what does galatians 5:15 mean

Indeed, there is no soul really above them. 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. of But you continue one degree off on out over the Pacific, and you can miss your destination completely. 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. To Paul all that mattered was faith which works through love. But his heart was too agitated not to betake himself at once to the point of their danger. That is, the most simple and most obvious truth is just the last thing a man thinks about. All right, you know. Concerning these things, or those in whom these fruits of the Spirit are found, the apostle says, There is no law against them, to condemn and punish them. . Thank You, Jesus, for Your forgiveness and for Your love and for Your grace to me.". 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. 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? [Note: Longenecker, p. Liberty comes first, mark; power and love afterwards. That is to say, Ishmael was born of the ordinary human impulses of the flesh; Isaac was born because of God's promise; and Sarah was a free woman, while Hagar was a slave girl. If I sow to the flesh, I shall of the flesh reap corruption; if I sow to the Spirit, I shall reap life everlasting. Up to this point it has been theological; now it becomes intensely ethical. As it is reasoned out in Romans 7:1-25, the law came, and he died. Paul was a trained Rabbi; and that is what he is doing here. Not at all. It might seem entirely despising his brethren. 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. 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. He had felt their wrong, but at the same time had been lifted marvellously above what might be called personal feeling, and so much the more, therefore, could have the grief of love unmingled with that which really impairs its strength, and leaves its sensibilities incomparably less acute. You got to keep the law. Those that are of faith, not those who pretend to the law and do it not, are blessed with their father. It can even be used in a good sense in that connection, but much more commonly it means the rivalry which has found its outcome in quarrellings and wrangling. 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. Let others talk as they will of the law, no law can censure the real fruits of the Holy Ghost, or those in whom they are found. To impugn the one is to imperil the other. Forgive me, Lord. The word faith here is trusting. And what is this? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? You cannot attack such a servant without attacking his testimony. Along with the cross goes a new creation. 5) Psalm 88:13 (NIV) But I cry to you for help, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. take heed that ye be not one of another utterly destroyed. It was exactly what Christ was on earth; and the expression of Christ is the prime call of the Christian. He will gain transgression thereby; nothing more, nothing better. Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! "Now, the other way to be righteous is through faith in Jesus Christ, receiving that grace of God through Him, where God accounts me, as He did Abraham, righteous because I believe. That all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,Galatians 5:14; Galatians 5:14. Don't marvel when I say, 'You've got to be born again.'" 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 ). The long lapse of time ought to have guarded men from mixing up the law with the promise, and thus from the appearance of annulling the promise by the law, for this would be most dishonouring to God. Thus, clearly, in the law man becomes the prominent and responsible party, not God. The Galatian Christians should have been the most peaceful people in the province. It was an offence in the eyes of the Jewish Christians, and perhaps specially of the Christians that Judaize, that the apostle had been so little at Jerusalem that his intercourse was so scanty with the twelve. 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. This is exceedingly important, and the more as I believe the scope of the allusion to Abraham and to his seed is not often appreciated. This agape love is gentle; it is good. "The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. And this leads to another point, the relation of the law to the promises. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. The argument is founded upon the unity of the seed of promise in this connection. "We had ten thousand souls saved last week. It therefore often happened that the Rabbis would take a simple bit of historical narrative from the Old Testament and read into it inner meanings which often appear to us fantastic but which were very convincing to the people of their day. If you are circumcised, Christ is no value to you. Now you've got to defend it against the challenges and so you've got to start making up or taking positions that are thoroughly unscriptural in order to defend your position." Here one may be very brief: "The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; but is under tutors and governors, until the time appointed of the father. We are free, but our freedom loves its neighbour as itself. The apostle concludes this chapter with a caution against pride and envy, Galatians 5:26; Galatians 5:26. Who put up a road-block to stop you obeying the truth? There was no believer, Jew or Gentile, who had not gladly submitted to that very blessed sign of having part with Christ, and of that which is made good by Christ. Laws are necessary to restrain unprincipled people. But what does the scripture say? And this life is sustained by the very same person who is its source. And when he went there, was it a question of receiving aught from the twelve? That is, the apostle, instead of regarding his despised freedom from the law as a just reproach, glories in it. AN OLD STORY AND A NEW MEANING ( Galatians 4:21-31 ; Galatians 5:1 ). It was ordained by angels, who had nothing to do with promise, which God gave direct to His friend. Heretical division; this might be described as crystallized dissension. Our Christianity obliges us not only to die unto sin, but to live unto righteousness; not only to oppose the works of the flesh, but to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit too. This terminates all for me as a living man here below. I could quickly get in trouble. But its most suggestive use is that katharos ( G2513) is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles a man to approach his gods. (b) Philia ( G5373) is the warm love which we feel for our nearest and our dearest; it is a thing of the heart. . This was at work even in those early days. But if I have a whole page of gold stars but yet there's one little point over here where I blew it and I can't put a gold star, then I'm unrighteous. provoking one another, envying one another ( Galatians 5:26 ). For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. And they are quite zealous in their beliefs, very fervent in the proclamations of their beliefs. Be assured that it is the same simplicity of faith which enters into both these things now. Even in Christianity how much need there is to remember what the Lord warns us of inLuke 5:1-39; Luke 5:1-39 that no man accustomed to old wine straightway desires new, but says, The old is better. "Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?" These words are used by him emphatically; for he did not merely say Bite, which denotes an angry person, but likewise, Devour, which denotes one who persists in wickedness. 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. That it is our duty and interest in this struggle to side with the better part, to side with our convictions against our corruptions and with our graces against our lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. THE INTRODUCTION ( Galatians 1:1-10) 1. By the Spirit here may be meant either the Holy Spirit himself, who condescends to dwell in the hearts of those whom he has renewed and sanctified, to guide and assist them in the way of their duty, or that gracious principle which he implants in the souls of his people and which lusts against the flesh, as that corrupt principle which still remains in them does against it. "We, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world; but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." Under law all is lost; under grace all is saved. "Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. This, be it observed, was part of God's way with him beyond all others. For the desires of the lower side of human nature are the very reverse of the desires of the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are the very reverse of those of the lower side of human nature, for these are fundamentally opposed to each other, so that you cannot do whatever you like. Galatians 5 - Standing Fast In the Liberty of Jesus A. 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. He was not converted first, and then gradually led into that highest degree, but called at once to be an apostle as well as saint in a way that belonged to no one but himself. Is it against the promise of God? The kind that were always talking about numbers. But we, brothers, are in the same position as Isaac; we are children of promise. Not so; it is exclusively of grace by Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. He went up with Barnabas, taking Titus with him. Certainly not God, nor His plain and precious word. And that's the message here in Acts 14:8-20. Galatians 5:1 (NASB) It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. That it is His sacrifice for your sins that brings you redemption and the forgiveness of sins. "If you keep the whole law yet offended in one point, you're guilty of all. Galatians 5:1-15 focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. 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 probably taken from dogs and wild beasts. they are in conflict with f sinful nature each other, so that you do not do what you want. Fifteen days. (2.) It was rather to have Gentile liberty secured by the twelve apostles, and that the Judaizers should be condemned by the church at Jerusalem. 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.". 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. The inferior trinity is spirit, soul and body of man. But in this he could glory. The Greek says only "brothers," but it is not wrong to assume "sisters" in the same way that mankind includes womankind. But the apostle here does not reason about the matter. You couldn't believe the things the Jehovah Witnesses believe, unless you read their screwy attitudes and ideas in their books. So I must be righteous in order to have fellowship with God. I just refer to it for a moment, because it adds much to the beauty of the reasoning in Galatians. You got to walk the tight rope. then is the offense of the cross ceased ( Galatians 5:10-11 ). This is the very evil which the Spirit of God so earnestly and energetically denounces here by the apostle Paul. Don't become seekers after empty reputation; don't provoke each other: don't envy each other. Judaizers were saying that Gentiles had to join the old covenant if they wanted God's blessings and salvation (cf. He had been called, as none could deny, in a way which not even any other apostle had ever known. Then I must repeat that God could only make claims; and man had to take the place, if he could, of giving to God of rendering his obedience. He mentions another fact, and of the greatest gravity, closing this part of his argument that when Peter subsequently came down into the Gentile quarters, he had been himself affected by the subtle spirit of Judaism, i.e., the chief of the twelve! (ii) There is the obligation to our fellow men. No, this persuasion doesn't come from Him who called you. There is no comparison of countless seed; there is not an allusion to the sand of the sea, or to the stars of the sky. All this is counted a great, wise, and sensible help to devotion. We shall find he does not forget this elsewhere: he reasons on it in another part of the epistle. And I can choose whether or not to walk in the flesh, or then again, to commit it and walk after the Spirit. These concepts, these heresies that develop within the church are passed on by men. After all their vapouring about the law, they were biting and devouring one another. Because they were sons, God sent that blessed proof and power of their sonship. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like ( Galatians 5:21 ): So, the such like covers a lot of things. Idolatry; this means the worship of gods which the hands of men have made. 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. Finally, he concludes by putting the sentence of death, if I may so say, on circumcision, and all such as might adopt it. Suddenly, I have been born of the Spirit; things suddenly are illuminated. heard of the law. 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. And this directly follows his censure of their observance of times and seasons. What then is the end of the law? Do I seek to please men? (iii) Derush, the meaning deduced by investigation. Jesus, the rejected Messiah, was the Son of the living God, the giver of life, the quickening Son of God. "Unless," he says, "you solve the problem of living together you will make life impossible." 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. ", I have nothing to do with the law any more, even if I had been once under it as a Jew. 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 ( Galatians 5:17 ). 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. Pungent, abrupt, indignant, he none the less was led of God. Yea, hence it appears that they are not under the law, but under grace; for these fruits of the Spirit, in whomsoever they are found, plainly show that such are led by the Spirit, and consequently that they are not under the law, as Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18. Of these and such like, says he, I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things, how much soever they may flatter themselves with vain hopes, shall not inherit the kingdom of God. "Now," says he, "if we profess to be of this number, and as such to have obtained this privilege, let us show it by a temper and behaviour agreeable hereunto; let us evidence our good principles by good practices." You ought to be circumcised, you know." And they ate, giving over to their fleshly appetites and in so doing, the flesh dominated. Let me press this gravely upon those who are here this night. It was not thus that Peter or the rest were drawn to follow their Master. 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. And so, they started telling people, "Well, Chuck believes this." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 5:13-15 The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1Ti 6:3, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. And "Titus," as he says here, "who was with me, being a Greek," etc. Those that walk according to this rule would be saints in general. The Holy Ghost is given as the seal of faith in Christ on the accomplishment of redemption, not before nor otherwise. When God speaks of the seed numerous as the sand or the stars, He gives them a Jewish character of blessing. "Here we have the Gentiles expressly named, and to this the apostle refers. Thus the law was ordained by angels in the hands of a mediator. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ( Galatians 5:9 ). It was by revelation, not by summons from Jerusalem, or to acquire a title thereby. He shows that the Spirit of God dwelling in the believer gives no license for the action of the flesh. The apostle goes up to Jerusalem, not only with Barnabas, who had come from thence, but taking with him Titus, who seems not to have been there before Titus, his own valued companion in labour, but a Gentile. It is quite obvious that there was a hindrance of some sort. 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." Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. The tragedy of life is that people who hold different views very often finish up by disliking, not each others' views, but each other. God asks, and man is called to give, i.e., is called to obedience. 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. The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. Next he turns to direct exhortation, the chief salient points of which will call for but few words. You're talking nonsense. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. (3) c. Faith expressed in love is more significant than circumcision. And thus the blessing of Abraham could flow freely towards the Gentiles who never were there. The "Israel of God," I apprehend, would mean, that the only part of Israel whom God owns now consists of those that really are of faith those that .received Jesus. The Bible says, "The natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit: neither can he know them, they are spiritually discerned" ( 1 Corinthians 2:14 ). 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. It seems to have been something which affected his speech too, and exposed him to ridicule and to unfavourable comments where men were carnally-minded. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.". The Lord did stamp the testimony of Peter as being truly the revelation of His Father. And Jesus talked to him about the spiritual rebirth, which takes place when a person by faith receives Christ as his Savior. 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. He visits Arabia and Damascus once more. He is afresh making efforts to improve, yet still in bondage and misery. informs all of Pauls exhortations vis--vis the Galatians libertine tendencies . Or I can walk after the Spirit and say, "Oh Lord, it doesn't matter. What Does Galatians 5:13 Mean? For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law ( Galatians 5:3 ). 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. I was crucified with Christ, but now I have to reckon it in so many situations everyday. 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