Joy is setting the soul upon the top of a pinnacle - it is the cream of the sincere milk of the word. It is pride that begins and maintains our quarrels. A. He spake not of all; but, having named St. "Why, how is that? AugustineOn Continence, All we Therefore, who Believe in the Living and True God18. "Why, how is that? (3) And sometimes men "bite" by downright railing at, if not cursing, those that differ from them. Bowden. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. I should like to dismiss them, but it seems I can not. Unity and peace are said to be like the dew of Hermon, that descended upon Sion, where the Lord promised His blessing. )Consumed one of another: Strife in the foldTwo friends met the other day. Nature's harshness has melted away and she is now beaming with the smile of spring, and everything around us whispers of the gentleness of God. Some more airy and mercurial, some more stiff and melancholy. v. 22, 23. And if men would begin at this end, and not still at the wrong end to wit, the few and small things wherein we differ we could not, for very shame, be so implacable to one another. Galatians 5:7 in all English translations. (f)Follow after charity. MP3 Audio (3.09 MB) Gal 5 & The Eighth Day Kirt Merriman 10 17 22. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. Here therefore these men too evil, while they essay to make void the Law, force us to approve these Scriptures. (c)These contentions bring great dishonour to Jesus Christ. We are not to suppose that the Apostle here uses the familiar contrast of spirit and flesh to express simply different elements of human nature. It is contrary to sorrow, which is a perturbation Thomas WatsonA Body of DivinityThe Routing of Giant DoubtTHE ROUTING OF GIANT DOUBT Doubts! Divisions run religions into briars and thorns, contention and parties. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. 4. The life of a Christian must be one of progress. A town, if it can be but set on fire, the enemy may hope to take it with more ease. Are often due to trivial causes.2. If there be tempest (not in the air) in the spirits of Christians, and the wind of their passions be high and loud, it is easy to tell who is the conjuror; it is the devil that is practising his black art upon their lusts, which yet are so much unmortified, as gives him too great an advantage of raising many times sad storms of division and strife amongst them. 1. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. A. (i)Observe that good old rule, of doing to others as you would be done to. And not a few afterwards acknowledged that a real good and blessing was the consequence to all parties, by the opportunely falling down of that old dividing wall Party spirit is a wall of separation which the coming and the work of Christ was intended to remove. Really I Robert Lee BerryAdventures in the Land of CanaanI have Said This, Lest Haply Married Fruitfulness Dare to vie with virgin Chastity7. "Yes," he replied, "with all my heart." If we may judge of their morality by the exhortations and dehortations which Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Fruit of the Spirit'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. He lists the works of the flesh,22. Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. v. 6. "For He is our peace, who hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. I should like to dismiss them, but it seems I can not. Goodness is just "Godness." The gospel will not allow us to pay our enemies in their own coin, and give them wrath for wrath; much less will it suffer brethren to spit fire at one another's face. )The evil of dissensionsT. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. The life of a Christian must be one of progress. The early communities had apostolic teaching; but beyond that, they seem to have been in no respect above, and in many respects below, the level of subsequent ages. Gal 5:52. "The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness" (Gal. (2)We are uncharitable in these contentions. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. He spake not of all; but, having named St. Witness Acts 15:1: "And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved:" a material point, and urged, you see, with great confidence; and yet God forbid we should blot these out of the roll of true Christians! Are a cause of rejoicing to the enemies of the truth.6. Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. The Daily Walk with Others (iii. It is a very singular instance of imaginative misreading of plain facts that the primitive Church should be held up as a pattern Church. So saith Scripture (Hosea 10:2.; Matthew 12:25).2. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. Neil. 'The fruit of the Spirit,' says Paul, not the fruits, as we might more naturally have expected, and as the phrase is most often quoted; all this rich variety of graces, of conduct and character, is thought of as one. But it happened that the musicians were so long in tuning their instruments that the great Turk, distasting their tediousness, went away in discontent before the music began. And though all the time I try hard not to make mistakes, yet I still make them. 'The fruit of the Spirit,' says Paul, not the fruits, as we might more naturally have expected, and as the phrase is most often quoted; all this rich variety of graces, of conduct and character, is thought of as one. I. Jesus is always victorious. (a)Lament your own and others' sin in this particular. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. GALATIANS v. 16. Gal 5:17 John NewtonOlney HymnsAnd on this Account That, Which, the Parts that Beget Being Bridled by Modesty5. Gal 5:52. A. and the fruits of the Spirit,25. The individual members are not isolated graces, but all connected, springing from one root and constituting an organic whole. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. For this reason the Lord, after He had said, "For from the heart go forth evil thoughts," then went on to add what it is that belongs to evil thoughts, "murders, adulteries," and the rest. Nothing is more important then, than that we should be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit, or to keep to the metaphor, that the "trees of the Lord should be continuously full of sap"--His sap. For they mark what is said, that they who are under the Law are in bondage, and they keep flying above the rest that last saying, "Ye are made empty [1715] of Christ, as many of you as are justified in the Law; ye have fallen from Grace." 3 For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. "The ideal brotherhoodA little boy, seeing two nestling birds pecking at each other, inquired of his elder brother what they were doing. The early communities had apostolic teaching; but beyond that, they seem to have been in no respect above, and in many respects below, the level of subsequent ages. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. )How to end bickeringsC. IIIFifteenth Sunday after Trinity Church Officers Warned of Vain-Glory. and not to observe circumcision;13. but rather love, which is the sum of the law.19. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. Are offensive to God.(R. (j)My last advice is, to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." Gurnall. Bertram. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. We are not to suppose that the Apostle here uses the familiar contrast of spirit and flesh to express simply different elements of human nature. There is a singular charm, a charm that one can scarcely explain, in the words of Paul in Gal. The shrubs looked over to one another, and got into friendly talk; and so they said, "What a good thing that piece of old wall fell down; it is a pity it stood so high so long."4. It is not enough for us to have been born again of Water and the Holy Ghost, and to have received the Gifts of the Spirit from time to time through the different means of grace. Text: Galatians 5:13-15 Sermon Series: Galatians: Truth on Fire. Let none now seek to divide Christians by building up a wall of party spirit between them; for, "behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."(G. It seems to me that surely I am not sanctified, or else I should be more perfect. How this may be so for us is graphically Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Holy Spirit Bringing Forth in the Believer Christlike Graces of Character. Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. There are dogs of so many sorts one can hardly count, them; and as for the worst of them," said he, "they are little dogs, which bark loudly, but cannot bite. All we therefore, who believe in the Living and True God, Whose Nature, being in the highest sense good and incapable of change, neither doth any evil, nor suffers any evil, from Whom is every good, even that which admits of decrease, and Who admits not at all of decrease in His own Good, Which is Himself, when we hear the Apostle saying, "Walk in the Spirit, and perform ye not the lusts of the flesh. v. 6. This beautiful fruit is in lovely harmony with the gentle month of which it is the keynote. 16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. JOHN vi. 15-16. Part of the Galatians teaching series. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. Fuller, D. D.)PeopleGalatians, Paul, PhilippiansPlacesGalatiaTopicsBeware, Bite, Biting, Care, Careful, Cause, Consume, Consumed, Destroyed, Destruction, Devour, Devouring, Fighting, Heed, Lest, Perpetually, Snapping, Snarling, WatchOutline1. It is love that edifieth, but division pulleth down. and not to observe circumcision;13. but rather love, which is the sum of the law.19. IIIFifteenth Sunday after Trinity Church Officers Warned of Vain-Glory. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. "No," replied the child, "that cannot be, for they are brothers." 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. Let me say a little on a subject which, like the last, is one of some delicacy and difficulty, though its problems are of a very different kind. It seems to me that surely I am not sanctified, or else I should be more perfect. v. 22). The shrubs looked over to one another, and got into friendly talk; and so they said, "What a good thing that piece of old wall fell down; it is a pity it stood so high so long."4. "They are quarrelling," was the answer. I believe Robert Lee BerryAdventures in the Land of CanaanConflicts with Giant MistakeCONFLICTS WITH GIANT MISTAKE I make so many mistakes, it seems I am just a bundle of contradictions. Jesus is always victorious. It is a delightful passion. Divisions run religions into briars and thorns, contention and parties. I should like to dismiss them, but it seems I can not. When the sheep of Christ are malignant one against another, it is a fearful presage of ensuing ruin; when there are tumults in the Church, it may justly be feared that God is about to remove from us.(Spencer. III 'Walk in the Spirit''Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. All real beauty of character, all real Christlikeness in us, R. Meekness, temperance'--GAL. Text: Galatians 5, 25-26 and 6, 1-10. This is the healing grace; and if this be not applied to our bleeding wounds, they will never be cured. If we may judge of their morality by the exhortations and dehortations which Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Fruit of the Spirit'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. (h)These biting and devouring contentions are uncivil, inhuman, and barbarous. I try to do good; but at times my efforts are so crude that I seem to do more harm than good. The "works of God," as they denominate them, were not any and every duty, but those more special and important acts, by which the creature might secure William G.T. The perfume was borne across the breach; so that the gardens were the, sweeter. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. v. 22). It is a delightful passion. If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Let none now seek to divide Christians by building up a wall of party spirit between them; for, "behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."(G. It's not over when Easter is over, we get to do this every week. I have said this, lest haply married fruitfulness dare to vie with virgin chastity, and to set forth Mary herself, and to say unto the virgins of God, She had in her flesh two things worthy of honor, virginity and fruitfulness; inasmuch as she both continued a virgin, and bore: this happiness, since we could not both have the whole, we have divided, that ye be virgins, we be mothers: for what is wanting to you in children, let your virginity, that hath been preserved, be a consolation: for us, St. AugustineOn ContinenceHere Therefore These Men Too Evil, While they Essay to Make Void the Law9. and exhorts to walk in the Spirit.Dictionary of Bible ThemesGalatians 5:155132biting5821criticism, among believers8765grudgeGalatians 5:2-256511salvationGalatians 5:9-216026sin, judgment onGalatians 5:13-166679justification, results8452neighbours, duty toGalatians 5:13-185380law, and gospelGalatians 5:14-163209Holy Spirit, and loveLibraryMarch 28. Text: Galatians 5, 25-26 and 6, 1-10. It is contrary to sorrow, which is a perturbation Thomas WatsonA Body of DivinityThe Routing of Giant DoubtTHE ROUTING OF GIANT DOUBT Doubts! The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace. "Not at roll, I am sorry to say," was the answer; "our numbers are diminishing weekly." 346 search results for "Galatians 5" Sermons The Fruit of the Spirit. Enfeeble and imperil the Church.5. I am not perfect; far from it. We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." One inquired of the other how his Church was prospering. Neil. Gurnall.You all profess to have been baptized into the spirit of the gospel; but you do not show it when you bite and snarl at one another. (2) Sometimes men "bite" one another by plain slandering one another, charging them with crimes which they abhor. In asking their question, the Jews intended to inquire of Christ what particular things they must do, before all others, in order to please God. The contrast between freedom and slavery continues to be his major thrust in the first half of Galatians 5. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. Bertram. He then that has no care to keep peace refuses to bear the fruit of the Spirit. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth May 1. There is a singular charm, a charm that one can scarcely explain, in the words of Paul in Gal. Are we perfectly good? The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. (c)These contentions bring great dishonour to Jesus Christ. The flowers and shrubs of each garden discovered that members of their own families had been living on the other side, and therefore really near to each other, though they had had no communion, owing to the wall between.5. Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. But who those enemies are, it hath set forth plainly enough. Text: Galatians 5, 16-24. The gospel will not allow us to pay our enemies in their own coin, and give them wrath for wrath; much less will it suffer brethren to spit fire at one another's face. "Why, how is that? The righteous man is the man of stiff, inflexible uprightness; but he may be Rev. For those are they, whom it willed should be done to death by us, that is to say, the works of the St. Do not labour to screw-up one another to the utmost. The life of a Christian must be one of progress. And not a few afterwards acknowledged that a real good and blessing was the consequence to all parties, by the opportunely falling down of that old dividing wall Party spirit is a wall of separation which the coming and the work of Christ was intended to remove. For,(1)Our differences and contentions are notorious. (b)It threatens the ruin of our religion. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Dove and the LambVictorious living and effective soul-winning service are not the product of our better selves and hard endeavours, but are simply the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Nature's harshness has melted away and she is now beaming with the smile of spring, and everything around us whispers of the gentleness of God. A. The Fruit of the Spirit Galatians 5. It is a very singular instance of imaginative misreading of plain facts that the primitive Church should be held up as a pattern Church. "The Fruit of the Spirit is all Goodness" (Gal. We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. Paul tells us that they are the fruit of the Spirit, that is, if the Holy Spirit is given control of our lives, this is the fruit that He will bear. It is, the relation between the Curate and his Incumbent; or more particularly, the Curate's position and conduct Handley C. G. MouleTo My Younger BrethrenHow those that are at Variance and those that are at Peace are to be Admonished. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. If it was only the wolf that was worrying the flock, we might cherish the hope that we could get him driven out. "Yes," replied AEschines, "and therefore I conclude that you are the worthiest man: for I began the strife, and you began the peace."(C. He lists the works of the flesh,22. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[ b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Would that this true and simple and natural logic were always borne in mind; then might the Christian nest be more peaceful, more like a family Divine!Unity among Christians to be sought afterMelancthon mourned in his day the divisions among Christians, and sought to bring them together by the parable of the war between the wolves and the dogs. The father had grown grey in a long life of depredation and danger, and his scars bore witness to his narrow escapes in the chase, or his less honourable encounters with the faithful guardians of the hen roost. But who those enemies are, it hath set forth plainly enough. Let me say a little on a subject which, like the last, is one of some delicacy and difficulty, though its problems are of a very different kind. v. 22, 23, R. V., "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance." A. 28, 29.--"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? "They are quarrelling," was the answer. Goodness is just "Godness." The motive in the other case, being disinterested, secures such attachment to the Law, because it has been translated into love, that it is kept with increasing ardour and success. Paul tells us that they are the fruit of the Spirit, that is, if the Holy Spirit is given control of our lives, this is the fruit that He will bear. [1716] We grant that all these things are true, and we say that the Law is not necessary, save for them unto whom bondage is yet profitable: and that St. I have said this, lest haply married fruitfulness dare to vie with virgin chastity, and to set forth Mary herself, and to say unto the virgins of God, She had in her flesh two things worthy of honor, virginity and fruitfulness; inasmuch as she both continued a virgin, and bore: this happiness, since we could not both have the whole, we have divided, that ye be virgins, we be mothers: for what is wanting to you in children, let your virginity, that hath been preserved, be a consolation: for us, St. For those are they, whom it willed should be done to death by us, that is to say, the works of the St. His power is boundless. doubts! I should like to dismiss them, but it seems I can not. Are always unreasonable.3. He then that has no care to keep peace refuses to bear the fruit of the Spirit. (b)You trample upon the great precept of the gospel, which is love. Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. We are not called upon to produce the fruit, but simply to bear it. Hence Paul Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the GreatLinksGalatians 5:15 NIVGalatians 5:15 NLTGalatians 5:15 ESVGalatians 5:15 NASBGalatians 5:15 KJVGalatians 5:15 Bible AppsGalatians 5:15 ParallelGalatians 5:15 Biblia ParalelaGalatians 5:15 Chinese BibleGalatians 5:15 French BibleGalatians 5:15 German BibleGalatians 5:15 CommentariesBible Hub, (h)These biting and devouring contentions are uncivil, inhuman, and barbarous. If it was only the wolf that was worrying the flock, we might cherish the hope that we could get him driven out. and exhorts to walk in the Spirit.Dictionary of Bible ThemesGalatians 5:155132biting5821criticism, among believers8765grudgeGalatians 5:2-256511salvationGalatians 5:9-216026sin, judgment onGalatians 5:13-166679justification, results8452neighbours, duty toGalatians 5:13-185380law, and gospelGalatians 5:14-163209Holy Spirit, and loveLibraryMarch 28. Paul tells us that they are the fruit of the Spirit, that is, if the Holy Spirit is given control of our lives, this is the fruit that He will bear. (g)These contentions in religion tempt men to be atheists. And not a few afterwards acknowledged that a real good and blessing was the consequence to all parties, by the opportunely falling down of that old dividing wall Party spirit is a wall of separation which the coming and the work of Christ was intended to remove. "Yes," replied AEschines, "and therefore I conclude that you are the worthiest man: for I began the strife, and you began the peace."(C. (f)Follow after charity. God really wants us to be free - free of all that would weigh us down; free from all that would rob us of hope; . And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Dove and the LambVictorious living and effective soul-winning service are not the product of our better selves and hard endeavours, but are simply the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. We are not to suppose that the Apostle here uses the familiar contrast of spirit and flesh to express simply different elements of human nature. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. What can I do with them? (g)These contentions in religion tempt men to be atheists. Bertram. It is, the relation between the Curate and his Incumbent; or more particularly, the Curate's position and conduct Handley C. G. MouleTo My Younger BrethrenHow those that are at Variance and those that are at Peace are to be Admonished. He then that has no care to keep peace refuses to bear the fruit of the Spirit. It is all the time to be His fruit. Nothing is more important then, than that we should be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit, or to keep to the metaphor, that the "trees of the Lord should be continuously full of sap"--His sap. It is love that edifieth, but division pulleth down. Do not the Scriptures command us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect? (i)Observe that good old rule, of doing to others as you would be done to. It seems to me that surely I am not sanctified, or else I should be more perfect. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." All real beauty of character, all real Christlikeness in us, R. I am afraid that the dissensions betwixt Christian Churches (being so long in reconciling their discords) will breed in pagans such a disrelish of our religion, as they will not be invited to attend thereunto.(T. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Dove and the LambVictorious living and effective soul-winning service are not the product of our better selves and hard endeavours, but are simply the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 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