suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one He had derived the gospel that he preached from the Lord, and not from any of his fellow-servants who had been engaged in the work before him. But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN. You can see the Santa Rosa and San Miguel and San Nicolas and say, "Hey, hey, all right, we're right on course." "Then after three years," he says, "I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter." Along with the cross goes a new creation. Interesting to me that heresies is here mentioned as a part of the works of the flesh. 5:22-26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, self-control. He who is upsetting you--whoever he is--will bear his own judgment. divided against itself, can stand long, so no religious one; and "I certify you, brethren," says he, "that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 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 readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. Aristocracy means government by the best, but best is left to be defined. Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! 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. Thus the law was ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator. 3. The tragedy of life is that people who hold different views very often finish up by disliking, not each others' views, but each other. informs all of Pauls exhortations vis--vis the Galatians libertine tendencies . This they never thought of doing. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 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. Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. And so, Paul is picking up, now, the same phrase. 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. The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. So, I think Paul could also have included here baptism or no baptism as far as the physical immersion in water. Acts 15:1, 5 ). 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. So much the more, then, we find the working of spiritual feeling as expressed by him in the second epistle, where he speaks of God lifting up those that were cast down, as He had delivered himself from the imminent danger to which he had been exposed even as to life. If I sow to the flesh, I shall of the flesh reap corruption; if I sow to the Spirit, I shall reap life everlasting. 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 ). 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. But spite of, or rather because of, their use of law, they were self-important, without holy power, and judged instead of loving each other. It would be first adding to it, and not only so, but annulling it. 236.]. I'm still His child. Far from wishing to gain credit, either for the gospel or for his own apostolic place, in consequence of being linked with those that had been apostles before him, he insists on that very independence which they counted a reproach. That's the old nature that wants its way, that wants to insist on its own way and all. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. (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). And we can all see how exactly the phrase falls in with the words of our Lord given in the Acts of the Apostles; for the wonderful truth burst upon the apostle's ear from the beginning, in the Saviour's call to him from heaven. What a subversion, not only of the truth of God revealed in the gospel, but also of redemption, which is its basis! Will I be mastered by the Spirit or will I be mastered by the flesh? As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? Be led by the Spirit, you're not under the law. There is no law which condemns thing; like that. And, as this would be the best means of preserving them from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, so it would be a good evidence that they were Christians indeed; for, says the apostle (Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18), If you be led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Verse Meaning Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. Some guy comes up and says, "Hey man, I got a watch, genuine made, you know. It isn't a liberty to live after my flesh. It supposed, and went forth to every creature on the ground of the total ruin of Jew and Gentile. Do you know what happens? The application of this is as plain as it is conclusive, for those who appealed to Abraham and bowed to the word of God. Nor did they understand the prophets better. 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 ). Whatever might be the apostle's tenderness toward his nation elsewhere, not an earthly link but must be snapped. Galatians 5:17 Bring in one part of law, and you fall under the authority of the whole. In Greek there are four words for love. Galatians 5:15 - John Darby's Synopsis It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. It's amazing, isn't it, what difference being born of the Spirit really makes. Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious consequences of a contrary spirit and conduct. It seems to have been something which affected his speech too, and exposed him to ridicule and to unfavourable comments where men were carnally-minded. Keeping God's commandments is not bondage. "You've been called unto liberty." And people to follow after me, you know. Reckon that to be. "The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me," etc. to His Father. 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.". You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. Laws are necessary to restrain unprincipled people. Saints they may have been; and such, we know, moved about from Jerusalem. If God loved us like that then the love of Christ constrains us. But, I repeat, this simply was revealed to him. 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. Vincent Taylor once said, "The test of a good theologian is, can he write a tract?" I wish that those who are upsetting you would get themselves not only circumcised but castrated! 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. Stand, therefore, in it and do not get yourselves involved all over again in a slavish yoke. Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. It is no question now of being subject to the Jews, who shall never possess the gate of their enemies, but be peeled and scattered and few, while the gospel is going forth. He had been himself (could they deny it?) Fidelity; this word (pistis, G4102) is common in secular Greek for trustworthiness. Still less is it possible to let the law set its force aside. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ( Galatians 5:5 ). "Hey, that old nature, that old Chuck is dead. This is all that people's zeal and labour come to. 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. The apostle does not say, if grievous wolves should enter in among you and not spare the flock; but suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one another; having reference to their controversies about the law and circumcision, and the necessity thereof to justification and salvation; which were managed with great heat and bitterness, occasioned great contentions, and threatened them with divisions, parties, and factions; and were attended with envy and malice, with reproachful words, biting sarcasms, scandalous invectives, and injurious actions, which must be of bad consequence: hence he adds. 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. They danced and laughed and sang his praises. Outline of Galatians 5:1-15. And this directly follows his censure of their observance of times and seasons. He through law died to law, that he might live to God! 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. As for himself, he gloried only in the cross. Far otherwise is God's way with souls. If he had preached the full truth of the gospel, he insists that they had received it. But God took care that the call of Paul should be delayed till the whole order of the Jewish apostleship should be complete. (c) Most often of all it means being considerate ( 1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Ephesians 4:2). The very reverse of their system is true. 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. It means that no matter what a man may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation we will never seek anything else but his highest good. For the Jewish Rabbis a passage of scripture had four meanings. Continue to work in me and through me so that I may live a life that is pleasing to You and glorifying to Your holy name, and keep me from falling back under bondage to legalistic practices, knowing that I have been set free by grace through faith in Christ's finished work on Calvary. He saith not, And to seeds, as to many; but as to one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. Further. His spirit died, and Adam broke fellowship with God. The Bible says, "The natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit: neither can he know them, they are spiritually discerned" ( 1 Corinthians 2:14 ). Sense of duty is not power. 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. You who seek to get yourselves right with God by means of legalism have got yourself into a position in which you have rendered ineffective all that Christ did for you. Heathenism! They were only, as they supposed, beginning to cherish a becoming attitude toward the religion of the fathers, and of all who had before Christ honoured God on earth. He went simply to make the acquaintance of Peter, and abode with him how long? 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 who bites has exhausted his angry passion, but he who devours has given a demonstration of extreme cruelty. Chrysostom. You who desire to be justified by the Spirit, and Adam broke with. This is all that people 's zeal and labour come to but I. 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