BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: GALATIANS CHAPTER FIVE

GALATIANS CHAPTER FIVE

OBSERVATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The purpose of the observation stage is to maintain focus on the text at hand in accordance with the framework in which it was written: a framework which is defined by the normative rules of language, context and logic - rules which do not impose undue, unintended meanings to the text , and which largely limit the observer to the content offered by Paul's epistle to the Galatians and his other writings. In order for any passage from elsewhere to be considered, it must have a relationship with the context at hand, such as a Scriptural quotation or a specific cross reference in the passage at hand by the author. This will serve to avoid going on unnecessary tangents elsewhere; and more importantly, it will provide the framework for a proper and objective comparison with passages located elsewhere in Scripture. Remember that something elsewhere may be true, but in the text at hand it may not be in view.

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(Gal 3:22-29) THE PURPOSE FOR SCRIPTURE SHUTTING UP ALL THINGS UNDER SIN IS TO MAKE MAN MORE AWARE OF HIS HOPELESS SINFUL CONDITION BEFORE GOD, WHERE THERE IS NO ESCAPING GOD'S CONDEMNATION BY ANYTHING MAN CAN DO SO THAT THE PROMISE OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS AND HIS SALVATION BY FAITH ALONE IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE MIGHT BE GIVEN TO, I.E., FULFILLED IN THOSE WHO CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN HIM FOR THAT

BUT BEFORE THIS FAITH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WOULD HISTORICALLY COME INTO THE MINDS OF MEN - BEFORE CHRIST'S SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT OCCURRED IN HISTORY, WHICH ATONEMENT IS THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM AND ALL MANKIND RELATIVE TO SALVATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE TO ALL WHO BELIEVE, MANKIND WAS GUARDED UNDER LAW: MANKIND WAS SHUT UP / RESTRICTED TO THE ONLY MEANS FOR JUSTIFICATION UNTO ETERNAL LIFE: FAITH ALONE IN GOD'S PROMISE ALONE TO ABRAHAM AND MANKIND, WHICH FULFILLMENT IS THROUGH FAITH IN ABRAHAM'S SEED, LATER IN HISTORY TO BE REVEALED AS AND IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST

THEREFORE LAW, ESPECIALLY THE LAW OF MOSES, HAS BECOME OUR, [ALL MANKIND'S] "GUARDIAN-TRAINOR" IN ORDER TO PROVE OUT OUR INCAPACITY TO ACHIEVE OUR OWN JUSTIFICATION SO THAT WE MIGHT BE LED TO CHRIST SO THAT WE MAY BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH

BUT NOW THAT THE FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, I.E., IN HIS SUBSTITUTIONARY ATONEMENT HAS COME UPON HISTORY, WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN HIM ARE NO LONGER UNDER LAW, I.E., "GUARDIAN-TRAINOR;" FOR WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED IN CHRIST ARE THEREBY ALL SONS OF GOD. WE HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, WE HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE MAN, NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE: WE ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS. AND SINCE WE ARE CHRIST'S, WE ARE SPIRITUAL DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM, HEIRS ACCORDING TO GOD'S PROMISE TO HIM AND ALL MANKIND TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE BY FAITH ALONE

(Gal 3:22a) The Purpose For Scripture Shutting Up All Things Under Sin Is To Make Man More Aware Of His Hopeless Sinful Condition Before God, Where There Is No Escaping God's Condemnation By Anything Man Can Do, So That The Promise Of God's Forgiveness And His Salvation By Faith Alone In Jesus Christ Alone Might Be Given To, i.e., Fulfilled In Those Who Choose To Believe In Him For That

(Gal 3:22b) The Purpose For Scripture Shutting Up All Things Under Sin Is To Make Man More Aware Of His Hopeless Sinful Condition Before God, Where There Is No Escaping God's Condemnation By Anything Man Can Do So That The Promise Of God's Forgiveness And His Salvation By Faith Alone In Jesus Christ Alone Might Be Given To, i.e., Fulfilled In Those Who Choose To Believe In Him For That

(Gal 3:23) But Before This Faith In Christ Would Historically Come Into The Minds Of Men - Before Christ's Substitutionary Atonement Occurred In History, Which Atonement Is The Fulfillment Of God's Promise To Abraham And All Mankind Relative To Salvation Unto Eternal Life To All Who Believe, Mankind Was Guarded Under Law: Mankind Was Shut Up / Restricted To The Only Means For Justification Unto Eternal Life: Faith Alone In God's Promise Alone To Abraham And Mankind, Which Fulfillment Is Through Faith In Abraham's Seed, Later In History To Be Revealed As And In Jesus Christ

(Gal 3:24) In View Of The Fact That The Law Indicates That No One Can Justify Himself Through His Own Efforts To Be Obedient To It, The Law Has Become Our [All Mankind's] "Guardian-Trainor" In Order To Prove Out Our Incapacity To Achieve Our Own Justification So That We Might Be Led To Christ So That We May Be Justified By Faith

(Gal 3:25-26) But Now That The Faith In Jesus Christ, i.e., In His Substitutionary Atonement Has Come Upon History, We Who Have Believed In Him Are No Longer Under Law, i.e., A "Guardian-Trainor." For We Who Have Believed In Christ Are Thereby All Sons Of God

(Gal 3:26) Manuscript Evidence

(Gal 3:25-29) But Now That The Faith In Jesus Christ, i.e., In His Substitutionary Atonement Has Come Upon History, We Who Have Believed In Him Are No Longer Under Law, i.e., A "Guardian-Trainor." For We Who Have Believed In Christ Are Thereby All Sons Of God. We Have Been Baptized Into Christ. We Have Put On Christ. There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek, Neither Slave Nor Free Man, Neither Male Nor Female: We Are All One In Christ Jesus. And Since We Are Christ's, We Are Spiritual Descendants Of Abraham, Heirs According To God's Promise To Him And All Mankind To Inherit Eternal Life By Faith Alone

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I) [Gal 5:1-12]:

A) (Gal 5:1) It Was For Freedom That Christ Set Us Free; Therefore Stand Firm And Do Not Be Subject Again To A Yoke Of Slavery

1) Manuscript Evidence for Gal 5:1

2) (Gal 5:1a) It Was For Freedom That Christ Set Us Free; Therefore Stand Firm And Do Not Be Subject Again To A Yoke Of Slavery

a) [Compare Gal 2:16]:

b) [Compare Gal 3:22-29 ]:

c) [Ro 2:14-15]:

d) [Ro 3:20-24]:

e) [Compare Eph 1:13-14]:

f) [Compare Gal 3:1-5 ]:

g) [Compare Ro 8:1-2]:

h) [Compare Gal 3:24]:

3) (Gal 5:1b in italics) "It Was For Freedom That Christ Set Us Free; Therefore Stand Firm And Do Not Be Subject Again To A Yoke Of Slavery"

a) [Compare Acts 15:1, 5 with Gal 2:3-5]:

b) [Compare Acts 15:1-4, 7-11]:

B) (Gal 5:2) Paul Declares To The Galatian Believers And All Believers That If They Receive Circumcision In Order To Be Justified After They Have Already Trusted Alone In Christ Alone For Justification, Christ Will Be Of No Benefit To Them Relative To Benefits In The Temporal Life. This Does Not Effect Their Reception Of Eternal Life Which Has Already Been Secured By Them By Faith Alone. On The Other Hand, Temporal Benefits And Eternal Rewards Will Be Adversely Effected As They Persist In This Or Any Other Legalism

1) [Compare Ro 5:1-2]:

2) [Compare 1 Cor 7:17-20]:

3) [Compare Acts 15:1-2 ]:

C) (Gal 5:3) Everyone Who Receives Circumcision In Order To Be Justified Unto Eternal Life Is Under Obligation To Keep The Whole Law

1) [Compare Jas 2:10-11]:

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(Gal 3:10-12) JUSTIFICATION BEFORE GOD UNTO ETERNAL LIFE BY LAW - BY SOME STANDARD OF HUMAN DOING - REQUIRES ABSOLUTE PERFECTION - GOD'S ABSOLUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS. THERE IS NO PROVISION FOR FORGIVENESS OF TRANSGRESSIONS UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES OR ANY LAW UNTO ETERNAL LIFE; NOR ROOM FOR ERROR. SO IT IS EVIDENT THAT NO ONE CAN BE JUSTIFIED BY LAW BEFORE GOD. THE ONE WHO IS RIGHTEOUS BY FAITH IS THE ONE WHO WILL HAVE ETERNAL LIFE AND WILL LIVE OUT HIS TEMPORAL LIFE IN A RIGHTEOUS MANNER AS HE LIVES BY THAT SAME FAITH. KEEPING THE LAW IS NOT BASED ON FAITH, BUT UPON HUMAN DOING. HE WHO PRACTICES LAW, MUST LIVE BY THE LAW WITHOUT ERROR - AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY FOR MAN

(Gal 3:10 NASB) "For as many as are of the works of [law] are under a curse; for it is written, 'Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, to perform them.' [Dt 27:26 Septuagint] (Gal 3:11 YLT) and that in law no one is declared righteous with God, is evident, [cf. Gal 2:16] because 'The righteous by faith shall live;' [Hab 2:4; Ro 1:17] (Gal 3:12 NASB) However, the [law] is not of [i.e., based on] faith; on the contrary, 'He who practices [these things - the precepts of the Law] shall live by [them]' " [Lev 18:5] =

[Compare Dt 27:26 Septuagint]:

(Dt 27:26 Septuagint) "Accursed is every man whoever shall not adhere to all the words of this law [Law of Moses] to do them. [And shall all the people say, 'Amen' "]

[Compare Gal 2:16]:

[Gal 3:11b Greek Interlinear]:

[Compare Hab 2:4]:

[Compare Gal 3:11 YLT]:

[Compare Lev 18:5]:

(Gal 3:19a) Why, Then, Was The Law Given At All? Reasons Are As Follows:

The Law Was Given To Reveal The Righteousness Of God - The Standard Of Righteousness That God Demands For Eternal Life And A Proper Relationship With Him In The Temporal Life

[Compare Lev 18:5]:

[Compare Gal 3:21]:

[Compare Ro 7:12]:

[Compare Ro 2:20b]:

[Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, G & C Merriam Co, Springfield, USA, 1980, p. 368 provides this applicable meaning of 'embody']:

The Law Was Given To Provide A Rule Of Conduct / Life For Jews - Especially Those Who Are Of The Faith Of Abraham During That Time Period Before The Establishment Of The Body Of Believers In Christ, The Church - An Example For The Rest Of Mankind To Follow, Leading To The Knowledge Of And Faith In The One True God And His Salvation Through His One And Only Son Through Faith Alone In Him Alone

[Exodus chapters 20-23]:

The Laws Was Given To Keep The Jews A Distinct People - The People Of The One True God

[Compare Lev 11:44-45]:

[Compare Lev 20:7-8, 26]:

[Compare Dt 7:6; cf. Dt 14:1ff]:

The Law Was Given To Provide Israel With Occasions For Individual And Corporate Worship Of God

The Law Was Given To Reveal Sin To Israel And To All Mankind Through Israel's Experience At Failing To Keep The Law - To Demonstrate All Of Mankind's Utter Sinfulness And Helplessness Before A Holy And Righteous God, To Lead One To Seek Eternal Life Via A Moment Of Faith Alone In The Sacrifice Of His Son For Sins Alone

[Ro 7:7-13]:

[Compare Ro 3:19-20 cf. Gal 3:11, 24]:

[Compare Ro 5:20]:

The Law Was Given To Shut Up Everyone Under Sin, So That The Promise By Faith In Jesus Christ Might Be Given To, i.e., Fulfilled In Those - Jew And Gentile - Who Believe. The Law Thus Became Our Tutor [Guardian-Trainor] To Lead Us To Christ, So That We May Be Justified By Faith

[Compare Gal 3:22-24]:

on the purposes of the Law

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D) (Gal 5:4) You Galatian Believers Who Have Been Justified By Faith Alone Who Then Chose To Be Circumcised In Order To Be Justified By Law, You Have Been Severed From A Temporal Beneficial Relationship With Christ - You Have Fallen [Out] From Grace - From The Unmerited Favors Of A Temporal Relationship With Christ

1) [Compare Eph 1:13-14]:

2) [Complete Eph 4:30]:

3) [1 Jn 5:9-13]:

E) (Gal 5:5) For We Believers In Christ Through The Spirit Of God Within Are Given Assurance Of Our Own Eternal Destiny Wherein We Confidently, Assuredly Await Our Resurrection Unto A Redemption Body Having The Intrinsic Righteousness Of God

1) [Compare Phil 3:20-21]:

2) [Compare Ro 8:22-25]:

F) (Gal 5:6) Paul Conveys A Message To Those In Christ Jesus - Believers Secure In Eternal Life: Just As Neither Circumcision Nor Uncircumcision Means Anything Relative To Anyone Securing Eternal Life; Neither Does Circumcision / Uncircumcision Mean Anything Relative To Believers' Eternal Or Temporal Lives. But Relative To Their Temporal Lives, What Does Matter Are Those Moments Of Faith Working Through Their Expressions Of Agape Love For God

1) [Compare 2 Cor 5:17]:

2) [Compare Eph 1:13-14]:

3) [Compare Phil 1:27-28]:

4) [Compare Gal 3:21]:

5) [Compare 1 Cor 16:13-14]:

6) [Compare 1 Cor 7:19]:

7) [Compare Gal 5:22]:

G) (Gal 5:7) You Galatian Believers Were Running Well; Who Hindered You From Obeying / Believing In The Truth That Faith Alone In Christ Alone Is All That Is Required In Order To Be Justified And Nothing More?

1) [Compare 1 Cor 9:24-27]:

2) [Compare 2 Tim 4:7-8]:

G cont.) (Gal 5:7 cont.) You Galatian Believers Were Running Well; Who Hindered You From Obeying / Believing In The Truth That Faith Alone In Christ Alone Is All That Is Required In Order To Be Justified And Nothing More? (cont.)

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(Gal 1:6-9) Paul Is Astonished That The Believers In Galatia Are So Quickly Deserting God Who Called Them By The Grace Of Christ - Astonished That They Would Believe In A Different Gospel Which Is Really Not Another Gospel At All. But There Were Some Who Were Troubling Them, Who Wanted To Pervert The Gospel Of Christ. Paul Then States That Even If We - Himself And Those With Him - Or An Angel From Heaven, Should Preach To Them A Gospel Contrary To What They Did Preach To Those In Galatia, Let Him (Them) Be Accursed. Whereupon Paul Repeated Himself: So Now I Say Again, If Anyone Of You Preaches Any Other Gospel To You Than What You Did Receive, Let Him Be Accursed

(Gal 3:1-5) Paul Asked, 'You Foolish Galatians, Who Has Bewitched You, Before Whose Eyes Jesus Christ Was Publicly Portrayed [By Paul] As Having Been Crucified? Did You Receive The Spirit By The Works Of law, Or By Hearing With Faith? Are You So Foolish? Having Begun By The Spirit, Are You Now Being Perfected In The Flesh? Have You Suffered So Many Things In Vain - If Indeed In Vain? Therefore He Who Is Supplying The Spirit To You And Is Working Miracles Among You, Does He Do It By The Works Of law, Or By The Hearing Of Faith?'

[Compare Acts 14:1-10; 19-22]:

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G cont.) (Gal 5:7 cont.) You Galatian Believers Were Running Well; Who Hindered You From Obeying / Believing In The Truth That Faith Alone In Christ Alone Is All That Is Required In Order To Be Justified And Nothing More? (cont.)

3) [Compare Heb 5:9b]:

4) [Compare 1 Pet 1:17-23]:

H) (Gal 5:7-8) You Galatian Believers Were Running Well; Who Hindered You From Obeying / Believing In The Truth - That A Moment Of Faith Alone In Christ Alone Is All That Is Required In Order To Be Justified? Nothing More! This Persuasion Did Not Come From Him [God] Who Calls You - To Trust Alone In Christ Jesus For Justification

1) [Compare Gal 1:6-9 ]:

I) (Gal 5:9) A Little False Expression Within The Body Of Truth Contaminates The Message Of The Gospel And The Temporal Life Of The Believer

1) Manuscript Evidence for Gal 5:9

2) (Gal 5:9) A Little False Expression Within The Body Of Truth Contaminates The Message Of The Gospel And The Temporal Life Of The Believer

a) [Compare 1 Cor 5:6]:

J) (Gal 5:10) Paul Declares Confidence In The Galatian Believers In The LORD That They Will Continue To Adopt No Other View But The Gospel Of Faith Alone In Christ Alone Unto Justification. But The One Who Is Disturbing Them Will Bear The LORD's Judgment, Whoever He Is

K) (Gal 5:11) Paul States That If He Were Preaching Circumcision - Justification By Law, i.e., Human Doing - Why Was He Being Persecuted By The Judaizers Who Were Preaching That Message Themselves? For Paul's Actual Message Of Justification By Faith Alone In Christ's Work On The Cross Alone, Was A Stumbling Block To The Judaizers' Message Of Justification By Law. Such A Message Of Faith Alone Would Have Been Abolished In The Sense Of Absent From Paul's Preaching Had His Message Been Justification By Keeping The Law. The Two Purposed Means To Be Justified Are Incompatible, i.e., Mutually Exclusive With One Another

1) [Compare 1 Cor 1:21-23]:

L) (Gal 5:12) Paul Declared That He Wished Those Who Were Troubling The Galatian Believers Would Even Cut Themselves Off

II) [Gal 5:13-26]:

A) (Gal 5:13) Believers Are Called To Freedom. Only They Are Not To Turn Their Freedom Into An Opportunity For The Flesh - In The Sense Of Reenslaving Themselves To Their Sin Natures. But Through Agape / Godly, Self-Sacrificial Love, Believers Are To Serve - In The Sense Of Be In Servitude To - One Another

1) Manuscript Evidence for Gal 5:13

2) (Gal 5:13a) For You Were Called To Freedom, Brethren

a) [Compare Gal 5:1a]:

i) [Compare Gal 2:16]:

ii) [Compare Gal 3:22-29 ]:

iii) [Ro 2:14-15]:

iv) [Ro 3:20-24]:

v) [Compare Gal 3:1-5 ]:

vi) [Compare Ro 8:1-2]:

3) (Gal 5:13b) Believers Were To Called To Freedom; But They Are Not To Turn Their Freedom In Christ Into An Opportunity For The Flesh / The Sin Nature Within

4) (Gal 5:13b) Believers Secure In Their Salvation Can And Do Commit Sins All The Time

a) Solomon ended his life as an idolator (1 Kings 11).

b) Many of the believers in Corinth, although five years old as Christians, were carnal and fleshly - yet they are called babes in Christ (1 Cor 3:1-3).

c) One believer at Corinth was actually living in immorality with his stepmother and was brazenly unrepentant (1 Cor 5:5).

d) A number of believers in Corinth were sick, and some had already died, as a result of their selfish and drunken disregard for the sacredness of the Lord's Supper (1 Cor 11:30).

e) Demas, whom Paul at least twice referred to as his co-laborer in Christ's service (Col 4:14; Phlm 24), later is said by Paul to have 'forsaken me, having loved this present world' (2 Tim 4:10).

f) Likewise James refers to the need to turn back fellow believers who have wandered from the truth (Jas 5:19-20)

g) No believers can say that they have no sin nor say that they have not sinned in their mortal lives

i) [Compare 1 Jn 1:8, 10]:

5) (Gal 5:13b) Since Believers Secure In Their Salvation Can And Do Commit Sins All The Time, Then They Still Have An Intrinsic Sin Nature As Well As The Indwelling Holy Spirit. It's A Matter Of Personal Choice Which Lead They Will Follow: The Old Sin Nature Or The New Nature Within Them

a) [Compare Gal 5:16-17, 25-26]:

b) [Compare Eph 4:20-24: The New Nature Of The Believer In Christ]:

c) [Compare Ro 6:6-7]:

d) [Compare Ro 6:12-14]:

e) [Compare Ro 8:6-8]:

6) (Gal 5:13c) Believers Were To Called To Freedom; But They Are Not To Turn Their Freedom In Christ Into An Opportunity For The Flesh / The Sin Nature Within Them; But Through Agape / Godly Love They Are To Serve One Another

B) (Gal 5:13-14) Believers Were To Called To Freedom; But They Are Not To Turn Their Freedom In Christ Into An Opportunity For The Flesh / The Sin Nature Within Them; But Through Agape / Godly Love They Are To Serve One Another. For The Whole Law Is Fulfilled In One Word, In The Statement, 'You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself .'

1) Manuscript Evidence for Gal 5:14

2) (Gal 5:13-14 NASB) Believers Were To Called To Freedom; But They Are Not To Turn Their Freedom In Christ Into An Opportunity For The Flesh / The Sin Nature Within Them; But Through Agape / Godly Love They Are To Serve One Another. For The Whole Law Is Fulfilled In One Word, In The Statement, 'You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself .'

a) [Compare Jas 2:8]:

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[Ro 13:8-10]:

Believers Are To Owe No One Anything Except To Express Agape / Godly Love Toward One Another. A Lifestyle Characterized By Agape Love Toward Others Qualifies As Fulfilling The Righteous Standard Of The Law, i.e., Rules Governing Human Conduct - Specifically The Mosaic Law

A Paramount Characteristic For Believers To Exercise Is Agape / Godly Love Toward Others Which Is Without Pretense - A Self-Sacrifical Regard For The Welfare Of Another - A Regard Which Nature It Is To Abhor What Is Evil And To Cling To What Is Godly

[Compare Ro 8:3-4]:

[Compare Ro 12:1-2]:

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C) (Gal 5:13-15) Believers Were To Called To Freedom; But They Are Not To Turn Their Freedom In Christ Into An Opportunity For The Flesh / The Sin Nature Within Them; But Through Agape / Godly Love They Are To Serve One Another. For The Whole Law Is Fulfilled In One Word, In The Statement, 'You Shall Love Your Neighbor As Yourself .' But If You Bite And Devour One Another, Take Care That You Are Not Consumed By One Another.

D) (Gal 5:16) But I Say, Walk By The Spirit, And You Will Not Carry Out The Desire Of The Flesh.

1) [Compare Gal 5:25]:

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[Ro 8:3-4]:

IN VIEW IN 8:3 IS THE WEAKNESS OF THE LAW THROUGH THE FLESH TO ACCOMPLISH A KEY PURPOSE OF THE LAW: TO CONDEMN / JUDGE AND SENTENCE SIN IN THE FLESH SO THAT MEN MIGHT WALK ACCORDING TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE LAW. SO GOD DID IT: HE SENT HIS OWN SON IN THE LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH WITHOUT INTRINSIC SINFULNESS AND FOR SIN DID JUDGE SIN AND DID PAY THE PENALTY FOR IT IN HIS HUMANITY PROVIDING THE MEANS BY WHICH MAN CAN NOW EVIDENCE RIGHTEOUS, GODLY BEHAVIOR BY BECOMING IN CHRIST JESUS (= BELIEVERS) AND WALKING NOT ACCORDING TO FLESH BUT ACCORDING TO SPIRIT

[Compare Ro 7:5]:

[Compare Ro 3:21-25]:

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E) (Gal 5:16-17) But I Say, Walk By The Spirit, And You Will Not Carry Out The Desire Of The Flesh. For The Flesh Desires What Is Against The Spirit, And The Spirit Desires What Is Against The Flesh; These Are Opposed To Each Other, So That You Don't Do What You Want

1) [Compare 2 Cor 5:17]:

2) [Compare Gal 3:28 ]:

3) [Compare Ro 7:18-25 ]:

F) (Gal 5:18) (Gal 5:18) Since Believers Are Led By The Spirit By Virtue Of Their Having Become Believers And Thereby Placed Into Christ By The Indwelling Spirit, Then They Are Not Under Law = Rules Governing Human Behavior Relative To Being Justified Unto Eternal Life And Relative To Leading Godly Lives

1) [Compare Ro 6:14]:

2) [Compare Ro 8:9-14]:

a) The Indwelling Of The Spirit Puts The Spirit In The Position Of Authority Over The Believer As Leader. As Many Individuals As Are Led By The Spirit Of God Are Those Who Are Indwelt By The Spirit - Only These Are The Sons Of God - Regardless Of Their Response To The Leading. Living In Accordance With The Spirit Gives Evidence Of This Leading. But There Are No Guarantees That Faithfulness Will Be Observed In The Mortal Lives Of Believers

i) [Compare Ro 8:9]:

G) (Gal 5:19-21) The Deeds Of The Flesh Are Evident, Which Are: Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality, Idolatry, Sorcery, Enmities, Strife, Jealousy, Outbursts Of Anger, Disputes, Dissensions, Factions, Envying, Drunkenness, Carousing, And Things Like These, Of Which I Forewarn You, Just As I Have Forewarned You, That Those Who Practice Such Things Will Not Inherit - In The Sense Of Becoming Co-Owners / Co-Rulers Of The Kingdom Of God With Jesus Christ

1) (Gal 5:19) The Deeds Of The Flesh Are Evident, Which Are: Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality' ...

a) Manuscript Evidence For Gal 5:19:

b) (Gal 5:19) The Deeds Of The Flesh Are Evident, Which Are: Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality, ...

2) (Gal 5:19-20) The Deeds Of The Flesh Are Evident, Which Are: Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality, Idolatry, Sorcery, Enmities, Strife, Jealousy, Outbursts Of Anger, Disputes, Dissensions, Factions

3) (Gal 5:19-21) The Deeds Of The Flesh Are Evident, Which Are: Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality, Idolatry, Sorcery, Enmities, Strife, Jealousy, Outbursts Of Anger, Disputes, Dissensions, Factions, Envying, Drunkenness, Carousing, And Things Like These, Of Which I Forewarn You, Just As I Have Forewarned You, That Those Who Practice Such Things Will Not Inherit - In The Sense Of Not Becoming Co-Owners / Co-Rulers Of The Kingdom Of God With Jesus Christ

a) Manuscript Evidence For Gal 5:21

b) (Gal 5:19-21) The Deeds Of The Flesh Are Evident, Which Are: Immorality, Impurity, Sensuality, Idolatry, Sorcery, Enmities, Strife, Jealousy, Outbursts Of Anger, Disputes, Dissensions, Factions Envying, Drunkenness, Carousing, And Things Like These, Of Which I Forewarn You, Just As I Have Forewarned You, That Those Who Practice Such Things Will Not Inherit - In The Sense Of Not Becoming Co-Owners / Co-Rulers Of The Kingdom Of God With Jesus Christ

i) [Compare 1 Cor 6:9-10]:

ii) (Gal 5:19-21) The Phrase Rendered "Those Who Live Like This Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God," Is A Warning To Believers, Secure In Their Salvation From Hell Unto Eternal Life, To Not Be Unfaithful Because If They Are They Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God - In The Sense Of Not Becoming Co-Owners And Co-Rulers Of The Kingdom Of God With Jesus Christ. Individuals Who Were Never Saved In The First Place Are Not In View Who Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God, As Some Contend, For Believers Can Behave Dispicably And Disqualify Themselves From Their Heavenly Inheritance. And Neither Is The Loss Of Salvation From Hell Unto Eternal Life In View As Corroborated By Earlier Passages In Galatians And Numerous Other Passages.

ii_a) (Gal 5:13b) Believers Secure In Their Salvation Can And Do Commit Sins All The Time Even To The Point Of Disqualifying Themselves From Receiving All Or Part Of Their Heavenly Inheritances

1) Solomon ended his life as an idolator (1 Kings 11).

2) Many of the believers in Corinth, although five years old as Christians, were carnal and fleshly - yet they are called babes in Christ (1 Cor 3:1-3).

3) One believer at Corinth was actually living in immorality with his stepmother and was brazenly unrepentant (1 Cor 5:5).

4) A number of believers in Corinth were sick, and some had already died, as a result of their selfish and drunken disregard for the sacredness of the Lord's Supper (1 Cor 11:30).

5) Demas, whom Paul at least twice referred to as his co-laborer in Christ's service (Col 4:14; Phlm 24), later is said by Paul to have 'forsaken me, having loved this present world' (2 Tim 4:10).

6) Likewise James refers to the need to turn back fellow believers who have wandered from the truth (Jas 5:19-20)

7) Since no believer can say that he has no sin nor say that he has not sinned in his mortal life, then no believer can say that he has been absolutely faithful in a single moment so as to prove out his salvation by demonstrating a changed life

[Compare 1 Jn 1:8, 10]:

ii_b) Gal 4:1-7 Corroborates The Eternal Security Of The Believer

ii_c) Gal 5:1-5 Corroborates The Eternal Security Of The Believer

ii_d) Gal 3:1ff And Gal 6:6-10 Work Together To Establish The Eternal Security Of The Salvation From Hell Unto Eternal Life Via A Moment Of Faith Alone In Christ Alone Apart From Any Godly Works For The Believer; Yet Together The Passages Also Establish The Availability Through The Spirit Of God Received Via The Believer At The Point Of His Faith In Christ In Order To Enhance That Eternal Life By His Sowing To The Spirit In The Sense Of Performing Godly Works In Order To Reap Eternal Life More Abundantly

[Compare Gal 6:6-10]:

[Compare Jn 10:7-10]:

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[Dr. Zane Hodges, "The Gospel Under Siege", Redencion Viva Publishers, Dallas, Texas, Second Edition, 1992, pp. 86-89]:

INTRODUCTION

[Compare Gal 3:2-5]:

ETERNAL LIFE IS EXPERIENCED IN MORE THAN ONE DEGREE

[Hodges, cont.]:

ENHANCING ONES ETERNAL LIFE

[HODGES, cont.]

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ii_e) Numerous Other Passages Corroborate The Eternal Security Of The Believer

iii) (Gal 5:19-21) The Phrase Rendered "Those Who Live Like This Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God," Is A Warning To Believers, Secure In Their Salvation From Hell Unto Eternal Life, To Not Be Unfaithful Because If They Are They Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God - In The Sense Of Not Becoming Co-Owners And Co-Rulers Of The Kingdom Of God With Jesus Christ. It Is Not A Warning To Anyone To Be Faithful In Order To Attain Salvation From Hell Unto Eternal Life; Nor Is It An Exhortation To Believers To Act Like - In The Sense Of live Up To - Their Assured Eternal Destiny Of Being Transformed Into Righteous Eternal Beings To Occupy The Eternal Kingdom Of God.

iv) (Gal 5:19-21) The Phrase Rendered "Those Who Live Like This Will Not Inherit The Kingdom Of God," Is A Warning To Believers Of The Possibility Of Loss Of Their Eternal Inheritance. It Is Not A Warning To Believers That They Might Lose Their Salvation From Hell Unto Eternal Life If They Commit Such Sins As Specified In Gal 5:19-21

iv_a) [Compare Eph 5:1-14]:

[= NO IMMORAL OR IMPURE PERSON OR COVETOUS MAN, OR ONE WHO IS AN IDOLATOR BE HE BELIEVER OR UNBELIEVER HAS AN INHERITANCE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD ]

iv_b) [Compare 1 Cor 6:1-20]:

[= BELIEVERS WHO LIVE UNFAITHFUL LIVES WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD]:

iv_c) [Compare Col 1:9-12, 21-23]:

[= LIVE A WORTHY LIFE AND THE BELIEVER WILL SHARE IN THE INHERITANCE OF THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT]

iv_d) [Compare Col 3:23-24]:

[= BELIEVERS ARE TO WORK FOR THE LORD SO THAT THEY WILL RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE AS A REWARD WHEN THEY GAIN ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN]

iv_e) Compare 2 Timothy 2:11-13]:

[= IF WE BELIEVERS ENDURE, I.E., LIVE FAITHFUL LIVES, WE SHALL ALSO REIGN WITH HIM. IF WE BELIEVERS DISOWN CHRIST'S OWNERSHIP OF US, I.E. BE UNFAITHFUL, HE WILL DISOWN OUR INHERITANCE OF REIGNING WITH HIM]

iv_f) [Compare Jas 2:1-5 ]:

[= GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY OF CHOOSING THE POOR TO BE HEIRS OF THE KINGDOM AND BELIEVERS' FREE WILL CHOICE TO PERSEVERE UNDER TRIALS UNTO THE RIGHTEOUS LIFE THAT GOD DESIRES RESULTING IN BECOMING AN HEIR TO THE KINGDOM ARE BOTH IN VIEW]:

iv_g) [Compare Mt 10:32-33, 37-39 ]:

[= TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND BE WORTHY: CONFESS AND BE CONFESSED BEFORE THE FATHER; OR DENY AND BE DENIED YOUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE BUT NEVER YOUR GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE]:

iv_h) [Compare Mt 5:1-5, 9-12 ]:

[= THE BEATITUDES: THE MEEK, THOSE WHO ARE FAITHFUL, SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH]:

[Compare Ps 2:6-8]:

[Compare Heb 1:8-9; 12:2 which reaffirm this point]:

[Compare Gal. 6:6-10]:

[Compare Ro 3:22b-24]:

[Compare Eph 2:8-9]:

[Compare Heb 1:14]:

[Compare Lk 18:18]:

[Compare Mk 10:17]:

[Compare Lk 10:25-28]:

[Compare Mt 19:29]:

[Compare Rev 2:26]:

H) (Gal 5:22-26) But The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control; Against Such Things There Is No Law. Now Those Who Belong To Christ Jesus Have Crucified The Flesh With Its Passions And Desires. If We Live By The Spirit, Let Us Also Walk By The Spirit. Let Us Not Become Boastful, Provoking One Another, Envying One Another

1) (Gal 5:22-23)

a) Manuscript Evidence for Gal 5:23

b) (Gal 5:22-23) But The Fruit Of The Spirit Is Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-Control; Against Such Things There Is No Law.

i) [Compare Col 3:1-17]:

ii) [Compare 1 Cor 13:4-7]:

iii) [Compare Ro 12:9-10]:

iv) [Compare Jn 15:11 ]:

v) [Compare 1 Jn 1:3-4, 9]:

vi) [Compare Ro 8:28-37 - especially 38-39 ]:

vii) [Compare 1 Pet 1:3-9]:

viii) [Compare Phil 4:5-8]:

ix) [Compare Ro 14:17]:

x) [Compare Jn 14:27]:

["patience"]:

["kindness"]:

["goodness"]:

["faithfulness"]:

xi) [Compare 2 Thes 1:3-4]:

["gentleness"]:

xii) [Compare 1 Pet 3:8-16]:

["self-control"]:

2) (Gal 5:24-26)

a) Manuscript Evidence for Gal 5:24

b) (Gal 5:24-26) Now Those Who Belong To Christ Jesus Are Believers - Sons Of God Through A Moment Of Faith Alone In Christ Jesus Alone. They Have By Virture Of That Moment Of Faith Crucified The Flesh - The Sinful Nature - With Its Sinful Passions And Desires In The Sense Of That Their Lives Are No Longer Under The Absolute Control Of That Sinful Nature. They Are Now Under The Control Of The Spirit, And Are Exhorted To Walk By The Spirit. They Are Not To Become Boastful, [Provoking] One Another, Envying One Another.

i) [Compare Col 3:9-11]:

ii) [Compare Eph 4:20-24: The New Nature Of The Believer In Christ]:

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[Ro 6:5-6]:

(Ro 6:5-6:6) THE BELIEVER'S UNDERSTANDING THAT HE HAS BECOME UNITED WITH JESUS CHRIST IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH AND THAT HE SHALL BE ALSO BE UNITED IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION LEADS TO KNOWING THAT HIS OLD SELF WAS CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST

(Ro 6:5-6:6) THE OLD SELF = LIT, 'THE OLD MAN' = THAT PART OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL (INCLUDING BELIEVERS) WHICH CONTROLS THE PRACTICE OF EVIL WHICH HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED = PUT TO DEATH, I.E., IT'S CONTROL IS DEACTIVATED BUT NOT ANNIHILATED AT THE MOMENT ONE BECOMES A BELIEVER

[Ro 6:6 cont.]:

(Ro 6:6) THE RESULT OF OUR OLD SELF BEING CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, I.E., PUT TO DEATH, IS THE BODY OF SIN BEING RENDERED POWERLESS SO THAT WE SHOULD NO LONGER BE SLAVES TO SIN

(Ro 6:6) SINCE HIS SIN NATURE WAS RENDERED POWERLESS, THE BELIEVER SHOULD NO LONGER BE A SLAVE TO SIN BUT HE CAN CHOOSE TO CONTINUE IN SIN. HOWEVER THE QUESTION WAS PREVIOUSLY ASKED WHY?

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b cont.) (Gal 5:24-26 cont.) Now Those Who Belong To Christ Jesus, i.e., Believers / Sons Of God Through Faith In Christ Jesus Have By Virture Of That Moment Of Faith Crucified The Flesh With Its Illicit Passions And Desires In The Sense Of No Longer Being Under The Absolute Control Of The Sinful Nature. Since Believers Are Now Under The Control Of The Spirit, Let Us Walk By The Spirit. Let Us Not Become Boastful, Provoking One Another, Envying One Another.

iii) [Compare Gal 5:16]:

b cont.) (Gal 5:24-26 cont.) Now Those Who Belong To Christ Jesus, i.e., Believers / Sons Of God Through Faith In Christ Jesus Have By Virture Of That Moment Of Faith Crucified The Flesh With Its Illicit Passions And Desires In The Sense Of No Longer Being Under The Absolute Control Of The Sinful Nature. Since Believers Are Now Under The Control Of The Spirit, Let Us Walk By The Spirit. Let Us Not Become Boastful, [Provoking] One Another, Envying One Another.