The idea is that of a man who is so far gone in desire that he has ceased to care what people say or think. (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). All rights reserved. Paul begins chapter 5 by stating flatly that Christ has set us free in order that we should be free. But the apostle here does not reason about the matter. And it proclaimed the full and equally blessed standing of those who received Christ. The Galatians did not think of this; people that are thus blinded by the enemy never do. I said, "That's a lie." consumed, &c.Strength of soul, health of body, character, and resources, are all consumed by broils [Bengel]. The apostle was given to preach the truth more fully than any other. Pungent, abrupt, indignant, he none the less was led of God. The apostle, as far as I know, wrote no other letter to any one of the churches of the saints. Paul was confident the Galatians would resist the one leading them in the wrong direction. 5:1-12 Look now it is I, Paul, who am speaking to you I tell you that if you get yourself circumcised Christ is no good to you. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath a husband." It is the law of Christ. He was an enemy stopped in sovereign grace. But when men would have anything fraught with distress to His people, when through their folly confusion must ensue, contrary to all that His heart loved, then it was left to others. to bite, N.T.o. And Paul said, "Hey, wait a minute. That is, liberty in Jesus Christ. But the Jerusalem which is above is free and she is our mother. If you are circumcised, Christ is no value to you. Thus, whether it be the Gentile without law, or the Jew with it, all are shut up under sin. Very particularly was it marked by the manner of his call, that his apostleship had no connection with either the world or the flesh. All of the bases are covered. And so, they started telling people, "Well, Chuck believes this." He does not condescend to reason about their place in the matter, but puts them at once in their due relationship. If I am mastered by the flesh, then I have the mind of the flesh. GALATIANS 5:2-12. There are two things in the Christian; he has a life, a new life in Christ, but he has also, the Holy Ghost. You know, you can look down and see the Channel Islands. They had fallen from the grace of the Gospel; and, as Christ no longer dwelt in their hearts by faith, pride, anger, ill-will, and all unkind and uncharitable tempers, took possession of their souls, and they were in consequence alternately destroying each other. After all, what God had at heart was the accomplishment of His own promise in grace. The mind of the flesh is death.But if my life is dominated by the Spirit, then I have the mind of the Spirit. 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. Matthew 23:13; 2 Corinthians 11:20; Revelation 11:5. The kind that were always talking about numbers. That's where God touches me. You see, it isn't a once-in-forever kind of a thing. Even so we, when we were children," etc. Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. That is not the liberty that we have as Christians. It describes what in regency England would have been called a rout. How abortive is man in the things of God! There was no difference either way. take heed that ye be not consumed one of another; that is, either beware lest each other's particular peace and comfort be destroyed, which is oftentimes done this way, though a person's state and condition God-ward may be safe; or lest their church state should be destroyed and come to nothing, since love is the cement of it, which being loosened, threatens a dissolution; for as no civil community, either public or private, divided against itself, can stand long, so no religious one; and for want of love the Lord threatens to remove, and sometimes does remove, the candlestick out of its place. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love ( Galatians 5:6 ). 3 Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Immediately, then, as. It was therefore not only for him, but for the instruction of the Galatians, and of us all. 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. It is interesting to note that Chara and Eirene both became very common Christian names in the Church. If it should be asked, What course must we take that the better interest may get the better? I cannot soil a life which God paid for with his own life. Successor to Paul there is none; if so, who and where? "Nevertheless" astonishing to say, for it could not be natural life "nevertheless, I live." It can be used for the pus of an unclean wound, for a tree that has never been pruned, for material which has never been sifted. They have not yet obtained a complete victory over it; they have still flesh as well as Spirit in them, and that has its affections and lusts, which continue to give them no little disturbance, but as it does not now reign in their mortal bodies, so as that they obey it in the lusts thereof (Romans 6:12), so they are seeking the utter ruin and destruction of it, and to put it to the same shameful and ignominious, though lingering death, which our Lord Jesus underwent for our sakes. And then there's another reference also in Revelation, "but outside or the dogs and adulterers and so forth.". Heretical division; this might be described as crystallized dissension. 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. "Wherefore then serveth the law? Note, 1. For what has a risen man to do with Israel more than the nations? When they first knew him, there was no difficulty felt on this score; they heard him as an angel of God. First, we must guard it, especially from those who would pressure us to follow the law. His testimony was characteristically though not of course exclusively heavenly, as it was also the witness of grace to the fullest. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. He is brought into another condition. There's nothing that you can add to what Jesus paid. Walk on the spiritual side of your nature. 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. He says to those who would be under the law, why do you not listen to the law? And I was challenged by that for a while. He heartily avows what they counted a defect; and not Only so, but with the greatest solemnity assures them that he had not seen the apostles, save only Peter, and James the brother of the Lord, and these but for a short space. And the old flesh likes to get people excited and stirred up like that. These other words are defining what the agape love actually is. "Then after three years," he says, "I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter." That you're not going to be otherwise minded.". 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. #2 "were called" We should take great joy in the truth that we belong to the God who calls us chosen. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Now, the whole idea is to be righteous before God in order that I might have fellowship with God. He leaves it to spiritual wisdom to gather what was the evident impression of the truth. 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. Therefore, that righteousness is perfect. He owned and valued, in its own place, the difficult, weighty, and momentous work which God had assigned to Peter, James, and the rest; but at the same time he stood firmly humbly, of course, and lovingly, but firmly for that which the Lord had assigned to himself and his colleagues among the Gentiles; and, so far from Christ's liberty having been in the least weakened, the apostolic conclave put their seal, with the whole church at Jerusalem, upon it most heartily. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. I would [wish that] they were even cut off which trouble you ( Galatians 5:12 ). I was crucified with Christ, but now I have to reckon it in so many situations everyday. And there were reasons why Peter was grievously in fault, particularly as he did no longer adhere to the law, but lived as one conscious of the freedom from it which the gospel gives those who believe in a risen Christ. It does not so much want the things for itself; it merely wants to take them from the other. Not contention. 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. "The child of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise." Next he turns to direct exhortation, the chief salient points of which will call for but few words. 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. Galatians 5:1-15 focuses on what those in Christ should do with our freedom in Christ. He went up by revelation for the purpose of getting a condemnation in Jerusalem itself of those who would force Jewish principles on the church of God at large. Here it is the total judgment of flesh in its religious pretensions, and more particularly a blow to that which is an essential principle of law. But though the apostle here only mentions the crucifying of the flesh with the affections and lusts, as the care and character of real Christians, yet, no doubt, it is also implied that, on the other hand, we should show forth those fruits of the Spirit which he had just before been specifying; this is no less our duty than that, nor is it less necessary to evidence our sincerity in religion. "Ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." The cross paid it all. 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. He says, "If, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore the minister of sin?" I was wrong. Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! 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. You do not need it, because the Holy Ghost thus working strengthens you unto love. 4. Flesh and blood had not revealed it. They had followed Jesus in His earthly path of presentation to Israel. Not at all. Now, the word temperance is one we have a little difficulty with. Liberty comes first, mark; power and love afterwards. For the Jew leaven nearly always stood for evil influence. The word faith here is trusting. Second, it means that we are free to follow the Spirit and produce good works that last forever because we have faith in God and obey God's word (Galatians 5:16-26). The law and the promise are both from God, but the law's use is only negative and condemnatory. Having brought in the true character of the Christian's life as flowing simply and solely from Christ, and from Christ crucified too, so here he takes up the Holy Ghost. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you ( Galatians 5:7-8 ). 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. The consequence is, that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God; and this he proves, not only from the promise, but from the prophets. He was given, whether in power or in person, not by the law, but by the hearing of faith. Men were not his source, nor was man even a medium to him. Kindness and goodness are closely connected words. The law necessarily makes the man, and the man's doings, to be the prominent object. but for what he can get out of it. In the epistle to the Galatians we have another tone and style, a serious and grieved spirit, with feelings not less deep it may be, even more profoundly moved than in writing to the Corinthians; and for this reason, that the foundations were still more deeply affected by that which was working among the assemblies of Galatia. The evil that was gaining ground among the Galatian believers legalism links the soul with the world, and indeed proves it to be evil by giving present credit to the flesh, and association with all the system that is around us now. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Causes me to become judgmental. For Christ bought off those that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons, bringing them by grace into a place of known salvation and intelligent joy in relation with our God and Father, out of that bondage and nonage which the law supposes. When we look elsewhere we end up enslaved. All question of natural ties drops in death; as the cross is the disproof of any right to Christ in either. And here we may observe that as sin is called the work of the flesh, because the flesh, or corrupt nature, is the principle that moves and excites men to it, so grace is said to be the fruit of the Spirit, because it wholly proceeds from the Spirit, as the fruit does from the root: and whereas before the apostle had chiefly specified those works of the flesh which were not only hurtful to men themselves but tended to make them so to one another, so here he chiefly takes notice of those fruits of the Spirit which had a tendency to make Christians agreeable one to another, as well as easy to themselves; and this was very suitable to the caution or exhortation he had before given (Galatians 5:13; Galatians 5:13), that they should not use their liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. It was really part of God's wondrous ways with him, as indicating the true character of Christianity and of its ministry as contrasted with Judaism. How distressing, how mad is it, that we, who are members of the same body, should be leagued together, of our own accord, for mutual destruction! Here I've got this new twist on the scripture. When the emphasis of man became on the physical fleshly side of him, he no longer was one with God, who is a Spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith," not by becoming proselytes of the gate, or entering on a legal basis, but "foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed." . What a subversion, not only of the truth of God revealed in the gospel, but also of redemption, which is its basis! Being, of course, dying men, whether it be the general privileges of Israel, or the special place of the priest, all was transmitted from father to son. And so, Paul is picking up, now, the same phrase. "Before faith came we [Jews] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. But it is life after death to law, and consequently in another sphere. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourges every son whom He receives" ( Hebrews 12:6 ). We have those that come around here. He has set you free from the power of the flesh. Even as in a natural man there is something of this struggle (the convictions of his conscience and the corruption of his own heart strive with one another; his convictions would suppress his corruptions, and his corruptions silence his convictions), so in a renewed man, where there is something of a good principle, there is a struggle between the old nature and the new nature, the remainders of sin and the beginnings of grace; and this Christians must expect will be their exercise as long as they continue in this world. Peter would have been horrified at such a conclusion. "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. But this could not be. Stand, therefore, in it and do not get yourselves involved all over again in a slavish yoke. And this is a universal principle. But it is not so. We are not to suppose that a higher and more heavenly character blots out the lesser place; of this the apostle takes advantage here. He was legitimately angry at self-proclaimed followers of God who abused followers of God -- just as Jesus was. He went simply to make the acquaintance of Peter, and abode with him how long? Truth must necessarily be exclusive, and all who hold the truth must, in their adhesion to it and Him who is its personal expression, be exclusive too. There was no difference in the blessing of Christ: man's guilt and God's grace were alike indiscriminate. What is the difference? 2. 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." That's just my old flesh that's upset. But the son of the slave girl was born in the ordinary human way, whereas the son of the free woman was born through a promise. 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. 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). All right, you know. Up to this point it has been theological; now it becomes intensely ethical. That is why I encourage you just to read the Bible. You can't do anything to buy redemption. 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 was they who had changed, not he. If I preach circumcision, then why would they keep persecuting me? Our conversation will always be answerable to the principle which we are under the guidance and government of: as those that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, so those that are after the Spirit do mind the things of the Spirit,Romans 8:5. Uh-huh, you did that five minutes. The apostle accordingly now turns to the great argument of his epistle, and the discussion of those grand principles that are characteristic to Christianity, and in full agreement with the facts that have already been brought before you. It is therefore a feeling of the mind as much as of the heart; it concerns the will as much as the emotions. Gentleness; praotes ( G4236) is the most untranslatable of words. The law holds out but never gives blessing. Accordingly the apostle lays stress on the fact that he was "unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ: but they had heard only, that he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. 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. What has He set us free to? (2.) What ground is there for boasting in this? There is no recounting what God had done for them. Why not adopt what was wanting in Christianity? You are saved. It's sort of comforting, you know. The apostle stands to the truth preached and received. I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. I'd rather trust and be burned than not to trust. The truth is the distinctive boon and mark of Christendom. 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. The most difficult thing in Christendom is for people to know what it is to be Christians, and to take this place by the faith of Christ themselves. And how true all this is! person's state and condition God-ward may be safe; or lest their Unitarians. In Paul's case there was nothing of the sort. It was for the chiefs at Jerusalem to judge for themselves, and they did judge to the confusion of the apostle's adversaries. It is once that I have reckoned myself to be crucified with Christ when I accepted Him. or dogs to worry sheep is not strange; but for sheep to distress Not at all, says the apostle, you are returning straight into your old heathenism without knowing it yourselves. 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. Whatever might be the apostle's tenderness toward his nation elsewhere, not an earthly link but must be snapped. This therefore the apostle would have us by all means to watch against. This would have flowed from Peter's conduct. Consequently it is plain from the beginning, that the apostleship of Paul made a demand upon faith which the other apostolate did not. I admit that this was all in place and season then for Jerusalem. The offense of the cross would cease." "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." But at the same time it is plain that the apostle Paul here starts with the instructive fact, that the very thing for which some Judaizers then blamed him was the distinctive glory of that to which the Lord had called him. 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. At the same time he insists in the most peremptory manner that our liberty in Christ is to be used for holiness. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. It was the practice that priests and really devout worshippers of Cybele mutilated themselves by castration. He does not deny that others preached it; but if so, they preached the same truth. That's my old prideful nature. All this vanishes in Christ; we are all one in Him; and if you are Christ's, what need to be circumcised! But not from God. It is no wonder that one who is thus tied and bound feels restive under it. And so, I would listen to these fellows, and I listened, you know, and just said, "Well, you know, that's what the scripture says, you know," when they would quote scriptures. 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. But this will be Jerusalem, under not law but promise and liberty, restored by grace after having lost everything by the law, and reduced to utter desolation. Christ is forgotten. We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. Along with the cross goes a new creation. We're about one degree off, but we hope to correct this in flight or something." Now, if you're walking in love, supreme love for God and supreme love for your fellow man, then there is no law. The law is of a wholly different nature, and hence was ordained of angels in the hand of a mediator. As we go down these things here, these are the things that God will exclude from His kingdom. 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