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Dear Congregation, I don’t know precisely how the Spirit operates in our sanctification except that He directs us to the application of the gospel.
We have received “the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God” ().
It is by the Spirit of the Lord that we are changed into the image of Christ from glory to glory ().
In the light of this provision, it should be our daily prayer “to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man” ().
God has given us the infallible Guide to lead us to walk contrary to the flesh ().
Indeed, the promise is that if we walk in the Spirit, we “shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh” ().
Paul’s argument is that since “we live in the Spirit,” we should “also keep in step with the Spirit” ().
The particular word for “walk” in this verse brings the issue down to the basics.
We are literally to walk in a straight line or row, step by step following the path set by the Holy Spirit.
The way of holiness is certainly not a game, but it does involve “following the Leader.”
In another well-known text Paul says, "And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:” ()
The analogy is clear and expressive.
To be drunk with wine affects a person’s walk, talk, and thought.
So to be under the influence of the Spirit will affect the way we walk and talk and think.
We must submit ourselves to that Holy influence and
follow God’s provision,
our faithful Companion,
relying on His might to lead us to victory.
Following the lead of the Holy Spirit and being under His influence will lead us
not only away from sin but also toward the positive marks of godliness:
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, "gentleness, and self-control.
The law is not against such things.”
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Now this little power packed letter of Galatians has three penetrating purposes.
First, to emphasize again the very heart of the gospel,
justification by faith alone in Christ’s righteousness apart from the works of the law.
Second, to call the Galatian Christians to prove the reality of their spirituality through
living by faith in Christ,
a life in which the fruit of the Spirit would abound.
Third, to destroy the message of the Judaizers by showing that it was a false gospel.
After Paul (and probably Barnabas) evangelized the Galatians, missionaries of a different sort visited them.
These opponents of Paul believed that Jesus was the Messiah promised to the Jews, but
they saw the coming of the Jewish Messiah as no reason to doubt
that God’s will for their lives was still to be found in the Mosaic law.
God’s people were still the Jews or that God’s will for their lives was still to be found in the Mosaic law.
In their view, believing in Jesus as the Messiah was a first step if Gentiles were to be saved,
but it needed to be followed by circumcision and a commitment to observe the law of Moses.
So the writing of this letter was caused by the insidious influence that
was being exerted upon the Galatian churches by the dangerous teaching of these Judaizers.
For the Galatians to be circumcised would thus mean
binding themselves to a covenant that required fully observing its commands and
cutting themselves off from Christ and his grace.
"Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to do the entire law.
"You who are trying to be justified by the law are alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.” ()
The idea here is that by submitting to circumcision would bring an obligation to obey the entire law, moral and ceremonial.
To pursue righteousness, or to pursue a right standing with God
on the bases of your own doing is to become “alienated from Christ” .
One cannot, however, enjoy righteousness as a gift of God’s grace through faith
One cannot, however, enjoy righteousness as a gift of God’s grace through faith
while embarking on the very different path prescribed by the law.
However believers, though not “under the law” (5:18), are nonetheless to “walk by the Spirit” (5:16).
As they do so, God’s Spirit within them will produce fruit that no law condemns (5:22–23).
To understand our passage, we must understand something about the Spirit’s work in the church.
and a love that represents the true fulfillment of God’s law (5:14).
To understand our passage, we must understand something about the Spirit’s work in the church.
This is something that brother Brian ministered to us.
Look back to chapter 3.
"I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard?
"Are you so foolish?
After beginning by the Spirit, are you now finishing by the flesh?
"Did you experience so much for nothing—if in fact it was for nothing?
"So then, does God give you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law?
Or is it by believing what you heard—” ()
In OT times, the Spirit of God came upon individual people at certain times to
enable them to perform crucial tasks with divine ability.
Ideally, however, all God’s people would possess God’s Spirit (), and
God promised that, at a future time of blessing, this would happen (; ).
Jesus repeated the promise (; ), and
Peter announced its fulfillment on the day of Pentecost ().
The blessing of the Spirit has been given as a “...seal on us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a down payment.”
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As in Acts, the initial coming of the Spirit upon the Galatians (when they believed the gospel message)
was marked by unmistakable signs of His presence ().
Paul finds it incredible that the Galatians, having “experienced so much” (v.
4) without “the works of the law,”
could now imagine that they needed to observe its mandates.
which were intended rather to serve as a “guardian” or “schoolmaster” (v.
24) of Israel
That’s not how you become holy...
until Christ came and the Spirit was given.
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In 5:1-12 Paul makes a final appeal to the Galatians to not be circumcised,
warning them of the consequences of such an action.
And marvels of how they could’ve been persuaded to think otherwise!
Then in vv13-26 we find the alternative to living your life under the law is
not a life in which the flesh expresses itself w/out restraint, but
one that this actually directed and empowered by God’s Spirit!
With that background and a
bit more of an understanding of the ministry of the Spirit in the church we proceed to zero in on vv16-17.
The Counsel About our Walk
"I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.”
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Paul links what he is about to say to the immediately preceding verses, in which he condemns strife and exhorts to love.
How are we going to keep from biting and devouring one another (spoken of in v15)?
Now he explains how it can be attained.
‘Walk in the Spirit,’ commands the apostle (5:16).
The verb employed means ‘walk about’ and thus ‘conduct yourselves’ or simply ‘live’.
The emphasis is upon the practical, day-to-day life of the believer,
upon his conduct and behavior.
This simple statement conveys a profound truth.
The outward conduct of the believer is to be dictated and controlled by an inward, spiritual principle.
It is not to be dictated by external laws, social conventions, herd instinct, peer pressure, the expectations of others, or the fear of what people will think.
Nor will it be controlled by the sinful desires of the old Adamic nature.
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