Mark, again, the strength of the expression. I wish that those who are upsetting you would get themselves not only circumcised but castrated! This the apostle represents as our duty, and directs us to the most effectual means of success in it. Jewish elements were borne with in a Jew. Why can't the Mormons tell you that? And so, they started telling people, "Well, Chuck believes this." Now the Galatians were unwittingly in danger of giving up the truth. He wants to get rid of the first Adam and all its appliances, not to keep it on; and therefore he puts on Christ. It was therefore not only for him, but for the instruction of the Galatians, and of us all. Those that are of faith, not those who pretend to the law and do it not, are blessed with their father. I once was in horrible bondage to my flesh. The law and the promise are both from God, but the law's use is only negative and condemnatory. Now, it is evident and to this I call your particular attention that the apostle here binds together his gospel with his apostolic place. Salem Media Group. Not all sins are crimes. Under which type did they fall Ishmael or Isaac? Heretical division; this might be described as crystallized dissension. lest ye be consumed one of anotherconsumamini; Ah! 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. And this is of immense moment to remember. For the world there is nothing yet executed, any more than the great results of grace for the saints as yet appear in their fulness. Immediately, then, as. For what the law is actually saying to you is that you should love God supremely and love your neighbor as yourself. 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. it has a, perhaps, a naivet about it in that it does trust.You know I've been burned so many times by trusting men, but I pray, "God, never make me jaundiced." So, Paul here exhorts us to walk in the Spirit and to live after the Spirit or on the spirit side of our lives. To the Galatians there was an exception. As if he had said, "You must expect a struggle between flesh and spirit as long as you are in the world, that the flesh will be lusting against the spirit as well as the spirit against the flesh; but if, in the prevailing bent and tenour of your lives, you be led by the Spirit,--if you act under the guidance and government of the Holy Spirit and of that spiritual nature and disposition he has wrought in you,--if you make the word of God your rule and the grace of God your principle,--it will hence appear that you are not under the law, not under the condemning, though you are still under the commanding, power of it; for there is now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; and as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," Romans 8:1-14. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). 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. How blessed, and how all-important for our souls! The law brings man in his nothingness into evidence, it proves that he is only a poor lost sinner. "To Abraham were the promises made, and to his seed.". And no wonder. Here it is the total judgment of flesh in its religious pretensions, and more particularly a blow to that which is an essential principle of law. The truth is the distinctive boon and mark of Christendom. Gentleness; praotes ( G4236) is the most untranslatable of words. The Spirit against the flesh. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 5:13-15 The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1Ti 6:3, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. Such was the will of God the Father that had raised Christ from the dead. We are crucified unto it by grace, as the world is crucified unto us by judgment. 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. The superior Trinity is made up of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (c) Storge (compare G794) rather means affection and is specially used of the love of parents and children. It was by revelation, not by summons from Jerusalem, or to acquire a title thereby. That's the position where we stand. I tried." The world of spirits can never be comfortable to those who plunge themselves in the filth of the flesh; nor will the righteous and holy God ever admit such into his favour and presence, unless they be first washed and sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God,1 Corinthians 6:11. The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. It is predicated upon the work of God. Thus He lived and moved here below. Having brought in the true character of the Christian's life as flowing simply and solely from Christ, and from Christ crucified too, so here he takes up the Holy Ghost. Now, in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Acts, when this same issue had arisen in the church in Antioch, when certain of the brethren came down from Jerusalem and were hassling the Gentile saints in Antioch and said, "You can't be saved unless you are circumcised and keep the law of Moses," Paul and Barnabas and others from Antioch took these brothers right back to Jerusalem, because they came unto the pretense of, "We have the authority of the Jerusalem church to declare these things." for want of love the Lord threatens to remove, and sometimes does we know too well the result from sinful man. It should be possible to differ with a man and yet remain friends. 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. "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Whom did their principle make them resemble? Now, there are two ways that I can be righteous. Monarchy is government by one, and began in the interests of efficiency, for government by committees has always had its drawbacks. 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. To worship the living and true, creator God - and not the false gods, false religions we pursue. ". Either Luke, as a doctor, did not use or have access to pharmaceuticals, which would then require that Galatians 5 says nothing of medicine, or Dr. Luke administered pharmakeia, which, the argument goes, is medicine sorcery. "Have you been reading this book?" For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But he proves more when he says that Abraham believed God; it was plainly not a question of law. Dr. Jimmy Young Buzzsprout-11368979 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0500 1898 Dr. Young,DJY,Grace Evangelical,Grace Evan,Germantown,Memphis,Collierville,Bible,Jeremiah,Church,God full false You Owe Me | Matthew 20.1-16 . Look at Abraham and his house; look at the maid Hagar; look at Isaac and Ishmael. Both sides of the dispute are guilty. 2. This is the very evil which the Spirit of God so earnestly and energetically denounces here by the apostle Paul. The Jews will surely be exalted, as well as converted nationally, and they will then put down their enemies, being made the head when other nations become the tail. "But the fruit of the Spirit". Had they been occupied with Christ, they would have really loved one another, and in other respects too fulfilled the law, without thinking about themselves or it. But the fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22 ), Now, "walk in the Spirit, you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh." Then after a certain lapse of time he does see Jerusalem, but no more than Peter and James, not the apostolic college officially. The apostle now demonstrates, from the result, how destructive such proceedings in the church must ultimately prove to be. It is no wonder that one who is thus tied and bound feels restive under it. Now when Adam sinned, his spirit died just as God had warned, "In the day that you eat, you will surely die" ( Genesis 2:17 ). The liberty that we have is not to do the things of the flesh. Not to the place of being ridiculous. 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. 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. In Galatians 5:1-15, the apostle Paul discusses the nature of Christian freedom, beginning with an admonition to "stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1, NKJV).Paul contends that Jesus Christ came to set believers free from a burdensome, legalistic existence as slaves to the law. 236.]. Now, evidently these Paul people were saying, "Well, Paul was circumcised and he's preaching circumcision. He does not even deign to fill up the sketch. Crucified with Christ. For he had shown that our purchase by Christ delivers even the Jew from subjection to the law; whilst Gentiles are set at once on the ground of grace without the intervention of any legal apprenticeship whatever, "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. I mean, if you're walking in love, what rules can you lay down? For ye are all the children of God." This is heavy. Plutocracy means government by the wealthy and is justified by the claim that those who have the biggest stake in the country have a logical right to rule it. II. But we have a good deal more. And, you know, I mean, you're having now go to . It was the ungrateful heart of man that, in its avidity after something that would bring an appearance of strength and unity, would sacrifice that, which was of heaven for what was after all connected with the earth and the flesh. 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. (c) Most often of all it means being considerate ( 1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Ephesians 4:2). The contents of the greeting ( Galatians 1:3a ) ii. And now in Christ He has accomplished it I mean already. Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Jesus Christ? against such there is no law ( Galatians 5:23 ). "But of these who seemed to be somewhat." This is what the law commands, but those who want to put themselves under the law cannot do it. But when one is miserable, does not every duty, even where it may be as light as a feather, feel as if it were an iron chain on you? The gospel had given him to sanction in his ways and words the overthrow of the partition wall. The enemy had ensnared them by crying up circumcision, in order to betray them into a link with Judaism; but they had no thought of bearing the real burden of the law. How could it be otherwise with one persecuting at the moment that he was arrested, in hot deadly opposition to God's church up to his most unexpected call from heaven? Because you'll never come to their beliefs just by reading the Bible. It is . Nor did they understand the prophets better. By this he plainly means free from law. He strikes accordingly at the root of all successional or derived authority. how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. If the world were the great enemy at Corinth, the law perverted is that against which the Spirit of God raises up the apostle in writing to the Galatians. "You've been called unto liberty." By biting and devouring (89) he means, I think, slanders, accusations, reproaches, and every other kind of offensive language, as well as acts of injustice arising either from fraud or violence. I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. It will create a lot of envy and a lot of provocation. We know how feeble and slow the heart is, and how apt disciples in general are to narrow the riches of the grace and truth of God. There was no difference in the blessing of Christ: man's guilt and God's grace were alike indiscriminate. It is a grim illustration at which a polite society raises its eyebrows, but it would be intensely real to the Galatians who knew all about the priests of Cybele. You got to keep the law. of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God ( Galatians 5:21 ). 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