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All Worked Up
Have you ever tried repeatedly to do something only to have someone else come along and blow right past you doing it extremely well?
What is your reaction to that?
The past few passages leave us in no doubt as to the kinds of things to which our sinful natures prompt us.
In verse 15, for example, we have a warning against ‘biting and devouring each other’, a warning which, if unheeded, will result in us being ‘destroyed by each other’.
Again, at the end of the chapter, we are exhorted to ‘not become conceited, provoking and envying each other’ (v.
26).
And in between there is that most disturbing list which Paul gives us in verses 19–21.
A number of comments may be made on it.
It is not exhaustive
It tells us the capacity of sin within the heart of man.
It tells us the result of capitulation
It is not just a warning to unbelievers
The ESV Study Bible (Chapter 5)
The present participle (Gk.
prassontes, translated here as “do”) refers to those who “make a practice of doing” such things, as a pattern of life.
Their outward conduct indicates their inward spiritual status: that they are not born of God, do not have the Holy Spirit within, and are not God’s true children.
Two Important Words
Works and Fruit
One flows from a unredeemed heart and results in sinful behavior.
One flows from the Spirits presence in our lives.
The Solution
The Spirit is our guide and our teacher.
The presence in our hearts of such diametrically opposed desires results in conflict.
Don’t we sometimes feel as if we are being pulled in two different directions, indwelling sin wanting one thing, the Spirit moving us to want the opposite?
We are no longer unregenerate.
Opening Up Galatians (The Answer to the Problem (vv.
17–18))
helpless before a law which commands us to do this and that but which offers us no assistance, condemns us for our transgressions, and extends to us no forgiveness.
Instead we enjoy the leading of the Spirit (v.
18), a ministry that enables us not only to know the right way to take but also to actually take it.
The outcome of the conflict, in other words, is by no means always defeat!
We need to walk in and with the Spirit
As we do so, we will see the fruit of the Spirit actualized
So, which do you see more manifest in your life?
If the works of the flesh mark your life, repent and turn to Christ.
May the Spirit, and His fruit, be present in all of our lives.
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