It is evident that the thorn in the flesh was something which left him open to a slight, and made it difficult indeed for any one to understand how a man who was called to be an apostle should find it hard to convey plainly his mind in preaching. "Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. 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. "As many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." This was at work even in those early days. 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 very utmost that could be said was, that God had been pleased to reveal His Son to Peter and the others. Whom did their principle make them resemble? Now, man was created and by God as a living spirit. It was not merely that his apostleship was doubted God's magnifying of His own Son was set at naught. I could quickly get in trouble. 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. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust [desires] of the flesh ( Galatians 5:15-16 ). Jewish elements were borne with in a Jew. You see, laws are for unprincipled people. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. (Compare John 1:9; John 1:17.). Thus, then, God directed and ruled that the apostle should go up and have the evil condemned on the spot, and at the centre from which it had emanated. 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. 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. Hereon the apostle puts before them another expostulation: "I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." Abraham never. Because they were sons, God sent that blessed proof and power of their sonship. Thus, going up with Barnabas, he took Titus, a Gentile, along with him; and even so by revelation. Surely now there was some link with the twelve! So here it is said that God was pleased to reveal His Son in him, that he might preach the good news of Him among the heathen. Paul cautioned both sides to love one another or they would consume each other. Wantonness; this word (aselgeia, G766) is translated licentiousness in the Revised Standard Version ( Mark 7:22; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; 1 Peter 4:3; Jd 1:4 ; Romans 13:13 and 2 Peter 2:18). 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. Only we must carefully bear this in mind, that in the epistle to the Galatians we never rise exactly to church ground. Indeed, there is no soul really above them. What gives power is the heart surrendering itself in everything, and thus set at liberty by Christ. Proud member The enemy had ensnared them by crying up circumcision, in order to betray them into a link with Judaism; but they had no thought of bearing the real burden of the law. And in these are all the law and the prophets" ( Matthew 22:37-40 ). Theirs was the slave's son Ishmael. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. It has been defined as "readiness for any pleasure." Paul always triumphantly satisfies that test, just as here the whole matter is brought to the acid test of daily living. At any rate, the Galatians, naturally fickle, were quick to take up prejudices. For ye have heard of my conversation in times past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: and profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. There was no difference in the blessing of Christ: man's guilt and God's grace were alike indiscriminate. To him a theology was not the slightest use unless it could be lived out. So, joy is love's consciousness. It's the operation of God's Spirit within our heart that works through love. Which son represented them? 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." But the Jerusalem which is above is free and she is our mother. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. Paul did not stand alone. What Satan aims at is, that people should not count themselves what they are, and that they should be always slipping into what they are not. One of these covenants--the one which originated on Mount Sinai--bears children who are destined for slavery--and that one is represented by Hagar. And in the fifteenth chapter of Acts, we read how that Peter stood up and told the brethren how that the Lord had called him to go to the Gentiles to the house of Cornelius. All rights reserved. The superior Trinity is made up of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. You never come to believe in what the Mormons believe through reading the Bible. . In the case of the twelve, we do find an apostle chosen to supply the gap of Judas chosen, I admit, of God, though after a Jewish sort, as Chrysostom justly remarks, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given. And so with the Mormons. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. to bite, N.T.o. 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. At the same time it is shown to be, not what it might seem, a negative power only, but along with it is the new creation into which grace forms us. His account proves how independent he was of the very persons whom they would have desired to have seen associated with him. All of the bases are covered. Then we come to the closing chapter (Galatians 6:1-18); and here we find the Spirit of God calling for tenderness in dealing with those who are overtaken in a fault. And I encourage you to just read your Bible.Now, why is it that Jehovah Witness can't tell you that? It is the quality, not so much of the jealous, but rather of the embittered mind. "The child of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise." It might have been inferred that Paul was to do what he could with the Gentile churches, but that the twelve exclusively cared for the churches in Judea, he consequently having nothing to do with them. A komos was a band of friends who accompanied a victor of the games after his victory. But if you bite -- By an improper use of the tongue. 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. Take heed that ye be not consumed - As wild beasts contend sometimes until both are slain. Christian baptism, contrariwise, supposes man dead; and the only death that can deliver man out of his own death is the death of Christ. "But neither Titus [he takes occasion to say parenthetically], being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised." So were the others that seemed to be the chief. It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. Let us never confound the two. (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. Jesus, the rejected Messiah, was the Son of the living God, the giver of life, the quickening Son of God. Partisan strife will be fatal to the Christian community as a whole. Now. the Christian dooms himself to such hard labour instead of resting in the faith of Christ, whom has he to blame? This is what the law commands, but those who want to put themselves under the law cannot do it. 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.". 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. No, this persuasion doesn't come from Him who called you. Help us to share the Gospel of love with everyone around us at every . All right, you know. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Thus the apostle had to link together the gospel of grace with his own apostolic dignity; and we do well to take heed to this remarkable fact. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. This he means here by "faith." Even if people put themselves under the law, rebellious human nature produces only those evils that the law forbids and that exclude people from Gods kingdom (19-21).If, on the other hand, Christians allow Gods Spirit to control them, their lives become full of the most pleasing virtues - the opposite of those things that the law forbids (22-23). The law necessarily makes the man, and the man's doings, to be the prominent object. And so, it was something that was quite familiar the castration. But in this he could glory. The readiest way to destroy the spirituality of a church, and to annihilate the influence of religion, is to excite a spirit of contention. Jealousy; this word (zelos, G2205, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. beasts of prey falling upon and devouring one another: for wolves Thus I am dead through the law. But if you snap at one another, and devour one another, you must watch that you do not end up by wiping each other out. Impossible to find a blast more withering to all that they were aiming at. Invariably, where man seeks to bring in a successional apostleship, the twelve become the great model. So, "do not use your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love," the real key is love, "serve one another.". Every one who went back from such a gospel as this was, as far as it went, frustrating the grace of God. And if you do, you will not be fulfilling the desires of your flesh. It is the obligation to God. The law was given them with all pomp and solemnity. The very reverse of their system is true. Romans 7 indicates that under the very law by which they are attempting to be justified there is no way, once a person sins, for the inner man to gain control of the tendencies of the flesh. Rare in N.T. Christianity is the only true democracy, because in a Christian state everyone would think as much of his neighbour as he does of himself. Thus all had been duly prepared of God, with a far-reaching wisdom, to make the call of Paul an evidently and entirely separate thing, to make his apostleship as distinct in fact as in form; to give him fresh communications, even as to the Lord's supper, and to convey anew the very gospel that he preached as the revelation of the Son in him. 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. Accordingly, in Galatians 3:1-29 he pursues his reasoning. (iv) Sod, the allegorical meaning. This is heavy. (a) It means being submissive to the will of God ( Matthew 5:5; Matthew 11:29; Matthew 21:5). Saints they may have been; and such, we know, moved about from Jerusalem. To make this evident by transgressions was the object of the law. Under which type did they fall Ishmael or Isaac? It meant emulation, the desire to attain to nobility when we see it. How do they stand related? The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. Galatians 5:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible BUT IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER,.. But this was not all. having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. But you continue one degree off on out over the Pacific, and you can miss your destination completely. "A little leaven," said Paul, "leavens the whole lump." But the moment a Gentile takes the system up, or a Jew presses it on a Gentile, it is nothing but downright heathenism. And what sort of life can this be? It was partly directed to the hearts and consciences of the Jews, partly in view of the approaching rupture of all ties with Israel. Do your souls go along with Paul's decision? And, you know, I mean, you're having now go to . There it is not traced to God the Father, that raised Christ from the dead; but it descends from Christ ascended to heaven (which, we shall soon see, perfectly fits in with that epistle). On the contrary, they must think of others and act to please them. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? There is no law which condemns thing; like that. He intimates also how vain a thing is legalism, because those that were pleading for circumcision in no case carried out their own principle. Leave room for God, and for God alone. Why can't the Mormons tell you that? What had been revealed? Even when he has been scaling the highest heights of thought he always ends a letter on a practical note. He says, "If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin?" As in the previous verses Paul set out the evil things characteristic of the flesh, so now he sets out the lovely things which are the fruit of the Spirit. The rod was the thing the shepherd used to hit the sheep on the flanks when they started getting out, you know, roaming out. No wonder that the apostle attached the greatest moment to the facts of his conversion and call, and that, instead of hiding his lack of familiarity both with the apostles and with the churches in Judea, he glories in it. You weren't persuaded to be circumcised because God was speaking to your heart and convicting you of this. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these ( Galatians 5:18-19 ). Bondage is there; and He is a deliverer, but it is to God's glory, and for His own service in the liberty of grace. You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. When he declared that the end of the reign of law had come and that the reign of grace had arrived, it was always possible for someone to say, "That, then, means that I can do what I like; all the restraints are lifted and I can follow my inclinations wherever they lead me. A double intervention comes between God and man, in contrast with the simplicity of His ways of grace. So it was, then, that the apostle presents his own wonderful relation to Christ. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. 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. Mark it well. "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" The reason is, that he has not yet come to own by faith that he has no strength any more than righteousness, and that Christ is all and in all. "Wherefore then serveth the law? But if ye bite and devour one another: Such actions are the opposite of loving their neighbor as they ought. Or are you inclined toward the easy-going yieldingness of Peter? He who is upsetting you--whoever he is--will bear his own judgment. For if a man "keeps the whole law, yet he offends in one point, he is guilty of all" ( James 2:10 ). But he was not thus disobedient to the heavenly vision. This never can bring man to God any more than glory to God. 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. He wants to get rid of the first Adam and all its appliances, not to keep it on; and therefore he puts on Christ. The Christian needs that goodness which at one and the same time can be kind and strong. Paul now warns them about a consequence of this. 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. 6) Psalm 90:14 (NIV) Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. These were his lineal posterity. And mark the difference. That is, if the Holy Ghost was given as the seal of their redemption, and as the joy of the sonship, wherein they now stood, in the exercise of their nearness to God and enjoyment of His love, they cry, "Abba, Father," the very words of Christ himself (but in how different circumstances!) Men that have followed after my perverse teachings. And I had some who were determined that they were going to convert me to their way of thinking.And I would listen to them and listen to them and listen to them; I don't really make a practice of arguing scriptures. So here the Christian puts on Christ, not the law or circumcision. These things are not allowed in the kingdom of God. 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. So it came to mean work done for pay. The forgiveness of your sins and your redemption is totally predicated upon the finished work of Jesus Christ upon the cross.These people were adding to it. The Greeks drank more wine than they did milk; even children drank wine. It will create a lot of envy and a lot of provocation. Verse Meaning Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. Therefore, no wonder that he says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.". 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. 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." Help us to express our faith in love every day by loving our neighbor as ourselves. 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." "So then," says he, "they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. Carousing; this word (komos) has an interesting history. This is not a word which classical Greek uses commonly. So I must be righteous in order to have fellowship with God. Fornication; it has been said, and said truly, that the one completely new virtue Christianity brought into the world was chastity. In my spirit, in the realm of the Spirit. You'll be disappointed. They are acting like animals, satisfying their own desires of the flesh, in order to get back at those who differ with them. This is shown still more fully in the allusion to baptism: "As many of us as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." For what the law is actually saying to you is that you should love God supremely and love your neighbor as yourself. All this is counted a great, wise, and sensible help to devotion. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ." What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! For kindness the word is chrestotes ( G5544) . The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. I tried." Far otherwise is God's way with souls. 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. 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. It was rather to have Gentile liberty secured by the twelve apostles, and that the Judaizers should be condemned by the church at Jerusalem. Some are sins against the first and second commandments, as idolatry and witchcraft. Not all sins are crimes. The apostle accepts the fact in all its strength. It was ordained by angels, who had nothing to do with promise, which God gave direct to His friend. What has He set us free to? Hairesis was not originally a bad word at all. We can understand a foolish man making a covenant, and the next day repenting of it, which is never true of the divine purposes. Christ has set us free! "Yeah, but I had the right to do it." Does not this make very light of it? You open the door for a little error, and it will soon magnify because you see, as you've opened the door for this error, then as you are challenged on the flaws of the error, you're going to have to develop further doctrines to cover or further concepts to cover, and pretty soon, you're going to be way out in left field.There is a group called Jesus Only, and they believe that Jesus is the Father, He is the Son, He is the Holy Spirit. Coveting is a sin which is almost never considered a crime. This is what is found under it. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. He went simply to make the acquaintance of Peter, and abode with him how long? The cross paid it all. Pungent, abrupt, indignant, he none the less was led of God. The gospel had brought in before God this double conclusion, founded on the first Adam and the last. It needs to be boistered by God's spirit. It also described the bands of the devotees of Bacchus, god of wine. Paul says, "If you go on in this way, of which circumcision is the beginning, you might as well end up by castrating yourselves like these heathen priests." I have not. 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. For in Jesus Christ it is not of the slightest importance whether a man is circumcised or uncircumcised. Love is the sum of the whole law; as love to God comprises the duties of the first table, so love to our neighbour those of the second. "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." 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 ). 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