"Oh, well, He laid down His divinity before He died." The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. The brethren with him ( Galatians 1:2a ) b. To depart from this was fatal. For he is a sinner; and the law called out the sin into articulate transgressions, and made it perfectly plain that the heart is only evil continually, and proves it by plain transgressions; that is all. And thus it is with the promise. 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. The apostle Paul himself, inRomans 14:1-23; Romans 14:1-23, insists upon the forbearance of a Gentile even towards the Jew that might be still encumbered by his days, meats, and so on. with reproachful words, biting sarcasms, scandalous invectives, Thus, going up with Barnabas, he took Titus, a Gentile, along with him; and even so by revelation. Witchcraft; this literally means the use of drugs. This is best seen by turning to Genesis 22:1-24, where both facts are found in the same context. Do your souls go along with Paul's decision? And what sort of life can this be? So here it is said that God was pleased to reveal His Son in him, that he might preach the good news of Him among the heathen. Leave room for God, and for God alone. "Unless," he says, "you solve the problem of living together you will make life impossible." Let us never confound the two. They had followed Jesus in His earthly path of presentation to Israel. Generally speaking the word is not used of patience in regard to things or events but in regard to people. "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." Note, If we should approve ourselves to be Christ's, such as are united to him and interested in him, we must make it our constant care and business to crucify the flesh with its corrupt affections and lusts. So, they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh. The most illuminating thing about it is that it is commonly used in the New Testament of the attitude of God towards men ( Romans 2:4; Romans 9:22; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Peter 3:20). At the same time it is shown to be, not what it might seem, a negative power only, but along with it is the new creation into which grace forms us. ", I have nothing to do with the law any more, even if I had been once under it as a Jew. Jesus has set us free - free from the slavery of sin, free from slavery to the law. Only we must carefully bear this in mind, that in the epistle to the Galatians we never rise exactly to church ground. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ( Galatians 5:5 ). Here particularly the Christian is guarded against the inroads of legalism. Grace brings out the faithful promise of God, and His goodness to him that deserves nothing. how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. And if you do, you will not be fulfilling the desires of your flesh. In lxx metaphorically, Micah 3:5; Habakkuk 2:7. Salem Media Group. The Stoics defined it as "grief at someone else's good." 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. An undue regard to the approbation and applause of men is one great ground of the unhappy strifes and contentions that exist among Christians. Uncontrolled temper ; the word Paul uses means bursts of temper. And so, such things leaves an unending list of things of the flesh. Let me press this gravely upon those who are here this night. They're contrary, and I do not always walk after the Spirit. If you want to be a subject in God's kingdom, then you cannot do these things. So, Paul here exhorts us to walk in the Spirit and to live after the Spirit or on the spirit side of our lives. dissolution; for as no civil community, either public or private, He particularly recommends to us, love, to God especially, and to one another for his sake,--joy, by which may be understood cheerfulness in conversation with our friends, or rather a constant delight in God,--peace, with God and conscience, or a peaceableness of temper and behaviour towards others,--long-suffering, patience to defer anger, and a contentedness to bear injuries,--gentleness, such a sweetness of temper, and especially towards our inferiors, as disposes us to be affable and courteous, and easy to be entreated when any have wronged us,--goodness (kindness, beneficence), which shows itself in a readiness to do good to all as we have opportunity,--faith, fidelity, justice, and honesty, in what we profess and promise to others,--meekness, wherewith to govern our passions and resentments, so as not to be easily provoked, and, when we are so, to be soon pacified,--and temperance, in meat and drink, and other enjoyments of life, so as not to be excessive and immoderate in the use of them. 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! II. Thus, whatever may be the energy that seeks souls in love, there is nothing after all like Christianity for maintaining individual responsibility intact. No doubt he heard Peter use it there in Acts 15 , and he said, "Stand fast in the liberty wherein Christ has set you free.". This, be it observed, was part of God's way with him beyond all others. 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. There was no insult to him, nor injury done, in saying that he did not acknowledge the law for a Christian. "This persuasion didn't come from God.". But his heart was too agitated not to betake himself at once to the point of their danger. Can you give me, you know, a hundred dollars for this watch?" 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. The inferior trinity is spirit, soul and body of man. "Now, the other way to be righteous is through faith in Jesus Christ, receiving that grace of God through Him, where God accounts me, as He did Abraham, righteous because I believe. That is, liberty in Jesus Christ. 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 ). Or literally, "I wish they were castrated who trouble you. 1-6) a. "Then after three years," he says, "I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter." Don't despise the chastening of the Lord. You cannot lawfully add to it, any more than set aside its provisions. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. 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. So it came to mean work done for pay. Note, (1.) "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." After wishing those addressed grace and peace, as usual, he speaks of the Lord in a manner singularly in unison with the object of the epistle: "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us" not from judgment, not from the wrath to come, but "from this present evil world." 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. lest ye be consumed one of anotherconsumamini; Ah! "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. "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's talking about rituals and the power of rituals to make you righteous before God, and the issue is, they can't. There is such a thing as, by patient continuance in well doing, to seek for eternal life. Thank God Jesus Christ has set me free from my bondage to my flesh. Heathenism! If ever there was a man who more than another contended for the oneness of the saints in every sense, above all, for the one body of Christ, for the unity of the Spirit, it was the apostle Paul. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. So Paul argued that if a man were circumcised he had put himself under an obligation to the whole law to which circumcision was the introduction; and, if he took that way, he had automatically turned his back on the way of grace, and, as far as he was concerned, Christ might never have died. As made under the law He was for Israel; but He died and rose, and was thus free to bless a Gentile as much as a Jew. According to the prince of the power of the air, among whom we all had our manner of living. I don't believe that." 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. If I preach circumcision, then why would they keep persecuting me? How do they stand related? There could be but one answer. Outline of Galatians 5:1-15. Dissension; literally the word means a standing apart. Now Paul said. Every one who went back from such a gospel as this was, as far as it went, frustrating the grace of God. The law necessarily makes the man, and the man's doings, to be the prominent object. Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. There was no question of revealing His Son in them then. The new creation is a present blessing that the soul already enjoys. And this leads him to speak of another trial. Now take care that you do not use your wonderful . Had a man come down from the teaching of the twelve, albeit inspired of God to write, as we know some of them were, and all of them having a most truly apostolic place, he might have been startled by the teaching of St. Paul. I have known a divine who had a character for intelligence use these words as a motto and sanction. One of the most dangerous errors in Christendom is, that these two things are lumped together. Paul now warns them about a consequence of this. "I through the law am dead to the law." 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. Liberty comes first, mark; power and love afterwards. I tried." The Rheims version of 2 Corinthians 6:6 translates it sweetness. Their predicament would only become worse, as evidenced by the fact that already they are biting and devouring one another instead of growing closer to one another. "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. The apostle was given to preach the truth more fully than any other. Idolatry; this means the worship of gods which the hands of men have made. 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). Aristocracy means government by the best, but best is left to be defined. Impossible to serve two masters! It's a solemn warning to every one of us who would live after the flesh or would want to live after the flesh to know that you cannot do these things and inherit the kingdom of God. 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? Thus, the idea is, in their contentions they would destroy the spirituality and happiness of each other; their characters would be ruined; and the church be overthrown. Christian freedom does not mean that believers may do as they like. Accordingly he draws from this a most weighty argument against bringing in the law as the rule of life for the believer. He feels what he ought to do, but he does it not, and thus is increasingly wretched. 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. Instead they are unkind and cruel to each other. #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But you continue one degree off on out over the Pacific, and you can miss your destination completely. 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. Far otherwise is God's way with souls. Get Access To 3 Exclusive Articles (for FREE) Want articles like this one delivered straight to your email? In Paul's case the Holy Ghost could go a step farther, and that step He seems to me to take. This closes the course of the apostle's argument. Be led by the Spirit, you're not under the law. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. But now I have liberty in Christ Jesus, for I don't have to follow after the flesh anymore. I mean, you never get it from reading the Bible and waiting upon God. "Stand fast in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage." (Galatians 5:1) "You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 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. At the same time he insists in the most peremptory manner that our liberty in Christ is to be used for holiness. 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? And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? The persuasion which is being exercised on you just now is not from him who calls you. If, instead of acting like men and Christians, they would behave themselves more like brute beasts, in tearing and rending one another, they could expect nothing as the consequence of it, but that they would be consumed one of another; and therefore they had the greatest reason not to indulge themselves in such quarrels and animosities. In my understanding of the word of God. It is not the joy that comes from earthly things, still less from triumphing over someone else in competition. "I through law am dead to law, that I might live unto God." You cannot be ruled and dominated by your flesh.Now, it is interesting, a list similar to this is given to us in Revelation the twenty-first chapter, as it tells us those who are going to be excluded from heaven and outside were those who were doing these things: "The fearful, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the whoremongers, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and the liars," those who are outside. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." Thus it is evident that the legal system is a parenthesis. Everything lost then would be gained when promise has its way. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Not all sins are crimes. Because we wait to have our baptisms 'til the water gets warmer.It's because baptism doesn't save. It seems to have been something which affected his speech too, and exposed him to ridicule and to unfavourable comments where men were carnally-minded. I say something that is not of the Lord. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). Vincent Taylor once said, "The test of a good theologian is, can he write a tract?" We don't understand that word too much. The context behind the Galatians church We have been crucified to the requirements of the law Kill our desire or need to keep the law as a means of gaining justification Galatians 2:15-16 Being crucified to self Matthew 16:24 There is only one throne in our hearts and life, and only one person can sit on it Galatians 5:24 Further, it is laid down, if there had been a law capable of giving life, righteousness would be by the law. Forgive us for the times we abuse this freedom, living more by the flesh than by the Spirit. This highlights the problem of reading contemporary ideas back into Scripture. It might have been inferred that Paul was to do what he could with the Gentile churches, but that the twelve exclusively cared for the churches in Judea, he consequently having nothing to do with them. That's where I come in touch with God. "The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life" ( 1 John 2:16 ). The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. . "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (2.) 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? He revealed that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God. When in the garden, or when on the cross, Jesus cried, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" The oneness of the saints with Christ Himself is, as we all familiarly know, clearly intimated. Yet, wondrous to say, when she desires to be under grace by-and-by, all those that are now brought in by promise will be accounted as children to her. The cross paid it all. And so, I have to reckon the old man to be dead each day, and oftentimes, many times through the day.The flesh is lusting against the Spirit. 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. THE INTRODUCTION ( Galatians 1:1-10) 1. And to try to explain to people the things of the Spirit to the natural man, to try and explain the things of the Spirit has got to be one of the most frustrating things in the world. But if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. It is not a vague general expression for all saints, but implies that fleshly Israel was nothing now. "Bite" refers to the sudden action brought on by uncontrolled emotions that hurt other members of the church. It is a joy whose foundation is God. 5) Psalm 88:13 (NIV) But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. The truth is, that they had their relationship to the twelve tribes of Israel. 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. For the Jew leaven nearly always stood for evil influence. It was rather to have Gentile liberty secured by the twelve apostles, and that the Judaizers should be condemned by the church at Jerusalem. though he had prayed thrice, as his Lord had done on another and wondrous occasion, so the apostle was to have communion with Christ in this way, and learn that there is something better than the taking away of that which makes nothing of the flesh. Men of, disposition, careless and unthinking, consume othersthose of, But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another, , but if ye be biting and eating up one another. So "stand fast in that liberty wherein Christ has made you free." Christ will never own those as his who yield themselves the servants of sin. Indeed, there is no soul really above them. And Paul said, "Hey, wait a minute. Soon all will believe in Christ, and all Israel be saved. Acts 15:1, 5 ). 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. "The theme of love . He gives us a catalogue of evil things. ", Mark how nicely every word was suited to deal with their souls. 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. There can be no doubt about the matter. "Nevertheless" astonishing to say, for it could not be natural life "nevertheless, I live." In that chapter of Romans we have a man converted indeed, but without liberty, and consequently powerless. He does not even deign to fill up the sketch. There is a warfare that goes on in the life of the believer. He had derived the gospel that he preached from the Lord, and not from any of his fellow-servants who had been engaged in the work before him. It was Paul's belief and experience that the Christian died with Christ and rose again to a life, new and clean, in which the evil things of the old self were gone and the lovely things of the Spirit had come to fruition. This then is the apostle's allusion and reasoning; but he proceeds to meet a natural objection. Paul always triumphantly satisfies that test, just as here the whole matter is brought to the acid test of daily living. He said, "We haven't been able to keep the law, why should we put them under it?" Later, and in a far fuller way now, the gospel was the blessed answer to this early grace. The most difficult thing in Christendom is for people to know what it is to be Christians, and to take this place by the faith of Christ themselves. Galatians 5:1-15 New International Version Freedom in Christ 5 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Grace alone in such a case brings glory to God. comfort be destroyed, which is oftentimes done this way, though a 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. Well, then, it stands written in it that Abraham had two sons; one was the son of the slave girl and one was the son of the free woman. 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. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?" Now, there are two ways that I can be righteous. The Christian's faith is founded not on a book but on a person; its dynamic is not obedience to any law but love to Jesus Christ. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 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. Having begun in the spirit, you did all right in the beginning, but. Even so we, when we were children," etc. If they took that gr. they are in conflict with f sinful nature each other, so that you do not do what you want. Some would have received the inheritance because of promise, and others on the ground of law. 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