And you keep dealing with me until I'll finally say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. The power of Christ must rest upon him. (c) Most often of all it means being considerate ( 1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Ephesians 4:2). Jewish elements were borne with in a Jew. He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. 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. It is not a question of my loving Him, though this is and must be true of the saints; but this would tend to throw the soul on self, and it is not the reckoning of grace. Monarchy is government by one, and began in the interests of efficiency, for government by committees has always had its drawbacks. His Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. "I through the law am dead to the law." With this paragraph Paul's letter changes its emphasis. Was this then a reproach? 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). You've got to do this, and this, and this, and this, and this. Venerable religion! But if ye bite and devour one another, [you better] take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. [Note: Barclay, p. I violated. A final appeal to walk in the liberty of Jesus. They thought that Christianity would be all the better for adopting the ancient forms and beautiful figures of the law. 19 the acts of the the acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and sinful nature debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits And "Titus," as he says here, "who was with me, being a Greek," etc. And this is the thing that you try to describe to people, and they don't understand. Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 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. The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. All right, you know. What ground is there for boasting in this? It needs to be boistered by God's spirit. And no wonder. May the truth of God sink into our hearts! What gives power is the heart surrendering itself in everything, and thus set at liberty by Christ. Which means: Peaceable Christians realize that apart from Jehovah God, they have no lasting peacemaking ability. And this is of immense moment to remember. The apostle, as far as I know, wrote no other letter to any one of the churches of the saints. Peter would have been horrified at such a conclusion. So all of these things fall under the category of works of the flesh, but the "fruit of the Spirit," fruit is singular. And mark the difference. 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. But this was only provisional and parenthetic. What does matter is faith which works through love. All this is counted a great, wise, and sensible help to devotion. Salem Media Group. The law of Moses tells a man to do his duty in his own place. What Does Galatians 5:13 Mean? 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. 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. 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. But the apostle here does not reason about the matter. He was not converted first, and then gradually led into that highest degree, but called at once to be an apostle as well as saint in a way that belonged to no one but himself. 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." But I have confidence in you that you're not going to be persuaded by this. 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. What were they doing? Lastly, he desires for his brethren, that "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" might be with their spirit. "Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. Look at Abraham and his house; look at the maid Hagar; look at Isaac and Ishmael. If you are circumcised, Christ is no value to you. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith," not by becoming proselytes of the gate, or entering on a legal basis, but "foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." Impurity, then, is that which makes a man unfit to come before God, the soiling of life with the things which separate us from him. The apostle's discerning eye at once judged by Christ and by that gospel which he had learned from Him. "We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Thank You, Jesus, for Your forgiveness and for Your love and for Your grace to me.". Now take care that you do not use your wonderful . But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 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. Everybody knows this. . done his duty; but it was precisely what he could not do, because he was a sinner. You see, it isn't a once-in-forever kind of a thing. Hagar's child was born from merely human impulses; and legalism is the best that man can do. You see, you don't need any laws. I'd rather trust and be burned than not to trust. For devour, comp. Later Sarah found Ishmael "mocking" (King James Version) Isaac--this Paul equates with persecution--and insisted that Hagar should be cast out, so that the child of the slave girl should not share the inheritance with her freeborn son. Do not abuse your freedom (13-15) I. Christ has set us free (1-6) Discussion Questions What has Christ set us free from? Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage ( Galatians 5:1 ). 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. The gospel had led Peter to treat the Jews and Gentiles all alike. Paul did not stand alone. Along with himself he takes care expressly to couple others: "and all the brethren which are with me." The promise is therefore entirely distinct from the law, which was not heard of for four hundred and thirty years after. He signed ordinarily, putting his subscription at the end, i.e., his own name, to verify it; but he did not write it. They had been by degrees instructed according to the testimony which the Lord Jesus was pleased to give; and most suited it was, of course, to the time, people, and circumstances. It is the virtue which makes a man so master of himself that he is fit to be the servant of others. 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. Nothing more in keeping with the wants of those addressed, who had so soon turned aside from the grace of Christ to a different gospel. "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. And then he, indignant at such a thought, makes his most solemn appeals. The flesh will not be ruling over you anymore. The works of the flesh. When Jerusalem is humbled by the mercy of God, and betakes herself to her Messiah and the new covenant, she will "hear the law," and the prophets will be accomplished in her blessing, and in the largeness of love the present children of promise (even Christians, as being in a certain mystical sense children of Jerusalem) will be her boast. Next he turns to direct exhortation, the chief salient points of which will call for but few words. Not so; it is exclusively of grace by Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. (1) A summary statement: in light of all that Paul has previously said, he now challenges the Galatians to walk in the truth he has presented. Be it so: such was true. Strife; originally this word had mainly to do with the rivalry for prizes. (89) , . That is to say, after his flights of thought can he reduce it all to something that the ordinary man can understand and do? For if a man "keeps the whole law, yet he offends in one point, he is guilty of all" ( James 2:10 ). All this vanishes in Christ; we are all one in Him; and if you are Christ's, what need to be circumcised! The whole idea of the word is a goodness which is kind. #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. However, this behavior is hurting them as much or more as it is those they are attempting to hurt. [For] if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. The tragedy of life is that people who hold different views very often finish up by disliking, not each others' views, but each other. But where the Gentiles are mentioned, God only speaks of seed without reference to number. 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. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. 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. Man is only the receiver; and truly, as we know, "it is more blessed to give than to receive." 3. The Stoics defined it as "grief at someone else's good." In other words: "You have gained liberty through Christ, i.e., You are above all laws as far as conscience is concerned. No doubt there was a difference of tone. 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. Judaizers were saying that Gentiles had to join the old covenant if they wanted God's blessings and salvation (cf. It was from and in connection with Christ in heaven. Just as he had shown that God in His love to man had given the promise direct, so the apostle Paul acts in his care for the saints of God where all the foundations were endangered. You ought to be circumcised, you know." I mean, you never get it from reading the Bible and waiting upon God. And I'll argue with Him for a while. But it is not so. Need it be added that he was right and Peter wrong? For he, though a Jew, had completely done with the law, and all that pertains to it. And Paul said, "Hey, wait a minute. He has set you free from the power of the flesh. It is quite obvious that there was a hindrance of some sort. 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. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. to His Father. Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. Christ lived, died, and was resurrected so that we might be free. He had before been exhorting these Christians by love to serve one another (Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:13), and had put them in mind of what would be the consequence if, instead of that, they did bite and devour one another,Galatians 5:15; Galatians 5:15. The names of the different forms of government are suggestive. suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one 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." And now your spirit is alive. It will create a lot of enemies. In Christ alone, in His cross, let us boast, and in the new creature which is by Christ. 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. It is not an old creation, but a new one. 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. Everything lost then would be gained when promise has its way. 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 . Selfishness in the end does not exalt a man; it destroys him. Accordingly, in Galatians 3:1-29 he pursues his reasoning. Christ's yoke is called chrestos ( G5543) ( Matthew 11:30), that is, it does not chafe. Christianity is the only true democracy, because in a Christian state everyone would think as much of his neighbour as he does of himself. In either case "let him be accursed.". 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. In this case, happily, the brethren near at hand went along with him in heart. 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 say, that the Gentiles were under that curse, but that Christ bought off us who were in this position from its curse; for in truth, whatever might be our boast, all we (the Jews) got from the law was a curse, not a blessing; and what Christ did for us was to purchase us from that awful plight in which the law could not but put us because we had transgressed. Secular Greek uses it of the virtue of an Emperor who never lets his private interests influence the government of his people. It's the operation of God's Spirit within our heart that works through love. (iii) Derush, the meaning deduced by investigation. 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. He had been himself (could they deny it?) The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Remember what it must have been to one like Paul to censure the most honoured of the twelve. That is, my mind is constantly upon fleshly things. 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. Fidelity; this word (pistis, G4102) is common in secular Greek for trustworthiness. It was they who had changed, not he. 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. He went up by revelation for the purpose of getting a condemnation in Jerusalem itself of those who would force Jewish principles on the church of God at large. Whoever despises the facts of Christianity, as if nothing in Scripture were worthy of meditation, or of ministering to others but exercises and speculative deductions, will be found, if he do not find himself often, on the verge of dangerous delusions, both for the mind and for the walk. The case is hit off exactly to the life. "The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. This is peculiar to our epistle. Jesus, the rejected Messiah, was the Son of the living God, the giver of life, the quickening Son of God. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? He next announces the true secret of it all: "I am crucified with Christ." Suddenly, I have been born of the Spirit; things suddenly are illuminated. Because you have been born of the Spirit, you can see it, you can understand it; it's as plain as can be. Do I seek to please men? One of them fell from his place, but the vacancy was filled up directly. Then he gives a closing blow to those who doted about the law. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. You know, you can look down and see the Channel Islands. It is of course assumed that every Christian had been baptized. "O foolish Galatians," he now breaks out in an impassioned appeal to them, "who hath bewitched you [that ye should not obey the truth should here vanish], before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you?" The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. Another thing, too, let me just point out in passing. Vincent Taylor once said, "The test of a good theologian is, can he write a tract?" It was used of the serenity which a country enjoyed under the just and beneficent government of a good emperor; and it was used of the good order of a town or village. He said. Having begun in the spirit, you did all right in the beginning, but. You can't do anything to buy redemption. I would [wish that] they were even cut off which trouble you ( Galatians 5:12 ). The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Verse Meaning Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. 25 Mar 2017 23:00:00 -0500 1896 sunday full false Wednesday Night | Galatians 5:5-6 Part 2 | Dr. Jimmy Young having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Thus, rightly understood and applied, the law and the promises, while wholly distinct, are in no way inconsistent with each other. "Wherefore, thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.". Then he takes up Abraham; for this is always the stock argument of those who would bring in circumcision and the law, Abraham being emphatically the friend of God and the father of the faithful. "As we have said before, so I say now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received." Such was the serious but necessary import of Peter's act. He tells us that fourteen years after he again went up to Jerusalem. My very nature is dealt with. He saw Peter; but "other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother." The apostleship of Paul, therefore, was entirely independent of Jerusalem and the twelve. But he goes deeply. Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. [Note: Longenecker, p. The truth of the gospel, therefore, was compromised. What can you say to a guy? Therefore, that righteousness is perfect. 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. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). of We shall find he does not forget this elsewhere: he reasons on it in another part of the epistle. He is occupied with himself. And here we may observe that as sin is called the work of the flesh, because the flesh, or corrupt nature, is the principle that moves and excites men to it, so grace is said to be the fruit of the Spirit, because it wholly proceeds from the Spirit, as the fruit does from the root: and whereas before the apostle had chiefly specified those works of the flesh which were not only hurtful to men themselves but tended to make them so to one another, so here he chiefly takes notice of those fruits of the Spirit which had a tendency to make Christians agreeable one to another, as well as easy to themselves; and this was very suitable to the caution or exhortation he had before given (Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:13), that they should not use their liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 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." (i) One he does not mention here but it is implicit in all his thinking. And so, it was something that was quite familiar the castration. 2. 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 ). No man was ever more conscious of the tension in human nature than Paul. I say something that is not of the Lord. "Now, the other way to be righteous is through faith in Jesus Christ, receiving that grace of God through Him, where God accounts me, as He did Abraham, righteous because I believe. On this the apostle reasons. The cross paid it all. Once the spirit has come alive, now there comes this striving for the mastery of me. 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. The apostle states it with perfect calmness, and without comparing others. ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? Instead they are unkind and cruel to each other. Accordingly he draws from this a most weighty argument against bringing in the law as the rule of life for the believer. In other words, if you're going to take this as an act of righteousness to make you righteous before God, as being a part of the law, then it will be necessary for you to keep the entire law in order to be righteous before God. You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. So here the Christian puts on Christ, not the law or circumcision. "Devour" describes hurtful actions that linger on and on as far as time is concerned. Galatians 5:15 by Grant Richison | Apr 11, 2000 | Galatians | 1 comment Read Introduction to Galatians "But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!" The Galatian church entered a stage of conflict because of legalistic thinking. Now Paul said. 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