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. "Yeah, but I had the right to do it." "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another. The way they triumph over these wrong desires is not by putting themselves under the law, but by allowing Gods Spirit to direct their lives (16-18). "This persuasion didn't come from God.". another; having reference to their controversies about the law You are saved. Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. This is the constitution of your priceless liberty. Fidelity; this word (pistis, G4102) is common in secular Greek for trustworthiness. But it works through love. The whole legal institution depended on a people lineally descended from Abraham, as their priests on a similar succession from Aaron. The flesh began to rule, and man's consciousness was now filled and absorbed with the body needs and the body appetites. He's temperant. But, in point of fact, he did not see the twelve. Look at Abraham and his house; look at the maid Hagar; look at Isaac and Ishmael. church state should be destroyed and come to nothing, since love Christ on high had called him. Christianity came into a world where sexual immorality was not only condoned, but was regarded as essential to the ordinary working of life. Eternal life is beyond doubt the gift of divine grace; but, besides, the eternal life that I have now by pure and simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is what I find at the end of my course as well as at the starting. It is the obligation to God. "Have you been reading this book?" A person doesn't lose his temper. remove, the candlestick out of its place. That it is His sacrifice for your sins that brings you redemption and the forgiveness of sins. 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. On the other hand, where unity becomes an object, it is never understood; and at the same time the walk of faith cannot be maintained. And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. Along with himself he takes care expressly to couple others: "and all the brethren which are with me." Every one who went back from such a gospel as this was, as far as it went, frustrating the grace of God. And now in Christ He has accomplished it I mean already. 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. Nor had he conferred even then with flesh and blood; his mission as well as conversion and call were alike independent of it. Further. You're talking nonsense. It was not thus that Peter or the rest were drawn to follow their Master. "I am crucified with Christ." To them, no doubt, it appeared as if they were zealous and sincere champions of unity. For he, though a Jew, had completely done with the law, and all that pertains to it. 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. Make a child thoroughly happy, and you will soon see that its duty becomes comparatively light and a joy. (Acts 15:1-41) As it is said here, "They gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen and they unto the circumcision. It was not merely that Paul was lowered by the carping Judaizers God's grace was being sacrificed. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ." Here he comes to the positive blessing; for the Spirit cannot rest in what is but negative. There was no consciousness of the identification of the saint with Christ. Nothing is so destructive to the peace of man, and to the peace of the soul, as religious disputes; where they prevail, religion in general has little place. Hagar herself was a slave and all her children were born into slavery; and that covenant whose basis is the law turns men into slaves of the law. It needs to be boistered by God's spirit. He says to those who would be under the law, why do you not listen to the law? "This persuasion didn't come from Him who called you." Though we ought to stand fast in our Christian liberty, yet we should not insist upon it to the breach of Christian charity; we should not use it as an occasion of strife and contention with our fellow Christians, who may be differently minded from us, but should always maintain such a temper towards each other as may dispose us by love to serve one another. He is a new creature in Christ. to bite, N.T.o. Her child was born free and according to God's promise--and all his descendants must be free. Nor did they understand the prophets better. IF YOU RECEIVE CIRCUMCISION. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Thus, the idea is, in their contentions they would destroy the spirituality and happiness of each other; their characters would be ruined; and the church be overthrown. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ( Galatians 5:9 ). Christ has set us free! 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 ( Galatians 5:17 ). Instead they are unkind and cruel to each other. If I am walking in the Spirit, if I am walking in love, then there can be no law to regulate my life. Uncontrolled temper ; the word Paul uses means bursts of temper. Then the apostle at once explains, as annexed to this, the real state of the case. 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. This closes the course of the apostle's argument. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. He specifies the works of the flesh, which must be watched against and mortified, and the fruits of the Spirit, which must be brought forth and cherished, and shows of what importance it is that they be so, ver 19-24. The truth of God to our hearts.So, you has he made alive who were dead because of your trespasses and sins. But we, brothers, are in the same position as Isaac; we are children of promise. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. (Romans 3:1-31, Romans 10:1-21) But the act of Peter went to maintain a difference. If it should be asked, What course must we take that the better interest may get the better? Help me, Lord, to just keep the right attitude." God is a superior Trinity; man is an inferior trinity. It was not the worldly presumption of man, nor the slight which this would inevitably cast on apostolic authority, as well as on the order of the church, on morality even, at least on Christian morality, on the comely ways of brethren one with another in private as well as in their public assemblies. Forgive me, Lord. And so, I would listen to these fellows, and I listened, you know, and just said, "Well, you know, that's what the scripture says, you know," when they would quote scriptures. May the truth of God sink into our hearts! At the same time it is shown to be, not what it might seem, a negative power only, but along with it is the new creation into which grace forms us. I can say, "Well, this, these are the rules of righteous living. Concerning these things, or those in whom these fruits of the Spirit are found, the apostle says, There is no law against them, to condemn and punish them. Can anything prove that it is not an old creation better than this that there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, which last at least is an absolute necessity for the perpetuation of the race? This is the only sin Paul warned the Galatians to avoid. And what is the end of them? 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. In the epistle to the Galatians we have another tone and style, a serious and grieved spirit, with feelings not less deep it may be, even more profoundly moved than in writing to the Corinthians; and for this reason, that the foundations were still more deeply affected by that which was working among the assemblies of Galatia. The offense of the cross would cease." Now, the law always brings fallen man into importance: such it must be in its principle. It is the liberty not to do those things which the flesh once forced me to do. And this is of immense moment to remember. Nor this only. Those that are of faith, not those who pretend to the law and do it not, are blessed with their father. But in truth the Lord "gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. beware lest you be consumed -- Destroyed. The organic life of the body will be destroyed by its own members. He heartily avows what they counted a defect; and not Only so, but with the greatest solemnity assures them that he had not seen the apostles, save only Peter, and James the brother of the Lord, and these but for a short space. When they first knew him, there was no difficulty felt on this score; they heard him as an angel of God. 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. All this vanishes in Christ; we are all one in Him; and if you are Christ's, what need to be circumcised! "Love suffereth long and is kind." That would not be a good example of Christian love. Now you've got to defend it against the challenges and so you've got to start making up or taking positions that are thoroughly unscriptural in order to defend your position." "The theme of love . 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. Once the spirit has come alive, now there comes this striving for the mastery of me. Promise was before the law, and flowed out of the grace of God. You weren't persuaded to be circumcised because God was speaking to your heart and convicting you of this. If they took that gr. That is, the most simple and most obvious truth is just the last thing a man thinks about. "For I am as ye are." That is to say, Ishmael was born of the ordinary human impulses of the flesh; Isaac was born because of God's promise; and Sarah was a free woman, while Hagar was a slave girl. And he gives to us here a listing, incomplete to be sure, because he ends it by saying, "And do such things." 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. As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ( Galatians 5:21 ): So, the such like covers a lot of things. That is, he links on the heavenly character of Jerusalem for us before touching on the desolate place of Jerusalem after the flesh, or of the predicted change of heart and blessing in grace, when she will be glad to appropriate, as it were, the Christians born now after the Spirit. After wishing those addressed grace and peace, as usual, he speaks of the Lord in a manner singularly in unison with the object of the epistle: "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us" not from judgment, not from the wrath to come, but "from this present evil world." "I certify you, brethren," says he, "that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. And your spirit being alive, again you can experience fellowship with God, the joy, the blessing of fellowshipping with God.So, "walk in the Spirit." And then concludes the chapter with a caution against pride and envy. He's just whacked me with the rod. The Galatians were succumbing to false teaching (7-12) III. 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! ", Mark how nicely every word was suited to deal with their souls. I wish we could always remember, when the devil tempts us to disputes, that the disagreement of members within the church can lead to nothing else than the ruin and consumption of the whole body. Because you'll never come to their beliefs by just reading the Bible. If I am mastered by the flesh, then I have the mind of the flesh. (a) Eros (compare G2037) means the love of a man for a maid; it is the love which has passion in it. It was a very unusual circumstance. 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. But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. The meaning of Galatians 5:1 is an incredible verse that has a powerful lesson for us today. 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. Now. The other apostles enjoyed this more. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. Salem Media Group. Galatians 1:1-24. Help us to share the Gospel of love with everyone around us at every . I could quickly get in trouble. Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. They spring from unbelief from undue thoughts of self, from ignorance of God, from slight thoughts of Christ. Everybody knows this. Do not abuse your freedom (13-15) I. Christ has set us free (1-6) Discussion Questions What has Christ set us free from? It is thus, then, that grace uses it to give me death in my conscience before God. The man who practises it has been said to know no restraint, but to do whatever caprice and wanton insolence may suggest. Self-control; the word is egkrateia ( G1466) which Plato uses of self-mastery. This is what is found under it. He shows that God would give us a deliverance from self-importance; and what a mercy it is to be so blessed, that one can afford to forget one's self! There is no mention here of grace, nor even of any special powers conferred by the Spirit of God. That would not be a good example of Christian love. 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. He tells them that as many as take the ground of law works are under the curse already. then is the offense of the cross ceased ( Galatians 5:10-11 ). 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. For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. And you develop your own little following, which really appeals to your flesh. "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." 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. If I am a Christian, I acquire a new kind of responsibility. The apostle was given to preach the truth more fully than any other. They often use drugs, potions; the potions that you'd take, you know, and it'd have their drug related experiences. And mark the difference. "Hey, that old nature, that old Chuck is dead. lest ye be consumed one of anotherconsumamini; Ah! What is good fruit in the Bible? 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. To him a theology was not the slightest use unless it could be lived out. Not to the place of being ridiculous. Try and stay right on course. What comforts the soul, what strengthens and keeps it up, is that He "loved me, and gave Himself for me.". He had been trained up under the most distinguished teacher the great Rabbin Gamaliel; but "when it pleased him, who had separated him from his mother's womb, and called him by his grace, to reveal his Son in him." The law necessarily makes the man, and the man's doings, to be the prominent object. Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. But I have confidence in you that you're not going to be persuaded by this. 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 ). I can't go back to my mother's womb and be born again. (2) b. Circumcision obligates you to the law. #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. 25 Mar 2017 23:00:00 -0500 1896 sunday full false Wednesday Night | Galatians 5:5-6 Part 2 | Dr. Jimmy Young These are sins which will undoubtedly shut men out of heaven. They think that it is quite right, for the church especially, to appoint days for this and that saint; to have certain seasons to remind one of the Lord's incarnation, ministry, and crucifixion, of His resurrection, ascension, and so on. In fact, what Jerusalem had done, as far as this was concerned, was to let slip men that would impose circumcision evil workers, as he in a later epistle contemptuously calls such like of the concision; for they were corrupting the Gentile churches by Judaism, instead of helping them in Christ. There is a warfare that goes on in the life of the believer. 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. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. The action of biting and devouring is mutual. That died with Christ. The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. As the principle of grace in us will not suffer us to do all the evil which our corrupt nature would prompt us to, so neither can we do all the good that we would, by reason of the oppositions we meet with from that corrupt and carnal principle. Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Jesus Christ? The law kills instead of giving life, and puts under condemnation instead of giving that Spirit which is necessarily a spring of sonship and liberty. ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? Created by God, in fellowship with God. The truth of the gospel, to the apostle Paul's mind, was at stake. 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. Love is the sum of the whole law; as love to God comprises the duties of the first table, so love to our neighbour those of the second. This it is to which we are come now under Christianity. When a Gentile Christian, mark, takes up such Old Testament elements, according to the Holy Ghost, it is not to him merely Judaism, but a return to his Gentile idols, little as he may think so. It was exactly what Christ was on earth; and the expression of Christ is the prime call of the Christian. What can you say to a guy? 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. 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 Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. He speaks of "the grace of Christ." But we have a good deal more. And this comes up every day in many situations, and I have actually the choice in this situation. Alas! He has set you free from the power of the flesh. But what about the Gentiles? But he was not thus disobedient to the heavenly vision. But if you bite -- By an improper use of the tongue. 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. 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. He had the faith that could by grace cleave to God if he had not a companion; but God blesses that faith, and acts by it on the conscience of others, even on those that, alas! Paul went on to argue that if you accepted circumcision, that is to say, if you accepted one part of the law, logically you had to accept the whole law. You cannot attack such a servant without attacking his testimony. But it is life after death to law, and consequently in another sphere. 1. It will create a lot of enemies. 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. The apostle expressly reasons on Abraham, as they were always anxious to cite Abraham, the father of circumcision. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Galatians 5:1 (NASB) It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. It is therefore a feeling of the mind as much as of the heart; it concerns the will as much as the emotions. 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. Or I can walk after the Spirit and say, "Oh Lord, it doesn't matter. In my spirit, in the realm of the Spirit. 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. But the fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22 ), Now, "walk in the Spirit, you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh." There is no recounting what God had done for them. Thus the two totally opposite roads of grace and law would have been leading to the same result. It was the practice that priests and really devout worshippers of Cybele mutilated themselves by castration. Greek and Christian alike would have condemned drunkenness as a thing which turned a man into a beast. And Paul, far from deriving his apostleship or aught else from Peter, was obliged to rebuke him, and this publicly. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ( Galatians 5:14 ). The law of Moses tells a man to do his duty in his own place. From the nature of the subject, as well as from the language employed, we may conjecture that the Galatians had disputes among themselves; for they differed about doctrine. 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. I choose the best facts; for I have no wish to rake up abuses. And if you do, you will not be fulfilling the desires of your flesh. It is the widest word for goodness; it is defined as "virtue equipped at every point." He acts on this in faith; he understands it with an energy and a brightness that increased even in his Roman prison. The law was given them with all pomp and solemnity. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Galatians 5:13 #1 "You, my brothers and sisters," Paul is addressing fellow Christians. Let me press this gravely upon those who are here this night. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). And what is this? The gospel, not the law, owns its kindred with the promise. Paul ends with a very blunt saying. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you who are justified [or seeking to be justified] by the law; ye are fallen from grace ( Galatians 5:4 ). There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. Be assured that it is the same simplicity of faith which enters into both these things now. So "cursed is the man that continues not in the whole law to do that which is written therein" ( Galatians 3:10 ). The promise has another and most blessed place. Paul begins chapter 5 by stating flatly that Christ has set us free in order that we should be free. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). It's Jesus only. 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. And they glorified God in me.". If he had preached the full truth of the gospel, he insists that they had received it. Rare in N.T. "Because ye are sons." 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