flesh; and those that cling to the grace of God, who have their pattern in Isaac, the child of promise. He's talking about rituals and the power of rituals to make you righteous before God, and the issue is, they can't. To them, no doubt, it appeared as if they were zealous and sincere champions of unity. In point of fact, to bring in Christ is also best of all to secure the blessing, the privileges, the glory that God has in His grace for every one that believes. 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