Such is the secret of true power. It describes not an anger which lasts but anger which flames out and then dies. These works of the flesh, of course, are related to our body drives, so many of them. If God loved us like that then the love of Christ constrains us. Christian freedom does not mean that believers may do as they like. Not contention. Both sides of the dispute are guilty. But the Jerusalem which is above is free and she is our mother. Once, the Galatians had known that, but now they were turning back to the law. And if you have interpreted it that way, you have completely missed the message of the scripture. "I through law am dead to law, that I might live unto God." There was no insult to him, nor injury done, in saying that he did not acknowledge the law for a Christian. Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." The particulars he specifies are of various sorts; some are sins against the seventh commandment, such as adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, by which are meant not only the gross acts of these sins, but all such thoughts, and words, and actions, as have a tendency towards the great transgression. He will not hear of any pretended misunderstanding. You can see the Santa Rosa and San Miguel and San Nicolas and say, "Hey, hey, all right, we're right on course." How impossible, therefore, to add the law to the promise! That is, if the Holy Ghost was given as the seal of their redemption, and as the joy of the sonship, wherein they now stood, in the exercise of their nearness to God and enjoyment of His love, they cry, "Abba, Father," the very words of Christ himself (but in how different circumstances!) The Greeks drank more wine than they did milk; even children drank wine. He tells them that as many as take the ground of law works are under the curse already. That is, if you are circumcised ritually for the purpose of having a righteous standing before God. I'm, you know, not stupid. So here Paul is "an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, that raised him from the dead.". For ye are all the children of God." He saw that the tree was pleasant to look upon, it was tasty to eat and it would make him wise as God. Was this the love the law claimed? too often might be ready to turn aside. For devour, comp. But the moment you bring in the law, you have two parties; and, strange to say, instead of the greater party being God, it becomes man, whose responsibility is to God. When the prophet speaks of any one living, it is by faith "The just shall live by faith." "Now, a lot of times when people come to me with some weird concept, I'll say, "Where in the world did you get that idea?" And you keep dealing with me until I'll finally say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. Ye did run well." But in the old days the child who was born in the ordinary human way persecuted the child who was born in the spiritual way; and exactly the same thing happens now. Coveting is a sin which is almost never considered a crime. That would not be a good example of Christian love. Those that are of faith, not those who pretend to the law and do it not, are blessed with their father. In my understanding of the word of God. (iv) Sod, the allegorical meaning. Now, the word temperance is one we have a little difficulty with. For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith." (Galatians 5:4-5) He habitually measured things not so much by their bearing on Jews or Gentiles as by their effect on Christ's glory. of Now, let us not believe or think that this liberty that we have is the liberty to do anything we might want to do in the flesh. Causes me to become judgmental. salvation; which were managed with great heat and bitterness, And you find that these people espousing them are plagiarizing from other people who have espoused them, and it goes back and back and back. How distressing, how mad is it, that we, who are members of the same body, should be leagued together, of our own accord, for mutual destruction! How precious to have done with one's sinful self and to begin a life so perfect as Christ's! This is the constitution of your priceless liberty. Mark it well. He who bites has exhausted his angry passion, but he who devours has given a demonstration of extreme cruelty. Chrysostom. Having begun in the spirit, you did all right in the beginning, but. He is occupied with himself. Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. Far too short a time, if it were a question of due initiation into the testimony of the twelve. Even as in a natural man there is something of this struggle (the convictions of his conscience and the corruption of his own heart strive with one another; his convictions would suppress his corruptions, and his corruptions silence his convictions), so in a renewed man, where there is something of a good principle, there is a struggle between the old nature and the new nature, the remainders of sin and the beginnings of grace; and this Christians must expect will be their exercise as long as they continue in this world. But I have confidence in you that you're not going to be persuaded by this. New American Standard Version Paul reminded Christians: " You must love your neighbour as yourself." But he proves more when he says that Abraham believed God; it was plainly not a question of law. Fornication; it has been said, and said truly, that the one completely new virtue Christianity brought into the world was chastity. Who put up a road-block to stop you obeying the truth? The law of Moses tells a man to do his duty in his own place. 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 Paul urged his readers to live unbound to the Law of Moses (Galatians 5:1-12). (3) c. Faith expressed in love is more significant than circumcision. Euripides called it "the greatest of all diseases among men." But God has made you alive in Christ Jesus. And the mind of the flesh is alienated from God; it cannot know God. I get an attitude that is not of the Lord. The case is hit off exactly to the life. He is a new creature in Christ. The comparison would take in the Old Testament saints; or the application ("even so we") is to those then alive, who had been under that state of things. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Rather, if man had been able to obey the law and so acquire a title, then two systems would have interfered with each other as being to the same end. As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. And Peter said, "I suggest that we not place a yoke of bondage on them which neither we, nor our fathers were able to bear" ( Acts 15:10 ). However, this behavior is hurting them as much or more as it is those they are attempting to hurt. Our Christianity obliges us not only to die unto sin, but to live unto righteousness; not only to oppose the works of the flesh, but to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit too. "Then after three years," he says, "I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter." Thus it was the ardour of love and grief; it was the earnestness of his purpose that could not bear in this instance to employ an intermediary. That all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,Galatians 5:14; Galatians 5:14. #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. This is the very evil which the Spirit of God so earnestly and energetically denounces here by the apostle Paul. It is not simply that he was brought to follow Jesus, to believe and confess His name; but God revealed His Son in him. You got to be circumcised." (1.) Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Jesus Christ? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? So, I think Paul could also have included here baptism or no baptism as far as the physical immersion in water. we know too well the result from sinful man. Try and stay right on course. Nor had he conferred even then with flesh and blood; his mission as well as conversion and call were alike independent of it. These other words are defining what the agape love actually is. What are you talking about?" The outline of the story is as follows: Abraham and Sarah were far advanced in years and Sarah had no child. Flesh alas! Instead of being under a slave, with rigorous and humiliating discipline, there is now the place of a child before his Father; the Christian stands by faith of Jesus in direct relationship to God. The truth of God to our hearts.So, you has he made alive who were dead because of your trespasses and sins. What comforts the soul, what strengthens and keeps it up, is that He "loved me, and gave Himself for me.". It is for the purpose of bringing in transgression, answers the apostle. The argument is founded upon the unity of the seed of promise in this connection. Thus a decisive blow is struck at the principle of connection with the law; and it was evident that they did not truly "hear the law." ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? That there is in every one a struggle between the flesh and the spirit (Galatians 5:17; Galatians 5:17): The flesh (the corrupt and carnal part of us) lusts (strives and struggles with strength and vigour) against the spirit: it opposes all the motions of the Spirit, and resists every thing that is spiritual. All right, I'm still one of His sheep, you know. Their lives should demonstrate the truth that their sinful nature has been crucified with Christ and has no further power over them. The Christian by the cross of Christ has terminated his connection with flesh, with the world, with the law. "But the fruit of the Spirit". Interesting to me that heresies is here mentioned as a part of the works of the flesh. Note, (1.) Why this: "Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, and the other by a freewoman." Now, evidently these Paul people were saying, "Well, Paul was circumcised and he's preaching circumcision. In verse 17 it is written, "In blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore." Thus it is evident that the legal system is a parenthesis. So the minute I start peddling books and saying, "Now, to really understand the Bible, you better read my books, because you'll just, you know, read the Bible, you'll be in darkness. Now these things are an allegory. For he is a sinner; and the law called out the sin into articulate transgressions, and made it perfectly plain that the heart is only evil continually, and proves it by plain transgressions; that is all. The Spirit of God can employ it to make a man feel that all is over with him; but He goes farther in grace, and by that very law brings the man in dead to the law, and not merely condemned. And you develop your own little following, which really appeals to your flesh. Soon all will believe in Christ, and all Israel be saved. And I encourage you to just read your Bible.Now, why is it that Jehovah Witness can't tell you that? He said, "We haven't been able to keep the law, why should we put them under it?" If ever there was a man who more than another contended for the oneness of the saints in every sense, above all, for the one body of Christ, for the unity of the Spirit, it was the apostle Paul. For if I yet pleased men, I should not be a servant of Christ." (89) , . who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. It was not merely that Paul was lowered by the carping Judaizers God's grace was being sacrificed. There's nothing that you can add to what Jesus paid. One of these covenants--the one which originated on Mount Sinai--bears children who are destined for slavery--and that one is represented by Hagar. "Thy seed ( i.e., the numerous seed) shall possess the gate of his enemies." Now, what does God say about it? Christ never mingles with flesh or law any more than with the world. Such is the application. You cannot be ruled and dominated by your flesh.Now, it is interesting, a list similar to this is given to us in Revelation the twenty-first chapter, as it tells us those who are going to be excluded from heaven and outside were those who were doing these things: "The fearful, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the whoremongers, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and the liars," those who are outside. "The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life" ( 1 John 2:16 ). There was no difference in the blessing of Christ: man's guilt and God's grace were alike indiscriminate. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Paul says, "If you go on in this way, of which circumcision is the beginning, you might as well end up by castrating yourselves like these heathen priests." Nothing that God afterwards introduced annulled this. Why, that though there were "false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage," Paul did not give place by subjection even for an hour, "that the truth of the gospel might continue with them." to His Father. He is baptized into Christ's death, which is the sole means of deliverance out of his state of sin. "But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me; but contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter," etc. We are not to suppose that a higher and more heavenly character blots out the lesser place; of this the apostle takes advantage here. 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 ). You weren't persuaded to be circumcised because God was speaking to your heart and convicting you of this. Christ's yoke is called chrestos ( G5543) ( Matthew 11:30), that is, it does not chafe. But for us now the apostle carefully adds the principle of our heavenly character. So we, brothers, are children not of the slave girl but of the free woman. The sad and dangerous tendency of a contrary behaviour (Galatians 5:15; Galatians 5:15): But, says he, if instead of serving one another in love, and therein fulfilling the law of God, you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another. As in the previous verses Paul set out the evil things characteristic of the flesh, so now he sets out the lovely things which are the fruit of the Spirit. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. The allusion is to A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ( Galatians 5:9 ). The application of this is as plain as it is conclusive, for those who appealed to Abraham and bowed to the word of God. God himself.". "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." It was the practice that priests and really devout worshippers of Cybele mutilated themselves by castration. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Born and bred in the abominable idolatries of the heathen, they were strangers to the institutions of Israel. He had before told us that the Spirit of Christ is a privilege bestowed on all the children of God, Galatians 4:6; Galatians 4:6. You got to keep the law. 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. But when men would have anything fraught with distress to His people, when through their folly confusion must ensue, contrary to all that His heart loved, then it was left to others. They're just warmed over, put in a new coat, and declared by a fresh voice, or sometimes the voices aren't so fresh, but they're things, concepts that . "I am crucified with Christ." It is liberty and not law that the Christian stands in. He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. "To Abraham were the promises made, and to his seed.". It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. People were trying to add to it. The word faith here is trusting. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. 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. If Peter was acting rightly now, this had all been a mistake, and consequently the gospel nay, solemn to say, Christ Himself would be thus a minister of sin. An undue regard to the approbation and applause of men is one great ground of the unhappy strifes and contentions that exist among Christians. Reckon that to be. But this was only provisional and parenthetic. And now your spirit is alive. Along with the cross goes a new creation. Proud member Don't revive him. In my attitude towards life. Read Galatians 5: 14-17. The works of the flesh. This is not a word which classical Greek uses commonly. Witchcraft; this literally means the use of drugs. In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. And this is a universal principle. Therefore, no wonder that he says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.". He had made as much proficiency as any of his day it may be, more. Note, The best antidote against the poison of sin is to walk in the Spirit, to be much in conversing with spiritual things, to mind the things of the soul, which is the spiritual part of man, more than those of the body, which is his carnal part, to commit ourselves to the guidance of the word, wherein the Holy Spirit makes known the will of God concerning us, and in the way of our duty to act in a dependence on his aids and influences. It is interesting to note that Chara and Eirene both became very common Christian names in the Church. Thus, whatever may be the energy that seeks souls in love, there is nothing after all like Christianity for maintaining individual responsibility intact. It was they who had changed, not he. Not all sins are crimes. Instead of going up to Jerusalem on earth, instead of endeavouring to effect a junction with the law or anything else here below, the gospel wants no such allies, but repudiates them all. What! It cannot and ought not to spare sinners. And no wonder. He fully allows that the Lord was both made of a woman and made under the law; but what was the ultimate object in view! Exhortation to Stedfastness; Persuasives to Stedfastness. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband." It needs to be boistered by God's spirit. another; having reference to their controversies about the law As far as this temper prevails among Christians, they will be ready to slight and despise those whom they look upon as inferior to them, and to be put out of humour if they are denied that respect which they think is their due from them, and they will also be apt to envy those by whom their reputation is in any danger of being lessened: and thus a foundation is laid for those quarrels and contentions which, as they are inconsistent with that love which Christians ought to maintain towards each other, so they are greatly prejudicial to the honour and interest of religion itself. But the whole matter is decided before God. Galatians 5:17 Verse 15. Christendom is built upon this footing. 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. "The child of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise." For the law was used with killing power; and, slain as it were in my conscience, I found in that very place Christ Himself by the grace of God, Christ that died for me; and not merely this, but Christ in whom I died. 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. He owned and valued, in its own place, the difficult, weighty, and momentous work which God had assigned to Peter, James, and the rest; but at the same time he stood firmly humbly, of course, and lovingly, but firmly for that which the Lord had assigned to himself and his colleagues among the Gentiles; and, so far from Christ's liberty having been in the least weakened, the apostolic conclave put their seal, with the whole church at Jerusalem, upon it most heartily. In the meantime God had come and promised that Sarah would have a child, which was so difficult to believe that it appeared impossible to Abraham and Sarah; but in due time Isaac was born. But it works through love. They often use drugs, potions; the potions that you'd take, you know, and it'd have their drug related experiences. Those in Christ must stand firm against anyone who would try to drag them into slavery under the law (Galatians 5:1). 5:16-21 I tell you, let your walk and conversation be dominated by the Spirit, and don't let the desires of the lower side of your nature have their way. And mark the difference. Was it possible, then, that any could desire to put the Gentiles under law, when they had been brought out from it themselves by the will of God, the work of Christ, and the witness of the Holy Spirit? You ever seen a person in love and all of the joy that they have? In Greek there are four words for love. For in Jesus Christ it is not of the slightest importance whether a man is circumcised or uncircumcised. If, instead of acting like men and Christians, they would behave themselves more like brute beasts, in tearing and rending one another, they could expect nothing as the consequence of it, but that they would be consumed one of another; and therefore they had the greatest reason not to indulge themselves in such quarrels and animosities. When He gave the promise to Abraham, He said, "I will give." I have not. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Plutarch says that it has a far wider place than justice. Thus the law pulls down what is evil, and the promise gives what is good and builds it up. You cannot lawfully add to it, any more than set aside its provisions. Jealousy; this word (zelos, G2205, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 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