what does galatians 5:15 mean

another; having reference to their controversies about the law And sometimes they'll lie to me. "I through the law am dead to the law." Do you know what happens? Pungent, abrupt, indignant, he none the less was led of God. Galatians 5:15 by Grant Richison | Apr 11, 2000 | Galatians | 1 comment Read Introduction to Galatians "But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!" The Galatian church entered a stage of conflict because of legalistic thinking. He leaves it to spiritual wisdom to gather what was the evident impression of the truth. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing ( Galatians 5:2 ). 17 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. And now your spirit is alive. "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" (I mean by this, of course, exclusive of sin and falsehood.) Here he takes up, not the mischievous troublers of the Gentiles, whom he does not hesitate to call "false brethren," but the highest in office he found there. 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. Thus he accepts the challenge that was given by unbelief. It is a lovely word. Coveting is a sin which is almost never considered a crime. This he means here by "faith." What did hinder you? Thus, rightly understood and applied, the law and the promises, while wholly distinct, are in no way inconsistent with each other. All that the law can do, even when yielded by the might of the Spirit of God, is to force on a soul the consciousness of being dead before God. This passage, however, indicates they are having disputes. You cannot attack such a servant without attacking his testimony. And so, Rev 21:8 if you want the reference on that. Under law all is lost; under grace all is saved. 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. Jewish elements were borne with in a Jew. He is brought into another condition. Vincent Taylor once said, "The test of a good theologian is, can he write a tract?" He had made as much proficiency as any of his day it may be, more. And it proclaimed the full and equally blessed standing of those who received Christ. And this life is sustained by the very same person who is its source. against such there is no law ( Galatians 5:23 ). with reproachful words, biting sarcasms, scandalous invectives, In point of fact, to bring in Christ is also best of all to secure the blessing, the privileges, the glory that God has in His grace for every one that believes. That's where I come in touch with God. If you are circumcised, Christ is no value to you. 1-6) a. The liberty that we have is not to do the things of the flesh. The apostle shows that, so far from bringing in Christians and putting them on the ground of the Old Testament, God is really leading those who were in that connection out of it all by redemption. 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. Greek and Christian alike would have condemned drunkenness as a thing which turned a man into a beast. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. And then there's another reference also in Revelation, "but outside or the dogs and adulterers and so forth.". Glory, the glory of man is indeed empty; it's vain. Christianity brings everything to a climax; it also settles all questions. He is afresh making efforts to improve, yet still in bondage and misery. take heed that ye be not one of another utterly destroyed. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, which answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. These concepts, these heresies that develop within the church are passed on by men. In Galatians 4:1-31 the relation is taken up, not of the law to the promise, but of the Christian now to the condition of the saints of old a very important point also. 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. As the soldier in Studdert Kennedy's poem said; For Paul it was essential that Christian freedom should mean not freedom to indulge the lower side of human nature, but freedom to walk in the life of the Spirit. And thus it is with the promise. They were better off spiritually than some other congregations to which he wrote, or possibly he did not want to deal with other needs of theirs in this letter. To have been with the Messiah, the hearer of His words and the witness of His work, up to His departure, was ever a condition to those who were accustomed to the twelve apostles. And Peter said, "I suggest that we not place a yoke of bondage on them which neither we, nor our fathers were able to bear" ( Acts 15:10 ). And how the Holy Spirit had come upon those of the house of Cornelius who had known nothing really of obedience to the law. Plutarch says that it has a far wider place than justice. It was through no such channel that he had his apostleship. For he, though a Jew, had completely done with the law, and all that pertains to it. Bring in one part of law, and you fall under the authority of the whole. The essence of it is that it does not describe the spirit which desires, nobly or ignobly, to have what someone else has: it describes the spirit which grudges the fact that the other person has these things at all. Created by God, in fellowship with God. And your spirit being alive, again you can experience fellowship with God, the joy, the blessing of fellowshipping with God.So, "walk in the Spirit." You have fallen from grace. And, as this would be the best means of preserving them from fulfilling the lusts of the flesh, so it would be a good evidence that they were Christians indeed; for, says the apostle (Galatians 5:18; Galatians 5:18), If you be led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith ( Galatians 5:5 ). God reserves to Himself this great blessedness in the gospel; whereas under the law there was nothing of the kind. Indeed, we may say that now he thunders on the Galatians that were dragging in the law. The Lord did stamp the testimony of Peter as being truly the revelation of His Father. "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. Consequently we have no allusion to the Lord's coming in this epistle to the Galatians. 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. "Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. Galatians 5:14. 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's temperant. People were trying to add to it. Strong expressions of partisan hatred exerting itself for mutual injury. The truth of the gospel, therefore, was compromised. (Romans 3:1-31, Romans 10:1-21) But the act of Peter went to maintain a difference. Forgive me, Lord. Saints they may have been; and such, we know, moved about from Jerusalem. For the law was used with killing power; and, slain as it were in my conscience, I found in that very place Christ Himself by the grace of God, Christ that died for me; and not merely this, but Christ in whom I died. If I preach circumcision, then why would they keep persecuting me? A little leaven leavens the whole lump. The writer ( Galatians 1:1-2a ) i. Paul, the Apostle ( Galatians 1: 1 ) ii. but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Venerable religion! dissolution; for as no civil community, either public or private, , . Eternal life is spoken of in this double way in scripture (Romans 6:22-23); and I also press this as a truth of no small importance and but too much forgotten. My business is to act consistently with the new place in which grace has put me. But meanwhile, under the gospel, there is an express promise of the blessing of the Gentiles when God spoke of the one seed, which is Christ. Paul cautioned both sides to love one another or they would consume each other. Because you'll never come to their beliefs by just reading the Bible. Don't become seekers after empty reputation; don't provoke each other: don't envy each other. 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. Who in times past you walked according to the course of this world. I am crucified with Christ: consequently all that remains for me is living this new life which Christ is in me. This agape love is gentle; it is good. And then concludes the chapter with a caution against pride and envy. But his heart was too agitated not to betake himself at once to the point of their danger. "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.". Only we must carefully bear this in mind, that in the epistle to the Galatians we never rise exactly to church ground. And it is given to me through my faith in Jesus Christ. A komos was a band of friends who accompanied a victor of the games after his victory. "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto another gospel: which is not another. 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. 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. I need money to get home. These things are not allowed in the kingdom of God. 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. Lastly, he desires for his brethren, that "the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ" might be with their spirit. To this he gives the most solemn asseveration: "The things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not." 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. The kind that were always talking about numbers. "For if the inheritance be of law, it is no more of promise:" otherwise by the condition of law you would annul the promise. If I am a Christian, I acquire a new kind of responsibility. Paul reminded Christians: " You must love your neighbour as yourself." Nothing can be more conclusive than this disproof of the fleshly pretensions that were connected with Jerusalem, and were brought in under cover of Abraham, but really to the subversion of the gospel. "The child of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise." Undoubtedly such is the assurance of God's word to His children; and thus Galatians 5:1-26 is in contrast withRomans 7:1-25; Romans 7:1-25. Let us never confound the two. 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. for want of love the Lord threatens to remove, and sometimes does 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. And this is the thing that you try to describe to people, and they don't understand. In lxx metaphorically, Micah 3:5; Habakkuk 2:7. Therefore, that righteousness is perfect. I am not at all worried about anything you will come to believe by just simply reading your Bible. 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. And they glorified God in me.". 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. Oligarchy means government by the few and can be justified by arguing that only the few are fit to govern. 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. It was, of course, altogether just and right in itself. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 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. He fully allows that the Lord was both made of a woman and made under the law; but what was the ultimate object in view! And so I said, "All right, tell me, when Jesus was baptized, who spoke and said, 'This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" ( Matthew 3:17 )? He feels what he ought to do, but he does it not, and thus is increasingly wretched. "In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." Jesus has set us free - free from the slavery of sin, free from slavery to the law. Now, if you're walking in love, supreme love for God and supreme love for your fellow man, then there is no law. If I am a Christian, I am responsible according to that position and privilege. Thus it is evident that the legal system is a parenthesis. Envy; this word (phthonos, G5355) , is a mean word. "The scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. And I'm washed and I'm cleansed and I go on. That is to say, after his flights of thought can he reduce it all to something that the ordinary man can understand and do? The law brings man in his nothingness into evidence, it proves that he is only a poor lost sinner. Not so; it is exclusively of grace by Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. Is it against the promise of God? He does not condescend to reason about their place in the matter, but puts them at once in their due relationship. And he justifies this strength of warning: "For do I now persuade men or God? ", At once the apostle launches into the troubled sea. Whatever might be the apostle's tenderness toward his nation elsewhere, not an earthly link but must be snapped. 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. 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. 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. (b) It means being teachable, being not too proud to learn ( James 1:21). The apostleship of Paul, therefore, was entirely independent of Jerusalem and the twelve. And they ate, giving over to their fleshly appetites and in so doing, the flesh dominated. Men of, disposition, careless and unthinking, consume othersthose of, But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another, , but if ye be biting and eating up one another. The Christian needs that goodness which at one and the same time can be kind and strong. . But it works through love. . Why not adopt what was wanting in Christianity? THE INTRODUCTION ( Galatians 1:1-10) 1. It, too, is commonly translated goodness. (c) Most often of all it means being considerate ( 1 Corinthians 4:21; 2 Corinthians 10:1; Ephesians 4:2). Jesus, the rejected Messiah, was the Son of the living God, the giver of life, the quickening Son of God. The law forbids these things, but the law of love also forbids them. If understood, it completely cut all the earthly swaddling-clothes of the heavenly church, and of the Christian. To the Galatians there was an exception. Christianity refuses to be mingled with anything but itself. For every man shall bear his own 'burden." Galatians 5 shows that spiritual liberty comes from knowing the truth. "Christian freedom is not licence [sic] for the simple but tremendous reason that the Christian is not the man who has become free to sin, but the man, who, by the grace of God, has become free not to sin." Kindness and goodness are closely connected words. It is therefore a feeling of the mind as much as of the heart; it concerns the will as much as the emotions. 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. 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. 7) Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV) Trust in the Lord with all your heart. 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. Mark it well. Galatians 5:16-17 says, "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. He shows that God would give us a deliverance from self-importance; and what a mercy it is to be so blessed, that one can afford to forget one's self! "I through law am dead to law." He saw that the tree was pleasant to look upon, it was tasty to eat and it would make him wise as God. 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. Gentiles might boast in their freedom. The brethren with him ( Galatians 1:2a ) b. We must set ourselves in good earnest both to mortify the deeds of the body, and to walk in newness of life. who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? Flesh and blood had not revealed it. In that chapter of Romans we have a man converted indeed, but without liberty, and consequently powerless. It's Jesus only. It is . 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. According to the prince of the power of the air, among whom we all had our manner of living. What a condemnation of themselves, that no system which ever seeks for an earthly succession can in the least make Paul answer its purpose! The inferior trinity is spirit, soul and body of man. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ." and injurious actions, which must be of bad consequence: hence he ( 2 Corinthians 6:14 ) How can I really fellowship with God if I'm unrighteous? How abortive is man in the things of God! God promises the final power and glory of Israel in the earth, putting down their foes, and so forth. He wouldn't bother correcting me. 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. The gospel had brought in before God this double conclusion, founded on the first Adam and the last. having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? For God does speak elsewhere, and even on this occasion, of a numerous seed. (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). Merge them, as unbelief does, and all is confusion and ruin. For if I yet pleased men, I should not be a servant of Christ." 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 responsibility is always according to the relation in which one stands, and the measure of knowledge which each possesses, or ought to possess. The whole legal institution depended on a people lineally descended from Abraham, as their priests on a similar succession from Aaron. Apparently the believers who advocated grace and the believers who advocated law bitterly opposed one another in the Galatian churches. It is interesting to note that Chara and Eirene both became very common Christian names in the Church. The promise is therefore entirely distinct from the law, which was not heard of for four hundred and thirty years after. 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! It's the operation of God's Spirit within our heart that works through love. There are times when I lapse into the flesh. 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 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. To Paul all that mattered was faith which works through love. One of the lawyers one day challenged Jesus as to the greatest commandment. What comforts the soul, what strengthens and keeps it up, is that He "loved me, and gave Himself for me.". Proud member Legal activity is but labouring in the fire for vanity; and if, alas! The noun GALATIANS has 1 sense: 1. a New Testament book containing the epistle from Saint Paul to the Galatians Familiarity information: GALATIANS used as a noun is very rare. You are saved through the finished work of Jesus on the cross. California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. 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. In his case the breach with man was evident; the association with heaven, and not Jerusalem, was too plain to be disputed or evaded. The apostle expressly reasons on Abraham, as they were always anxious to cite Abraham, the father of circumcision. Paul now warns them about a consequence of this. Christianity came into a world where sexual immorality was not only condoned, but was regarded as essential to the ordinary working of life. But we have a good deal more. It was a misuse of the respect naturally accorded to some who came from Jerusalem; and so God took care to correct the evil by a formal, public, authoritative sentence of the body there, instead of a pure and simple rejection of the error among the Gentile churches, which might have looked like a schism, or at least a divergence of feeling between them and the apostle Paul. After all their vapouring about the law, they were biting and devouring one another. Galatians 2:1-21. Hagar stands for the old covenant of the law, made on Mount Sinai, which is in fact in Arabia, the land of Hagar's descendants. 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. Why they thought they were becoming more truly religious, more reverent in their value for Scripture. Not striving. What! So, Peter uses this same phrase to describe the law as a yoke of bondage. 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 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. Note, The best antidote against the poison of sin is to walk in the Spirit, to be much in conversing with spiritual things, to mind the things of the soul, which is the spiritual part of man, more than those of the body, which is his carnal part, to commit ourselves to the guidance of the word, wherein the Holy Spirit makes known the will of God concerning us, and in the way of our duty to act in a dependence on his aids and influences. And if you have interpreted it that way, you have completely missed the message of the scripture. If I am mastered by the flesh, then I have the mind of the flesh. The works of the flesh. Still less is it possible to let the law set its force aside. Others are sins against our neighbour, and contrary to the royal law of brotherly love, such as hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, which too often occasion seditions, heresies, envyings, and sometimes break out into murders, not only of the names and reputation, but even of the very lives, of our fellow-creatures. "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." He strikes accordingly at the root of all successional or derived authority. So here Paul is "an apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, that raised him from the dead.". And let's go on. (iii) Derush, the meaning deduced by investigation. 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