He said, "What do you mean? You have fallen from grace. It, too, is commonly translated goodness. To this he gives the most solemn asseveration: "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not." The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Now you're, you know, chopping Jesus up, and said, "Well, He is God here, and but, for a while He wasn't God and the universe was without God for a little bit here, or whatever. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai, which is in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem; for she is a slave and so are her children. 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. Strange as all this may seem to us, it enshrines one great truth. How precious to have done with one's sinful self and to begin a life so perfect as Christ's! Coveting is a sin which is almost never considered a crime. My responsibility is defined by the place in which I am found. 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.". It is therefore a feeling of the mind as much as of the heart; it concerns the will as much as the emotions. Then the apostle at once explains, as annexed to this, the real state of the case. for want of love the Lord threatens to remove, and sometimes does It was from and in connection with Christ in heaven. "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Do not abuse your freedom (13-15) I. Christ has set us free (1-6) Discussion Questions What has Christ set us free from? The new creation is a present blessing that the soul already enjoys. Man had his duty to God, and be ought to have. 5:16-21 I tell you, let your walk and conversation be dominated by the Spirit, and don't let the desires of the lower side of your nature have their way. Paul was a trained Rabbi; and that is what he is doing here. Thus, whether it be the Gentile without law, or the Jew with it, all are shut up under sin. But it is life after death to law, and consequently in another sphere. Because you have been born of the Spirit, you can see it, you can understand it; it's as plain as can be. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.". The apostleship of Paul, therefore, was entirely independent of Jerusalem and the twelve. They are ideas that have been planted in your mind by men. "Oh, well, He laid down His divinity before He died." But to the end of the day there remained for Paul two obligations. He does not deny that others preached it; but if so, they preached the same truth. The readers ( Galatians 1:2b ) c. The greeting ( Galatians 1:3-5 ) i. He will not hear of any pretended misunderstanding. 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). This passage, however, indicates they are having disputes. 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." 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. And I encourage you to just read your Bible.Now, why is it that Jehovah Witness can't tell you that? God asks, and man is called to give, i.e., is called to obedience. 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. Such was the case with the Old Testament believers, and many Jewish believers then alive. And you keep dealing with me until I'll finally say, "Oh, God, I'm sorry. Observe the place the cross has here, not merely Christ's blood, but His death on the cross. A double intervention comes between God and man, in contrast with the simplicity of His ways of grace. And so, it was something that was quite familiar the castration. That's what God accounts, the righteousness of Christ accounted to my account through my faith in Jesus Christ.Now, because I can't keep the first, I have opted for the second. He saw Peter; but "other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother." The sad and dangerous tendency of a contrary behaviour (Galatians 5:15; Galatians 5:15): But, says he, if instead of serving one another in love, and therein fulfilling the law of God, you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another. His testimony was characteristically though not of course exclusively heavenly, as it was also the witness of grace to the fullest. Under which type did they fall Ishmael or Isaac? 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. In the meantime God had come and promised that Sarah would have a child, which was so difficult to believe that it appeared impossible to Abraham and Sarah; but in due time Isaac was born. As we saw it in the Corinthians applied to judge the worldliness of the saints there, so here it judges their legalism. Don't despise the chastening of the Lord. 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. Thus, going up with Barnabas, he took Titus, a Gentile, along with him; and even so by revelation. That is, the apostle, instead of regarding his despised freedom from the law as a just reproach, glories in it. "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." I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? Forgive us for the times we abuse this freedom, living more by the flesh than by the Spirit. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. Thus, whatever may be the energy that seeks souls in love, there is nothing after all like Christianity for maintaining individual responsibility intact. They're wanting to strive, they're wanting to argue; they're wanting to prove their points how that baptism is essential for salvation. It is once that I have reckoned myself to be crucified with Christ when I accepted Him. There was no believer, Jew or Gentile, who had not gladly submitted to that very blessed sign of having part with Christ, and of that which is made good by Christ. He had been called, as none could deny, in a way which not even any other apostle had ever known. Yea, hence it appears that they are not under the law, but under grace; for these fruits of the Spirit, in whomsoever they are found, plainly show that such are led by the Spirit, and consequently that they are not under the law, as Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18. 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. Sense of duty is not power. He is baptized into Christ's death, which is the sole means of deliverance out of his state of sin. 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.". 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. Another thing, too, let me just point out in passing. It is wholly apart from works of law. It was not a question of man's wit. 1. Why did He do that? Therefore reckon ye yourselves to be dead with Christ, but alive unto God through Him" ( Romans 6:6 , Romans 6:11 ). "As we have said before, so I say now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received." (89) , . Having brought in the true character of the Christian's life as flowing simply and solely from Christ, and from Christ crucified too, so here he takes up the Holy Ghost. He will gain transgression thereby; nothing more, nothing better. When they first knew him, there was no difficulty felt on this score; they heard him as an angel of God. It was rather to have Gentile liberty secured by the twelve apostles, and that the Judaizers should be condemned by the church at Jerusalem. It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. What are you talking about?" Created by God, in fellowship with God. The way of law makes salvation dependent on human achievement; the man who takes the way of grace simply casts himself and his sin upon the mercy of God. The argument is founded upon the unity of the seed of promise in this connection. I choose the best facts; for I have no wish to rake up abuses. He is brought into another condition. Paul did not stand alone. 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. He went simply to make the acquaintance of Peter, and abode with him how long? Make a child thoroughly happy, and you will soon see that its duty becomes comparatively light and a joy. It is for the purpose of bringing in transgression, answers the apostle. No effort, no work on your part. 5:1-12 Look now it is I, Paul, who am speaking to you I tell you that if you get yourself circumcised Christ is no good to you. 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. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (Acts 15:1-41) As it is said here, "They gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the heathen and they unto the circumcision. Dictionary entry details GALATIANS (noun) Sense 1 Meaning: A New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Galatians Classified under: 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. Why this: "Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, and the other by a freewoman." This is Christianity; and when the soul thankfully accepts from God this blessed liberty, the Holy Ghost is given to and acts in the believer as a Spirit of peace and power; so that if there is the flesh lusting against the Spirit, the Spirit resists this, in order that (for such is the true meaning) they should not do the things that they would. It doesn't really matter, I'm going to walk after the Spirit and I'm going to please God in this. According to the prince of the power of the air, among whom we all had our manner of living. "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. 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. Galatians 5:1-15 focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. "Of these who seemed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me)." We must set ourselves in good earnest both to mortify the deeds of the body, and to walk in newness of life. All sprang, no doubt, from the same God, from the same Lord Jesus Christ; but even so from God and from the Lord in other relationships. And Paul said, "Hey, wait a minute. You see, laws are for unprincipled people. And of course, that's exactly what the temptation led Adam to is fleshly domination. He has set you free from the power of the flesh. The offense of the cross would cease." They had been lately brought by the grace of God into Christianity, where they found Jewish brethren, now made one, as it is said, in Christ. In his case the breach with man was evident; the association with heaven, and not Jerusalem, was too plain to be disputed or evaded. 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. Why not adopt what was wanting in Christianity? "But though we" Paul himself, or any that were associated with him "though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." A little leaven leavens the whole lump. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourges every son whom He receives" ( Hebrews 12:6 ). The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. This terminates all for me as a living man here below. and devour one another -- As wild beasts do. To the Galatians there was an exception. After one of his great victories Nelson attributed it to the fact that he had the happiness to command a band of brothers. In grace, God in the person of His Son speaks and accomplishes ALL; and thus He is glorified from first to last. But in this he could glory. That is not what Christian liberty is about. Carousing; this word (komos) has an interesting history. Now you've got to defend it against the challenges and so you've got to start making up or taking positions that are thoroughly unscriptural in order to defend your position." "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another. Being found only in Christ, it supposes the manifestation of grace; light does not in the same way that truth does. The apostle does not say, if grievous 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. That's just my old flesh that's upset. what is today's heat index For as the first epistle had put down man in every form, and more particularly man as an expression of the world in its pride, so the second epistle breathes the comfort of God's restoring grace, and is characterized therefore by the strongest emotions of the heart; for he ardently loved these saints. "Now," says he, "if we profess to be of this number, and as such to have obtained this privilege, let us show it by a temper and behaviour agreeable hereunto; let us evidence our good principles by good practices." Such is the reasoning in which the apostle uses this very remarkable prophecy. 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. There followed Paul teachers, Judaizers who brought another gospel, which was not really a gospel. Not so. Partisan strife will be fatal to the Christian community as a whole. Again, it is not a liberty to do anything I please. You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. 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. Those who belong to Jesus Christ have crucified their own unregenerate selves ;along with all their passions and their desires. 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. There's nothing that you can add to what Jesus paid. The human flesh is weak. 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. It is the liberty not to do those things which the flesh once forced me to do. His account proves how independent he was of the very persons whom they would have desired to have seen associated with him. 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. Help us to express our faith in love every day by loving our neighbor as ourselves. And you find that these people espousing them are plagiarizing from other people who have espoused them, and it goes back and back and back. You got to be circumcised." God did not intend man to live that way, because man living that way is alienated from God who is a Spirit. This would have flowed from Peter's conduct. Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. Selfishness in the end does not exalt a man; it destroys him. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh ( Galatians 5:24 ). They're trying to cause you to be circumcised, I wish they were castrated." Had they been occupied with Christ, they would have really loved one another, and in other respects too fulfilled the law, without thinking about themselves or it. "Then after three years," he says, "I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter." For he, though a Jew, had completely done with the law, and all that pertains to it. That is, he links on the heavenly character of Jerusalem for us before touching on the desolate place of Jerusalem after the flesh, or of the predicted change of heart and blessing in grace, when she will be glad to appropriate, as it were, the Christians born now after the Spirit. The law holds out but never gives blessing. It was used of the serenity which a country enjoyed under the just and beneficent government of a good emperor; and it was used of the good order of a town or village. 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?" The word faith here is trusting. These concepts, these heresies that develop within the church are passed on by men. "I am crucified with Christ." Remember what it must have been to one like Paul to censure the most honoured of the twelve. This they never thought of doing. "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." 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. He speaks of "the grace of Christ." Verse 15. How apt the illustration for exposing the judaizers! This must be indeed confusion; as it is, there is none. All of the law is fulfilled. Some guy comes up and says, "Hey man, I got a watch, genuine made, you know. What! "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." is this all? But it works through love. Certainly not God, nor His plain and precious word. And I can just go and pass it by.And so, another issue arises in five minutes. "Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; though it be but a man's covenant, yet, if it be confirmed, no man annulleth or addeth thereto." No doubt there was a difference of tone. 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. On the contrary, they must think of others and act to please them. Galatians 5:16-17 says, "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). The oneness of the saints with Christ Himself is, as we all familiarly know, clearly intimated. 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. His theology always ran one danger. Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. But it is not so. When God gives a pledge not of possessing the gate of enemies, when He speaks of the blessing of the nations, instead of the overthrow of Israel's foes, then he speaks simply of "thy seed." A final appeal to walk in the liberty of Jesus. Hagar had a son called Ishmael. Thence he advances to another point of his argument. Paul takes that old story and allegorises it. That's all the law is saying to you. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. For God considers the poor; He has regard to the simple; He has children in His eye. But this was only provisional and parenthetic. . So were the others that seemed to be the chief. Both sides of the dispute are guilty. Not so; it is exclusively of grace by Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. "To Abraham were the promises made, and to his seed.". Proud member But the moment a Gentile takes the system up, or a Jew presses it on a Gentile, it is nothing but downright heathenism. Not striving. There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. Rather, if man had been able to obey the law and so acquire a title, then two systems would have interfered with each other as being to the same end. But, I repeat, this simply was revealed to him. 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. Man is only the receiver; and truly, as we know, "it is more blessed to give than to receive." Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. 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. All therefore becomes a matter of the pure grace of God; and He is pleased to bless the Gentiles in the Seed, even Christ dead and risen. He says, "If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin?" He does not charge them with anything of an openly gross or immoral nature; but what a proof that the truth of God, that the grace of Christ, is exclusive of everything but itself! Verse Meaning Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. If any of them believe in the Crucified, they were God's Israel. 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. Next: Galatians 5:4 All right, I'm still one of His sheep, you know. 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. "Ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." 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. 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