The gospel had brought in before God this double conclusion, founded on the first Adam and the last. Flesh and blood had not revealed it. You who seek to get yourselves right with God by means of legalism have got yourself into a position in which you have rendered ineffective all that Christ did for you. Peace; in contemporary colloquial Greek this word (eirene, G1515) had two interesting usages. to bite, N.T.o. Love (as Jesus taught, Mark 12:31 and parallels) includes everything Galatians 5:15 - Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

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I would [wish that] they were even cut off which trouble you ( Galatians 5:12 ). [For] if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. It is predicated upon the work of God. It comes by reading the book of Mormon. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law. He had felt their wrong, but at the same time had been lifted marvellously above what might be called personal feeling, and so much the more, therefore, could have the grief of love unmingled with that which really impairs its strength, and leaves its sensibilities incomparably less acute. The prosperity doctrines of the gnostic heresy of the early church. To deny yourself for Christ means to renounce yourself as the center of existence and to recognize Jesus Christ as your new and true center. Therefore reckon ye yourselves to be dead with Christ, but alive unto God through Him" ( Romans 6:6 , Romans 6:11 ). We are to journey through life in the sphere of grace and not works, for we are positioned in Christ as a free gift of God. If I am a Christian, I am responsible according to that position and privilege. "If righteousness come by the law," (he does not merely say, "come of the law," but come by it,) "then Christ is dead [died] in vain." Flesh alas! It was the ungrateful heart of man that, in its avidity after something that would bring an appearance of strength and unity, would sacrifice that, which was of heaven for what was after all connected with the earth and the flesh. Paul reminded Christians: Kindness and goodness are closely connected words. consumed, &c.Strength of soul, health of body, character, and resources, are all consumed by broils [Bengel]. This is the only sin Paul warned the Galatians to avoid. It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. But it degenerated; came to mean the desire to have what someone else has, wrong desire for what is not for us. Still less is it possible to let the law set its force aside. Agathosune ( G19) might, and could, rebuke and discipline; chrestotes ( G5544) can only help. If I preach circumcision, then why would they keep persecuting me? So, Paul here exhorts us to walk in the Spirit and to live after the Spirit or on the spirit side of our lives. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 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. Paul was confident the Galatians would resist the one leading them in the wrong direction. One of the lawyers one day challenged Jesus as to the greatest commandment. Paul ends with a very blunt saying. And, doubtless, God had all this in view when He pledged Himself with an oath to Abraham. I violated. Your mind has to be bent in that direction through their writings. All of the law is fulfilled. There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. And so, it was something that was quite familiar the castration. Beware of destroying one another. II. Those who belong to Jesus Christ have crucified their own unregenerate selves ;along with all their passions and their desires. devourthe substance by injuring, extortion, &c. (Hab 1:13; Mt 23:14; 2Co 11:20). The gospel, not the law, owns its kindred with the promise. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. He visits Arabia and Damascus once more. As the child of the slave girl persecuted the child of the free woman, the children of law now persecute the children of grace and promise. All this vanishes in Christ; we are all one in Him; and if you are Christ's, what need to be circumcised! And they glorified God in me.". So I must be righteous in order to have fellowship with God. Galatians 1:1-24. 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. The word used here ( dakno), means, properly, to bite, to sting; and here seems to be used in the sense of contending and striving - a metaphor probably taken from dogs and wild beasts. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. "For I am as ye are." Idolatry; this means the worship of gods which the hands of men have made. 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. Reckon that to be. It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. So, "do not use your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love," the real key is love, "serve one another.". The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. But we, brothers, are in the same position as Isaac; we are children of promise. Thus the law was ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator. But if not called to have his place among the twelve, it was the Lord's sovereign dealing to give him a better one. 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." The truth is the distinctive boon and mark of Christendom. It was therefore not only for him, but for the instruction of the Galatians, and of us all. p. 86; Jacobs, ad Anthol. But God took care that the call of Paul should be delayed till the whole order of the Jewish apostleship should be complete. I wish we could always remember, when the devil tempts us to disputes, that the disagreement of members within the church can lead to nothing else than the ruin and consumption of the whole body. This epistle, as those to the Corinthians, opens with an assertion of his apostolic place. You cannot go farther. In point of fact, to bring in Christ is also best of all to secure the blessing, the privileges, the glory that God has in His grace for every one that believes. Man had his duty to God, and be ought to have. A group known as the Judaizers were pressuring the Galatians to submit to physical circumcision in order to be acceptable to God. Liberty from the law and from the bondage of the law, because that cannot make you righteous. For his own special call was an indisputable fact; and it is a great joy to the heart to think how Christianity (while it leaves the deepest and the highest space in all directions, so to speak, for the working of the Holy Ghost, while there is more room in it than anywhere else for the play both of the renewed mind and the affections that the Spirit of God gives, while, consequently, it admits of the richest possible exercises of both mind and heart), nevertheless, in its grand truths rests on the most patent and certain facts. WebGalatians 5:115 focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. It was the practice that priests and really devout worshippers of Cybele mutilated themselves by castration. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 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. And, as this would be the best means of preserving them from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, so it would be a good evidence that they were Christians indeed; for, says the apostle (Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18), If you be led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Truth must necessarily be exclusive, and all who hold the truth must, in their adhesion to it and Him who is its personal expression, be exclusive too. On the contrary, "the Scripture hath concluded all under sin" not under righteousness by law. You couldn't believe the things the Jehovah Witnesses believe, unless you read their screwy attitudes and ideas in their books. He's temperant. New Living Translation But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! #1 It is for freedom By freedom, this verse means that we can serve others in the name of the Lord and reap the reward of joy that comes from it (Galatians 5:13-15). Therefore, you died to that belief and you trusted Jesus' death on the cross for your salvation. They don't come to man from God.And the Jehovah Witnesses, just the Arian heresy of the early church. One degree, and you've only gone hundred miles, you don't even notice. 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. Thence he advances to another point of his argument. (2.) Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. 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. Who put up a road-block to stop you obeying the truth? Paul adds a grim bit of advice. And this is the thing that you try to describe to people, and they don't understand. (Compare John 1:9; John 1:17.). has an affinity for both. ( 2 Corinthians 6:14 ) How can I really fellowship with God if I'm unrighteous? Paul said to the Galatians; You reached the point in your life where you realized you cannot make yourself righteous - that you cannot accomplish your own salvation through religious rituals and any type of good works that you do. Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. Euripides called it "the greatest of all diseases among men." Make a child thoroughly happy, and you will soon see that its duty becomes comparatively light and a joy. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another. I can yield to my flesh and I can blow off steam and I can get in and I can fight and I can get into the striving and the whole issue. It is all devoted to the deliverance of the saint from this present evil age by the cross of Christ, and his consistent maintenance of the new nature and position of grace of the new creation in Christ Jesus. "The child of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise." You see, I don't always do the things that I would. The promise is therefore entirely distinct from the law, which was not heard of for four hundred and thirty years after. And what was the result of all this? The man who practises it has been said to know no restraint, but to do whatever caprice and wanton insolence may suggest. how lamentable the extraordinary number of those, of whom the one cuts off the life of the other. Their ears were heavy, and their eyes blinded by their legalism. Self-control; the word is egkrateia ( G1466) which Plato uses of self-mastery. Strife; originally this word had mainly to do with the rivalry for prizes. May the truth of God sink into our hearts! Such is the application. But in truth the Lord "gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to whom be glory for ever and ever. All that the law can do, even when yielded by the might of the Spirit of God, is to force on a soul the consciousness of being dead before God. It needs to be boistered by Gods spirit. But if ye bite and devour one another,. Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious consequences of a contrary spirit and conduct. . In other words, you did not get this from God. 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. Christian freedom is not licence, for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not a man who has become free to sin, but a man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin. WebGalatians 5:15. Those that were used of Satan, both to oppose the apostle in person, and also to distrust that testimony which they had not spirituality enough to appreciate, busily insinuated doubts into the minds of these Gentile brethren, and found too ready an ear among them.

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