Anything else would have been imperfect; but still it had essentially a transitional character. What then is the end of the law? Second, it means that we are free to follow the Spirit and produce good works that last forever because we have faith in God and obey God's word (Galatians 5:16-26). 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? It will create a lot of enemies. 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. An undue regard to the approbation and applause of men is one great ground of the unhappy strifes and contentions that exist among Christians. Now, let us not believe or think that this liberty that we have is the liberty to do anything we might want to do in the flesh. It is not a question of law at all. Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. That is, walk in fellowship with God. 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. Now, there are two ways that I can be righteous. I violated. He went simply to make the acquaintance of Peter, and abode with him how long? Bring in one part of law, and you fall under the authority of the whole. . enjoyment that has degenerated into licence. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). He will gain transgression thereby; nothing more, nothing better. 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. Secular Greek uses it of the virtue of an Emperor who never lets his private interests influence the government of his people. Is it against the promise of God? What is good fruit in the Bible? The Greek says only "brothers," but it is not wrong to assume "sisters" in the same way that mankind includes womankind. We celebrated that today in the observance of the Lord's Supper. Now when Adam sinned, his spirit died just as God had warned, "In the day that you eat, you will surely die" ( Genesis 2:17 ). And of course, that's exactly what the temptation led Adam to is fleshly domination. No doubt this might be provoking to human importance sometimes. But if you snap at one another, and devour one another, you must watch that you do not end up by wiping each other out. 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. "Yet undergirding all of Pauls admonitions regarding love and service is the reality of life lived by the Spirit, with references to the Spirit being more frequent in Galatians 5:13 to Galatians 6:10 than references to either love or service." He said, "You've got to be born again." 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." Because I can't and haven't kept the whole law, I'm thankful that God accounts me righteous and I can have fellowship with the righteous God because of Jesus Christ and my faith in Jesus Christ. You do not want to become the children of Abraham in that sense, which would be the revival of the flesh. It would be first adding to it, and not only so, but annulling it. Now the Galatians were unwittingly in danger of giving up the truth. If I am mastered by the flesh, then I have the mind of the flesh. He wants to get rid of the first Adam and all its appliances, not to keep it on; and therefore he puts on Christ. ", At once the apostle launches into the troubled sea. Even though it might be a minor departure from the truth, be careful. It is the quality, not so much of the jealous, but rather of the embittered mind. (c) Storge (compare G794) rather means affection and is specially used of the love of parents and children. dissolution; for as no civil community, either public or private, Consequently it is plain from the beginning, that the apostleship of Paul made a demand upon faith which the other apostolate did not. 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. Not all sins are crimes. The true link is with Jerusalem above, as our prototype is Isaac, the child of the freewoman. They were, after all, Gentiles, and as such ought to have had nothing to do with the law. To this he gives the most solemn asseveration: "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not." Now, if you're walking in love, supreme love for God and supreme love for your fellow man, then there is no law. In my spirit, in the realm of the Spirit. And I can set up these rules, and I can get out my little gold stars. Thus, then, God directed and ruled that the apostle should go up and have the evil condemned on the spot, and at the centre from which it had emanated. He saw Peter; but "other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother." How blessed, and how all-important for our souls! But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. If the law, introduced afterwards, were allowed to exercise control, the effect would be to set aside the promise. to bite, N.T.o. Once the spirit has come alive, now there comes this striving for the mastery of me. It is evident that the thorn in the flesh was something which left him open to a slight, and made it difficult indeed for any one to understand how a man who was called to be an apostle should find it hard to convey plainly his mind in preaching. It is the virtue which makes a man so master of himself that he is fit to be the servant of others. God is a superior Trinity; man is an inferior trinity. It is . 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. [Note: Longenecker, p. When the prophet speaks of any one living, it is by faith "The just shall live by faith." But we, brothers, are in the same position as Isaac; we are children of promise. hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies ( Galatians 5:20 ). ", I have nothing to do with the law any more, even if I had been once under it as a Jew. The consequence is, that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God; and this he proves, not only from the promise, but from the prophets. 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.". But then he goes farther. The creature intervenes here, and the consequence soon appears. 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. I mean, if you're walking in love, what rules can you lay down? But what does the scripture say? 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. No effort, no work on your part. Verse 15. The mind of the flesh is death.But if my life is dominated by the Spirit, then I have the mind of the Spirit. And what is this? 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. The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Or literally, "I wish they were castrated who trouble you. 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 5:16. And this comes up every day in many situations, and I have actually the choice in this situation. This passage, however, indicates they are having disputes. I don't believe that." It was the ungrateful heart of man that, in its avidity after something that would bring an appearance of strength and unity, would sacrifice that, which was of heaven for what was after all connected with the earth and the flesh. This is all that people's zeal and labour come to. It was not thus that Peter or the rest were drawn to follow their Master. What did hinder you? is this all? 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. 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. Thus, going up with Barnabas, he took Titus, a Gentile, along with him; and even so by revelation. "Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are." We invite you to crucify our flesh every day so that we may walk in step with your Spirit. True to the Spirit. of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God ( Galatians 5:21 ). The old law, while it accomplishes its purposes, makes no provisions for that "weakness of the flesh" (see Romans 8:2). That is just another way of saying that the essence of Christianity is not law but a personal relationship to Jesus Christ. Christianity is the only true democracy, because in a Christian state everyone would think as much of his neighbour as he does of himself. The flesh will not be ruling over you anymore. "For I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all." Usually in the New Testament eirene ( G1515) stands for the Hebrew shalowm ( H7965) and means not just freedom from trouble but everything that makes for a man's highest good. They had followed Jesus in His earthly path of presentation to Israel. Freedom, though, requires resistance against a return to bondage. It doesn't really matter, I'm going to walk after the Spirit and I'm going to please God in this. 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. But God took care that the call of Paul should be delayed till the whole order of the Jewish apostleship should be complete. I was crucified with Christ, but now I have to reckon it in so many situations everyday. It is quite obvious that there was a hindrance of some sort. You got to be circumcised." And you keep dealing with me until I'll finally say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. It is interesting to note the earnestness and strength with which the apostle speaks, now the question had been fairly raised. Look at Abraham and his house; look at the maid Hagar; look at Isaac and Ishmael. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ( Galatians 5:5 ). take heed that ye be not consumed one of another: The Galatians are warned earnestly and intently to view their predicament and to decide not to destroy each other spiritually. (4) Coveting is a sin which best illustrates Paul's statement, "I would not have come to know sin except through the Law" (verse 7). This is exceedingly important, and the more as I believe the scope of the allusion to Abraham and to his seed is not often appreciated. Those in Christ must stand firm against anyone who would try to drag them into slavery under the law (Galatians 5:1). Well, they thought that they had me convinced to their way of thinking. The works of the flesh. There is no comparison of countless seed; there is not an allusion to the sand of the sea, or to the stars of the sky. Now these things are an allegory. But he lists some of the works of the flesh. 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. THE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP ( Galatians 5:1-12 ). 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? Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. 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. Laws are necessary to restrain unprincipled people. 2. If your navigational instruments are one degree off, and you take your heading and you start for Hawaii, by the time you've gone that distance, you'll miss Hawaii by two hundred and forty miles.Oh, by the time you get to Santa Barbara, you won't even notice anything. They're covered by the fact that you're walking in love. Nay; he communicated unto them the gospel which he preached among the Gentiles. Every word he uses has a picture behind it. In the epistle to the Galatians a deeper question was raised nothing less than the fountain of grace itself. For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. He warns against "another gospel," i.e., a different one, which was really none at all. This was at work even in those early days. So, joy is love's consciousness. The apostle accepts the fact in all its strength. It went on to mean canvassing for political or public office, and it describes the man who wants office, not from any motives of service. So, "do not use your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love," the real key is love, "serve one another.". So there's only one real fruit of the Spirit, that is love. Naughty Paul. Fornication; it has been said, and said truly, that the one completely new virtue Christianity brought into the world was chastity. I just refer to it for a moment, because it adds much to the beauty of the reasoning in Galatians. Therefore, it came to pass that there was nothing the apostle had not learned of which they boasted. Selfishness in the end does not exalt a man; it destroys him. At the outset here (not there) he sets aside human intervention. Your mind has to be bent in that direction through their writings. I'm still His child. Let me press this gravely upon those who are here this night. Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. Interesting to me that heresies is here mentioned as a part of the works of the flesh. Some are sins against the first and second commandments, as idolatry and witchcraft. For these two women stand for two covenants. "Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.". 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.". Immediately the Spirit speaks to me and says, "That was wrong." 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. that is, either beware lest each other's particular peace and Even in Christianity how much need there is to remember what the Lord warns us of inLuke 5:1-39; Luke 5:1-39 that no man accustomed to old wine straightway desires new, but says, The old is better. "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?" 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. "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? Thus, rightly understood and applied, the law and the promises, while wholly distinct, are in no way inconsistent with each other. We know how feeble and slow the heart is, and how apt disciples in general are to narrow the riches of the grace and truth of God. And this is a universal principle. Here he comes to the positive blessing; for the Spirit cannot rest in what is but negative. Surely now there was some link with the twelve! 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. They were only, as they supposed, beginning to cherish a becoming attitude toward the religion of the fathers, and of all who had before Christ honoured God on earth. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. He had been called, as none could deny, in a way which not even any other apostle had ever known. He said, "We haven't been able to keep the law, why should we put them under it?" "But neither Titus [he takes occasion to say parenthetically], being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised." In Greek there are four words for love. Christ never mingles with flesh or law any more than with the world. It is not enough that we cease to do evil, but we must learn to do well. There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. Their main support then, as they thought Abraham, had two sons; but they stood, according to Scripture, on wholly different principles. It was really part of God's wondrous ways with him, as indicating the true character of Christianity and of its ministry as contrasted with Judaism. "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." May the truth of God sink into our hearts! Had Peter been right, it was evident that the gospel had put Peter in the wrong. I can't go back to my mother's womb and be born again. Why, that though there were "false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage," Paul did not give place by subjection even for an hour, "that the truth of the gospel might continue with them." The oneness of the saints with Christ Himself is, as we all familiarly know, clearly intimated. 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. divided against itself, can stand long, so no religious one; and The apostleship of Paul, therefore, was entirely independent of Jerusalem and the twelve. We're about one degree off, but we hope to correct this in flight or something." 5:22-26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, self-control. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. How precious to have done with one's sinful self and to begin a life so perfect as Christ's! Arabia was regarded as the land of slaves where the descendants of Hagar dwelt. "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. They're contrary, and I do not always walk after the Spirit. Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. Not so; it is exclusively of grace by Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. So he calls on them to be as free of the law as himself. And people to follow after me, you know. It was they who had changed, not he. It was, of course, altogether just and right in itself. for want of love the Lord threatens to remove, and sometimes does But to the end of the day there remained for Paul two obligations. They thus acted and pronounced according to the evident intention of God conveyed in the character of their apostolates respectively. If I am a mere man, a sinner, the end of that is (for responsibility is not like power, destroyed by sin) the eternal judgment of God. 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). Of these and such like, says he, I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things, how much soever they may flatter themselves with vain hopes, shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Next: Galatians 5:4 True freedom; true Christianity (5:13-26). Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing ( Galatians 5:2 ). His is an apostleship to itself, as real as that of the twelve, but of another order, not at the same time, nor in the same manner. The forgiveness of your sins and your redemption is totally predicated upon the finished work of Jesus Christ upon the cross.These people were adding to it. 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. 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. Flesh alas! Get Access To 3 Exclusive Articles (for FREE) Want articles like this one delivered straight to your email? From the nature of the subject, as well as from the language employed, we may conjecture that the Galatians had disputes among themselves; for they differed about doctrine. How abortive is man in the things of God! Why not adopt what was wanting in Christianity? That's all the law is saying to you. Because we wait to have our baptisms 'til the water gets warmer.It's because baptism doesn't save. Such is the reasoning in which the apostle uses this very remarkable prophecy. Is He a ventriloquist? 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! But though the apostle here only mentions the crucifying of the flesh with the affections and lusts, as the care and character of real Christians, yet, no doubt, it is also implied that, on the other hand, we should show forth those fruits of the Spirit which he had just before been specifying; this is no less our duty than that, nor is it less necessary to evidence our sincerity in religion. That died with Christ. Merge them, as unbelief does, and all is confusion and ruin. "The death of Christ for you isn't sufficient. As for himself, he gloried only in the cross. One degree, and you've only gone hundred miles, you don't even notice. Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. 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. He saw that the tree was pleasant to look upon, it was tasty to eat and it would make him wise as God. You weren't persuaded to be circumcised because God was speaking to your heart and convicting you of this. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would ( Galatians 5:17 ). Bite, devour, and consume are used metaphorically by Paul, giving the Galatians a good insight into the wrongfulness of their attitudes and actions toward each other. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Thus it appears that the Galatians as well as the Corinthians had been similarly affected. provoking one another, envying one another ( Galatians 5:26 ). Far otherwise is God's way with souls. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded ( Galatians 5:10 ): Now Paul is now saying, "Oh, who did hinder you, you know, and this teach and all. Law is gone and grace ensures forgiveness anyway." The apostle now demonstrates, from the result, how destructive such proceedings in the church must ultimately prove to be. [For] if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 5) Psalm 88:13 (NIV) But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. Jesus said, "I'm not talking about that. I tried." how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. 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