This is not a word which classical Greek uses commonly. 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?" Surely now there was some link with the twelve! "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." Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. The history of the flesh its sad and humbling history is soon over; but the history that faith opens into never closes. His Father had made a revelation to Peter. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful in a heart that entered into things as few hearts have ever done since the world began. In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Impurity, then, is that which makes a man unfit to come before God, the soiling of life with the things which separate us from him. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." If therefore we would have it appear that we are Christ's, and that we are partakers of his Spirit, it must be by our walking not after the flesh, but after the spirit. For kindness the word is chrestotes ( G5544) . Love finds its activity in caring for those that are cast down, "and so fulfils the law of Christ." The law, accordingly, never was the truth, either on God's side, or man's. I could quickly get in trouble. When He gave the promise to Abraham, He said, "I will give." I need money to get home. Jewish elements were borne with in a Jew. And I was challenged by that for a while. Nor is there a greater evidence of God's tender and considerate care for us than such a fact as this. It is not an old creation, but a new one. beware lest you be consumed -- Destroyed. Therefore law, sin, and death may not hurt you or drive you to despair. 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. Thence he advances to another point of his argument. Accordingly, in Galatians 3:1-29 he pursues his reasoning. The works of the flesh. Dissension describes a society in which the very opposite is the case, where the members fly apart instead of coming together. Certainly not God, nor His plain and precious word. The readers ( Galatians 1:2b ) c. The greeting ( Galatians 1:3-5 ) i. So, love is the fulfilling of the law. 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 don't believe that." Breaking Down the Key Parts of Galatians 5:13 #1 "You, my brothers and sisters," Paul is addressing fellow Christians. Don't become seekers after empty reputation; don't provoke each other: don't envy each other. If any of them believe in the Crucified, they were God's Israel. If that is the purpose, you're thinking that it's going to make you righteous before God, you think it's going to make you acceptable before God, Paul said, "Christ will profit you nothing," if that's your mental attitude towards your circumcision. Exhortation to Stedfastness; Persuasives to Stedfastness. is the cement of it, which being loosened, threatens a This closes the course of the apostle's argument. informs all of Pauls exhortations vis--vis the Galatians libertine tendencies . Hence the point is not at all whether we have intrinsic power, but whether He is not now abiding in us as "a Spirit of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." Now, if you're trying to be justified before God or being made righteous before God by the keeping of the law, then Christ is of no effect to you. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, , . "Be as I am." Villages had an official who was called the superintendent of the village's eirene ( G1515) , the keeper of the public peace. The apostle does not say, if grievous wolves should enter in among you and not spare the flock; but suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one another; having reference to their controversies about the law and circumcision, and the necessity thereof to justification and salvation; which were managed with great heat and bitterness, occasioned great contentions, and threatened them with divisions, parties, and factions; and were attended with envy and malice, with reproachful words, biting sarcasms, scandalous invectives, and injurious actions, which must be of bad consequence: hence he adds. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law ( Galatians 5:3 ). Had Paul gone up to present his credentials to the others, he would have lowered, obscured, and done as far as in him lay to destroy the special blessedness and peculiar glory of his apostleship. But if ye bite and devour one another, [you better] take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. To put a stop to coveting is to "head other sins off at the pass.". 17 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. We know how feeble and slow the heart is, and how apt disciples in general are to narrow the riches of the grace and truth of God. I have confidence in you in the Lord; I am sure that you will take no other view. God promises the final power and glory of Israel in the earth, putting down their foes, and so forth. He wants to get rid of the first Adam and all its appliances, not to keep it on; and therefore he puts on Christ. What are you talking about?" You've got to do this, and this, and this, and this, and this. 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. It is not a question of my loving Him, though this is and must be true of the saints; but this would tend to throw the soul on self, and it is not the reckoning of grace. The law in itself never produces such a result. "Wherefore, thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.". God reserves to Himself this great blessedness in the gospel; whereas under the law there was nothing of the kind. Nor this only. Born and bred in the abominable idolatries of the heathen, they were strangers to the institutions of Israel. How could it be otherwise with one persecuting at the moment that he was arrested, in hot deadly opposition to God's church up to his most unexpected call from heaven? It is to be noted that the summit of all meanings was the allegorical meaning. God himself.". Selfishness in the end does not exalt a man; it destroys him. IF YOU RECEIVE CIRCUMCISION. And it is given to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. It was Paul's position that the way of grace and the way of law were mutually exclusive. But in the old days the child who was born in the ordinary human way persecuted the child who was born in the spiritual way; and exactly the same thing happens now. The outline of the story is as follows: Abraham and Sarah were far advanced in years and Sarah had no child. You see, if I weren't a child of God, He would just let me go. 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. Those in Christ must stand firm against anyone who would try to drag them into slavery under the law (Galatians 5:1). It is the characteristic of the man who is reliable. That you're not going to be otherwise minded.". Or are you inclined toward the easy-going yieldingness of Peter? Another thing, too, let me just point out in passing. He went up with Barnabas, taking Titus with him. The Christian by the cross of Christ has terminated his connection with flesh, with the world, with the law. Read Galatians 5: 14-17. And Paul said, "Hey, wait a minute. It is the spirit which has mastered its desires and its love of pleasure. . But what about the Gentiles? He was bound to do what he ought; but, in point of fact, all was a failure, and could be nothing else, because man was a sinner. And this is of immense moment to remember. My very nature is dealt with. This was the serious move of the enemy. Galatians 5 Galatians 5:7 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. It is wholly apart from works of law. [For] if we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Salem Media Group. It was not another, as he says. Ritualism is the present most patent comment on the apostle's statement. Such was the serious but necessary import of Peter's act. 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. We are not to suppose that a higher and more heavenly character blots out the lesser place; of this the apostle takes advantage here. The gospel had given him to sanction in his ways and words the overthrow of the partition wall. Such was the case with the Old Testament believers, and many Jewish believers then alive. Galatians 5:15 - John Darby's Synopsis It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. Tender and comprehensive as Christianity is, it is also the most exclusive thing that can be. Can anything prove that it is not an old creation better than this that there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, male nor female, which last at least is an absolute necessity for the perpetuation of the race? She is desolate; she is no longer in the condition of the married wife, but like the fugitive bondwoman. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. self-seeking, dissension, heretical division, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and all that is like these things, I warn you, as I have warned you before, that those who do things like that will not inherit the Kingdom of God. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do." Galatia was near Phrygia and the great worship of that part of the world was of Cybele. 236.]. But, in point of fact, he did not see the twelve. And who will venture to say that the indwelling Spirit of God fails to supply power to him who submits to the righteousness of God in Christ? You are saved through the finished work of Jesus on the cross. It was the very reverse of deriving his authority from either. Which son represented them? Jealousy; this word (zelos, G2205, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. It needs to be boistered by God's spirit. who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? The writer of First Maccabees ( 1Ma_8:4 ) says that it was by makrothumia ( G3115) that the Romans became masters of the world, and by that he means the Roman persistence which would never make peace with an enemy even in defeat, a kind of conquering patience. For in Jesus Christ it is not of the slightest importance whether a man is circumcised or uncircumcised. 5:22-26 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, self-control. 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. I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. Nor had he conferred even then with flesh and blood; his mission as well as conversion and call were alike independent of it. 4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. Don't despise the chastening of the Lord. Thus it is evident that the legal system is a parenthesis. 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? And they glorified God in me.". To this the apostle endeavours to persuade these Christians, and there are two considerations which he sets before them for this purpose:-- (1.) The Stoics defined it as "grief at someone else's good." It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. 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? The Christian needs that goodness which at one and the same time can be kind and strong. He granted that persons might indulge in some such thoughts about him. If they took that gr. It will create a lot of envy and a lot of provocation. 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. of "They gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision." He is a new creature in Christ. For what has a risen man to do with Israel more than the nations? Alas! There is no recounting what God had done for them. He tells them that as many as take the ground of law works are under the curse already. When a Gentile Christian, mark, takes up such Old Testament elements, according to the Holy Ghost, it is not to him merely Judaism, but a return to his Gentile idols, little as he may think so. It's amazing, isn't it, what difference being born of the Spirit really makes. The Galatian Christians should have been the most peaceful people in the province. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these ( Galatians 5:18-19 ). Not to the place of being ridiculous. "Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one." So "cursed is the man that continues not in the whole law to do that which is written therein" ( Galatians 3:10 ). But as for the apostle Paul, he says he was called, and this by his master from heaven; but by his own showing nobody heard the call of Christ but himself. It is the sin in which material things have taken the place of God. On the other hand, the spirit (the renewed part of us) strives against the flesh, and opposes the will and desire of it: and hence it comes to pass that we cannot do the things that we would. This the apostle represents as our duty, and directs us to the most effectual means of success in it. But as in the end the child of the slave girl was cast out and had no share in the inheritance, so in the end those who are legalists will be cast out from God and have no share in the inheritance of grace. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. We find that offensive in our society today, but in those days, the area of Galatia was the center of the worship of Sybil, and the priests of Sybil would castrate themselves. Impossible to serve two masters! He had before told us that the Spirit of Christ is a privilege bestowed on all the children of God, Galatians 4:6; Galatians 4:6. One of the most dangerous errors in Christendom is, that these two things are lumped together. ". Help us to express our faith in love every day by loving our neighbor as ourselves. Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. If God loved us like that then the love of Christ constrains us. Whoever despises the facts of Christianity, as if nothing in Scripture were worthy of meditation, or of ministering to others but exercises and speculative deductions, will be found, if he do not find himself often, on the verge of dangerous delusions, both for the mind and for the walk. Adultery, fornication, uncleanness [sexual impurities], [wantonness] lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft [drug abuse] ( Galatians 5:19-20 ). The meaning of Galatians 5:1 is an incredible verse that has a powerful lesson for us today. 15.But if ye bite and devour one another. When He had anything unfailing to do or say, He loved to appear in grace; He said it Himself, and did it for Himself. Help me, Lord. At the same time he insists in the most peremptory manner that our liberty in Christ is to be used for holiness. By the Spirit of God, we're waiting for that hope of righteousness through faith. 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. 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. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. If therefore we would make it appear that we do indeed belong to Christ, this must be our sincere care and endeavour as well as the other; and that it was the design of the apostle to represent both the one and the other of these as our duty, and as necessary to support our character as Christians, may be gathered from what follows (Galatians 5:25; Galatians 5:25), where he adds, If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit; that is, "If we profess to have received the Spirit of Christ, or that we are renewed in the Spirit of Christ, or that we are renewed in the spirit of our minds, and endued with a principle of spiritual life, let us make it appear by the proper fruits of the Spirit in our lives." They spring from unbelief from undue thoughts of self, from ignorance of God, from slight thoughts of Christ. 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. The glory which comes from men is vain-glory, which, instead of being desirous of, we should be dead to. It isn't a liberty to live after my flesh. He owned and valued, in its own place, the difficult, weighty, and momentous work which God had assigned to Peter, James, and the rest; but at the same time he stood firmly humbly, of course, and lovingly, but firmly for that which the Lord had assigned to himself and his colleagues among the Gentiles; and, so far from Christ's liberty having been in the least weakened, the apostolic conclave put their seal, with the whole church at Jerusalem, upon it most heartily. 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. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Nevertheless, there never was one that had a deeper sense of the importance of walking, if need were, alone with God. And devour one another - As wild beasts do. We are free, but our freedom loves its neighbour as itself. There could be but one answer. Now, in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Acts, when this same issue had arisen in the church in Antioch, when certain of the brethren came down from Jerusalem and were hassling the Gentile saints in Antioch and said, "You can't be saved unless you are circumcised and keep the law of Moses," Paul and Barnabas and others from Antioch took these brothers right back to Jerusalem, because they came unto the pretense of, "We have the authority of the Jerusalem church to declare these things." And now your spirit is alive. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. There's nothing that you can add to what Jesus paid. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. One of the encouragements, as we know, which God furnished to Abraham was, that he should have a seed like the sand of the sea, and like the stars of the sky. For he, though a Jew, had completely done with the law, and all that pertains to it. The Greeks drank more wine than they did milk; even children drank wine. This must be indeed confusion; as it is, there is none. But the moment a Gentile takes the system up, or a Jew presses it on a Gentile, it is nothing but downright heathenism. But his heart was too agitated not to betake himself at once to the point of their danger. This seems to have been the reason of their being twelve; and it is to me clear that our Lord establishes this as the true reference and key when He declares that, in the regeneration, the Son of Man shall sit upon the throne of his glory, and they shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. You have fallen from grace. 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. It was something painful to bear. 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. (a) Eros (compare G2037) means the love of a man for a maid; it is the love which has passion in it. What does matter is faith which works through love. And let's go on. It was the practice that priests and really devout worshippers of Cybele mutilated themselves by castration. There is a work of God's Spirit within his heart, and he is born of the Spirit, and now again has a spirit that is alive and is conscious of God. Not at all. What can you say to a guy? He is afresh making efforts to improve, yet still in bondage and misery. 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