DISCOURSE: 2077 LIBERTY OF THE CHRISTIAN Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage_. THE doctrine of justification by faith is inculcated throughout all the Holy Scriptures, even in parts where we sh... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2078 SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS REPROVED Galatians 5:2. _Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of yo... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2079 THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH Galatians 5:5. _We, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness by faith_. THE object of St. Paul, in this epistle is, to maintain and establish the doctrine of justification by faith alone, without the deeds of the law. This doctrine had been a... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2080 THE OFFICE AND OPERATION OF FAITH Galatians 5:6. _In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love_. THE peculiar character of the Gospel is, that it shews how a sinner may be justified before God; yet the generality of Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2081 OFFENCE OF THE CROSS Galatians 5:11. _Then is the offence of the cross ceased_. THE Gospel, in the first ages, was an object of hatred and persecution both amongst Jews and Gentiles: to the Jews it was a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness [Note: 1 Corinthians 1:23.]:” a... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2082 WALKING IN THE SPIRIT, A PRESERVATIVE FROM SIN Galatians 5:16. _This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh_. IN the Church of God, no less than in the ungodly world, there have always been found persons ready to foment divisions, and to kindl... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2083 THE PRINCIPLES OF FLESH AND SPIRIT CONSIDERED Galatians 5:17. _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_. IT might be naturally imagined, that, from the moment o... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2084 THE CHRISTIAN FREED FROM THE LAW Galatians 5:18. _If ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law_. TO understand these words aright, we must notice, first the general scope of the whole epistle, and then, the particular scope of the more immediate context. The epistle itself w... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2085 THE FRUITS OF THE FLESH AND OF THE SPIRIT CONTRASTED Galatians 5:19. _Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murder... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2086 WALKING IN THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:25. _If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit_. MEN, as creatures, may be called “the offspring of Jehovah,” “in whom they live, and move, and have their being [Note: Acts 17:28.].” But, as created anew in Christ Jesus, we have a ne... [ Continue Reading ]