Even as in a natural man there is something of this struggle (the convictions of his conscience and the corruption of his own heart strive with one another; his convictions would suppress his corruptions, and his corruptions silence his convictions), so in a renewed man, where there is something of a good principle, there is a struggle between the old nature and the new nature, the remainders of sin and the beginnings of grace; and this Christians must expect will be their exercise as long as they continue in this world. "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." Then we come to the closing chapter (Galatians 6:1-18); and here we find the Spirit of God calling for tenderness in dealing with those who are overtaken in a fault. Christian baptism, contrariwise, supposes man dead; and the only death that can deliver man out of his own death is the death of Christ. "We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we may be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified." In Christ alone, in His cross, let us boast, and in the new creature which is by Christ. Is it against the promise of God? I said, "Oh oh oh oh oh," you see, "A little leaven leavens the whole lump." 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. The warfare going on. Man had his duty to God, and be ought to have. Instead of going up to Jerusalem on earth, instead of endeavouring to effect a junction with the law or anything else here below, the gospel wants no such allies, but repudiates them all. 5:13-15 As for you, brothers, it was for freedom that you were called, only you must not use this freedom as a bridgehead through which the worst side of human nature can invade you, but in love you must serve one another; for the whole law stands complete in one word, in the sentence, "You must love your neighbour as yourself." "This persuasion didn't come from God.". we know too well the result from sinful man. That's where I come in touch with God. One of them fell from his place, but the vacancy was filled up directly. It has been defined as "readiness for any pleasure." As God has wrought for us on the cross, and delivered us from every atom of sin in Christ, so He will not allow us to mix one earthly or legal element with the revelation of His grace, which He has made ours in redemption, and proclaimed to us by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. 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. Thus all had been duly prepared of God, with a far-reaching wisdom, to make the call of Paul an evidently and entirely separate thing, to make his apostleship as distinct in fact as in form; to give him fresh communications, even as to the Lord's supper, and to convey anew the very gospel that he preached as the revelation of the Son in him. The works of the flesh. The new creation is a present blessing that the soul already enjoys. They have not yet obtained a complete victory over it; they have still flesh as well as Spirit in them, and that has its affections and lusts, which continue to give them no little disturbance, but as it does not now reign in their mortal bodies, so as that they obey it in the lusts thereof (Romans 6:12), so they are seeking the utter ruin and destruction of it, and to put it to the same shameful and ignominious, though lingering death, which our Lord Jesus underwent for our sakes. 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. This closes the course of the apostle's argument. You're talking nonsense. "Wherefore, thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.". Ye did run well." "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." The case is hit off exactly to the life. Can you give me, you know, a hundred dollars for this watch?" The word faith here is trusting. Up to this point it has been theological; now it becomes intensely ethical. Not contention. 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. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. But immediately after this it is added, "In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. 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. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 5:13-15 The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1Ti 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. Do you want a law? Paul ends with a very blunt saying. Then, further, attention is drawn to another topic his own writing of this letter. This is indeed strong language for you who want to live after the flesh. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. He shows that the Spirit of God dwelling in the believer gives no license for the action of the flesh. Because they were sons, God sent that blessed proof and power of their sonship. God himself.". On the other hand Sarah stands for the new covenant in Jesus Christ, God's new way of dealing with men not by law but by grace. 25 Mar 2017 23:00:00 -0500 1896 sunday full false Wednesday Night | Galatians 5:5-6 Part 2 | Dr. Jimmy Young For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). "Christian freedom is not licence [sic] for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not the man who has become free to sin, but the man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin." Can you seize the gravity of this? He had felt their wrong, but at the same time had been lifted marvellously above what might be called personal feeling, and so much the more, therefore, could have the grief of love unmingled with that which really impairs its strength, and leaves its sensibilities incomparably less acute. Plutarch says that it has a far wider place than justice. Reckon that to be. 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. 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 he justifies this strength of warning: "For do I now persuade men or God? 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. Here particularly the Christian is guarded against the inroads of legalism. That's the position where we stand. It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. The apostle states it with perfect calmness, and without comparing others. The fate of any group permitting such a development issues inevitably in that of "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat": The apostle said as much in this very passage. He does not say, that the Gentiles were under that curse, but that Christ bought off us who were in this position from its curse; for in truth, whatever might be our boast, all we (the Jews) got from the law was a curse, not a blessing; and what Christ did for us was to purchase us from that awful plight in which the law could not but put us because we had transgressed. Why they thought they were becoming more truly religious, more reverent in their value for Scripture. "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. Self-seeking; this word has a very illuminating history. This is what is found under it. In Paul's case there was nothing of the sort. For if a man "keeps the whole law, yet he offends in one point, he is guilty of all" ( James 2:10 ). 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. A different issue ensued from their settling down in the mutual independence of the Gentile churches and the Jewish. 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 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. 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. These things are not allowed in the kingdom of God. Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. He did not forget His people Israel; but He had always the glory of Christ before Him; and the moment we rise up to this blessed Seed of all blessing (the true Isaac, dead and risen really, as the son of Abraham was then in figure), the blessing of the Gentiles is secured in that one sole person, before the Jews are multiplied in their land under the new covenant, and possess the gate of their enemies. He shows that God would give us a deliverance from self-importance; and what a mercy it is to be so blessed, that one can afford to forget one's self! "Before faith came we [Jews] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Heathenism! Galatians 5 Galatians 5:7 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. So here the Christian puts on Christ, not the law or circumcision. He speaks of "the grace of Christ." But this was not all. It does not so much want the things for itself; it merely wants to take them from the other. Paul was preaching that Jesus paid the complete price for your redemption on the cross. They had followed Jesus in His earthly path of presentation to Israel. Liberty from the law and from the bondage of the law, because that cannot make you righteous. Now, the law always brings fallen man into importance: such it must be in its principle. Jewish elements were borne with in a Jew. 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 readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. It is therefore a feeling of the mind as much as of the heart; it concerns the will as much as the emotions. In it there is one party, even God Himself, who gave it, and accordingly fulfils it in that Seed to whom the covenant was confirmed. One degree, and you've only gone hundred miles, you don't even notice. He granted that persons might indulge in some such thoughts about him. The apostle turns this into an admirable piece of divine reasoning in defence of the gospel. And I'm washed and I'm cleansed and I go on. Galatians 5:15 by Grant Richison | Apr 11, 2000 | Galatians | 1 comment Read Introduction to Galatians "But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!" The Galatian church entered a stage of conflict because of legalistic thinking. There is no law which condemns thing; like that. He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. "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. It was they who had changed, not he. It is the spirit which has mastered its desires and its love of pleasure. 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. 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 ). The readers ( Galatians 1:2b ) c. The greeting ( Galatians 1:3-5 ) i. It had tainted among others the Galatians; for although, in point of fact, what had converted them was the heavenly testimony of the apostle Paul, nevertheless they had in time become acquainted with Christians who had not been so favoured, perhaps from the churches in Judea. Note, (1.) The word is hairesis ( G139) , from which comes our word heresy. And so with the Mormons. 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. No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism. And the mind of the flesh is alienated from God; it cannot know God. The solemnities of Christ's judgment await men in the day of the Lord. Thus, whatever may be the energy that seeks souls in love, there is nothing after all like Christianity for maintaining individual responsibility intact. Because we wait to have our baptisms 'til the water gets warmer.It's because baptism doesn't save. Just let our books explain for you." It is no wonder that one who is thus tied and bound feels restive under it. They were happy persons while under the ministry of the apostle; as a Gospel ministry is a great happiness to any that enjoy it; for this is the way to find eternal life, to have spiritual peace and pleasure, joy and comfort, light and liberty, whereas a contrary doctrine leads to all the reverse. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). All rights reserved. (i) Peshat, its simple or literal meaning. Men that have followed after my perverse teachings. 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. On this the apostle reasons. All sprang, no doubt, from the same God, from the same Lord Jesus Christ; but even so from God and from the Lord in other relationships. This seems to have been the reason of their being twelve; and it is to me clear that our Lord establishes this as the true reference and key when He declares that, in the regeneration, the Son of Man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, and they shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. The law of Christ makes the going out of love towards another, so to speak, to be his joy. When He gave the promise to Abraham, He said, "I will give." Now notice, works of the flesh, works plural. For what has a risen man to do with Israel more than the nations? If the law, introduced afterwards, were allowed to exercise control, the effect would be to set aside the promise. Galatians 5:1-15 New International Version Freedom in Christ 5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Here it means that tranquillity of heart which derives from the all-pervading consciousness that our times are in the hands of God. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another ( Galatians 5:13 ). Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. "Now," says he, "if we profess to be of this number, and as such to have obtained this privilege, let us show it by a temper and behaviour agreeable hereunto; let us evidence our good principles by good practices." Galatians 2:1-21. 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. Be it so: such was true. Why this: "Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, and the other by a freewoman." 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. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ( Galatians 5:9 ). Was this the love the law claimed? The Holy Ghost is given as the seal of faith in Christ on the accomplishment of redemption, not before nor otherwise. If I am a man, I am responsible as such; being fallen and sinful, this will end in judgment. What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! 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. It can be used for the pus of an unclean wound, for a tree that has never been pruned, for material which has never been sifted. 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." Soon all will believe in Christ, and all Israel be saved. Though we ought to stand fast in our Christian liberty, yet we should not insist upon it to the breach of Christian charity; we should not use it as an occasion of strife and contention with our fellow Christians, who may be differently minded from us, but should always maintain such a temper towards each other as may dispose us by love to serve one another. Now, it is evident and to this I call your particular attention that the apostle here binds together his gospel with his apostolic place. Make a child thoroughly happy, and you will soon see that its duty becomes comparatively light and a joy. The power of Christ must rest upon him. It was through no such channel that he had his apostleship. "The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 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. "Are ye so foolish? Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. And so, I would listen to these fellows, and I listened, you know, and just said, "Well, you know, that's what the scripture says, you know," when they would quote scriptures. It was the very reverse of deriving his authority from either. And then they started to rail on me and prophesy my death and things of this nature. Their main support then, as they thought Abraham, had two sons; but they stood, according to Scripture, on wholly different principles. Heretical division; this might be described as crystallized dissension. For he comes to another and most cogent argument. The very reverse of their system is true. Salem Media Group. And what sort of life can this be? It's faith which works by love.Now Paul said, Again, you remember he said, "You did start well. 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. And they glorified God in me.". God is a superior Trinity; man is an inferior trinity. Uh-huh, you did that five minutes. Even though keeping God's law cannot earn us salvation, God clearly expects us to keep His law after we've been forgiven (through repentance and baptism) for breaking it. Thus a decisive blow is struck at the principle of connection with the law; and it was evident that they did not truly "hear the law." Hereon the apostle puts before them another expostulation: "I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." And I'll argue with Him for a while. It is the sin in which material things have taken the place of God. "For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself. how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. 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. 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. church state should be destroyed and come to nothing, since love Had Peter been right, it was evident that the gospel had put Peter in the wrong. The result of this is, that neither God has His place, nor they. The law kills instead of giving life, and puts under condemnation instead of giving that Spirit which is necessarily a spring of sonship and liberty. "Be as I am." (I mean by this, of course, exclusive of sin and falsehood.) And this leads him to speak of another trial. Try and stay right on course. He does not say that it is the complement of it; but most decidedly it flows from the same divine spring of grace. You can't do anything to buy forgiveness. And, as this would be the best means of preserving them from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, so it would be a good evidence that they were Christians indeed; for, says the apostle (Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18), If you be led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. You can't do anything to buy redemption. There is now much confusion of things that differ; and so, more or less, error runs through the whole of it in all its parts; but I know not anything more ruinous than this. What are you talking about?" "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" At first sight it seems most extraordinary, if the apostle referred to such a Scripture for the proof of the importance of one seed; because, if there is anything that lies on the surface of the passage, it is the multiplicity of the seed a seed expressly said to exceed all reckoning. It also described the bands of the devotees of Bacchus, god of wine. Was this then a reproach? against such there is no law ( Galatians 5:23 ). No person can intelligently read the New Testament without perceiving the utter fallacy of such a system; for Peter was expressly, as the next chapter of this epistle tells us, apostle of the circumcision. What then is the end of the law? Now. If the promise be the only means of enjoying the inheritance, what is the good of the law? You see, I don't always do the things that I would. Galatians 1:1-24. THE INTRODUCTION ( Galatians 1:1-10) 1. But he that is spiritual understands these things, though he is not understood. It was a very unusual circumstance. I get an attitude that is not of the Lord. Liberty comes first, mark; power and love afterwards. The gospel had brought in before God this double conclusion, founded on the first Adam and the last. And that's why Paul was persecuted by the Jews, because he was saying, "The law of Moses is not necessary for righteousness or for salvation. "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. In this case, happily, the brethren near at hand went along with him in heart. Do not abuse your freedom (13-15) I. Christ has set us free (1-6) Discussion Questions What has Christ set us free from? 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. Things which were once a mystery and I couldn't understand are now very understandable. And devour one another - As wild beasts do. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. It is for the purpose of bringing in transgression, answers the apostle. Who more zealous of the doctrines of his fathers? But he lists some of the works of the flesh. You cannot weaken his apostleship without endangering the very gospel that you have received yourselves. "The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me," etc. And devour one another - As wild beasts do. 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. This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN. What does matter is faith which works through love. Don't seek after it. And you keep dealing with me until I'll finally say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. Therefore, no wonder that he says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.". It is a lovely word. These are sins which will undoubtedly shut men out of heaven. For what the law is actually saying to you is that you should love God supremely and love your neighbor as yourself. 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