There could be but one answer. But there is more for us. with the affections and lusts [with its desires]. For he, though a Jew, had completely done with the law, and all that pertains to it. But responsibility is always according to the relation in which one stands, and the measure of knowledge which each possesses, or ought to possess. It is no wonder that one who is thus tied and bound feels restive under it. It is the liberty not to do those things which the flesh once forced me to do. And so, Paul is picking up, now, the same phrase. It is Christian ground, certainly, but not the church as such. An undue regard to the approbation and applause of men is one great ground of the unhappy strifes and contentions that exist among Christians. They had somehow become uneasy. 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. This is shown still more fully in the allusion to baptism: "As many of us as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." "Desirous of vainglory,". Their lives should demonstrate the truth that their sinful nature has been crucified with Christ and has no further power over them. "The life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me," etc. 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 ). Galatians 5:16. The apostle takes notice of the latter here, because he is speaking of their behaviour towards one another; and, when he makes use of this as an argument to persuade them to mutual love, he intimates both that this would be a good evidence of their sincerity in religion and also the most likely means of rooting out those dissensions and divisions that were among them. Christ is your liberty and life. He went up by revelation for the purpose of getting a condemnation in Jerusalem itself of those who would force Jewish principles on the church of God at large. It is . And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. "So then," says he, "they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. The result of this is, that neither God has His place, nor they. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. If they took that gr. Our conversation will always be answerable to the principle which we are under the guidance and government of: as those that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, so those that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit,Romans 8:5. The fleshly desires will not be dominating your life, but your life will be dominated by the Spirit, and thus, by God. This is indeed strong language for you who want to live after the flesh. It therefore often happened that the Rabbis would take a simple bit of historical narrative from the Old Testament and read into it inner meanings which often appear to us fantastic but which were very convincing to the people of their day. He tells them that as many as take the ground of law works are under the curse already. 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. 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. If any apostleship would have served for the Gentiles, it ought to have been Paul's then; for Paul was the apostle of the uncircumcision. It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. Even when he has been scaling the highest heights of thought he always ends a letter on a practical note. "For I am as ye are." Again, it is not a liberty to do anything I please. 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. The long lapse of time ought to have guarded men from mixing up the law with the promise, and thus from the appearance of annulling the promise by the law, for this would be most dishonouring to God. There was no difference in the blessing of Christ: man's guilt and God's grace were alike indiscriminate. Carousing; this word (komos) has an interesting history. This was the serious move of the enemy. Far otherwise is God's way with souls. It will appear that we are the disciples of Christ indeed when we have love one to another (John 13:35); and, where this temper is kept up, if it do not wholly extinguish those unhappy discords that are among Christians, yet at least it will so far accommodate them that the fatal consequences of them will be prevented. He feels what he ought to do, but he does it not, and thus is increasingly wretched. The apostle himself meets that difficulty in the face, and in effect concedes to his detractors that he was not made an apostle by Christ here below. "I through law am dead to law, that I might live unto God." "Devour" describes hurtful actions that linger on and on as far as time is concerned. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. I have not. It's just, you know, too difficult. And what sort of life can this be? And people to follow after me, you know. Let others talk as they will of the law, no law can censure the real fruits of the Holy Ghost, or those in whom they are found. 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. Do I seek to please men? Not so; it is exclusively of grace by Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. But when one is miserable, does not every duty, even where it may be as light as a feather, feel as if it were an iron chain on you? So were the others that seemed to be the chief. 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. 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. You know, you come up with some heretical teaching, you get everybody excited and everybody's listening, everybody's beginning to discuss what you're teaching. The law of Moses tells a man to do his duty in his own place. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. You never come to believe in what the Mormons believe through reading the Bible. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband." Now, if you're walking in love, supreme love for God and supreme love for your fellow man, then there is no law. That is why I encourage you just to read the Bible. (b) It means being teachable, being not too proud to learn ( James 1:21). That you're not going to be otherwise minded.". Euripides called it "the greatest of all diseases among men." Idolatry; this means the worship of gods which the hands of men have made. 4. In my spirit, in the realm of the Spirit. I admit that this was all in place and season then for Jerusalem. Uncontrolled temper ; the word Paul uses means bursts of temper. "But the fruit of the Spirit". Thus, if we walk in the Spirit, we shall not fulfil the desires of the flesh. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 18 but if you are led by (verse 16-18) the spirit, you are not under law. That would not be a good example of Christian love. The evil that was gaining ground among the Galatian believers legalism links the soul with the world, and indeed proves it to be evil by giving present credit to the flesh, and association with all the system that is around us now. And now in Christ He has accomplished it I mean already. So there's only one real fruit of the Spirit, that is love. These are sins which will undoubtedly shut men out of heaven. It is the characteristic of the man who is reliable. 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. Certainly not God, nor His plain and precious word. There followed Paul teachers, Judaizers who brought another gospel, which was not really a gospel. He is occupied with himself. At any rate, the Galatians, naturally fickle, were quick to take up prejudices. In this case, happily, the brethren near at hand went along with him in heart. And no wonder. enjoyment that has degenerated into licence. It was to demonstrate his sinfulness, not to gain the inheritance. He sees the right, feels the good, desires the holy, but never, accomplishes. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. . To worship the living and true, creator God - and not the false gods, false religions we pursue. What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! 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. (i) One he does not mention here but it is implicit in all his thinking. Christendom is built upon this footing. Christ is forgotten. The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. He's temperant. 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 ). Galatians 5:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible BUT IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER,.. This is what we are chiefly concerned to fight against, and that which above every thing else we should make it our business to oppose and suppress. How could it be otherwise with one persecuting at the moment that he was arrested, in hot deadly opposition to God's church up to his most unexpected call from heaven? Now, what does God say about it? Paul reminded Christians: " You must love your neighbour as yourself." how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. So, Peter uses this same phrase to describe the law as a yoke of bondage. Just as he had shown that God in His love to man had given the promise direct, so the apostle Paul acts in his care for the saints of God where all the foundations were endangered. And I'm thinking of God, and I'm thinking upon spiritual things, and the result of life and joy and peace in the holy Spirit. beware lest you be consumed -- Destroyed. 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. . He gives us a catalogue of evil things. "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." 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. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself ( Galatians 5:14 ). He intimates also how vain a thing is legalism, because those that were pleading for circumcision in no case carried out their own principle. Christ on high had called him. 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. Very powerful words for those who would seek justification through the law, through rules, through keeping rules, through keeping ordinances. As the principle of grace in us will not suffer us to do all the evil which our corrupt nature would prompt us to, so neither can we do all the good that we would, by reason of the oppositions we meet with from that corrupt and carnal principle. Can you seize the gravity of this? What can you say to a guy? Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. But when we look toward Jesus we can find freedom. Jealousy; this word (zelos, G2205, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. If, when I got on board a 747 at LAX heading for Honolulu, the captain would say, "Now, folks, we're having a little problem here with our navigation instruments. Paul urged his readers to live unbound to the Law of Moses (Galatians 5:1-12). Note, The best antidote against the poison of sin is to walk in the Spirit, to be much in conversing with spiritual things, to mind the things of the soul, which is the spiritual part of man, more than those of the body, which is his carnal part, to commit ourselves to the guidance of the word, wherein the Holy Spirit makes known the will of God concerning us, and in the way of our duty to act in a dependence on his aids and influences. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law. He will not hear of any pretended misunderstanding. The apostle's discerning eye at once judged by Christ and by that gospel which he had learned from Him. He gives freely the Holy Ghost on their acceptance of Christ's name; or, as it is here written, "He sent forth the Spirit of his Son in your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." And any kind of a relationship with God that causes me to strive with my brother, causes me to become contentious, is really something that I'm not interested in. What did hinder you? The Greeks drank more wine than they did milk; even children drank wine. Because you'll never come to their beliefs just by reading the Bible. In other words, if the believer simply were one forgiven by grace, without having either life in Christ or the Holy Ghost dwelling in him, he might, perhaps, plead that he could not avoid sinning. 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. And this is always true in its measure, and shows the exceeding gravity of opposition where God raises up for His own special work in this world; but more particularly where, as in the apostle's case, the mere manner of his conversion, the special form of his separation unto God, bears the impress of the truth he was to preach. Paul was confident the Galatians would resist the one leading them in the wrong direction. He saw that the tree was pleasant to look upon, it was tasty to eat and it would make him wise as God. This is what is found under it. The message of redemption through the cross was offensive. "The death of Christ for you isn't sufficient. Those that are of faith, not those who pretend to the law and do it not, are blessed with their father. Galatians 5 Galatians 5:7 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. Plutarch says that it has a far wider place than justice. 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. Now the apostle in writing to the Galatians was so moved in love, and so yearned over them in their danger, that he actually wrote the epistle with his own hand. As it is reasoned out in Romans 7:1-25, the law came, and he died. . "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Fidelity; this word (pistis, G4102) is common in secular Greek for trustworthiness. I wish that those who are upsetting you would get themselves not only circumcised but castrated! "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." Not at all, says the apostle, you are returning straight into your old heathenism without knowing it yourselves. 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). But, further, he refers in a very affecting manner to some personal circumstances how in his own body he was a witness of having nothing to do with flesh; for what God had been pleased to put upon him as serving Him in the gospel was not great power of nature, but that which made him contemptible in his preaching. at least as zealous for the Jews' religion as any Jew of the straitest sect. Just let our books explain for you." Christian baptism, contrariwise, supposes man dead; and the only death that can deliver man out of his own death is the death of Christ. It is the spirit which has mastered its desires and its love of pleasure. But, in point of fact, he did not see the twelve. 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 thought that Christianity would be all the better for adopting the ancient forms and beautiful figures of the law. Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Jesus Christ? Breaking Down the Key Parts of Galatians 5:13 #1 "You, my brothers and sisters," Paul is addressing fellow Christians. Then I must repeat that God could only make claims; and man had to take the place, if he could, of giving to God of rendering his obedience. For Peter is not said to have withdrawn from the Lord's table where the uncircumcised met, but from the simple matter of eating with the Gentiles. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ( Galatians 5:21 ): So, the such like covers a lot of things. This, then, is not what the apostle Paul has in view, but in contrast with it. Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. "Have you been reading this book?" But he that is spiritual understands these things, though he is not understood. My business is to act consistently with the new place in which grace has put me. Fornication; it has been said, and said truly, that the one completely new virtue Christianity brought into the world was chastity. Nor this only. He's talking about rituals and the power of rituals to make you righteous before God, and the issue is, they can't. 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. What a subversion, not only of the truth of God revealed in the gospel, but also of redemption, which is its basis! He simply states, as I have said, that his apostolic character was not only from Jesus, but from God the Father, that raised Him from the dead. Don't be entangled again with rules, regulations, a yoke of bondage. Thus, rightly understood and applied, the law and the promises, while wholly distinct, are in no way inconsistent with each other. They're wanting to strive, they're wanting to argue; they're wanting to prove their points how that baptism is essential for salvation. Of none else could it be so said that "it Pleased God to reveal his Son in him." So "stand fast in that liberty wherein Christ has made you free." If we are living in the Spirit let us also keep step with the Spirit. And facts tell on their mind. He had been trained up under the most distinguished teacher the great Rabbin Gamaliel; but "when it pleased him, who had separated him from his mother's womb, and called him by his grace, to reveal his Son in him." He's just whacked me with the rod. It is not only that we are put now where we can be the witness to grace in all its outgoings, but, besides that, we are where flesh might show itself. 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. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith" (not those that cry up the law) "are the children of Abraham. Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. Hereon the apostle puts before them another expostulation: "I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." This is best seen by turning to Genesis 22:1-24, where both facts are found in the same context. The salutation ( Galatians 1:1-5 ) a. "Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are." 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? What comforts the soul, what strengthens and keeps it up, is that He "loved me, and gave Himself for me.". This passage, however, indicates they are having disputes. "Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. It was a misuse of the respect naturally accorded to some who came from Jerusalem; and so God took care to correct the evil by a formal, public, authoritative sentence of the body there, instead of a pure and simple rejection of the error among the Gentile churches, which might have looked like a schism, or at least a divergence of feeling between them and the apostle Paul. In Christ alone, in His cross, let us boast, and in the new creature which is by Christ. Kindness and goodness are closely connected words. Then after a certain lapse of time he does see Jerusalem, but no more than Peter and James, not the apostolic college officially. Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. This must be indeed confusion; as it is, there is none. She is as one that has no husband. 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