It was partly directed to the hearts and consciences of the Jews, partly in view of the approaching rupture of all ties with Israel. During the Medieval period it was depicted as "Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate", meaning Mary's conception through the chaste kiss of her parents at the Golden Gate in Jerusalem; [64] the 14th and 15th centuries were the heyday for this scene, after which it was gradually replaced by more allegorical depictions featuring an adult Mary. Not at all. Because I can't and haven't kept the whole law, I'm thankful that God accounts me righteous and I can have fellowship with the righteous God because of Jesus Christ and my faith in Jesus Christ. For the Jewish Rabbis a passage of scripture had four meanings. Already "thy seed," the true Isaac, is given, and in that true seed the Gentiles are being blessed. "Here we have the Gentiles expressly named, and to this the apostle refers. For God does speak elsewhere, and even on this occasion, of a numerous seed. 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. He draws particular attention to this fact ere he closes: "You see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand." 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. 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. There is no depreciating of any soul, but the plain statement of the positive truth, which after all is the best and the humblest way, that most of all magnifies God, and edifies His children. Because we wait to have our baptisms 'til the water gets warmer.It's because baptism doesn't save. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law. Paul ends with a very blunt saying. A double intervention comes between God and man, in contrast with the simplicity of His ways of grace. As God has wrought for us on the cross, and delivered us from every atom of sin in Christ, so He will not allow us to mix one earthly or legal element with the revelation of His grace, which He has made ours in redemption, and proclaimed to us by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. Besides, we have a more daily duty: "Bear ye one another's burdens." It was Paul's position that the way of grace and the way of law were mutually exclusive. Arabia was regarded as the land of slaves where the descendants of Hagar dwelt. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. When the prophet speaks of any one living, it is by faith "The just shall live by faith." The fleshly desires will not be dominating your life, but your life will be dominated by the Spirit, and thus, by God. You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. To make this evident by transgressions was the object of the law. Continue to work in me and through me so that I may live a life that is pleasing to You and glorifying to Your holy name, and keep me from falling back under bondage to legalistic practices, knowing that I have been set free by grace through faith in Christ's finished work on Calvary. Here he comes to the positive blessing; for the Spirit cannot rest in what is but negative. This is the only sin Paul warned the Galatians to avoid. Does not this make very light of it? What gives power is the heart surrendering itself in everything, and thus set at liberty by Christ. 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. But now I have liberty in Christ Jesus, for I don't have to follow after the flesh anymore. What Paul is saying is, "This legalistic movement may not have gone very far yet, but you must root it out before it destroys your whole religion.". And you find that these people espousing them are plagiarizing from other people who have espoused them, and it goes back and back and back. You can't be both. Paul always triumphantly satisfies that test, just as here the whole matter is brought to the acid test of daily living. If any apostleship would have served for the Gentiles, it ought to have been Paul's then; for Paul was the apostle of the uncircumcision. His spirit died, and Adam broke fellowship with God. Further. This is not a word which classical Greek uses commonly. The man who makes law the principle of his life is in the position of a slave; whereas the man who makes grace the principle of his life is free, for, as a great saint put it, the Christian's maxim is, "Love God and do what you like." He says, "If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin?" "O foolish Galatians," he now breaks out in an impassioned appeal to them, "who hath bewitched you [that ye should not obey the truth should here vanish], before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified among you?" 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. Sense of duty is not power. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. In the epistle to the Galatians a deeper question was raised nothing less than the fountain of grace itself. An undue regard to the approbation and applause of men is one great ground of the unhappy strifes and contentions that exist among Christians. It describes not an anger which lasts but anger which flames out and then dies. 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. Let him alone. For he is a sinner; and the law called out the sin into articulate transgressions, and made it perfectly plain that the heart is only evil continually, and proves it by plain transgressions; that is all. (3) c. Faith expressed in love is more significant than circumcision. Naughty Paul. And how the Holy Spirit had come upon those of the house of Cornelius who had known nothing really of obedience to the law. Thus, whether it be the Gentile without law, or the Jew with it, all are shut up under sin. "A little leaven," said Paul, "leavens the whole lump." But the Jerusalem which is above is free and she is our mother. "Now, a lot of times when people come to me with some weird concept, I'll say, "Where in the world did you get that idea?" Help me, Lord. So, they went right up to settle the issue, and the church had one of the first church councils gathered to settle a dispute, a problem within the church. Thence he advances to another point of his argument. That is not what Christian liberty is about. Ignorant or false men had made them hanker after circumcision. And what was the effect of God's giving him to have an application of law in his own conscience? It is to be noted that the summit of all meanings was the allegorical meaning. And I can set up these rules, and I can get out my little gold stars. And that's why Paul was persecuted by the Jews, because he was saying, "The law of Moses is not necessary for righteousness or for salvation. "Immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood.". 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. It was to demonstrate his sinfulness, not to gain the inheritance. Dissension; literally the word means a standing apart. Democracy means government of the people, by the people, for the people. Not at all, says the apostle, you are returning straight into your old heathenism without knowing it yourselves. And any kind of a relationship with God that causes me to strive with my brother, causes me to become contentious, is really something that I'm not interested in. It is the widest word for goodness; it is defined as "virtue equipped at every point." then is the offense of the cross ceased ( Galatians 5:10-11 ). The very defence set up, and the meanings which these men put on the forms and ceremonies of which they make Christianity so largely to consist, demonstrate their most barefaced turning back to idolatry. They're contrary, and I do not always walk after the Spirit. But spite of, or rather because of, their use of law, they were self-important, without holy power, and judged instead of loving each other. The inheritance, therefore, depends on the grace of God fulfilling His promise, not on man's accomplishment of the law, even if possible. Even so we, when we were children," etc. 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. Ritualism is the present most patent comment on the apostle's statement. Soon all will believe in Christ, and all Israel be saved. I am crucified with Christ: consequently all that remains for me is living this new life which Christ is in me. of "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" 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. Their predicament would only become worse, as evidenced by the fact that already they are biting and devouring one another instead of growing closer to one another. Abraham never. The whole idea of the word is a goodness which is kind. Whereas the Holy Ghost by the apostle draws attention to the contrast of "thy seed" (as one) with the numerous seed, with earthly blessing attached to them; whilst to "thy seed " simply, without reference to stars or to sand, no more is annexed than the blessing of Gentiles. 15.But if ye bite and devour one another. Now you're, you know, chopping Jesus up, and said, "Well, He is God here, and but, for a while He wasn't God and the universe was without God for a little bit here, or whatever. It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." Therefore reckon ye yourselves to be dead with Christ, but alive unto God through Him" ( Romans 6:6 , Romans 6:11 ). Consequently it is plain from the beginning, that the apostleship of Paul made a demand upon faith which the other apostolate did not. 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. It was ordained by angels, who had nothing to do with promise, which God gave direct to His friend. he gives us this one general rule, which, if duly observed, would be the most sovereign remedy against the prevalence of corruption; and that is to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16; Galatians 5:16): This I say, then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. ( Matthew 27:46 ) Who was He crying to? The apostle Paul himself, inRomans 14:1-23; Romans 14:1-23, insists upon the forbearance of a Gentile even towards the Jew that might be still encumbered by his days, meats, and so on. And he justifies this strength of warning: "For do I now persuade men or God? Uh-huh, you did that five minutes. What is the difference? "Are ye so foolish? But the apostle here does not reason about the matter. In Christ alone, in His cross, let us boast, and in the new creature which is by Christ. If Christ's, they were Abraham's seed already, "and heirs according to the promise;" for Christ, he had shown before, was the one true Seed; and if we are Christ's, we belong to that one true Seed, and therefore are the children of Abraham without circumcision at all. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded ( Galatians 5:10 ): Now Paul is now saying, "Oh, who did hinder you, you know, and this teach and all. Don't become seekers after empty reputation; don't provoke each other: don't envy each other. So it was, then, that the apostle presents his own wonderful relation to Christ. What ground is there for boasting in this? Well, "sensible" help in the meaning of an appeal to nature it is; but it is a sensible help to idolatry, not to living faith. Nothing that God afterwards introduced annulled this. There was no doubt or difficulty on this head in these early days. For the world there is nothing yet executed, any more than the great results of grace for the saints as yet appear in their fulness. Hagar had a son called Ishmael. The Greek says only "brothers," but it is not wrong to assume "sisters" in the same way that mankind includes womankind. The law and the promise are both from God, but the law's use is only negative and condemnatory. Christ's yoke is called chrestos ( G5543) ( Matthew 11:30), that is, it does not chafe. It can mean the beneficent use of drugs by a doctor; but it can also mean poisoning, and it came to be very specially connected with the use of drugs for sorcery, of which the ancient world was full. If, instead of acting like men and Christians, they would behave themselves more like brute beasts, in tearing and rending one another, they could expect nothing as the consequence of it, but that they would be consumed one of another; and therefore they had the greatest reason not to indulge themselves in such quarrels and animosities. "Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are." 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. 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. The apostleship of Paul, therefore, was entirely independent of Jerusalem and the twelve. Hence, you see, all exactly suits the gospel as Paul insisted on it. Christ never mingles with flesh or law any more than with the world. But God took care that the call of Paul should be delayed till the whole order of the Jewish apostleship should be complete. Saints they may have been; and such, we know, moved about from Jerusalem. My responsibility is defined by the place in which I am found. We invite you to crucify our flesh every day so that we may walk in step with your Spirit. In the New Testament it has three main meanings. (c) Storge (compare G794) rather means affection and is specially used of the love of parents and children. Help us to express our faith in love every day by loving our neighbor as ourselves. 5:16-21 I tell you, let your walk and conversation be dominated by the Spirit, and don't let the desires of the lower side of your nature have their way. 6) Psalm 90:14 (NIV) Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. David said, "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me" ( Psalms 23:4 ). It's a solemn warning to every one of us who would live after the flesh or would want to live after the flesh to know that you cannot do these things and inherit the kingdom of God. 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. I am perfectly delivered, and the measure of my deliverance is Christ, and Christ raised from the dead. He also warned them against using their liberty as a license to sin to prevent them from overreacting. 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. "A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump." It was not a question of man's wit. That is, liberty in Jesus Christ. The law is never life to the dead, but kills morally those who seem alive. Paul cautioned both sides to love one another or they would consume each other. 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. that is, either beware lest each other's particular peace and And I encourage you to just read your Bible.Now, why is it that Jehovah Witness can't tell you that? You got to keep the law. Thus, rightly understood and applied, the law and the promises, while wholly distinct, are in no way inconsistent with each other. Born and bred in the abominable idolatries of the heathen, they were strangers to the institutions of Israel. The Greek word is pharmakeia, translated here witchcraft, because in the sorceries, they're into witchcraft. This they never thought of doing. The law is of a wholly different nature, and hence was ordained of angels in the hand of a mediator. Note, Mutual strifes among brethren, if persisted in, are likely to prove a common ruin; those that devour one another are in a fair way to be consumed one of another. So here the Christian puts on Christ, not the law or circumcision. It's amazing, isn't it, what difference being born of the Spirit really makes. And so, such things leaves an unending list of things of the flesh. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Therefore, no wonder that he says, "God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.". "Wherefore then serveth the law? "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." 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. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. If the world were the great enemy at Corinth, the law perverted is that against which the Spirit of God raises up the apostle in writing to the Galatians. They danced and laughed and sang his praises. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith" (not those that cry up the law) "are the children of Abraham. There followed Paul teachers, Judaizers who brought another gospel, which was not really a gospel. 5:13-15 As for you, brothers, it was for freedom that you were called, only you must not use this freedom as a bridgehead through which the worst side of human nature can invade you, but in love you must serve one another; for the whole law stands complete in one word, in the sentence, "You must love your neighbour as yourself." 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. Monarchy is government by one, and began in the interests of efficiency, for government by committees has always had its drawbacks. I don't think you need anything more than the Bible to really know the truth of God. 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. He tells them that as many as take the ground of law works are under the curse already. The kind that were always talking about numbers. The truth is the distinctive boon and mark of Christendom. too often might be ready to turn aside. I violated. (ii) Remaz, its suggested meaning. And then they started to rail on me and prophesy my death and things of this nature. Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. What he preached was the truth as to this matter. and devour one another -- As wild beasts do. [Note: Longenecker, p. All right, I'm still one of His sheep, you know. 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. It is . Read Galatians 5: 14-17. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. 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 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). It was the very reverse of deriving his authority from either. The law of Christ makes the going out of love towards another, so to speak, to be his joy. There is nothing that requires more the power of grace; for even the truth itself, if severed from grace, ceases to be the truth. It describes the deliberate effort--which we can make only with the help of God--never to seek anything but the best even for those who seek the worst for us. Therefore, when a man is baptized, he is not, of course, baptized into his own death; there is no sense in such a thought. If you are circumcised, Christ is no value to you. The allusion is to beasts of prey falling upon and devouring one another: for wolves or dogs to worry sheep is not strange; but for sheep to distress one another is unnatural. It is the spirit which has mastered its desires and its love of pleasure. For He knows our tendency to mingle law with grace in some form or measure, and treats that which was of the fathers and long before Moses, as a foreign ingredient deleterious to Christians. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. If ye bite and devour one another These Churches seem to have been in a state of great distraction; there were continual altercations among them. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another ( Galatians 5:13 ). And so, they started telling people, "Well, Chuck believes this." The cross paid it all. 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." This would have flowed from Peter's conduct. Promise was before the law, and flowed out of the grace of God. So the minute I start peddling books and saying, "Now, to really understand the Bible, you better read my books, because you'll just, you know, read the Bible, you'll be in darkness. 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. 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