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. and injurious actions, which must be of bad consequence: hence he They are acting like animals, satisfying their own desires of the flesh, in order to get back at those who differ with them. The flesh began to rule, and man's consciousness was now filled and absorbed with the body needs and the body appetites. In Paul's case there was nothing of the sort. But responsibility is always according to the relation in which one stands, and the measure of knowledge which each possesses, or ought to possess. One degree, and you've only gone hundred miles, you don't even notice. The Christian by the cross of Christ has terminated his connection with flesh, with the world, with the law. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Take heed that ye be not consumed - As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. He gives freely the Holy Ghost on their acceptance of Christ's name; or, as it is here written, "He sent forth the Spirit of his Son in your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." During the Medieval period it was depicted as "Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate", meaning Mary's conception through the chaste kiss of her parents at the Golden Gate in Jerusalem; [64] the 14th and 15th centuries were the heyday for this scene, after which it was gradually replaced by more allegorical depictions featuring an adult Mary. "Bite" refers to the sudden action brought on by uncontrolled emotions that hurt other members of the church. Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. To have been with the Messiah, the hearer of His words and the witness of His work, up to His departure, was ever a condition to those who were accustomed to the twelve apostles. He wouldn't bother correcting me. To the Galatians there was an exception. 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. That all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,Galatians 5:14; Galatians 5:14. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. Why then did he want he Gentiles to live as did the Jews? Oligarchy means government by the few and can be justified by arguing that only the few are fit to govern. Arabia was regarded as the land of slaves where the descendants of Hagar dwelt. The essence of it is that it does not describe the spirit which desires, nobly or ignobly, to have what someone else has: it describes the spirit which grudges the fact that the other person has these things at all. The organic life of the body will be destroyed by its own members. The very utmost that could be said was, that God had been pleased to reveal His Son to Peter and the others. Thus, whether it be the Gentile without law, or the Jew with it, all are shut up under sin. Surely now there was some link with the twelve! . You cannot lawfully add to it, any more than set aside its provisions. When the prophet speaks of any one living, it is by faith "The just shall live by faith." Fornication; it has been said, and said truly, that the one completely new virtue Christianity brought into the world was chastity. Can it be doubted that the special form of spiritual thought and feeling formed, for instance, by James's or Peter's teaching, yea, even by that of John, while harmonizing, where the heart was open, with the instruction of Paul, nevertheless would appear at first very different? And I can just go and pass it by.And so, another issue arises in five minutes. I. Circumcision is part of the old law that enslaves us. It describes the deliberate effort--which we can make only with the help of God--never to seek anything but the best even for those who seek the worst for us. Uncontrolled temper ; the word Paul uses means bursts of temper. And no wonder. Thus, as he says most emphatically, "I do not frustrate the grace of God;" they did, every one who substituted aught but Christ and His cross. 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. 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. Crucified with Christ. It is not a question of law at all. "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." And thus the blessing of Abraham could flow freely towards the Gentiles who never were there. He says, "If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin?" It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. His Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God. 1. 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. 6) Psalm 90:14 (NIV) Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 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. In my spirit, in the realm of the Spirit. The law forbids these things, but the law of love also forbids them. Paul cautioned both sides to love one another or they would consume each other. The apostle accordingly now turns to the great argument of his epistle, and the discussion of those grand principles that are characteristic to Christianity, and in full agreement with the facts that have already been brought before you. But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Hagar's child was born from merely human impulses; and legalism is the best that man can do. It was a misuse of the respect naturally accorded to some who came from Jerusalem; and so God took care to correct the evil by a formal, public, authoritative sentence of the body there, instead of a pure and simple rejection of the error among the Gentile churches, which might have looked like a schism, or at least a divergence of feeling between them and the apostle Paul. You remember as Paul defined love for us in I Corinthians chapter thirteen, he uses longsuffering. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Now, what does God say about it? Do you know what happens? Now, it is evident and to this I call your particular attention that the apostle here binds together his gospel with his apostolic place. "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 what is this? Their lives should demonstrate the truth that their sinful nature has been crucified with Christ and has no further power over them. These concepts, these heresies that develop within the church are passed on by men. If I preach circumcision, then why would they keep persecuting me? It's faith in Jesus Christ that saves. 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. Because they were sons, God sent that blessed proof and power of their sonship. And mark the difference. So far from this being the smallest allowance of Jewish prejudice, it was itself a powerful blow against it. Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. but for what he can get out of it. suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one 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." "Well, yeah, I read that book but, you know, God showed it to me." To them, no doubt, it appeared as if they were zealous and sincere champions of unity. (c) Storge (compare G794) rather means affection and is specially used of the love of parents and children. That is why I encourage you just to read the Bible. Because we wait to have our baptisms 'til the water gets warmer.It's because baptism doesn't save. 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. It's the operation of God's Spirit within our heart that works through love. The Greek word is pharmakeia, translated here witchcraft, because in the sorceries, they're into witchcraft. That you're not going to be otherwise minded.". Even when he has been scaling the highest heights of thought he always ends a letter on a practical note. Unitarians. He does not condescend to reason about their place in the matter, but puts them at once in their due relationship. Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. So we, brothers, are children not of the slave girl but of the free woman. Thus, it is seen, the truth was established. But you continue one degree off on out over the Pacific, and you can miss your destination completely. Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! That is not what Christian liberty is about. remove, the candlestick out of its place. This shows us the exceeding seriousness of a step apparently so trifling as his abstaining from further intercourse with the Gentiles in mere ordinary life. The apostle goes up to Jerusalem, not only with Barnabas, who had come from thence, but taking with him Titus, who seems not to have been there before Titus, his own valued companion in labour, but a Gentile. After all, what God had at heart was the accomplishment of His own promise in grace. Jealousy; this word (zelos, G2205, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. Paul ends with a very blunt saying. What! 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. Generally speaking the word is not used of patience in regard to things or events but in regard to people. The law came in meanwhile, serving its own object, which was to bring out what was in the heart of man. "Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." But this was only provisional and parenthetic. If I am mastered by the flesh, then I have the mind of the flesh. (1.) As it is reasoned out in Romans 7:1-25, the law came, and he died. He fully allows that the Lord was both made of a woman and made under the law; but what was the ultimate object in view! How wholesome is the language here, "Every one shall bear his own burden!" For his own special call was an indisputable fact; and it is a great joy to the heart to think how Christianity (while it leaves the deepest and the highest space in all directions, so to speak, for the working of the Holy Ghost, while there is more room in it than anywhere else for the play both of the renewed mind and the affections that the Spirit of God gives, while, consequently, it admits of the richest possible exercises of both mind and heart), nevertheless, in its grand truths rests on the most patent and certain facts. You are saved. But if ye bite and devour one another: Such actions are the opposite of loving their neighbor as they ought. . So I must be righteous in order to have fellowship with God. God is a superior Trinity; man is an inferior trinity. It is once that I have reckoned myself to be crucified with Christ when I accepted Him. 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! The apostle had heard enough of circumcision: it was repulsive to him henceforth. How precious to have done with one's sinful self and to begin a life so perfect as Christ's! Witchcraft; this literally means the use of drugs. lest ye be consumed one of anotherconsumamini; Ah! 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. No doubt this might be provoking to human importance sometimes. But this will be Jerusalem, under not law but promise and liberty, restored by grace after having lost everything by the law, and reduced to utter desolation. For ye are all the children of God." it is added, he conferred not with flesh and blood; neither went up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before him; but went into Arabia, and returned again, not to Jerusalem, but to Damascus, the place near which he had been called at first. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law. Galatians 5:14. 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. "Here, I'll show it to you in this book." Keeping God's commandments is not bondage. The apostle accepts the fact in all its strength. And then they started to rail on me and prophesy my death and things of this nature. It was not merely that his apostleship was doubted God's magnifying of His own Son was set at naught. And who will venture to say that the indwelling Spirit of God fails to supply power to him who submits to the righteousness of God in Christ? That's just my old flesh that's upset. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. I can yield to my flesh and I can blow off steam and I can get in and I can fight and I can get into the striving and the whole issue. It is the virtue which makes a man so master of himself that he is fit to be the servant of others. 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. Aristotle defined praotes ( G4236) as the mean between excessive anger and excessive angerlessness, the quality of the man who is always angry at the right time and never at the wrong time. 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 ). They're wanting to strive, they're wanting to argue; they're wanting to prove their points how that baptism is essential for salvation. "Unless," he says, "you solve the problem of living together you will make life impossible." It, too, is commonly translated goodness. The word faith here is trusting. The very reverse of their system is true. There's nothing that you can add to what Jesus paid. I say something that is not of the Lord. 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. (d) Agape ( G26) , the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. 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. So Paul argued that if a man were circumcised he had put himself under an obligation to the whole law to which circumcision was the introduction; and, if he took that way, he had automatically turned his back on the way of grace, and, as far as he was concerned, Christ might never have died. It was partly directed to the hearts and consciences of the Jews, partly in view of the approaching rupture of all ties with Israel. Why, that though there were "false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage," Paul did not give place by subjection even for an hour, "that the truth of the gospel might continue with them." 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? The whole legal institution depended on a people lineally descended from Abraham, as their priests on a similar succession from Aaron. But because they are not born of the Spirit and have no understanding of the spiritual dimension of life, you're talking riddles to them. Hence the point is not at all whether we have intrinsic power, but whether He is not now abiding in us as "a Spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." 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. For the desires of the lower side of human nature are the very reverse of the desires of the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are the very reverse of those of the lower side of human nature, for these are fundamentally opposed to each other, so that you cannot do whatever you like. Lastly, he desires for his brethren, that "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" might be with their spirit. 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." informs all of Pauls exhortations vis--vis the Galatians libertine tendencies . Such is the only possible way in which blessing can be brought in, in order that such souls as we are should be blessed and maintained in it. "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. salvation; which were managed with great heat and bitterness, take heed that ye be not one of another utterly destroyed. For devour, comp. I have not. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. You can't be both. We invite you to crucify our flesh every day so that we may walk in step with your Spirit. Here it means that tranquillity of heart which derives from the all-pervading consciousness that our times are in the hands of God. 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 exceedingly important, and the more as I believe the scope of the allusion to Abraham and to his seed is not often appreciated. 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. Instead they are unkind and cruel to each other. It is the widest word for goodness; it is defined as "virtue equipped at every point." That's where God touches me. That's the old nature, reckon that to be dead. "Cast out the slave girl and her son, for the son of the slave girl must not inherit with the son of the free woman." And I'm washed and I'm cleansed and I go on. 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. For God does speak elsewhere, and even on this occasion, of a numerous seed. I have known a divine who had a character for intelligence use these words as a motto and sanction. "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. It is no wonder that one who is thus tied and bound feels restive under it. Abraham never. What the Jews would have liked, no doubt, was power (and the Galatians, after all, were in danger of slipping into the same snare; for the law suits the world, as grace does not), and in the world present power and honour. #1 "It is for freedom" By "freedom," this verse means that we can serve others in the name of the Lord and reap the reward of joy that comes from it (Galatians 5:13-15). There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. It is not an old creation, but a new one. He said. He's temperant. Therefore law, sin, and death may not hurt you or drive you to despair. Thus is seen sovereign grace, and nothing else, as well as a heavenly link instantly formed between the Lord in glory and His servant on earth. It comes from a root which means to choose, and it was used for a philosopher's school of followers or for any band of people who shared a common belief. comfort be destroyed, which is oftentimes done this way, though a Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. And they glorified God in me.". Let us not be desirous of vainglory ( Galatians 5:24-26 ), Now, these men who were coming with this teaching were really out to get notches on their belts. The consequence is, "If ye are led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law;" and more than this, if we are producing the fruits of the Spirit, he can easily say, "Against such there is no law." The kind that were always talking about numbers. consumed, &c.Strength of soul, health of body, character, and resources, are all consumed by broils [Bengel]. Hagar had a son called Ishmael. The Greeks drank more wine than they did milk; even children drank wine. 15.But if ye bite and devour one another. The word is hairesis ( G139) , from which comes our word heresy. It is not merely to seek in love a fallen brother, but to be the succourer of others in their difficulties. 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. "Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." Know ye therefore that they which are of faith" (not those that cry up the law) "are the children of Abraham. After all their vapouring about the law, they were biting and devouring one another. As we saw it in the Corinthians applied to judge the worldliness of the saints there, so here it judges their legalism. As the soldier in Studdert Kennedy's poem said; For Paul it was essential that Christian freedom should mean not freedom to indulge the lower side of human nature, but freedom to walk in the life of the Spirit. 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 truth of God to our hearts.So, you has he made alive who were dead because of your trespasses and sins. Then, bringing in the name of Jerusalem, the Spirit leads him to apply the prophecy of Isaiah, which shows that millennial Israel (in their turn abandoning self-righteousness, and made free by God's grace in Christ) will look back and count as their own those now brought in as Christians, and find far more children begotten by the gospel, in the time of their own desolation, than even when they flourished of old, and had ,all that earthly power and glory could give. And I encourage you to just read your Bible.Now, why is it that Jehovah Witness can't tell you that? It also described the bands of the devotees of Bacchus, god of wine. It is the law of Christ. Get Access To 3 Exclusive Articles (for FREE) Want articles like this one delivered straight to your email? As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. has an affinity for both. If you want to be a subject in God's kingdom, then you cannot do these things. 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. Your mind has to be bent in that direction through their writings. So he calls on them to be as free of the law as himself. These things are not allowed in the kingdom of God. For as the first epistle had put down man in every form, and more particularly man as an expression of the world in its pride, so the second epistle breathes the comfort of God's restoring grace, and is characterized therefore by the strongest emotions of the heart; for he ardently loved these saints. 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 ). No doubt there was a difference of tone. He says to those who would be under the law, why do you not listen to the law? I began to think it through and I thought, "Yes, it is a work of the flesh, because usually a person gets into heresy to attract attention to himself." He does not deny that others preached it; but if so, they preached the same truth. Do your souls go along with Paul's decision? But when we look toward Jesus we can find freedom. He is occupied with himself. But the apostle here does not reason about the matter. Here particularly the Christian is guarded against the inroads of legalism. (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. Was it possible, then, that any could desire to put the Gentiles under law, when they had been brought out from it themselves by the will of God, the work of Christ, and the witness of the Holy Spirit? What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! Help us to express our faith in love every day by loving our neighbor as ourselves. 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 . The law is never life to the dead, but kills morally those who seem alive. Walk on the spiritual side of your nature. Ritualism is the present most patent comment on the apostle's statement. provoking one another, envying one another ( Galatians 5:26 ). The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 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. And "Titus," as he says here, "who was with me, being a Greek," etc. So all of these things fall under the category of works of the flesh, but the "fruit of the Spirit," fruit is singular. But there was no sense of union then. If I sow to the flesh, I shall of the flesh reap corruption; if I sow to the Spirit, I shall reap life everlasting. And this is always true in its measure, and shows the exceeding gravity of opposition where God raises up for His own special work in this world; but more particularly where, as in the apostle's case, the mere manner of his conversion, the special form of his separation unto God, bears the impress of the truth he was to preach. In Christ, it was not merely that his apostleship was doubted 's. Be as free of the flesh, then I have reckoned myself to be otherwise minded. `` is wonder. 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