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. God did not intend man to live that way, because man living that way is alienated from God who is a Spirit. 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. If understood, it completely cut all the earthly swaddling-clothes of the heavenly church, and of the Christian. The world of spirits can never be comfortable to those who plunge themselves in the filth of the flesh; nor will the righteous and holy God ever admit such into his favour and presence, unless they be first washed and sanctified, and justified in the name of our Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God,1 Corinthians 6:11. The flesh will not be ruling over you anymore. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Next: Galatians 5:4 #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.". Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. These concepts, these heresies that develop within the church are passed on by men. Uh-huh, you did that five minutes. wolves should enter in among you and not spare the flock; but Thus it wrought among the Galatians. Coveting is a sin which is almost never considered a crime. Thus the law was ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator. Enmity; the idea is that of the man who is characteristically hostile to his fellow men; it is the precise opposite of the Christian virtue of love for the brethren and for all men. I have known a divine who had a character for intelligence use these words as a motto and sanction. Hagar stands for the old covenant of the law, made on Mount Sinai, which is in fact in Arabia, the land of Hagar's descendants. But the liberty is not a liberty to indulge my flesh in anything that I may desire to do after the flesh. This closes the course of the apostle's argument. It is an actual result of the cross of Christ. To put a stop to coveting is to "head other sins off at the pass.". Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. 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. Therefore reckon ye yourselves to be dead with Christ, but alive unto God through Him" ( Romans 6:6 , Romans 6:11 ). It is not merely to seek in love a fallen brother, but to be the succourer of others in their difficulties. Hence it is that Rome, which most decidedly in principle rests on human succession (as all worldly religion must, to a certain extent, embrace the same principle) Rome, I say, seeks to derive her authority, as all know, from Peter. 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? It is the spirit which has mastered its desires and its love of pleasure. That they should all strive against sin; and happy would it be for the church if Christians would let all their quarrels be swallowed up of this, even a quarrel against sin--if, instead of biting and devouring one another on account of their different opinions, they would all set themselves against sin in themselves and the places where they live. "Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ and," in order to make it still more evident, "by God the Father, who raised him from the dead." Galatians 5:15 - John Darby's Synopsis It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. He refuses all cover for different thoughts. Paul was pleading for the real interests of the Jew just as much as of the Gentile; but he presses this most clenching argument that Peter's conduct involved the making Christ Himself the minister of sin; "for if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.". That's the position where we stand. At the same time he insists in the most peremptory manner that our liberty in Christ is to be used for holiness. It had nothing whatever to do even with the Lord Himself, in the days of His flesh, when acting as minister of the circumcision in the land of Judea. It is not merely that I have found in Christ a Saviour, but I am crucified with Christ. It was ordained by angels, who had nothing to do with promise, which God gave direct to His friend. There is no law which condemns thing; like that. I wish that those who are upsetting you would get themselves not only circumcised but castrated! You have fallen from grace. And I had some who were determined that they were going to convert me to their way of thinking.And I would listen to them and listen to them and listen to them; I don't really make a practice of arguing scriptures. Accordingly he draws from this a most weighty argument against bringing in the law as the rule of life for the believer. It does not so much want the things for itself; it merely wants to take them from the other. (ii) Remaz, its suggested meaning. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" It was exactly what Christ was on earth; and the expression of Christ is the prime call of the Christian. It brings in deliverance for man in the accomplishment of God's purpose in Christ. "I through law am dead to law, that I might live unto God." 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. "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" When once a covenant is "signed, sealed, and delivered," it must not be meddled with. But he lists some of the works of the flesh. Bondage is there; and He is a deliverer, but it is to God's glory, and for His own service in the liberty of grace. And you can't do this, and this, and this, and this, and this." Jealousy; this word (zelos, G2205, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. The truth is, that they had their relationship to the twelve tribes of Israel. 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. But his heart was too agitated not to betake himself at once to the point of their danger. The law is never life to the dead, but kills morally those who seem alive. Undoubtedly such is the assurance of God's word to His children; and thus Galatians 5:1-26 is in contrast withRomans 7:1-25; Romans 7:1-25. In verse 17 it is written, "In blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore." Soon all will believe in Christ, and all Israel be saved. Don't marvel when I say, 'You've got to be born again.'" 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. The rod was the thing the shepherd used to hit the sheep on the flanks when they started getting out, you know, roaming out. There followed Paul teachers, Judaizers who brought another gospel, which was not really a gospel. They don't come to man from God.And the Jehovah Witnesses, just the Arian heresy of the early church. Such was the will of God the Father that had raised Christ from the dead. If we are living in the Spirit let us also keep step with the Spirit. If you're looking to that as a righteous standing before God, then you are not experiencing the grace of God in your life. . You ought to be circumcised, you know." 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. The names of the different forms of government are suggestive. That is not what Christian liberty is about. The Greek word is pharmakeia, translated here witchcraft, because in the sorceries, they're into witchcraft. That is, walk in fellowship with God. Under law all is lost; under grace all is saved. Galatians 5:14. ", But, he adds, faith is come (that is, the testimony to be believed by man now, or the gospel). Remember what it must have been to one like Paul to censure the most honoured of the twelve. The man who makes law the principle of his life is in the position of a slave; whereas the man who makes grace the principle of his life is free, for, as a great saint put it, the Christian's maxim is, "Love God and do what you like." Don't seek after it. If Christ's, they were Abraham's seed already, "and heirs according to the promise;" for Christ, he had shown before, was the one true Seed; and if we are Christ's, we belong to that one true Seed, and therefore are the children of Abraham without circumcision at all. If the promise be the only means of enjoying the inheritance, what is the good of the law? Now, the word temperance is one we have a little difficulty with. In his case the breach with man was evident; the association with heaven, and not Jerusalem, was too plain to be disputed or evaded. So, I think Paul could also have included here baptism or no baptism as far as the physical immersion in water. 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. It means that no matter what a man may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation we will never seek anything else but his highest good. That died with Christ. ", At once the apostle launches into the troubled sea. 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. He particularly recommends to us, love, to God especially, and to one another for his sake,--joy, by which may be understood cheerfulness in conversation with our friends, or rather a constant delight in God,--peace, with God and conscience, or a peaceableness of temper and behaviour towards others,--long-suffering, patience to defer anger, and a contentedness to bear injuries,--gentleness, such a sweetness of temper, and especially towards our inferiors, as disposes us to be affable and courteous, and easy to be entreated when any have wronged us,--goodness (kindness, beneficence), which shows itself in a readiness to do good to all as we have opportunity,--faith, fidelity, justice, and honesty, in what we profess and promise to others,--meekness, wherewith to govern our passions and resentments, so as not to be easily provoked, and, when we are so, to be soon pacified,--and temperance, in meat and drink, and other enjoyments of life, so as not to be excessive and immoderate in the use of them. I violated. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). It is the law of Christ. There was no consciousness of the identification of the saint with Christ. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourges every son whom He receives" ( Hebrews 12:6 ). Which son represented them? Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. Need it be added that he was right and Peter wrong? He specifies the fruits of the Spirit, or the renewed nature, which as Christians we are concerned to bring forth, Galatians 5:22; Galatians 5:23. But he that is spiritual understands these things, though he is not understood. 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 ). Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. He is afresh making efforts to improve, yet still in bondage and misery. It is interesting to note that Chara and Eirene both became very common Christian names in the Church. Now. But this was only provisional and parenthetic. 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. There was no question of revealing His Son in them then. The law was given them with all pomp and solemnity. But, I repeat, this simply was revealed to him. For these two women stand for two covenants. The inferior trinity is spirit, soul and body of man. To make this evident by transgressions was the object of the law. Strong expressions of partisan hatred exerting itself for mutual injury. "Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." "I am crucified with Christ." 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. He will not hear of any pretended misunderstanding. That you're not going to be otherwise minded.". I call your attention particularly to this, brethren, that an act apparently so simple as Peter's ceasing to eat with the Gentiles had such a solemn character in the eye of the apostle Paul, that he considered it a question of the truth of the gospel. another; 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. "Bite" refers to the sudden action brought on by uncontrolled emotions that hurt other members of the church. "For I am as ye are." It was they who had changed, not he. When they first knew him, there was no difficulty felt on this score; they heard him as an angel of God. Witchcraft; this literally means the use of drugs. And what is the end of them? Consequently, without further preamble, and with an ominous silence as to their state (for, indeed, it could not be spoken of), he at once breaks the ground. That is, my mind is constantly upon fleshly things. In short, the man who, occupied with Christ above, enters for that very reason most into the blessedness of the body of Christ here below by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, is the very one that will know in fit season what it is not to confer with flesh and blood. I'd say, "Open the doors and let me off." But if you bite -- By an improper use of the tongue. Thus, if we walk in the Spirit, we shall not fulfil the desires of the flesh. It was by revelation, not by summons from Jerusalem, or to acquire a title thereby. And he justifies this strength of warning: "For do I now persuade men or God? The apostle had heard enough of circumcision: it was repulsive to him henceforth. The law necessarily makes the man, and the man's doings, to be the prominent object. And it is given to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. You're talking nonsense. "This persuasion, this ideas that you have, they don't really come from God, from the One who called you. In that chapter of Romans we have a man converted indeed, but without liberty, and consequently powerless. It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. What did hinder you? God reserves to Himself this great blessedness in the gospel; whereas under the law there was nothing of the kind. It is once that I have reckoned myself to be crucified with Christ when I accepted Him. As we lived to fulfill the desires of our flesh and of our mind, and we were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Abraham never. how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. Now, if you're walking in love, supreme love for God and supreme love for your fellow man, then there is no law. This epistle, as those to the Corinthians, opens with an assertion of his apostolic place. She is as one that has no husband. In other words: "You have gained liberty through Christ, i.e., You are above all laws as far as conscience is concerned. The truth of God to our hearts.So, you has he made alive who were dead because of your trespasses and sins. Or are you inclined toward the easy-going yieldingness of Peter? Every word he uses has a picture behind it. I am crucified with Christ: consequently all that remains for me is living this new life which Christ is in me. "Hey, that old nature, that old Chuck is dead. The case is hit off exactly to the life. 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. This then is the apostle's allusion and reasoning; but he proceeds to meet a natural objection. Self-seeking; this word has a very illuminating history. Be assured that it is the same simplicity of faith which enters into both these things now. divided against itself, can stand long, so no religious one; and Who put up a road-block to stop you obeying the truth? Once, the Galatians had known that, but now they were turning back to the law. There is no depreciating of any soul, but the plain statement of the positive truth, which after all is the best and the humblest way, that most of all magnifies God, and edifies His children. Invariably, where man seeks to bring in a successional apostleship, the twelve become the great model. 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. 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. 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. Because you have been born of the Spirit, you can see it, you can understand it; it's as plain as can be. "Nevertheless" astonishing to say, for it could not be natural life "nevertheless, I live." they are in conflict with f sinful nature each other, so that you do not do what you want. You can't do anything to buy redemption. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). How distressing, how mad is it, that we, who are members of the same body, should be leagued together, of our own accord, for mutual destruction! You are saved through the finished work of Jesus on the cross. Thus, it is seen, the truth was established. The glory which comes from men is vain-glory, which, instead of being desirous of, we should be dead to. "Love suffereth long and is kind." But he proves more when he says that Abraham believed God; it was plainly not a question of law. I'm going to walk in love." The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Old wine is called chrestos ( G5543) , mellow. That is, the most simple and most obvious truth is just the last thing a man thinks about. (2) b. Circumcision obligates you to the law. And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? Far from wishing to gain credit, either for the gospel or for his own apostolic place, in consequence of being linked with those that had been apostles before him, he insists on that very independence which they counted a reproach. And if you have interpreted it that way, you have completely missed the message of the scripture. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. 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. Verse 15. Liberty comes first, mark; power and love afterwards. 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? "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." The context behind the Galatians church We have been crucified to the requirements of the law Kill our desire or need to keep the law as a means of gaining justification Galatians 2:15-16 Being crucified to self Matthew 16:24 There is only one throne in our hearts and life, and only one person can sit on it Galatians 5:24 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. 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. Help us to share the Gospel of love with everyone around us at every . So, joy is love's consciousness. It will create a lot of enemies. Not to the place of being ridiculous. Plutarch says that it has a far wider place than justice. The apostle Paul himself, inRomans 14:1-23; Romans 14:1-23, insists upon the forbearance of a Gentile even towards the Jew that might be still encumbered by his days, meats, and so on. The outline of the story is as follows: Abraham and Sarah were far advanced in years and Sarah had no child. He who is upsetting you--whoever he is--will bear his own judgment. Make a child thoroughly happy, and you will soon see that its duty becomes comparatively light and a joy. But if ye bite and devour one another: Such actions are the opposite of loving their neighbor as they ought. (ii) There is the obligation to our fellow men. What a gross inconsistency! One degree, and you've only gone hundred miles, you don't even notice. For ye are all the children of God." you've taken a position Jesus is the only One. One of these covenants--the one which originated on Mount Sinai--bears children who are destined for slavery--and that one is represented by Hagar. But if I have a whole page of gold stars but yet there's one little point over here where I blew it and I can't put a gold star, then I'm unrighteous. ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? No doubt there was a difference of tone. Then he gives a closing blow to those who doted about the law. That's where I come in touch with God. I was wrong. Reckon that to be. He feels what he ought to do, but he does it not, and thus is increasingly wretched. There is no recounting what God had done for them. They often use drugs, potions; the potions that you'd take, you know, and it'd have their drug related experiences. The "Israel of God," I apprehend, would mean, that the only part of Israel whom God owns now consists of those that really are of faith those that .received Jesus. Then the apostle at once explains, as annexed to this, the real state of the case. Successor to Paul there is none; if so, who and where? I. And they are quite zealous in their beliefs, very fervent in the proclamations of their beliefs. You'll be disappointed. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and joy and peace. Christianity brings everything to a climax; it also settles all questions. Promise was before the law, and flowed out of the grace of God. His theology always ran one danger. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." Nor did they understand the prophets better. It is for the purpose of bringing in transgression, answers the apostle. 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. To Paul all that mattered was faith which works through love. You cannot attack such a servant without attacking his testimony. When He had anything unfailing to do or say, He loved to appear in grace; He said it Himself, and did it for Himself. One of the lawyers one day challenged Jesus as to the greatest commandment. Dr. Jimmy Young Buzzsprout-11368979 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:00:00 -0500 1898 Dr. Young,DJY,Grace Evangelical,Grace Evan,Germantown,Memphis,Collierville,Bible,Jeremiah,Church,God full false You Owe Me | Matthew 20.1-16 . There was no believer, Jew or Gentile, who had not gladly submitted to that very blessed sign of having part with Christ, and of that which is made good by Christ. For what has a risen man to do with Israel more than the nations? They were better off spiritually than some other congregations to which he wrote, or possibly he did not want to deal with other needs of theirs in this letter. 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