I could quickly get in trouble. So all of these things fall under the category of works of the flesh, but the "fruit of the Spirit," fruit is singular. . But what does the scripture say? There was no doubt or difficulty on this head in these early days. (3) c. Faith expressed in love is more significant than circumcision. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. Galatians 5:1-15 Inductive Bible Study Notes - Teaching Guide With Questions Outline I. Christ has set us free (1-6) II. But he proves more when he says that Abraham believed God; it was plainly not a question of law. But if ye bite and devour one another For every man shall bear his own 'burden." 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? 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." I. Circumcision is part of the old law that enslaves us. After one of his great victories Nelson attributed it to the fact that he had the happiness to command a band of brothers. Chrysostom said that it is the grace of the man who could revenge himself and does not, the man who is slow to wrath. In Paul's case the Holy Ghost could go a step farther, and that step He seems to me to take. 2. Jesus has set us free - free from the slavery of sin, free from slavery to the law. That is to say, the covenant that was made between God and Abraham had reference to the seed which was coming, symbolized by Isaac, but really looking onward to Christ. It's faith which works by love.Now Paul said, Again, you remember he said, "You did start well. divided against itself, can stand long, so no religious one; and He was given, whether in power or in person, not by the law, but by the hearing of faith. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. "Devour" describes hurtful actions that linger on and on as far as time is concerned. The true link is with Jerusalem above, as our prototype is Isaac, the child of the freewoman. Anything else would have been imperfect; but still it had essentially a transitional character. Now take care that you do not use your wonderful . Nothing is so destructive to the peace of man, and to the peace of the soul, as religious disputes; where they prevail, religion in general has little place. Invariably, where man seeks to bring in a successional apostleship, the twelve become the great model. The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and joy and peace. Gentleness; praotes ( G4236) is the most untranslatable of words. 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. How precious to have done with one's sinful self and to begin a life so perfect as Christ's! provoking one another, envying one another ( Galatians 5:26 ). Agathosune ( G19) might, and could, rebuke and discipline; chrestotes ( G5544) can only help. 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. And if you do, you will not be fulfilling the desires of your flesh. A different issue ensued from their settling down in the mutual independence of the Gentile churches and the Jewish. Plutarch says that it has a far wider place than justice. Ye did run well." If he wrote to the Romans;, it was transcribed, or at any rate written, by 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. Now, it is evident and to this I call your particular attention that the apostle here binds together his gospel with his apostolic place. 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. 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing. "This persuasion didn't come from God.". It is the quality, not so much of the jealous, but rather of the embittered mind. It means that no matter what a man may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation we will never seek anything else but his highest good. 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. Certainly not God, nor His plain and precious word. No, rejoins the apostle; you are going back to heathenism. And people to follow after me, you know. It was through no such channel that he had his apostleship. It was rather to have Gentile liberty secured by the twelve apostles, and that the Judaizers should be condemned by the church at Jerusalem. The apostle accepts the fact in all its strength. Thus all things fall into their place, and the Spirit connects us in heart with that which God is doing and will do for the glory of Christ. We're about one degree off, but we hope to correct this in flight or something." But, I repeat, this simply was revealed to him. For they were saying that was it was necessary to be circumcised and to keep the law of Moses in order to be righteous before God, to be saved. And what was the effect of God's giving him to have an application of law in his own conscience? To them, no doubt, it appeared as if they were zealous and sincere champions of unity. Are you prepared for this searching judgment of what looked a small and indifferent matter? (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). Of none else could it be so said that "it Pleased God to reveal his Son in him." When we look elsewhere we end up enslaved. When we get to the root meaning of these words, we see that life has not changed so very much. As we lived to fulfill the desires of our flesh and of our mind, and we were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. In either case "let him be accursed.". Under which type did they fall Ishmael or Isaac? 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. wolves should enter in among you and not spare the flock; but it has a, perhaps, a naivet about it in that it does trust.You know I've been burned so many times by trusting men, but I pray, "God, never make me jaundiced." and how do they affect each other? But if ye bite - 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 not improbably taken from dogs and wild beasts. In Greek there are four words for love. You got to keep the law. I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. 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? 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. The meaning of Galatians 5:1 is an incredible verse that has a powerful lesson for us today. The Fruit of the Holy Spirit (sometimes, incorrectly, referred to as the Fruits of the Holy Spirit) is a biblical term that sums up nine attributes of a person or community living in accord with the Holy Spirit, according to chapter 5 of the Epistle to the Galatians: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, . enjoyment that has degenerated into licence. 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. The organic life of the body will be destroyed by its own members. We are not to suppose that a higher and more heavenly character blots out the lesser place; of this the apostle takes advantage here. And they ate, giving over to their fleshly appetites and in so doing, the flesh dominated. The gospel had given him to sanction in his ways and words the overthrow of the partition wall. If, when I got on board a 747 at LAX heading for Honolulu, the captain would say, "Now, folks, we're having a little problem here with our navigation instruments. The apostle takes notice of the latter here, because he is speaking of their behaviour towards one another; and, when he makes use of this as an argument to persuade them to mutual love, he intimates both that this would be a good evidence of their sincerity in religion and also the most likely means of rooting out those dissensions and divisions that were among them. That would not be a good example of Christian love. By the Spirit of God, we're waiting for that hope of righteousness through faith. You can't be both. All right, I'm still one of His sheep, you know. Joy; the Greek is chara ( G5479) , and the characteristic of this word is that it most often describes that joy which has a basis in religion (compare Psalms 30:11; Romans 14:17; Romans 15:13; Php_1:4 ; Php_1:25 ). Others are sins against ourselves, such as drunkenness and revellings; and he concludes the catalogue with an et cetera, and gives fair warning to all to take care of them, as they hope to see the face of God with comfort. Another thing, too, let me just point out in passing. Forgive me, Lord. Not to the place of being ridiculous. The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. This is the only sin Paul warned the Galatians to avoid. Let him alone. But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another. 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." Remember what it must have been to one like Paul to censure the most honoured of the twelve. suggests if they themselves should act the part of wolves to one 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 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 Note, 1. What a subversion, not only of the truth of God revealed in the gospel, but also of redemption, which is its basis! 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. Trench says that Jesus showed agathosune ( G19) when he cleansed the Temple and drove out those who were making it a bazaar; but he showed chrestotes ( G5544) when he was kind to the sinning woman who anointed his feet. The fleshly desires will not be dominating your life, but your life will be dominated by the Spirit, and thus, by God. I. Forgive us for the times we abuse this freedom, living more by the flesh than by the Spirit. Now the apostle in writing to the Galatians was so moved in love, and so yearned over them in their danger, that he actually wrote the epistle with his own hand. How impossible, therefore, to add the law to the promise! There could be but one answer. He's just whacked me with the rod. Aristotle defined praotes ( G4236) as the mean between excessive anger and excessive angerlessness, the quality of the man who is always angry at the right time and never at the wrong time. Christianity is the only true democracy, because in a Christian state everyone would think as much of his neighbour as he does of himself. They're wanting to strive, they're wanting to argue; they're wanting to prove their points how that baptism is essential for salvation. And God held the reins that the truth might be kept unsullied and pure; and he goes south and north as the Lord guided His servant, but not to Jerusalem to those that were apostles before him. The law was given them with all pomp and solemnity. And so with the Mormons. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. For he had shown that our purchase by Christ delivers even the Jew from subjection to the law; whilst Gentiles are set at once on the ground of grace without the intervention of any legal apprenticeship whatever, "Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. "The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. Do not suppose that idolatry has its character saved because Jesus is worshipped. Next: Galatians 5:4 It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. Meanwhile another and a better sort of blessing is given, as a better Seed also is given the true Heir of all the promises of God, even Christ the Lord. The apostle concludes this chapter with a caution against pride and envy, Galatians 5:26; Galatians 5:26. If a person is living by right principles, he doesn't need any laws. Vincent Taylor once said, "The test of a good theologian is, can he write a tract?" Aristocracy means government by the best, but best is left to be defined. (b) Philia ( G5373) is the warm love which we feel for our nearest and our dearest; it is a thing of the heart. Their lives should demonstrate the truth that their sinful nature has been crucified with Christ and has no further power over them. Those that are of faith, not those who pretend to the law and do it not, are blessed with their father. In Galatians 5:1-15, the apostle Paul discusses the nature of Christian freedom, beginning with an admonition to "stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage" (Galatians 5:1, NKJV).Paul contends that Jesus Christ came to set believers free from a burdensome, legalistic existence as slaves to the law. It is Christian ground, certainly, but not the church as such. "Christian freedom is not licence [sic] for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not the man who has become free to sin, but the man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin." Some are sins against the first and second commandments, as idolatry and witchcraft. So were the others that seemed to be the chief. (2) b. Circumcision obligates you to the law. There you have in a figure the two parties that are still found on the earth: the law party symbolized by Ishmael, the child of flesh; and those that cling to the grace of God, who have their pattern in Isaac, the child of promise. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?" And they are quite zealous in their beliefs, very fervent in the proclamations of their beliefs. Galatians 5:17 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. Can you give me, you know, a hundred dollars for this watch?" Will I be mastered by the Spirit or will I be mastered by the flesh? And now the apostle enters on another part of his subject. What! Paul went on to argue that if you accepted circumcision, that is to say, if you accepted one part of the law, logically you had to accept the whole law. is this all? If the promise be the only means of enjoying the inheritance, what is the good of the law? Writing was a somewhat laborious task in those days, and it was a kind of profession to be a writer or scribe, before printing, of course, was known. Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. 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