It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. 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. Some are sins against the first and second commandments, as idolatry and witchcraft. Be led by the Spirit, you're not under the law. What! "Oh, well, He laid down His divinity before He died." She is desolate; she is no longer in the condition of the married wife, but like the fugitive bondwoman. The kind that were always talking about numbers. 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. In this case, happily, the brethren near at hand went along with him in heart. occasioned great contentions, and threatened them with divisions, It was his to bear in his body a very different brand" the marks of the Lord Jesus," the scars of the only warfare that is precious in the sight of God the Father. And then he, indignant at such a thought, makes his most solemn appeals. Basil called it "grief at your neighbours good fortune." "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and joy and peace. (ii) Remaz, its suggested meaning. It is . That would not be a good example of Christian love. 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. Will I be mastered by the Spirit or will I be mastered by the flesh? For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). Liberty from the law and from the bondage of the law, because that cannot make you righteous. Let me press this gravely upon those who are here this night. The law was given them with all pomp and solemnity. Glory, the glory of man is indeed empty; it's vain. (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). How little is man to be accounted of! Every one who went back from such a gospel as this was, as far as it went, frustrating the grace of God. You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. That all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,Galatians 5:14; Galatians 5:14. Generally speaking the word is not used of patience in regard to things or events but in regard to people. (2.) (d) Agape ( G26) , the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. Love finds its activity in caring for those that are cast down, "and so fulfils the law of Christ." The whole idea of the word is a goodness which is kind. Christian churches cannot be ruined but by their own hands; but if Christians, who should be helps to one another and a joy one to another, be as brute beasts, biting and devouring each other, what can be expected but that the God of love should deny his grace to them, and the Spirit of love should depart from them, and that the evil spirit, who seeks the destruction of them all, should prevail? we know too well the result from sinful man. And they want to get on our case because we don't run down every night and baptize people the moment they're saved. The works of the flesh. But he that is spiritual understands these things, though he is not understood. Every word he uses has a picture behind it. For what the law is actually saying to you is that you should love God supremely and love your neighbor as yourself. 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. "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." 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. What gives power is the heart surrendering itself in everything, and thus set at liberty by Christ. I. Circumcision is part of the old law that enslaves us. to bite, N.T.o. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 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. If you are circumcised, Christ is no value to you. Heretical division; this might be described as crystallized dissension. It can mean the beneficent use of drugs by a doctor; but it can also mean poisoning, and it came to be very specially connected with the use of drugs for sorcery, of which the ancient world was full. Surely now there was some link with the twelve! 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. Further. For ye are all the children of God." 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." But the moment a Gentile takes the system up, or a Jew presses it on a Gentile, it is nothing but downright heathenism. They don't come to man from God.And the Jehovah Witnesses, just the Arian heresy of the early church. These words are used by him emphatically; for he did not merely say Bite, which denotes an angry person, but likewise, Devour, which denotes one who persists in wickedness. And you keep dealing with me until I'll finally say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: 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. Grace alone in such a case brings glory to God. it had a resurrection-source, instead of being from Christ on earth, and in relation to the work God was doing when He sent His Son here below. If understood, it completely cut all the earthly swaddling-clothes of the heavenly church, and of the Christian. Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. That it is our duty and interest in this struggle to side with the better part, to side with our convictions against our corruptions and with our graces against our lusts. We are crucified unto it by grace, as the world is crucified unto us by judgment. The other apostles enjoyed this more. This kind of love is a trusting love. But its most suggestive use is that katharos ( G2513) is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles a man to approach his gods. Unitarians. Now, that righteousness depends upon the work of Jesus Christ as my sacrifice, as my substitute. but for what he can get out of it. Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. If Peter was acting rightly now, this had all been a mistake, and consequently the gospel nay, solemn to say, Christ Himself would be thus a minister of sin. As far as this temper prevails among Christians, they will be ready to slight and despise those whom they look upon as inferior to them, and to be put out of humour if they are denied that respect which they think is their due from them, and they will also be apt to envy those by whom their reputation is in any danger of being lessened: and thus a foundation is laid for those quarrels and contentions which, as they are inconsistent with that love which Christians ought to maintain towards each other, so they are greatly prejudicial to the honour and interest of religion itself. And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? The new creation is a present blessing that the soul already enjoys. This is indeed strong language for you who want to live after the flesh. You can't be both. His testimony was characteristically though not of course exclusively heavenly, as it was also the witness of grace to the fullest. For these two women stand for two covenants. But when I do fail, the Spirit is right there, and that's why I know I'm a child of God. I was wrong. "The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 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. Then he takes up Abraham; for this is always the stock argument of those who would bring in circumcision and the law, Abraham being emphatically the friend of God and the father of the faithful. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. So, Peter uses this same phrase to describe the law as a yoke of bondage. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. (iv) Sod, the allegorical meaning. All that I have as a living man in the world is gone, not, of course, as a mere matter of fact, but, what is far more important, as a matter of faith. No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism. THE INTRODUCTION ( Galatians 1:1-10) 1. one another is unnatural. another; But his heart was too agitated not to betake himself at once to the point of their danger. "Of these who seemed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me)." 1-6) a. You say that the promise is everything, and that the law cannot either set aside the promise or add other clauses to it. Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. The law is of a wholly different nature, and hence was ordained of angels in the hand of a mediator. As if he had said, "You must expect a struggle between flesh and spirit as long as you are in the world, that the flesh will be lusting against the spirit as well as the spirit against the flesh; but if, in the prevailing bent and tenour of your lives, you be led by the Spirit,--if you act under the guidance and government of the Holy Spirit and of that spiritual nature and disposition he has wrought in you,--if you make the word of God your rule and the grace of God your principle,--it will hence appear that you are not under the law, not under the condemning, though you are still under the commanding, power of it; for there is now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; and as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," Romans 8:1-14. And if you have interpreted it that way, you have completely missed the message of the scripture. Selfishness in the end does not exalt a man; it destroys him. "Unless," he says, "you solve the problem of living together you will make life impossible." He had been called, as none could deny, in a way which not even any other apostle had ever known. It was by revelation, not by summons from Jerusalem, or to acquire a title thereby. These things are not allowed in the kingdom of God. The apostleship of Paul, therefore, was entirely independent of Jerusalem and the twelve. There was no doubt or difficulty on this head in these early days. The apostle's discerning eye at once judged by Christ and by that gospel which he had learned from Him. 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. They're trying to cause you to be circumcised, I wish they were castrated." As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching that circumcision is necessary, why am I still being persecuted? I can't go back to my mother's womb and be born again. The Lord did stamp the testimony of Peter as being truly the revelation of His Father. A person doesn't lose his temper. It is not merely to seek in love a fallen brother, but to be the succourer of others in their difficulties. If any of them believe in the Crucified, they were God's Israel. So were the others that seemed to be the chief. Not striving. If he had preached the full truth of the gospel, he insists that they had received it. 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?" We are free, but our freedom loves its neighbour as itself. Thus it wrought among the Galatians. They were grieved to think that the Jewish church, with its twelve apostles and its elders, with its manifold links with antiquity and God's past testimony on earth, should seem separated in any measure from the apostle and his work. In other words, if you're going to take this as an act of righteousness to make you righteous before God, as being a part of the law, then it will be necessary for you to keep the entire law in order to be righteous before God. Do you know what happens? But he lists some of the works of the flesh. "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. is this all? If you want to be a subject in God's kingdom, then you cannot do these things. You have fallen from grace. [Note: Barclay, p. 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. Monarchy is government by one, and began in the interests of efficiency, for government by committees has always had its drawbacks. People were trying to add to it. In short, the man who, occupied with Christ above, enters for that very reason most into the blessedness of the body of Christ here below by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, is the very one that will know in fit season what it is not to confer with flesh and blood. When the emphasis of man became on the physical fleshly side of him, he no longer was one with God, who is a Spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. "Then after three years," he says, "I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter." But it was in no vain glory, in no tone of superiority, though, no doubt, it was a far fuller and higher testimony than theirs; for he adds, "privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run or had run in vain." It is not the joy that comes from earthly things, still less from triumphing over someone else in competition. There are many present privileges and future glories that belong to the Christian; and promise is one of them. Later Sarah found Ishmael "mocking" (King James Version) Isaac--this Paul equates with persecution--and insisted that Hagar should be cast out, so that the child of the slave girl should not share the inheritance with her freeborn son. Paul ends with a very blunt saying. He who bites has exhausted his angry passion, but he who devours has given a demonstration of extreme cruelty. Chrysostom. What can be conceived more serious or trenchant than such a statement as this? It is quite obvious that there was a hindrance of some sort. And we can all see how exactly the phrase falls in with the words of our Lord given in the Acts of the Apostles; for the wonderful truth burst upon the apostle's ear from the beginning, in the Saviour's call to him from heaven. 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. "This persuasion, this ideas that you have, they don't really come from God, from the One who called you. Others are sins against our neighbour, and contrary to the royal law of brotherly love, such as hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, which too often occasion seditions, heresies, envyings, and sometimes break out into murders, not only of the names and reputation, but even of the very lives, of our fellow-creatures. I just refer to it for a moment, because it adds much to the beauty of the reasoning in Galatians. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh ( Galatians 5:24 ). And this directly follows his censure of their observance of times and seasons. There was no such thing as a gradual training. The warfare going on. Very powerful words for those who would seek justification through the law, through rules, through keeping rules, through keeping ordinances. But it works through love. Next: Galatians 5:4 Galatians 5:1-15 focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. The truth of the gospel, therefore, was compromised. You got to walk the tight rope. If he wrote to the Romans;, it was transcribed, or at any rate written, by another. Man had his duty to God, and be ought to have. Dissension; literally the word means a standing apart. Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! Now, it is evident and to this I call your particular attention that the apostle here binds together his gospel with his apostolic place. 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). It was ordained by angels, who had nothing to do with promise, which God gave direct to His friend. Thus it appears that the Galatians as well as the Corinthians had been similarly affected. He feels what he ought to do, but he does it not, and thus is increasingly wretched. With the utmost simplicity he shows that his own separation from man was a part of God's ways for the purpose of making more strikingly felt the great truth that he was afterwards to proclaim. This is the only sin Paul warned the Galatians to avoid. It is used of the athlete's discipline of his body ( 1 Corinthians 9:25) and of the Christian's mastery of sex ( 1 Corinthians 7:9). 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. They're covered by the fact that you're walking in love. God asks, and man is called to give, i.e., is called to obedience. beware lest you be consumed -- Destroyed. And there were reasons why Peter was grievously in fault, particularly as he did no longer adhere to the law, but lived as one conscious of the freedom from it which the gospel gives those who believe in a risen Christ. What does matter is faith which works through love. You remember as Paul defined love for us in I Corinthians chapter thirteen, he uses longsuffering. He said, "We haven't been able to keep the law, why should we put them under it?" 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? I admit that this was all in place and season then for Jerusalem. Eternal life is spoken of in this double way in scripture (Romans 6:22-23); and I also press this as a truth of no small importance and but too much forgotten. 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. Created by God, in fellowship with God. Where was the harm of taking up what saints of old submitted to? And so with the Mormons. One can readily conceive men of strong prejudice and of weak faith thus hesitating, especially in presence of the apostle's strong assertion of entire liberty from the law for the Gentiles. 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. The sense is, if you contend with each other; and the reference is, apparently, to the strifes which would arise between the two parties in the churches - the Jewish and the Gentile converts. It was exactly what Christ was on earth; and the expression of Christ is the prime call of the Christian. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. it is added, he conferred not with flesh and blood; neither went up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before him; but went into Arabia, and returned again, not to Jerusalem, but to Damascus, the place near which he had been called at first. "But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me; but contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter," etc. During the Medieval period it was depicted as "Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate", meaning Mary's conception through the chaste kiss of her parents at the Golden Gate in Jerusalem; [64] the 14th and 15th centuries were the heyday for this scene, after which it was gradually replaced by more allegorical depictions featuring an adult Mary. If Christ's, they were Abraham's seed already, "and heirs according to the promise;" for Christ, he had shown before, was the one true Seed; and if we are Christ's, we belong to that one true Seed, and therefore are the children of Abraham without circumcision at all. That is, if you are circumcised ritually for the purpose of having a righteous standing before God. The mind of the flesh is death.But if my life is dominated by the Spirit, then I have the mind of the Spirit. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ( Galatians 5:5 ). If I sow to the flesh, I shall of the flesh reap corruption; if I sow to the Spirit, I shall reap life everlasting. Take heed that ye be not consumed - As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. That is, liberty in Jesus Christ. GALATIANS 5:2-12. Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. lest ye be consumed one of anotherconsumamini; Ah! Am I going to yield to my flesh, or am I going to yield to the Spirit? What has He set us free to? Then, bringing in the name of Jerusalem, the Spirit leads him to apply the prophecy of Isaiah, which shows that millennial Israel (in their turn abandoning self-righteousness, and made free by God's grace in Christ) will look back and count as their own those now brought in as Christians, and find far more children begotten by the gospel, in the time of their own desolation, than even when they flourished of old, and had ,all that earthly power and glory could give. The names of the different forms of government are suggestive. But this is a future prophetic vision not touched on here. The sense is, if you contend with each other; and the reference is, probably, to the strifes which would arise between the two parties in the churches - the Jewish and the Gentile converts. The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" But it was true from the first. ", But, he adds, faith is come (that is, the testimony to be believed by man now, or the gospel). Instead they are unkind and cruel to each other. Even if people put themselves under the law, rebellious human nature produces only those evils that the law forbids and that exclude people from Gods kingdom (19-21).If, on the other hand, Christians allow Gods Spirit to control them, their lives become full of the most pleasing virtues - the opposite of those things that the law forbids (22-23). And Peter said, "I suggest that we not place a yoke of bondage on them which neither we, nor our fathers were able to bear" ( Acts 15:10 ). You were running well. Strange as all this may seem to us, it enshrines one great truth. He tells them that as many as take the ground of law works are under the curse already. What makes you righteous before God is your faith, which works in love within your heart and life.Now, it is interesting to me how that those who opt for rules, those who opt for laws, those who want to lay down the laws upon the people, or those who want to live under the laws that are laid down upon them, always seem to be striving. 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. "Love suffereth long and is kind." You'll be disappointed. But the fruit of the Spirit ( Galatians 5:22 ), Now, "walk in the Spirit, you'll not fulfill the lust of the flesh." What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! 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. And here we may observe that as sin is called the work of the flesh, because the flesh, or corrupt nature, is the principle that moves and excites men to it, so grace is said to be the fruit of the Spirit, because it wholly proceeds from the Spirit, as the fruit does from the root: and whereas before the apostle had chiefly specified those works of the flesh which were not only hurtful to men themselves but tended to make them so to one another, so here he chiefly takes notice of those fruits of the Spirit which had a tendency to make Christians agreeable one to another, as well as easy to themselves; and this was very suitable to the caution or exhortation he had before given (Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:13), that they should not use their liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. I could quickly get in trouble. (i) Peshat, its simple or literal meaning. Can I be righteous by keeping the law? 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