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Gal 5:

Galatians 5:16–26 KJV 1900

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 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. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 5:16–17 KJV 1900

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 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.

Gal 16

Paul is reminding the galations that even though they are not under the law the freedom that they have is not a reason to sin he tells them to walk in the spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

Freedom instead is to walk in life of spirit.

If we our walking with Christ we will not fall pray to sin.

our sin nature fights against the spirit

the spirit fights against our sin nature

Do not let the sin nature win

1 corinthians 2:14 tells us that without Christ we do not accept spiritual things

1 Corinthians 2:14 KJV 1900

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

As believers we must follow the holy spirit.

this however seams foolish to unbelievers

Illistrate I am secound

Galatians 5:18–21 KJV 1900

18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal

Paul’s statement here “But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. “can be literally translated

“can be literally translated “by the spirit you are led not you are the law”

“by the spirit you are led not you are the law”

Basic meaning if you are let by the spirit you are not under the law

can be literally translated “by the spirit you are led not you are the law

Paul then gives a list of the works of the flesh

1. adultery and fornication,

any form of sexual imorality

any form of sexual sin, doing the act with someone elce or viewing imagis on a screen

Pornogrophy is a significan issue in our culture

fornication,

sex is the #1 searched word on all the major platforms

there are over 420 million pornographic internet pages

12-17 year olds are the largest age group of pornogrophy users

42.7% of all internet users view pornogrophy

the pornogrophy indestery makes more money anually than Apple, microsoft, google, Amazon, ebay yahoo, and netlflix combined

in 2006 the worldwide pornogrophy revenue = 97.06 billion and those numbers are only rising

Within the church

60% of all christian men and 30% of all christian Woman have admited to being addicted to pornogrophy

• 60% of the women who answered the survey admitted to having significant struggles with lust;

• 40% admitted to being involved in sexual sin in the past year; and 20% of the church-going female participants struggle with looking at pornography on an ongoing basis.

• 7 of 10 lay leaders in the church admitted to visiting adult Web sites at least once a week • 5 out of 10 pastors said they did the same.

My friends theese are not just stitisticts theese are real people

and theese are real problums

the average age for the first time a child is exposed is age 11

the church needs to fight against this tool of the divil!

2. uncleanness,

uncleanness,

also refering to sexual sin

2. lasciviousness, (la-civ-e-ous )

plesure

3. Idolatry,

putting anything before God

witchcraft,

emphisis is put here on potion making and use of poisin making drugs

4. hatred,

5. variance,

bitter disagreements between conflicting facts

6. emulations,

greedy or prideful

7. wrath,

8. strife,

seditions, (se-di-tion)

9. heresies,

10. Envyings,

11. murders,

12. drunkenness,

being physically inoxicated

13. revellings,

excesive eating

the word that Paul uses (akatharsia) is interesting. 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 sorted. In its positive form (katharos, an adjective meaning pure), it is commonly used in housing contracts to describe a house that is left clean and in good condition. But its most significant use is that katharos is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles people to approach their gods. Impurity, then, is that which makes people unfit to come before God, the contamination of life with the things which separate us from him.

If you do such you will not inherit the kingdom of God

The idea here is that the person who activly and unrepentently lives this lifestyle cannot be a true believer.

Galatians 5:22–26 KJV 1900

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Paul contrasts the works of the flesh with fhe fruit of the spirit

love

joy

peace

patience

kindness

goodness

faithfulness

gentelnes

self-control

Against such there is no Law

No law forbids any of theese things

If we are in Christ we have crusified our flesh

Galatians 5:24 KJV 1900

24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Gal 5:2

A christian should avoid the works of the flesh and cling to the works of the spirit

This is not to say a Believer from time to time will not fall inot the sin of the flesh but it will net be a lifestyle for a true believer.

Galatians 5:26 KJV 1900

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

if we put God firsat and foolw the fruit of the spirit we will put others first

1 Corinthians 15:31 KJV 1900

31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

We should daily die to ourselves and put Christ first

Application

Do you crusify your fleshly desires

do you strive for the fruits of the spirit

ered mind.

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Impurity

the word that Paul uses (akatharsia) is interesting. 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 sorted. In its positive form (katharos, an adjective meaning pure), it is commonly used in housing contracts to describe a house that is left clean and in good condition. But its most significant use is that katharos is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles people to approach their gods. Impurity, then, is that which makes people unfit to come before God, the contamination of life with the things which separate us from him.

Wantonness: this word (aselgeia) is translated as licentiousness in the Revised Standard Version (; ; ; ; ; ; and ). It has been defined as ‘readiness for any pleasure’. Those who practise it have been said to know no restraint, but to do whatever any whim and wanton lack of respect may suggest. The Jewish historian Josephus ascribed it to Queen Jezebel when she built a temple to Baal in Jerusalem. The idea is of people who are so bound up in their own desire that they have ceased to care what others say or think.

Idolatry: this means the worship of gods which human hands have made. It is the sin in which material things have taken the place of God.

Witchcraft: this literally means the use of drugs. It can mean the healing use of drugs by a doctor; but it can also mean poisoning, and it came to be especially connected with the use of drugs for sorcery, of which the ancient world was full.

Enmity: the idea is that of the individual who is characteristically hostile to other people; it is the precise opposite of the virtue of the love of Christians for one another and for all people.

Strife: originally, this word had mainly to do with the rivalry for prizes. It can even be used in a good sense in that connection, but much more commonly it means the rivalry which has resulted in quarrelling and wrangling.

Jealousy: this word (zelos, from which our word zeal comes) was originally a good word. It meant emulation, the desire to attain to nobility when we see it. But it degenerated; it came to mean the desire to have what someone else has, wrong desire for what is not ours.

Uncontrolled temper: the word Paul uses means bursts of temper. It describes not an anger which lasts but anger which flares up and then dies.

Barclay, W. (2002). The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians (p. 57). Louisville, KY; London: Westminster John Knox Press.

Self-seeking: this word has a very illuminating history. It is eritheia and originally meant the work of a hired labourer (erithos). So it came to mean work done for pay. It went on to mean canvassing for political or public office, and it describes the person who wants office, not from any motives of service, but for what can be got out of it.

Dissension: literally the word means a standing apart. After one of his great victories, the British Admiral Lord Nelson attributed it to the fact that he had the happiness to command ‘a band of brothers’. Dissension describes a society in which the very opposite is the case, where the members fly apart instead of coming together.

Heretical division: this might be described as clearly focused disagreement. The word is hairesis, from which comes our word heresy. Hairesis was originally not a bad word at all. It comes from a root which means to choose, and it was used for a philosopher’s school of followers or for any group of people who shared a common belief. The tragedy of life is that people who hold different views very often end up by disliking not each other’s views but each other. It should be possible to hold different views and yet remain friends.

Envy: this word (phthonos) is a mean word. The Greek dramatist Euripides called it ‘the greatest of all diseases’. 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. It does not so much want the things for itself; it merely wants to take them from the other. The Stoics defined it as ‘grief at someone else’s good’. The fourth-century Church father Basil the Great called it ‘grief at your neighbour’s good fortune’. It is the quality not so much of the jealous but rather of the embittered mind.

Drunkenness: in the ancient world, this was not a common vice. The Greeks drank more wine than they did milk; even children drank wine. But they drank it in the proportion of three parts of water to two of wine. Both Greeks and Christians would have condemned drunkenness as a thing which turned people into animals.

Carousing: this word (komos) has an interesting history. A komos was a group of friends who accompanied a victor of the games after his victory. They danced and laughed and sang his praises. It also described the devotees of Bacchus, god of wine. It describes what in England in the early decades of the nineteenth century would have been called a rout. It means unrestrained revelry, enjoyment that has degenerated and is out of control.

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Barclay, W. (2002). The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians (pp. 58–59). Louisville, KY; London: Westminster John Knox Press.

The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians The Evil Things (Galatians 5:16–21)

Impurity: the word that Paul uses (akatharsia) is interesting. 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 sorted. In its positive form (katharos, an adjective meaning pure), it is commonly used in housing contracts to describe a house that is left clean and in good condition. But its most significant use is that katharos is used of that ceremonial cleanness which entitles people to approach their gods. Impurity, then, is that which makes people unfit to come before God, the contamination of life with the things which separate us from him.

Wantonness: this word (aselgeia) is translated as licentiousness in the Revised Standard Version (Mark 7:22; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; 1 Peter 4:3; Jude 4; Romans 13:13 and 2 Peter 2:18). It has been defined as ‘readiness for any pleasure’. Those who practise it have been said to know no restraint, but to do whatever any whim and wanton lack of respect may suggest. The Jewish historian Josephus ascribed it to Queen Jezebel when she built a temple to Baal in Jerusalem. The idea is of people who are so bound up in their own desire that they have ceased to care what others say or think.

Idolatry: this means the worship of gods which human hands have made. It is the sin in which material things have taken the place of God.

Untitled Sermon (8)

I. Lust of the flesh (v. 16- 17

II. The law (18-21)

II. the spirit (v.22-26

Untitled Sermon (8)

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I. Lust of the flesh (v. 16- 17

II. The law (18-21)

II. the spirit (v.22-26