"The death of Christ for you isn't sufficient. I just refer to it for a moment, because it adds much to the beauty of the reasoning in Galatians. "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?" Don't revive him. Yea, hence it appears that they are not under the law, but under grace; for these fruits of the Spirit, in whomsoever they are found, plainly show that such are led by the Spirit, and consequently that they are not under the law, as Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18. And how the Holy Spirit had come upon those of the house of Cornelius who had known nothing really of obedience to the law. 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. Born and bred in the abominable idolatries of the heathen, they were strangers to the institutions of Israel. and how do they affect each other? 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 ). Paul takes that old story and allegorises it. with reproachful words, biting sarcasms, scandalous invectives, I would [wish that] they were even cut off which trouble you ( Galatians 5:12 ). Therefore, no wonder that he says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.". 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. Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Jesus Christ? He tells us that fourteen years after he again went up to Jerusalem. Christian freedom is not licence, for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not a man who has become free to sin, but a man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin. So far from this being the smallest allowance of Jewish prejudice, it was itself a powerful blow against it. He said, "What do you mean? And of course, that's exactly what the temptation led Adam to is fleshly domination. They're trying to cause you to be circumcised, I wish they were castrated." That's the position where we stand. You are saved. If I preach circumcision, then why would they keep persecuting me? He was saying that we each worship something - we seek to fill the God-shaped hole in our hearts, but our worship is all vain, it's all futile, unless we worship the one true God. At any rate, the Galatians, naturally fickle, were quick to take up prejudices. You cannot attack such a servant without attacking his testimony. Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. 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? There could be but one answer. In the New Testament it has three main meanings. Let us never confound the two. beasts of prey falling upon and devouring one another: for wolves Villages had an official who was called the superintendent of the village's eirene ( G1515) , the keeper of the public peace. Plutocracy means government by the wealthy and is justified by the claim that those who have the biggest stake in the country have a logical right to rule it. Can you give me, you know, a hundred dollars for this watch?" Consequently we have no allusion to the Lord's coming in this epistle to the Galatians. "Before faith came we [Jews] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. If that is the purpose, you're thinking that it's going to make you righteous before God, you think it's going to make you acceptable before God, Paul said, "Christ will profit you nothing," if that's your mental attitude towards your circumcision. But the son of the slave girl was born in the ordinary human way, whereas the son of the free woman was born through a promise. but for what he can get out of it. Josephus ascribed it to Jezebel when she built a temple to Baal in Jerusalem. 5:1-12 Look now it is I, Paul, who am speaking to you I tell you that if you get yourself circumcised Christ is no good to you. They had fallen from the grace of the Gospel; and, as Christ no longer dwelt in their hearts by faith, pride, anger, ill-will, and all unkind and uncharitable tempers, took possession of their souls, and they were in consequence alternately destroying each other. The warfare going on. It's just, you know, too difficult. According to the prince of the power of the air, among whom we all had our manner of living. Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. So, they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh. Do you want a law? And it is given to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. 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? The Fruit of the Holy Spirit (sometimes, incorrectly, referred to as the Fruits of the Holy Spirit) is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, . "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Who more zealous of the doctrines of his fathers? My responsibility is defined by the place in which I am found. self-seeking, dissension, heretical division, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and all that is like these things, I warn you, as I have warned you before, that those who do things like that will not inherit the Kingdom of God. When we get to the root meaning of these words, we see that life has not changed so very much. Accordingly he draws from this a most weighty argument against bringing in the law as the rule of life for the believer. Successor to Paul there is none; if so, who and where? Even though it might be a minor departure from the truth, be careful. They had so completely lost sight of the grace of Christ, the sweetness and the bloom of it, that he travailed again for them: his soul once more passed through that which had exercised him when they were converted. "Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." informs all of Pauls exhortations vis--vis the Galatians libertine tendencies . And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh ( Galatians 5:24 ). Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. Thus it appears that the Galatians as well as the Corinthians had been similarly affected. And I'm washed and I'm cleansed and I go on. Then I must repeat that God could only make claims; and man had to take the place, if he could, of giving to God of rendering his obedience. What then is the end of the law? The apostle accepts the fact in all its strength. The law necessarily makes the man, and the man's doings, to be the prominent object. The Christian by the cross of Christ has terminated his connection with flesh, with the world, with the law. That's the old nature, reckon that to be dead. But in the old days the child who was born in the ordinary human way persecuted the child who was born in the spiritual way; and exactly the same thing happens now. 1. But it is not so. And he gives to us here a listing, incomplete to be sure, because he ends it by saying, "And do such things." But it works through love. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ( Galatians 5:5 ). He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. Therefore the apostle adds, ,And as many as walk according to this rule [that is, the rule of the new creation], peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God." Have ye suffered so many things in vain, if it be yet in vain? "Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are." When they first knew him, there was no difficulty felt on this score; they heard him as an angel of God. 5:1 Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? (b) It means being teachable, being not too proud to learn ( James 1:21). And of the priest of this pagan god. Agathosune ( G19) might, and could, rebuke and discipline; chrestotes ( G5544) can only help. Now these things are an allegory. God promises the final power and glory of Israel in the earth, putting down their foes, and so forth. All rights reserved. Now take care that you do not use your wonderful . "For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself. He is governed by principles by which he lives. Paul always triumphantly satisfies that test, just as here the whole matter is brought to the acid test of daily living. And I encourage you to just read your Bible.Now, why is it that Jehovah Witness can't tell you that? It is the obligation to God. People were trying to add to it. What! For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law ( Galatians 5:3 ). This agape love is gentle; it is good. You cannot lawfully add to it, any more than set aside its provisions. Then the apostle at once explains, as annexed to this, the real state of the case. Had Paul gone up to present his credentials to the others, he would have lowered, obscured, and done as far as in him lay to destroy the special blessedness and peculiar glory of his apostleship. It's Jesus only. Therefore, that righteousness is perfect. to bite, N.T.o. You couldn't believe the things the Jehovah Witnesses believe, unless you read their screwy attitudes and ideas in their books. It is the widest word for goodness; it is defined as "virtue equipped at every point." When we seek to interpret a passage like this we must remember that for the devout and scholarly Jew, and especially for the Rabbis, scripture had more than one meaning; and the literal meaning was often regarded as the least important. This must be indeed confusion; as it is, there is none. That's just my old flesh that's upset. That it is our duty and interest in this struggle to side with the better part, to side with our convictions against our corruptions and with our graces against our lusts. Galatians 5 - Standing Fast In the Liberty of Jesus A. And devour one another - As wild beasts do. This it is to which we are come now under Christianity. Our Christianity obliges us not only to die unto sin, but to live unto righteousness; not only to oppose the works of the flesh, but to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit too. They're just revealed by the Spirit. Now, there are two ways that I can be righteous. I could quickly get in trouble. I am perfectly delivered, and the measure of my deliverance is Christ, and Christ raised from the dead. He said, "You've got to be born again." The result of this is, that neither God has His place, nor they. He is brought into another condition. 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. The gospel, not the law, owns its kindred with the promise. 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. Ours is Jerusalem above, not a city on earth. So here it is said that God was pleased to reveal His Son in him, that he might preach the good news of Him among the heathen. And so Paul is standing against this teaching in his letter to the Galatians, and in chapter five, he said. "This persuasion didn't come from Him who called you." Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. 2. If, when I got on board a 747 at LAX heading for Honolulu, the captain would say, "Now, folks, we're having a little problem here with our navigation instruments. (2) b. Circumcision obligates you to the law. Don't be entangled again with rules, regulations, a yoke of bondage. So all of these things fall under the category of works of the flesh, but the "fruit of the Spirit," fruit is singular. He saw that the tree was pleasant to look upon, it was tasty to eat and it would make him wise as God. . He saw Peter; but "other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother." "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. Not so. Just let our books explain for you." For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ( Galatians 5:14 ). 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 ). The prosperity doctrines of the gnostic heresy of the early church. There is no recounting what God had done for them. But you continue one degree off on out over the Pacific, and you can miss your destination completely. Thus, if we walk in the Spirit, we shall not fulfil the desires of the flesh. I have known a divine who had a character for intelligence use these words as a motto and sanction. When God speaks of the seed numerous as the sand or the stars, He gives them a Jewish character of blessing. Note, Mutual strifes among brethren, if persisted in, are likely to prove a common ruin; those that devour one another are in a fair way to be consumed one of another. I'm, you know, not stupid. (2.) So, they went right up to settle the issue, and the church had one of the first church councils gathered to settle a dispute, a problem within the church. He revealed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God. Observe the place the cross has here, not merely Christ's blood, but His death on the cross. I said, "That's a lie." "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful in a heart that entered into things as few hearts have ever done since the world began. The first letters of these four words--P-R-D-S--are the consonants of the word Paradise--and when a man had succeeded in penetrating into these four different meanings he reached the joy of paradise! He owned and valued, in its own place, the difficult, weighty, and momentous work which God had assigned to Peter, James, and the rest; but at the same time he stood firmly humbly, of course, and lovingly, but firmly for that which the Lord had assigned to himself and his colleagues among the Gentiles; and, so far from Christ's liberty having been in the least weakened, the apostolic conclave put their seal, with the whole church at Jerusalem, upon it most heartily.
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