It is past dispute that the things he here speaks of are the works of the flesh, or the product of corrupt and depraved nature; most of them are condemned by the light of nature itself, and all of them by the light of scripture. 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. And I can set up these rules, and I can get out my little gold stars. He begins with the works of the flesh, which, as they are many, so they are manifest. It is the power of that love, and not the constraint of law, that will keep us right; for love is always more powerful than law. For Christ bought off those that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons, bringing them by grace into a place of known salvation and intelligent joy in relation with our God and Father, out of that bondage and nonage which the law supposes. No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism. 236.]. 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. Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. All that I have as a living man in the world is gone, not, of course, as a mere matter of fact, but, what is far more important, as a matter of faith. And the old flesh likes to get people excited and stirred up like that. What Does Galatians 5:13 Mean? Those in Christ must stand firm against anyone who would try to drag them into slavery under the law (Galatians 5:1). What! "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." There is a work of God's Spirit within his heart, and he is born of the Spirit, and now again has a spirit that is alive and is conscious of God. 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. Rare in N.T. Law is gone and grace ensures forgiveness anyway." "For I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all." That's where God touches me. "When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed: for before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. But there is more for us. But God has made you alive in Christ Jesus. Selfishness in the end does not exalt a man; it destroys him. one another is unnatural. So, Paul here exhorts us to walk in the Spirit and to live after the Spirit or on the spirit side of our lives. Far otherwise is God's way with souls. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ( Galatians 5:21 ): So, the such like covers a lot of things. I was crucified with Christ, but now I have to reckon it in so many situations everyday. The flesh will not be ruling over you anymore. But to the end of the day there remained for Paul two obligations. God asks, and man is called to give, i.e., is called to obedience. It is quite obvious that there was a hindrance of some sort. 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. "A little leaven," said Paul, "leavens the whole lump." The Rheims version of 2 Corinthians 6:6 translates it sweetness. Galatians 5:1-15 Inductive Bible Study Notes - Teaching Guide With Questions Outline I. Christ has set us free (1-6) II. Flesh and blood had not revealed it. Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! There can be no compromise; but to be exclusive in any sense save as the expression of the truth in Christ would be in its own way an utter and heartless falsehood. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. This he means here by "faith." The warfare going on. So all of these things fall under the category of works of the flesh, but the "fruit of the Spirit," fruit is singular. He is governed by principles by which he lives. Note, 1. (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. So here Paul is "an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, that raised him from the dead.". another; The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. Agathosune ( G19) might, and could, rebuke and discipline; chrestotes ( G5544) can only help. 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. The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. Peace; in contemporary colloquial Greek this word (eirene, G1515) had two interesting usages. Naughty Paul. For the foundation was at stake. The persuasion which is being exercised on you just now is not from him who calls you. Later, and in a far fuller way now, the gospel was the blessed answer to this early grace. II. and injurious actions, which must be of bad consequence: hence he 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.). And this is the thing that you try to describe to people, and they don't understand. So, "do not use your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love," the real key is love, "serve one another.". Christ never mingles with flesh or law any more than with the world. But the Jerusalem which is above is free and she is our mother. "For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself. The law in itself never produces such a result. In either case "let him be accursed.". Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (14) An exhortation to the duties of charity, by the profit that follows from it, because no men proved worse for themselves than they that hate one another. ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? Impossible to find a blast more withering to all that they were aiming at. For the world there is nothing yet executed, any more than the great results of grace for the saints as yet appear in their fulness. It was his to bear in his body a very different brand" the marks of the Lord Jesus," the scars of the only warfare that is precious in the sight of God the Father. Even so we, when we were children," etc. 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. And so, Rev 21:8 if you want the reference on that. The Galatian Christians should have been the most peaceful people in the province. And people to follow after me, you know. I choose the best facts; for I have no wish to rake up abuses. 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. Up to this point it has been theological; now it becomes intensely ethical. As we go down these things here, these are the things that God will exclude from His kingdom. Help me, Lord, to just keep the right attitude." Euripides called it "the greatest of all diseases among men." In the case of the twelve, we do find an apostle chosen to supply the gap of Judas chosen, I admit, of God, though after a Jewish sort, as Chrysostom justly remarks, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given. The law came in meanwhile, serving its own object, which was to bring out what was in the heart of man. Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. It is the virtue which makes a man so master of himself that he is fit to be the servant of others. If the promise be the only means of enjoying the inheritance, what is the good of the law? The law was given them with all pomp and solemnity. Had Peter been right, it was evident that the gospel had put Peter in the wrong. Wantonness; this word (aselgeia, G766) is translated licentiousness in the Revised Standard Version ( Mark 7:22; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; 1 Peter 4:3; Jd 1:4 ; Romans 13:13 and 2 Peter 2:18). It is a grim illustration at which a polite society raises its eyebrows, but it would be intensely real to the Galatians who knew all about the priests of Cybele. I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. That's just my old flesh that's upset. 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. Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. Merge them, as unbelief does, and all is confusion and ruin. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. To excite Christians hereunto, and to assist them herein, the apostle shows. 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? "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. He does not even deign to fill up the sketch. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? But it is life after death to law, and consequently in another sphere. "But neither Titus [he takes occasion to say parenthetically], being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised." And if you do, you will not be fulfilling the desires of your flesh. And as, by specifying these works of the flesh and fruits of the Spirit, the apostle directs us both what we are to avoid and oppose and what we are to cherish and cultivate, so (Galatians 5:24; Galatians 5:24) he informs us that this is the sincere care and endeavour of all real Christians: And those that are Christ's, says he (those who are Christians indeed, not only in show and profession, but in sincerity and truth), have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. A final appeal to walk in the liberty of Jesus. This is best seen by turning to Genesis 22:1-24, where both facts are found in the same context. the only system of earthly worship which had ever possessed God's sanction. 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