v. 6. Gal 5:52. III 'Walk in the Spirit''Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. The ritualistic or legal spirit into which the Galatians had temporally fallen manifested itself in strife and bickerings. I am not perfect; far from it. It is love that edifieth, but division pulleth down. Here Therefore These Men Too Evil, While they Essay to Make Void the Law How those that are at Variance and those that are at Peace are to be Admonished. Here therefore these men too evil, while they essay to make void the Law, force us to approve these Scriptures. If it was only the wolf that was worrying the flock, we might cherish the hope that we could get him driven out. v. 22, 23. (Persian Fables. If these prepare for destruction, then we in this sinful nation are in the ready way to misery. The individual members are not isolated graces, but all connected, springing from one root and constituting an organic whole. (b)It threatens the ruin of our religion. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. )Wranglings destroy ChurchesAmerican.Jars and divisions, wranglings and prejudices, eat out the growth, if not the life, of religion. He spake not of all; but, having named St. 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. Avoid negative influences. Joy is setting the soul upon the top of a pinnacle - it is the cream of the sincere milk of the word. (d)Be clothed with humility. This beautiful fruit is in lovely harmony with the gentle month of which it is the keynote. 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. 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. And God-like goodness has special reference to the active benevolence of God. Fuller, D. D.)PeopleGalatians, Paul, PhilippiansPlacesGalatiaTopicsBeware, Bite, Biting, Care, Careful, Cause, Consume, Consumed, Destroyed, Destruction, Devour, Devouring, Fighting, Heed, Lest, Perpetually, Snapping, Snarling, WatchOutline1. Gal 5:52. The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. "Worse than that, I fear. This every one may do, and this every one ought to do: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. (b)It threatens the ruin of our religion. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. The wolves were somewhat afraid, for the dogs were many and strong, and therefore they sent out a spy to observe them. We are told that, Aristippus and AEschines having differed, the former came to the latter and said "AEschines, shall we be friends?" We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." (Admonition 23.) AugustineOf Holy Virginity. v. 22). The contrast between freedom and slavery continues to be his major thrust in the first half of Galatians 5. A. This beautiful fruit is in lovely harmony with the gentle month of which it is the keynote. (c)These contentions bring great dishonour to Jesus Christ. On his return the scout said, "It is true the dogs are many, but there are not many mastiffs among them. and not to observe circumcision;13. but rather love, which is the sum of the law.19. Is not this still true that many professed Christians snap right and left at their own brethren, when they had better save their teeth for the wolves?Evils of strifeSpencer.They say of bees, that, when they strive among themselves, it is a sign that the queen is about to leave the hive. "The fruit of the Spirit is all goodness" (Gal. There is a singular charm, a charm that one can scarcely explain, in the words of Paul in Gal. "Yes," he replied, "with all my heart." "The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness" (Gal. )Satanic origin of quarrels among ChristiansW. )How to end bickeringsC. 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. And God-like goodness has special reference to the active benevolence of God. They make me much trouble, but it seems I can not get them to leave me. Spiritual joy is a sweet and delightful passion, arising from the apprehension and feeling of some good, whereby the soul is supported under present troubles, and fenced against future fear. 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. 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. The third fruit of justification, adoption, and sanctification, is joy in the Holy Ghost. Are always unreasonable.3. v. 22). Just a company of them around me all the time worse than Job's miserable comforters. )Good results from cessation of party strifeG. No, when any such embers of contention begin to smoke among Christians, we may know who left the spark; no other but Satan, he is the great kindle-coal of all their contentions. To which end consider (1) The greatness and baseness of the sin. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. What shall I do? A. Tweet. (f)They greatly hinder the conversion of the ungodly, and the progress in holiness of the godly. Has the wolf got into the fold?" )Wranglings destroy ChurchesAmerican.Jars and divisions, wranglings and prejudices, eat out the growth, if not the life, of religion. The apostle gives us the difference between goodness and righteousness in this passage in Romans, "Scarcely for a righteous man would one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die." It seems to me that surely I am not sanctified, or else I should be more perfect. (d)Be clothed with humility. Spiritual joy is a sweet and delightful passion, arising from the apprehension and feeling of some good, whereby the soul is supported under present troubles, and fenced against future fear. '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. A. Steele, M. (d)Be clothed with humility. A town, if it can be but set on fire, the enemy may hope to take it with more ease. "They are quarrelling," was the answer. S. Paul says, "Walk in the Spirit;" he does not say, stand still. )Dissensions in the ChurchR. These are those waters of Marah that embitter our spirits, and quench the Spirit of God. Hath not each of us some "right eye"? "They are quarrelling," was the answer. If it was only the wolf that was worrying the flock, we might cherish the hope that we could get him driven out. "The Fruit of the Spirit is all Goodness" (Gal. 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. 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. Do not labour to screw-up one another to the utmost. IIIFifteenth Sunday after Trinity Church Officers Warned of Vain-Glory. [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. Divisions run religions into briars and thorns, contention and parties. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. Thrice happy they who at Thy side, Thou Child of Nazareth, Have learnt to give their struggling pride Into Thy hands to death: If thus indeed we lay us low, Thou wilt exalt us o'er the foe; And let the exaltation be That we are lost in Thee. It is a very singular instance of imaginative misreading of plain facts that the primitive Church should be held up as a pattern Church. (f)Follow after charity. (Persian Fables. GALATIANS v. 16. We are told that, Aristippus and AEschines having differed, the former came to the latter and said "AEschines, shall we be friends?" AugustineOn the Profit of Believing. Is not this still true that many professed Christians snap right and left at their own brethren, when they had better save their teeth for the wolves?Evils of strifeSpencer.They say of bees, that, when they strive among themselves, it is a sign that the queen is about to leave the hive. 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. And though all the time I try hard not to make mistakes, yet I still make them. Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. If it was only the wolf that was worrying the flock, we might cherish the hope that we could get him driven out. J. Wilmot-BuxtonThe Life of Duty, a Year's Plain Sermons, v. 2Sixth Day for the Spirit of Love in the ChurchWHAT TO PRAY.--For the Spirit of Love in the Church "I pray that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and Thou in Me; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them." "Histories and experience do attest the same. I try to do good; but at times my efforts are so crude that I seem to do more harm than good. "They are quarrelling," was the answer. Let it, therefore, be your great care to keep the devil's spark from your powder.(W. 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. View all of our resources on the biblical book of Galatians. Fuller, D. D.The English ambassador, some years since, prevailed so far with the Turkish emperor as to persuade him to hear some of our English music, from which (as from other liberal sciences) both he and his nation were naturally averse. Bowden.A wall having become very feeble by age, a portion of it one day fell down. v. 6. The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. 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. All real beauty of character, all real Christlikeness in us, R. Divisions are to Churches like wars in countries; where war is, the ground lieth waste and untilled; none takes care of it. Legal Spirit into which the Galatians had temporally fallen manifested itself in strife and bickerings in! 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