Christ lived, died, and was resurrected so that we might be free. Because we wait to have our baptisms 'til the water gets warmer.It's because baptism doesn't save. Hence the effect of the law in all its ramifications on man is the same. After all, what God had at heart was the accomplishment of His own promise in grace. If you're looking to that as a righteous standing before God, then you are not experiencing the grace of God in your life. And God held the reins that the truth might be kept unsullied and pure; and he goes south and north as the Lord guided His servant, but not to Jerusalem to those that were apostles before him. Now, what does God say about it? Others are sins against ourselves, such as drunkenness and revellings; and he concludes the catalogue with an et cetera, and gives fair warning to all to take care of them, as they hope to see the face of God with comfort. These other words are defining what the agape love actually is. Euripides called it "the greatest of all diseases among men." The most difficult thing in Christendom is for people to know what it is to be Christians, and to take this place by the faith of Christ themselves. Which son represented them? He habitually measured things not so much by their bearing on Jews or Gentiles as by their effect on Christ's glory. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. That's the old nature, reckon that to be dead. You know, you come up with some heretical teaching, you get everybody excited and everybody's listening, everybody's beginning to discuss what you're teaching. You cannot lawfully add to it, any more than set aside its provisions. It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. He gives us a catalogue of evil things. I mean, if you're walking in love, what rules can you lay down? After all their vapouring about the law, they were biting and devouring one another. Their ears were heavy, and their eyes blinded by their legalism. Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 13:3.). And people to follow after me, you know. This is what we are chiefly concerned to fight against, and that which above every thing else we should make it our business to oppose and suppress. She is as one that has no husband. For ye have heard of my conversation in times past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. That is just another way of saying that the essence of Christianity is not law but a personal relationship to Jesus Christ. And so then I had to go out to them and say, "Hey, you haven't convinced me of the truth of what you're declaring. That died with Christ. Paul adds a grim bit of advice. This must be indeed confusion; as it is, there is none. So it was, then, that the apostle presents his own wonderful relation to Christ. At first sight it seems most extraordinary, if the apostle referred to such a Scripture for the proof of the importance of one seed; because, if there is anything that lies on the surface of the passage, it is the multiplicity of the seed a seed expressly said to exceed all reckoning. 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 . In other words, if the believer simply were one forgiven by grace, without having either life in Christ or the Holy Ghost dwelling in him, he might, perhaps, plead that he could not avoid sinning. He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. To impugn the one is to imperil the other. That is, the apostle, instead of regarding his despised freedom from the law as a just reproach, glories in it. Don't become seekers after empty reputation; don't provoke each other: don't envy each other. New American Standard Version Don't marvel when I say, 'You've got to be born again.'" It is eritheia ( G2052) and originally meant the work of a hired labourer (erithos). But he lists some of the works of the flesh. they are in conflict with f sinful nature each other, so that you do not do what you want. It is the widest word for goodness; it is defined as "virtue equipped at every point." No doubt there was a difference of tone. The outline of the story is as follows: Abraham and Sarah were far advanced in years and Sarah had no child. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. The glory which comes from men is vain-glory, which, instead of being desirous of, we should be dead to. It also described the bands of the devotees of Bacchus, god of wine. And this leads him to speak of another trial. Paul had a characteristically practical mind. And I was challenged by that for a while. The cross has sentenced the world; and this very sentence of the world is our deliverance from the world. If that is the purpose, you're thinking that it's going to make you righteous before God, you think it's going to make you acceptable before God, Paul said, "Christ will profit you nothing," if that's your mental attitude towards your circumcision. This epistle, as those to the Corinthians, opens with an assertion of his apostolic place. The very reverse of their system is true. It was ordained by angels, who had nothing to do with promise, which God gave direct to His friend. (d) Agape ( G26) , the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. The superior Trinity is made up of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We don't understand that word too much. To excite Christians hereunto, and to assist them herein, the apostle shows. "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?" But its most suggestive use is that katharos ( G2513) is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles a man to approach his gods. But to the end of the day there remained for Paul two obligations. But if ye bite - The word used here ( dakno), means, properly, to bite, to sting; and here seems to be used in the sense of contending and striving - a metaphor not improbably taken from dogs and wild beasts. For these two women stand for two covenants. On the other hand, the spirit (the renewed part of us) strives against the flesh, and opposes the will and desire of it: and hence it comes to pass that we cannot do the things that we would. 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! Next, we are told, wherein this consisted. Is not this just the law for you! Paul was preaching that Jesus paid the complete price for your redemption on the cross. What Paul is saying is, "This legalistic movement may not have gone very far yet, but you must root it out before it destroys your whole religion.". 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. And I can set up these rules, and I can get out my little gold stars. And I'm washed and I'm cleansed and I go on. Thus all things fall into their place, and the Spirit connects us in heart with that which God is doing and will do for the glory of Christ. The promise is therefore entirely distinct from the law, which was not heard of for four hundred and thirty years after. The meaning is that you never can get stability in blessing until you have simply God putting forth His own power according to His own grace. Nor did they understand the prophets better. 5:22-26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, self-control. Nothing that God afterwards introduced annulled this. Meanwhile another and a better sort of blessing is given, as a better Seed also is given the true Heir of all the promises of God, even Christ the Lord. They thus acted and pronounced according to the evident intention of God conveyed in the character of their apostolates respectively. He signed ordinarily, putting his subscription at the end, i.e., his own name, to verify it; but he did not write it. "Well, yeah, I read that book but, you know, God showed it to me." Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. That would not be a good example of Christian love. I can say, "Well, this, these are the rules of righteous living. For God does speak elsewhere, and even on this occasion, of a numerous seed. There was no difference either way. #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. Being, of course, dying men, whether it be the general privileges of Israel, or the special place of the priest, all was transmitted from father to son. When God speaks of the seed numerous as the sand or the stars, He gives them a Jewish character of blessing. 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. 6) Psalm 90:14 (NIV) Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. He will not hear of any pretended misunderstanding. But God took care that the call of Paul should be delayed till the whole order of the Jewish apostleship should be complete. Jesus said, "I'm not talking about that. ", But, he adds, faith is come (that is, the testimony to be believed by man now, or the gospel). He strikes accordingly at the root of all successional or derived authority. Now the apostle in writing to the Galatians was so moved in love, and so yearned over them in their danger, that he actually wrote the epistle with his own hand. take heed that ye be not consumed one of another; that is, either beware lest each other's particular peace and comfort be destroyed, which is oftentimes done this way, though a person's state and condition God-ward may be safe; or lest their church state should be destroyed and come to nothing, since love is the cement of it, which being loosened, threatens a dissolution; for as no civil community, either public or private, divided against itself, can stand long, so no religious one; and for want of love the Lord threatens to remove, and sometimes does remove, the candlestick out of its place. It went on to mean canvassing for political or public office, and it describes the man who wants office, not from any motives of service. One of them fell from his place, but the vacancy was filled up directly. No doubt this might be provoking to human importance sometimes. The apostle had heard enough of circumcision: it was repulsive to him henceforth. The names of the different forms of government are suggestive. I'd say, "Open the doors and let me off." And in the fifteenth chapter of Acts, we read how that Peter stood up and told the brethren how that the Lord had called him to go to the Gentiles to the house of Cornelius. This seems to have been the reason of their being twelve; and it is to me clear that our Lord establishes this as the true reference and key when He declares that, in the regeneration, the Son of Man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, and they shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And you will observe the immense importance attached to this simple account; for all here is plain matter of fact, but pregnant with the weightiest consequences as long as the church and the gospel last here below. It was really part of God's wondrous ways with him, as indicating the true character of Christianity and of its ministry as contrasted with Judaism. "For if the inheritance be of law, it is no more of promise:" otherwise by the condition of law you would annul the promise. There is a warfare that goes on in the life of the believer. It was not thus that Peter or the rest were drawn to follow their Master. Everything lost then would be gained when promise has its way. devourthe substance by injuring, extortion, &c. (Hab 1:13; Mt 23:14; 2Co 11:20). He's talking about rituals and the power of rituals to make you righteous before God, and the issue is, they can't. Nor had he conferred even then with flesh and blood; his mission as well as conversion and call were alike independent of it. Need it be added that he was right and Peter wrong? The sense is, if you contend with each other; and the reference is, probably, to the strifes which would arise between the two parties in the churches - the Jewish and the Gentile converts. So, Peter uses this same phrase to describe the law as a yoke of bondage. I once was in horrible bondage to my flesh. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. If therefore we would have it appear that we are Christ's, and that we are partakers of his Spirit, it must be by our walking not after the flesh, but after the spirit. But if ye bite and devour one another Acts 15:1, 5 ). For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law ( Galatians 5:3 ). "But the fruit of the Spirit". Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. Who would have ventured to say, without express scripture, that the old Jewish forms thus adopted by a Gentile believer have such an idolatrous character? . That is, walk in fellowship with God. Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. It does not so much want the things for itself; it merely wants to take them from the other. Having begun in the spirit, you did all right in the beginning, but. When He gave the promise to Abraham, He said, "I will give." That's where God touches me. There is no approach to a vaunt about his dignity. Now, if you're walking in love, supreme love for God and supreme love for your fellow man, then there is no law. "We, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world; but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." Man had his duty to God, and be ought to have. It needs to be boistered by God's spirit. 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Strife; originally this word had mainly to do with the rivalry for prizes. take heed that ye be not one of another utterly destroyed. As made under the law He was for Israel; but He died and rose, and was thus free to bless a Gentile as much as a Jew. Help me, Lord, to just keep the right attitude." The works of the flesh. If any of them believe in the Crucified, they were God's Israel. But the fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22 ), Now, "walk in the Spirit, you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh." His testimony was characteristically though not of course exclusively heavenly, as it was also the witness of grace to the fullest. To Paul all that mattered was faith which works through love. There are many present privileges and future glories that belong to the Christian; and promise is one of them. All right, I'm still one of His sheep, you know. adds. 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. Such is the secret of true power. You are saved. In its positive form (katharos ( G2513) , an adjective meaning pure) it is commonly used in housing contracts to describe a house that is left clean and in good condition. You cannot weaken his apostleship without endangering the very gospel that you have received yourselves. But it was in no vain glory, in no tone of superiority, though, no doubt, it was a far fuller and higher testimony than theirs; for he adds, "privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run or had run in vain." The noun GALATIANS has 1 sense: 1. a New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Galatians Familiarity information: GALATIANS used as a noun is very rare. 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 truth of God to our hearts.So, you has he made alive who were dead because of your trespasses and sins. enjoyment that has degenerated into licence. 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. The word Paul uses for goodness (agathosune, G19) is a peculiarly Bible word and does not occur in secular Greek ( Romans 15:14; Ephesians 5:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:11). We have those that come around here. What gives power is the heart surrendering itself in everything, and thus set at liberty by Christ. It's amazing, isn't it, what difference being born of the Spirit really makes. On this the apostle reasons. And Paul said, "Hey, wait a minute. But when we look toward Jesus we can find freedom. The old law, while it accomplishes its purposes, makes no provisions for that "weakness of the flesh" (see Romans 8:2). It is a joy whose foundation is God. It has been defined as "readiness for any pleasure." I don't believe that." Thus the law pulls down what is evil, and the promise gives what is good and builds it up. The apostle states it with perfect calmness, and without comparing others. he gives us this one general rule, which, if duly observed, would be the most sovereign remedy against the prevalence of corruption; and that is to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16; Galatians 5:16): This I say, then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. If we are living in the Spirit let us also keep step with the Spirit. 3. For the Jew leaven nearly always stood for evil influence. The new creation is a present blessing that the soul already enjoys. There was no believer, Jew or Gentile, who had not gladly submitted to that very blessed sign of having part with Christ, and of that which is made good by Christ. At any rate, the Galatians, naturally fickle, were quick to take up prejudices. No person can intelligently read the New Testament without perceiving the utter fallacy of such a system; for Peter was expressly, as the next chapter of this epistle tells us, apostle of the circumcision. Galatians 5:22-23 THE END (GOAL) IS GROWING FAITH IS LOVE 2 Peter 1:5-7 PAUL'S GREAT DESCRIPTION OF LOVE 1 Corinthians 13:4-6 BOTH GOD & LOVE INCLUDE Joy Peace Forbearance Kindness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-control Faith Goodness Knowledge Self-control Perseverance Godliness Mutual affection Patient Kind Truth Protection Trust Hope Perseverance Once the spirit has come alive, now there comes this striving for the mastery of me. Why then did he want he Gentiles to live as did the Jews? But what about the Gentiles? 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. He does not even deign to fill up the sketch. 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. I am perfectly delivered, and the measure of my deliverance is Christ, and Christ raised from the dead. All sprang, no doubt, from the same God, from the same Lord Jesus Christ; but even so from God and from the Lord in other relationships. When He had anything unfailing to do or say, He loved to appear in grace; He said it Himself, and did it for Himself. Paul was a trained Rabbi; and that is what he is doing here. If I am a Christian, I am responsible according to that position and privilege. The other apostles enjoyed this more. Wantonness; this word (aselgeia, G766) is translated licentiousness in the Revised Standard Version ( Mark 7:22; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; 1 Peter 4:3; Jd 1:4 ; Romans 13:13 and 2 Peter 2:18). For it is by the Spirit and by faith that we eagerly expect the hope of being right with God. By the Spirit of God, we're waiting for that hope of righteousness through faith. All of the bases are covered. There is no comparison of countless seed; there is not an allusion to the sand of the sea, or to the stars of the sky. Eternal life is spoken of in this double way in scripture (Romans 6:22-23); and I also press this as a truth of no small importance and but too much forgotten. For He knows our tendency to mingle law with grace in some form or measure, and treats that which was of the fathers and long before Moses, as a foreign ingredient deleterious to Christians. 1. For Peter is not said to have withdrawn from the Lord's table where the uncircumcised met, but from the simple matter of eating with the Gentiles. Jesus has something incredible for you. The Greek word is pharmakeia, translated here witchcraft, because in the sorceries, they're into witchcraft. As we go down these things here, these are the things that God will exclude from His kingdom. You have fallen from grace. 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. So here the Christian puts on Christ, not the law or circumcision. "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Suppose a man desires to become a naturalized subject of a country and carefully carries out all the rules and regulations of that country as they affect naturalization. "As we have said before, so I say now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received." Accordingly, the language would have been premature and entirely beyond the conscious experience of the saints, or the real truth of the matter in the sight of God. 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