1-6) a. Things which were once a mystery and I couldn't understand are now very understandable. True freedom; true Christianity (5:13-26). All of the law is fulfilled. But, I repeat, this simply was revealed to him. There could be but one answer. "As many as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." False doctrine was probably a judgment from heaven upon their ambition, pride, and other offenses. "This persuasion, this ideas that you have, they don't really come from God, from the One who called you. Look at all the notches on my belt." You are saved. To impugn the one is to imperil the other. Why then did he want he Gentiles to live as did the Jews? To be consumed, while the tendency of brotherly love is to produce mutual protection and kindness. And so I said, "All right, tell me, when Jesus was baptized, who spoke and said, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" ( Matthew 3:17 )? The law, accordingly, never was the truth, either on God's side, or man's. 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. 2 Mark my words! Peace; in contemporary colloquial Greek this word (eirene, G1515) had two interesting usages. The contents of the greeting ( Galatians 1:3a ) ii. Thus a decisive blow is struck at the principle of connection with the law; and it was evident that they did not truly "hear the law." The law is of a wholly different nature, and hence was ordained of angels in the hand of a mediator. If you want to be a subject in God's kingdom, then you cannot do these things. "Cast out the slave girl and her son, for the son of the slave girl must not inherit with the son of the free woman." that is, either beware lest each other's particular peace and Mark it well. take heed that ye be not consumed one of another: The Galatians are warned earnestly and intently to view their predicament and to decide not to destroy each other spiritually. And the old flesh likes to get people excited and stirred up like that. Created by God, in fellowship with God. You'll be disappointed. You got to be circumcised." Can I be righteous by keeping the law? This then is what the law brought in. 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. He shows that the Spirit of God dwelling in the believer gives no license for the action of the flesh. (89) , . Christ never mingles with flesh or law any more than with the world. THE INTRODUCTION ( Galatians 1:1-10) 1. Thus, whether it be the Gentile without law, or the Jew with it, all are shut up under sin. The promise has another and most blessed place. My business is to act consistently with the new place in which grace has put me. Or I can walk after the Spirit and say, "Oh Lord, it doesn't matter. Another thing, too, let me just point out in passing. 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. Then after a certain lapse of time he does see Jerusalem, but no more than Peter and James, not the apostolic college officially. That is, if you are circumcised ritually for the purpose of having a righteous standing before God. You know, you come up with some heretical teaching, you get everybody excited and everybody's listening, everybody's beginning to discuss what you're teaching. 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. What! Fifteen days. And mark how the Holy Ghost turns Abraham into an additional and most unexpected proof of the grace of God and the truth of the gospel. 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. 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. Don't marvel when I say, 'You've got to be born again.'" Her child was born free and according to God's promise--and all his descendants must be free. He warns against "another gospel," i.e., a different one, which was really none at all. Be led by the Spirit, you're not under the law. Salem Media Group. Who put up a road-block to stop you obeying the truth? It supposed, and went forth to every creature on the ground of the total ruin of Jew and Gentile. The other part remains, and must be accomplished in its own day, when Israel's heart turns to the Lord. The apostle was given to preach the truth more fully than any other. The fate of any group permitting such a development issues inevitably in that of "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat": The apostle said as much in this very passage. Accordingly, the language would have been premature and entirely beyond the conscious experience of the saints, or the real truth of the matter in the sight of God. We are crucified unto it by grace, as the world is crucified unto us by judgment. This I ask in Jesus' name, AMEN. The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. Love; the New Testament word for love is agape ( G26) . 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. If I am a Christian, I acquire a new kind of responsibility. How impossible, therefore, to add the law to the promise! There can be no doubt about the matter. Thence he advances to another point of his argument. So much the more, then, we find the working of spiritual feeling as expressed by him in the second epistle, where he speaks of God lifting up those that were cast down, as He had delivered himself from the imminent danger to which he had been exposed even as to life. done his duty; but it was precisely what he could not do, because he was a sinner. He took care also that the twelfth apostleship should be filled up; for it is a profound mistake to suppose that Peter and the other apostles had been hasty in numbering Matthias with them, and that Paul was really the twelfth apostle according to the mind of the Lord. Adultery, fornication, uncleanness [sexual impurities], [wantonness] lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft [drug abuse] ( Galatians 5:19-20 ). Agathosune ( G19) might, and could, rebuke and discipline; chrestotes ( G5544) can only help. 6) Psalm 90:14 (NIV) Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. It is past dispute that the things he here speaks of are the works of the flesh, or the product of corrupt and depraved nature; most of them are condemned by the light of nature itself, and all of them by the light of scripture. If I am walking in the Spirit, if I am walking in love, then there can be no law to regulate my life. But the liberty is not a liberty to indulge my flesh in anything that I may desire to do after the flesh. And I can choose whether or not to walk in the flesh, or then again, to commit it and walk after the Spirit. My responsibility is defined by the place in which I am found. In Romans he wrote one of the world's great theological treatises, and then, quite suddenly, in Romans 12:1-21 the theology came down to earth and issued in the most practical advice. But before He sent the promised Seed, man's self-confidence needed the discipline of the intermediate thing, the law; and after infinite long-suffering on God's part, the people who undertook to obey it had to be swept out of the land for their disobedience. Sense of duty is not power. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. He simply states, as I have said, that his apostolic character was not only from Jesus, but from God the Father, that raised Him from the dead. Josephus ascribed it to Jezebel when she built a temple to Baal in Jerusalem. This is heavy. That is, the most simple and most obvious truth is just the last thing a man thinks about. On the other hand Sarah stands for the new covenant in Jesus Christ, God's new way of dealing with men not by law but by grace. And then concludes the chapter with a caution against pride and envy. Liberty from the law and from the bondage of the law, because that cannot make you righteous. And this is always true in its measure, and shows the exceeding gravity of opposition where God raises up for His own special work in this world; but more particularly where, as in the apostle's case, the mere manner of his conversion, the special form of his separation unto God, bears the impress of the truth he was to preach. Impossible to serve two masters! It is the spirit which has mastered its desires and its love of pleasure. There was no such thing as a gradual training. Hairesis was not originally a bad word at all. What is good fruit in the Bible? When they first knew him, there was no difficulty felt on this score; they heard him as an angel of God. Now, there are two ways that I can be righteous. Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. And it is in the realm of the spirit where man meets God. The way they triumph over these wrong desires is not by putting themselves under the law, but by allowing Gods Spirit to direct their lives (16-18). Therefore, no wonder that he says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.". Christian baptism, contrariwise, supposes man dead; and the only death that can deliver man out of his own death is the death of Christ. 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. And what was the result of all this? Therefore, that righteousness is perfect. Drunkenness; in the ancient world this was not a common vice. Now, the word temperance is one we have a little difficulty with. In its own proper sphere and blessings Christianity knows nothing of the sort, but denies it in principle. I tried." Ye did run well." Monarchy is government by one, and began in the interests of efficiency, for government by committees has always had its drawbacks. (c) Most often of all it means being considerate ( 1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Ephesians 4:2). For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). Galatians 5:15 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. On this the apostle reasons. You cannot go farther. This the Jews are destined to have by-and-by; for the promises to Abraham are not exhausted yet. Galatians 5:22-23 THE END (GOAL) IS GROWING FAITH IS LOVE 2 Peter 1:5-7 PAUL'S GREAT DESCRIPTION OF LOVE 1 Corinthians 13:4-6 BOTH GOD & LOVE INCLUDE Joy Peace Forbearance Kindness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-control Faith Goodness Knowledge Self-control Perseverance Godliness Mutual affection Patient Kind Truth Protection Trust Hope Perseverance I once was in horrible bondage to my flesh. "Before faith came we [Jews] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. This passage, however, indicates they are having disputes. "Bite" refers to the sudden action brought on by uncontrolled emotions that hurt other members of the church. The salutation ( Galatians 1:1-5 ) a. Who of his nation had advanced in Judaism beyond him? But it degenerated; came to mean the desire to have what someone else has, wrong desire for what is not for us. 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