And you will observe the immense importance attached to this simple account; for all here is plain matter of fact, but pregnant with the weightiest consequences as long as the church and the gospel last here below. Immediately the Spirit speaks to me and says, "That was wrong." All is confusion. "I am crucified with Christ." Thus all things fall into their place, and the Spirit connects us in heart with that which God is doing and will do for the glory of Christ. suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one And I'll argue with Him for a while. But, I repeat, this simply was revealed to him. One of them fell from his place, but the vacancy was filled up directly. To make this evident by transgressions was the object of the law. He had been brought to a place of blessing outside himself and by another, the Saviour, which in itself gives the soul motives indeed but not power; whereas, for the soul who is brought to God by the gospel, and planted in the liberty wherein Christ makes free before God, it is no more a question of flesh, but of the Holy Ghost who is given to him. This then is the apostle's allusion and reasoning; but he proceeds to meet a natural objection. Flesh and blood had not revealed it. Here particularly the Christian is guarded against the inroads of legalism. It is not a vague general expression for all saints, but implies that fleshly Israel was nothing now. It is no wonder that one who is thus tied and bound feels restive under it. The goal that the law aims at is not reached by trying to keep the law, but by acting with true Christian liberty (13-15).Sooner or later Christians find that they do not always do the good that their consciences tell them to do, because the sinful human nature fights against Gods Spirit within them. Take heed that ye be not consumed - As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. 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. Meanwhile another and a better sort of blessing is given, as a better Seed also is given the true Heir of all the promises of God, even Christ the Lord. In that chapter of Romans we have a man converted indeed, but without liberty, and consequently powerless. She is as one that has no husband. Tender and comprehensive as Christianity is, it is also the most exclusive thing that can be. And you find that these people espousing them are plagiarizing from other people who have espoused them, and it goes back and back and back. Remember what it must have been to one like Paul to censure the most honoured of the twelve. "If you keep the whole law yet offended in one point, you're guilty of all. And you can't do this, and this, and this, and this, and this." One degree, and you've only gone hundred miles, you don't even notice. Christ on high had called him. It is never used in the New Testament at all. You ought to be circumcised, you know." 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. Further. Vincent Taylor once said, "The test of a good theologian is, can he write a tract?" Paul urged his readers to live unbound to the Law of Moses (Galatians 5:1-12). Hagar's child was born from merely human impulses; and legalism is the best that man can do. All question of natural ties drops in death; as the cross is the disproof of any right to Christ in either. Nothing can be more conclusive than this disproof of the fleshly pretensions that were connected with Jerusalem, and were brought in under cover of Abraham, but really to the subversion of the gospel. 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? "You've been called unto liberty." (Read Galatians 5:13-15) The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1 Timothy 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. In point of fact, to bring in Christ is also best of all to secure the blessing, the privileges, the glory that God has in His grace for every one that believes. So, I think Paul could also have included here baptism or no baptism as far as the physical immersion in water. You say that the promise is everything, and that the law cannot either set aside the promise or add other clauses to it. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and joy and peace. No wonder that the apostle attached the greatest moment to the facts of his conversion and call, and that, instead of hiding his lack of familiarity both with the apostles and with the churches in Judea, he glories in it. 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. And a little leaven soon leavens the whole lump. The Spirit of God can employ it to make a man feel that all is over with him; but He goes farther in grace, and by that very law brings the man in dead to the law, and not merely condemned. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. The truth of God to our hearts.So, you has he made alive who were dead because of your trespasses and sins. "Wherefore, thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.". they are in conflict with f sinful nature each other, so that you do not do what you want. In Galatians 5:1-15, the apostle Paul discusses the nature of Christian freedom, beginning with an admonition to "stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1, NKJV).Paul contends that Jesus Christ came to set believers free from a burdensome, legalistic existence as slaves to the law. The idea is that of a man who is so far gone in desire that he has ceased to care what people say or think. 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. 3. 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.". 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. But when I do fail, the Spirit is right there, and that's why I know I'm a child of God. Such was the serious but necessary import of Peter's act. 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." The gospel had led Peter to treat the Jews and Gentiles all alike. The Holy Ghost is given as the seal of faith in Christ on the accomplishment of redemption, not before nor otherwise. Now these things are an allegory. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do." He saw Peter; but "other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother." Peter would have been horrified at such a conclusion. "So then," says he, "they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." Peace; in contemporary colloquial Greek this word (eirene, G1515) had two interesting usages. Yet how true it is, the more we look below the surface; indeed, in our day it becomes more and more palpable to the eye. The other part remains, and must be accomplished in its own day, when Israel's heart turns to the Lord. 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). So, love is the fulfilling of the law. She did what any wife would have done in those patriarchal times and sent Abraham in to her slave girl, Hagar, to see if she could bear a child on her behalf. "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. 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. He takes the story involving Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac ( Genesis 16:1-16; Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 21:1-34), which in the Old Testament is a straightforward narrative and he allegorises it to illustrate his point. "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." "For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself. "Devour" describes hurtful actions that linger on and on as far as time is concerned. The writer of First Maccabees ( 1Ma_8:4 ) says that it was by makrothumia ( G3115) that the Romans became masters of the world, and by that he means the Roman persistence which would never make peace with an enemy even in defeat, a kind of conquering patience. Because they were sons, God sent that blessed proof and power of their sonship. 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. After all their vapouring about the law, they were biting and devouring one another. He acts on this in faith; he understands it with an energy and a brightness that increased even in his Roman prison. If he wrote to the Romans;, it was transcribed, or at any rate written, by another. It is the quality, not so much of the jealous, but rather of the embittered mind. Ye did run well." Villages had an official who was called the superintendent of the village's eirene ( G1515) , the keeper of the public peace. As in the previous verses Paul set out the evil things characteristic of the flesh, so now he sets out the lovely things which are the fruit of the Spirit. In its positive form (katharos ( G2513) , an adjective meaning pure) it is commonly used in housing contracts to describe a house that is left clean and in good condition. Strange as all this may seem to us, it enshrines one great truth. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. This closes the course of the apostle's argument. "The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life" ( 1 John 2:16 ). (2.) They were grieved to think that the Jewish church, with its twelve apostles and its elders, with its manifold links with antiquity and God's past testimony on earth, should seem separated in any measure from the apostle and his work. They're just revealed by the Spirit. But what about the Gentiles? But as in the end the child of the slave girl was cast out and had no share in the inheritance, so in the end those who are legalists will be cast out from God and have no share in the inheritance of grace. This is the very evil which the Spirit of God so earnestly and energetically denounces here by the apostle Paul. A komos was a band of friends who accompanied a victor of the games after his victory. The enemy had ensnared them by crying up circumcision, in order to betray them into a link with Judaism; but they had no thought of bearing the real burden of the law. Things which were once a mystery and I couldn't understand are now very understandable. There is nothing that requires more the power of grace; for even the truth itself, if severed from grace, ceases to be the truth. done his duty; but it was precisely what he could not do, because he was a sinner. Let him alone. The very utmost that could be said was, that God had been pleased to reveal His Son to Peter and the others. It is a lovely word. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. And let's go on. This he means here by "faith." All this is counted a great, wise, and sensible help to devotion. Christian faith and behavior are never more frustrated and disgraced than by spiteful criticisms, derogatory remarks, snide observations and poison-tongue fulminations of Christians against each other. II. Impurity; the word that Paul uses (akatharsia, G167 is interesting. Now Paul said. For He knows our tendency to mingle law with grace in some form or measure, and treats that which was of the fathers and long before Moses, as a foreign ingredient deleterious to Christians. 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. person's state and condition God-ward may be safe; or lest their As if he had said, "You must expect a struggle between flesh and spirit as long as you are in the world, that the flesh will be lusting against the spirit as well as the spirit against the flesh; but if, in the prevailing bent and tenour of your lives, you be led by the Spirit,--if you act under the guidance and government of the Holy Spirit and of that spiritual nature and disposition he has wrought in you,--if you make the word of God your rule and the grace of God your principle,--it will hence appear that you are not under the law, not under the condemning, though you are still under the commanding, power of it; for there is now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; and as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," Romans 8:1-14. Does not this make very light of it? The truth of the gospel, to the apostle Paul's mind, was at stake. Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 13:3.). The prosperity doctrines of the gnostic heresy of the early church. 5) Psalm 88:13 (NIV) But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. 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. Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. It can even be used in a good sense in that connection, but much more commonly it means the rivalry which has found its outcome in quarrellings and wrangling. "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?" This is what the law commands, but those who want to put themselves under the law cannot do it. Such is the reasoning in which the apostle uses this very remarkable prophecy. Christ lived, died, and was resurrected so that we might be free. Here he comes to the positive blessing; for the Spirit cannot rest in what is but negative. Christianity came into a world where sexual immorality was not only condoned, but was regarded as essential to the ordinary working of life. ". 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. You got to keep the law. too often might be ready to turn aside. That you're not going to be otherwise minded.". There could be but one answer. "We had ten thousand souls saved last week. Whereas the Holy Ghost by the apostle draws attention to the contrast of "thy seed" (as one) with the numerous seed, with earthly blessing attached to them; whilst to "thy seed " simply, without reference to stars or to sand, no more is annexed than the blessing of Gentiles. And he justifies this strength of warning: "For do I now persuade men or God? "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourges every son whom He receives" ( Hebrews 12:6 ). The very reverse of their system is true. The word is hairesis ( G139) , from which comes our word heresy. If God had been a man, he would have wiped out this world long ago; but he has that patience which bears with all our sinning and will not cast us off. Up to this point it has been theological; now it becomes intensely ethical. If therefore we would have it appear that we are Christ's, and that we are partakers of his Spirit, it must be by our walking not after the flesh, but after the spirit. occasioned great contentions, and threatened them with divisions, Ours is Jerusalem above, not a city on earth. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. This therefore the apostle would have us by all means to watch against. It is predicated upon the work of God. And no wonder. . He sees the right, feels the good, desires the holy, but never, accomplishes. And this leads him to speak of another trial. He tells us that fourteen years after he again went up to Jerusalem. There is a warfare that goes on in the life of the believer. That's just my old flesh that's upset. Help us to express our faith in love every day by loving our neighbor as ourselves. Galatians 5 Galatians 5:7 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. 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. Paul begins chapter 5 by stating flatly that Christ has set us free in order that we should be free. (ii) Remaz, its suggested meaning. Christ is forgotten. 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. (2.) And this is the thing that you try to describe to people, and they don't understand. The organic life of the body will be destroyed by its own members. The superior Trinity is made up of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. "As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." You got to be circumcised." Galatians 5 shows that spiritual liberty comes from knowing the truth. To him a theology was not the slightest use unless it could be lived out. 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. He was legitimately angry at self-proclaimed followers of God who abused followers of God -- just as Jesus was. 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 is peculiar to our epistle. He went up with Barnabas, taking Titus with him. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. This may be concluded from what frequently happens in the divine dispensations, as well as from an express declaration by the hand of Moses. The apostle concludes this chapter with a caution against pride and envy, Galatians 5:26; Galatians 5:26. That is, walk in fellowship with God. The allusion is to beasts of prey falling upon and devouring one another: for wolves or dogs to worry sheep is not strange; but for sheep to distress one another is unnatural. For he comes to another and most cogent argument. Not to the place of being ridiculous. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Galatians 5:13 #1 "You, my brothers and sisters," Paul is addressing fellow Christians. 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! No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism. Along with the cross goes a new creation. Why did He do that? And I can just go and pass it by.And so, another issue arises in five minutes. To worship the living and true, creator God - and not the false gods, false religions we pursue. Now, that righteousness depends upon the work of Jesus Christ as my sacrifice, as my substitute. "If righteousness come by the law," (he does not merely say, "come of the law," but come by it,) "then Christ is dead [died] in vain." This would have flowed from Peter's conduct. When we get to the root meaning of these words, we see that life has not changed so very much. (a) Eros (compare G2037) means the love of a man for a maid; it is the love which has passion in it. Galatians 5:16-17 says, "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Why this: "Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, and the other by a freewoman." What is the difference? Under law all is lost; under grace all is saved. The apostle states it with perfect calmness, and without comparing others. but for what he can get out of it. Christendom is built upon this footing. And they are quite zealous in their beliefs, very fervent in the proclamations of their beliefs. He does not say that it is the complement of it; but most decidedly it flows from the same divine spring of grace. 1-6) a. He had before told us that the Spirit of Christ is a privilege bestowed on all the children of God, Galatians 4:6; Galatians 4:6. Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. . That's the old nature, reckon that to be dead. I tried." For in Jesus Christ it is not of the slightest importance whether a man is circumcised or uncircumcised. Glory, the glory of man is indeed empty; it's vain. However, this behavior is hurting them as much or more as it is those they are attempting to hurt. Outline of Galatians 5:1-15. Then comes the seed, and the promise is made Yea and Amen in Him all the promises of God. . Here it is the total judgment of flesh in its religious pretensions, and more particularly a blow to that which is an essential principle of law. So "stand fast in that liberty wherein Christ has made you free." "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ." If the law, introduced afterwards, were allowed to exercise control, the effect would be to set aside the promise. 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. The apostle does not say, if grievous wolves should enter in among you and not spare the flock; but suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one another; having reference to their controversies about the law and circumcision, and the necessity thereof to justification and salvation; which were managed with great heat and bitterness, occasioned great contentions, and threatened them with divisions, parties, and factions; and were attended with envy and malice, with reproachful words, biting sarcasms, scandalous invectives, and injurious actions, which must be of bad consequence: hence he adds. "Thy seed ( i.e., the numerous seed) shall possess the gate of his enemies." The word Paul uses for goodness (agathosune, G19) is a peculiarly Bible word and does not occur in secular Greek ( Romans 15:14; Ephesians 5:9; 2 Thessalonians 1:11). That died with Christ. I violated. It should be possible to differ with a man and yet remain friends. The human flesh is weak. That's the old nature that wants its way, that wants to insist on its own way and all. So far from this being the smallest allowance of Jewish prejudice, it was itself a powerful blow against it. Thus the two totally opposite roads of grace and law would have been leading to the same result. The cross paid it all. The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. Of course the same persons who are here in present view belonged to the church of God; but then they are not contemplated in their heavenly relationship, but as the children of promise, as we shall see in the end of this very chapter. Love is the fulfilling of the law. Stand, therefore, in it and do not get yourselves involved all over again in a slavish yoke. One can readily conceive men of strong prejudice and of weak faith thus hesitating, especially in presence of the apostle's strong assertion of entire liberty from the law for the Gentiles. "Because ye are sons." But not from God. In my spirit, in the realm of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 THE END (GOAL) IS GROWING FAITH IS LOVE 2 Peter 1:5-7 PAUL'S GREAT DESCRIPTION OF LOVE 1 Corinthians 13:4-6 BOTH GOD & LOVE INCLUDE Joy Peace Forbearance Kindness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-control Faith Goodness Knowledge Self-control Perseverance Godliness Mutual affection Patient Kind Truth Protection Trust Hope Perseverance Suddenly, I have been born of the Spirit; things suddenly are illuminated. "Yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." It is the sin in which material things have taken the place of God. 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? "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." It was a very unusual circumstance. And they ate, giving over to their fleshly appetites and in so doing, the flesh dominated. And "Titus," as he says here, "who was with me, being a Greek," etc. Hence in this epistle it is not so much the laying bare the need of man of the sinner, as the vindication of that same grace of God for the saint, with the exhibition of the ruinous results to him who is drawn aside from the deep and broad groundwork that God has laid for souls in Christ. Thus the law was ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator. That's where I come in touch with God. His Spirit bears witness with my spirit that I am a child of God. Paul did not stand alone. 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. 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. 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. And now in Christ He has accomplished it I mean already. But its most suggestive use is that katharos ( G2513) is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles a man to approach his gods. The Greek says only "brothers," but it is not wrong to assume "sisters" in the same way that mankind includes womankind. It is eritheia ( G2052) and originally meant the work of a hired labourer (erithos). 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