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0:00Galatians chapter 5 verse 1.
0:03It was for freedom that Christ set us
0:06free.
0:08Therefore, keep standing firm
0:11and do not be subject again to a yoke of
0:14slavery.
0:17Behold, I Paul say to you that if you
0:20receive circumcision, Christ will be
0:23[music] of no benefit to you.
0:28Paul circumcised Timothy.
0:31But he did not circumcise him
0:34as a [music] means of brokering eternal
0:37salvation.
0:39If you still accept that salvation comes
0:42through circumcision or any of those
0:44ceremonial rituals, you don't need
0:47Jesus.
0:48And the point of Jesus is that he ushers
0:52you into a relationship with the Father
0:55where you can finally call out Abba
0:57Father.
0:58So Paul says in the early chapters, "I
1:01only want to know this from you. Did you
1:03receive the Holy Spirit when you obeyed
1:04the law or did you receive the Holy
1:06Spirit and receive miracles when you
1:09heard
1:11in faith?"
1:12So the whole point and the evidence of
1:15true atonement and justification is the
1:17outpouring and presence of the Holy
1:19Spirit. That's the whole point. It's to
1:22reconcile us to God, which is to say to
1:24bring us into God's presence where the
1:27high priest doesn't sprinkle
1:29some blood on the altar once a year and
1:32then slip out of the Holy of Holies.
1:34Instead, the veil is torn and we can
1:37come into the presence of the Lord.
1:38[music]
1:40If you accept circumcision, Christ will
1:43be of no benefit to you.
1:45I testify again to every man who
1:47receives circumcision that he is under
1:49obligation to keep the whole law.
1:53You're either going to be saved by those
1:55rituals or you're going to be saved by
1:58Jesus Christ. But, you can't have both.
2:01You can't hybridize this.
2:04You have been severed
2:07from Christ.
2:10And see, that's the whole thing. If you
2:12are in Christ, then you are Abraham's
2:15seed.
2:16But, if you go back to the old thing
2:19once the new thing has come, you're
2:21actually cut out of Christ.
2:23I said at the end of chapter 3 that what
2:26is predestined is Christ, and the body
2:29of Christ is eternally secure.
2:31Okay? But, I said what is not
2:33predestined or predetermined is your
2:37participation and membership in it. So,
2:40Paul says, "You choose that, you're cut
2:42off from Christ." Now, if you can be cut
2:45off,
2:46you're not eternally secure.
2:49But, the body of Christ is, if you will
2:50be a part of it by the spirit through
2:52the spirit.
2:54You have been severed from Christ, you
2:56who are seeking to be justified
2:59by law. You have fallen from grace.
3:04So, if you can fall from grace and be
3:06severed from Christ, that means that
3:08means you belong to him and you were cut
3:10off of him.
3:13Why? Because you are seeking to be
3:15justified
3:17by law.
3:18It doesn't mean you're seeking to be
3:20obedient. Doesn't mean you're seeking to
3:22live godly. And that's what dishonest
3:25weasels twist these scriptures into.
3:29Paul wants obedience, but he wants the
3:32obedience of sons who have been born of
3:34the spirit. He does not want do-goodism
3:37that allows you to be proud of your
3:40religion while being severed from Christ
3:43in your actual walk of the spirit.
3:47You have been severed from Christ, you
3:49who are seeking to be justified
3:52by the law, you have fallen from grace.
3:55Can the law sanctify your sins? Can the
3:58law make you right before God? Can the
4:00law wash away your transgressions? No.
4:03No. No. No. No.
4:06And if you do anything that you think
4:08replaces what Jesus did on the cross,
4:10you're cut off from him.
4:13For we
4:14through the spirit by faith are waiting
4:18for the hope of righteousness.
4:20So,
4:21he again is contrasting it, law or
4:24spirit, not law or freedom in the flesh.
4:29Now, he does speak of a freedom there in
4:31the first verses. He says, "We've been
4:33called to freedom." What is the freedom
4:35he's speaking of? It's the same freedom
4:37he spoke of to the Romans when he said,
4:40"Having been freed from sin, you have
4:43become slaves of righteousness."
4:47So, the freedom that we are freed from
4:49is sin and self.
4:51And sin takes pride in the law.
4:54Sin takes pride in do-goodism.
4:58This is what he tells the Colossians. He
5:00said,
5:01"You're being You're accepting do's and
5:03don'ts, which to be sure have a an
5:06appearance of
5:08piety in self-imposed religion, but
5:11they're of no value
5:13against fleshly indulgence."
5:15So, his point is we want something that
5:17is more lethal against fleshly
5:19indulgence.
5:21In verse 22 of Romans 6, he says,
5:23"But now having been freed from sin and
5:26enslaved to God, you derive your benefit
5:30resulting in sanctification
5:33and the outcome, eternal life."
5:36So, when you're freed, when Christ has
5:38called you to freedom, it's freedom from
5:40sin. It's freedom from self. It's
5:43freedom from dead religion. It's freedom
5:46from Hagar's spirits.
5:49And what it's freedom to is enslavement
5:51to Christ, obedience to the spirit.
5:55And therefore, sanctification. And the
5:57outcome of that is eternal life.
6:00For we through the spirit by faith are
6:02waiting for the hope of righteousness.
6:04For in Christ Jesus,
6:07neither circumcision nor uncircumcision
6:10means anything.
6:13But faith
6:15working
6:16through love.
6:19You know what doesn't mean anything?
6:20Faith that doesn't work at all.
6:23He is not suggesting no obedience. He is
6:26suggesting works.
6:29Works from love. Faith working, the word
6:33there is
6:35shares the same root as energize.
6:38Faith
6:39energizing your love.
6:43Okay? That is what matters. So, we do
6:47not have
6:49sinful
6:50Christians on one hand who think they're
6:52justified
6:54and Judaizers on the other hand. We have
6:57sinful Christians and Judaizers in the
7:00flesh. And then we have those who are
7:02born of the spirit for whom faith works
7:06through love. And true faith always
7:09works.
7:10Faith working through love.
7:13You were running well.
7:15Notice he does not say you were sitting
7:17well. You were sleeping well. You were
7:19complacent well.
7:21No, you were running well. Who hindered
7:26you from obeying the truth?
7:31Paul wants us working. He wants us
7:33running. And he wants us obeying. And he
7:36doesn't want us hindered in that.
7:40This persuasion did not come him who
7:43calls you.
7:45A little leaven leavens the whole lump
7:47of dough.
7:48I have confidence in you in the Lord
7:51that you will adopt no other view, but
7:54the one who is disturbing you will bear
7:57his judgment, whoever he is.
8:00But I, brethren, if I still preach
8:02circumcision, why am I still persecuted?
8:06Then the stumbling block of the cross
8:08has been abolished. Cuz the Jews
8:10wouldn't hate me if I told them that
8:12their circumcision could still save
8:13them.
8:15Why Why would I suffer like I'm
8:16suffering if that if if that would work?
8:19But the stumbling block of the cross is
8:21that's no longer good enough. You stay
8:23in that, you're going to become part of
8:24Hagar.
8:26You need to step forward and receive the
8:28spirit. You need to take part of what
8:30happened at Pentecost. You need to
8:32accept what Jesus has really done for
8:34you and walk thereby in the new and
8:37living way that brings you into God,
8:40brings you into Christ, where Christ is
8:43formed in you.
8:47I wish that those who are troubling you
8:50would even mutilate themselves.
8:53That means he wishes they would
8:56do more than circumcise themselves. He
8:58wishes they would go all the way and
9:01mutilate themselves.
9:03>> [gasps]
9:03>> For you are called to freedom, brethren.
9:06Only Only do not turn
9:11your freedom into an opportunity for the
9:14flesh,
9:16but through love serve one another.
9:21So, the freedom that God has given us
9:24can be perverted.
9:26It can be turned
9:28into an opportunity to be carnal again.
9:31But the opposite of that and the reason
9:34for the freedom
9:36is to be able to work and live by love.
9:39So, opportunity for the flesh on one
9:42hand or
9:44only serve one another by love on the
9:47other hand.
9:48Are you going to live by love? That's
9:50what he was talking about in the
9:51previous chapter when he said they had a
9:53blessing, a sense of blessing. They were
9:55willing to pluck out their eyes. That's
9:58people driven by love.
10:00Legalism tells you the least you have to
10:02do and you take pride in it. Love
10:04inspires you to the most you can do and
10:07it's never enough because of him who
10:09loved you more.
10:12Only do not turn your freedom into an
10:16opportunity for the flesh.
10:19But through love serve one another.
10:24So, when he says the only thing that
10:25matters is faith working through love,
10:28that's a love toward one another.
10:31For the whole law is fulfilled in one
10:36word, in one statement.
10:38And he quotes, "You shall love your
10:42neighbor as yourself."
10:46Now we know what Jesus meant when he
10:48said not one jot will pass away from the
10:50law until it is fulfilled.
10:53Until God in the flesh hangs upon a tree
10:57and so loves the world
10:59that he does not impute our
11:00transgressions to us.
11:03But he bears in himself the just penalty
11:06of our transgression.
11:09That's the fulfillment of the law.
11:12The choice Jesus made on the cross.
11:15"You shall love your neighbor as
11:17yourself." Everything is fulfilled in
11:19that. So, when we read Romans 8 and it
11:22says, "By the spirit you will fulfill
11:24the righteous requirement of the law."
11:26It doesn't say you will perform all the
11:29ceremonial acts of the law. It says you
11:31will fulfill the righteous requirement
11:34of the law. What is the righteous
11:36requirement of the law? To love.
11:38To live your life for love. To have such
11:42devotion that you can accept a Paul as
11:45an expression of Jesus and be willing to
11:49do whatever it takes to help, to love,
11:51to serve
11:52each one another.
11:55But
11:57if you bite and devour one another, take
12:00care that you are not consumed by one
12:03another.
12:04That means you're going to be you're
12:05going to disappear. It's like the
12:07gingham dog and the calico cat.
12:09They're going to disappear.
12:11And that's what happens in a church that
12:13resorts to externalism, that has no
12:16obedience that is derived from love and
12:19the Holy Spirit, but it is an obedience
12:21that is external from the schoolmaster
12:24of rules only. Do you understand? They
12:26bite and devour.
12:29Everything becomes a contest of who has
12:31the better rules.
12:33You've got rubber on your buggy wheels.
12:35I only have steel. My suspenders split
12:39at 2 in above my back and yours split 2
12:42in below. You're not godly. What
12:45nonsense.
12:46But I say
12:49walk
12:51by
12:52the Spirit.
12:54And you will not carry out the desire
12:57of the flesh.
12:59So here we go. This is how we walk. This
13:02is how we fulfill. This is how we do.
13:05This is how we work. This is how we run
13:08well.
13:09We walk by the Spirit.
13:12The whole question is are you trying to
13:14walk by the flesh of do's and don'ts?
13:17Are you trying to walk by the Spirit?
13:19Walk by the Spirit
13:21and you will not carry out the desire of
13:23the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire
13:27against the spirit.
13:31The flesh wants to stop the spirit.
13:35The flesh hates the spirit.
13:37This powerful force that has an
13:40authority over all of us, the flesh
13:42hates it.
13:43Shut it up. Shut it down.
13:46I don't want to see it. I don't want to
13:47hear it.
13:49But, he says, "And the spirit
13:51against the flesh." The spirit has its
13:54target on the flesh. "We're going to get
13:56rid of you," the spirit says to the
13:57flesh.
13:59"We're going to get rid of you," the
14:00flesh says to the spirit. And whoever in
14:03a church chooses those paths is going to
14:05determine whether it's a church or
14:06whether it's a Hagar joke.
14:09For these are in opposition to one
14:11another, so that you may not do the
14:14things that you please.
14:16The things that your flesh want wants to
14:18do, you can't do it.
14:20Because you have become the servant of
14:22the spirit.
14:23You have got to accustom yourself to
14:26disobeying your flesh
14:28in order to walk in the spirit, and
14:30that's when Jesus is really Lord of your
14:31life.
14:33Verse 18, but if
14:37but if
14:39you are led by the spirit
14:43you are not under the law.
14:47Does that mean if you are not led by the
14:50spirit, you are under the law? Mhm.
14:54You need either a schoolmaster or the
14:56spirit. Schoolmaster, external
14:58requirements. Spirit, internal
15:00requirement. But, we need obedience come
15:03what may.
15:05If you are led by the spirit, you are
15:08not under the law.
15:09Now, the deeds
15:12notice deeds plural, many.
15:15Do you get that?
15:17Deeds, the deeds of the flesh are
15:20evident.
15:22Obedience,
15:24trying to live godly,
15:26not looking like the Oh, no, that's not
15:28what he says.
15:29That's not the flesh he's trying to save
15:31us from, is it?
15:33So, he is the whole book is spirit or
15:35flesh. He says, "I want you to be really
15:38clear. The deeds of the flesh that I'm
15:41trying to save you from are evident.
15:43Here's what they are. Now, the deeds of
15:45the flesh are evident, which are
15:47immorality,
15:48impurity,
15:50sensuality,
15:52idolatry,
15:53sorcery,
15:55enmities, strife,
15:58jealousy,
15:59outbursts of anger, disputes,
16:02dissensions, factions, envying,
16:06drunkenness, carousing,
16:10and things like these,
16:13of which I forewarn you,
16:15just as I have forewarned you, that
16:17those who practice such things will not
16:21inherit the kingdom of God."
16:26This is the end of antinomianism right
16:29here. This is where we don't have to
16:32wonder anymore if Paul was trying to set
16:35us free to live like the devil and put
16:38it all on Jesus.
16:40Paul wants to save us from this,
16:44and this is where the law leads you.
16:47When you're trying to be controlled by a
16:49kindergarten teacher and you're in your
16:5120s, you end up in a mud pie.
16:55Do you understand? So, this is what
16:57Paul's trying to save us from. He's not
16:59trying to save us from obedience to the
17:01spirit.
17:03Okay? This is the flesh. This is the
17:06nonsense. This is what you get when you
17:09stop living by the spirit.
17:12You may think it's more pious and
17:13religious. You scratch beneath the
17:15surface of all those pious do-gooder
17:18religions and they're full of filth and
17:21debauchery and fleshiness because they
17:24are relying on the flesh to control the
17:27flesh and only by the spirit can we put
17:30to death the deeds of the body and live.
17:33So he says, "You practice this garbage,
17:36you will not inherit the kingdom of
17:38God."
17:39So it's for freedom that God has called
17:41us, freedom from this garbage.
17:45And notice that he said the deeds of the
17:47flesh, many. Now listen to this, verse
17:5022.
17:52But the fruit
17:55of the spirit is
17:58not the fruits of the spirit are
18:02but the fruit of the spirit is.
18:07Well, it's like one fruit
18:10and in that one fruit are all these
18:12different sections. An orange has many
18:14sections, right? These are the sections
18:16of the one fruit of the spirit.
18:19They need to describe the life of a
18:21believer.
18:22And when they do, the spirit gets the
18:25credit. This is the evidence that you
18:29are not in the flesh. This is the
18:31evidence that you have found your
18:32freedom. This is the evidence that you
18:35are no longer enslaved. This is the
18:37evidence that you are born of promise.
18:40This is the evidence.
18:42It's evident.
18:44But the fruit of the spirit is
18:48love,
18:49joy,
18:52peace,
18:54patience,
18:55kindness,
18:57goodness,
18:59faithfulness,
19:01gentleness,
19:02self-control.
19:05Against such things
19:09there is
19:10no law.
19:13So when he says, "If you walk by the
19:14Spirit, you're not under the law," this
19:16is the kind of life that doesn't come
19:18under the law.
19:20Self-control.
19:23Self cannot control self.
19:26But the fruit of the Spirit is
19:27self-control.
19:28The self controlled by the Spirit
19:32can control
19:33the self.
19:36Now, those
19:38who belong to Christ Jesus
19:42have crucified
19:44the flesh with its passions and desires.
19:51Now, he said in chapter 3,
19:55"If you belong to Christ, then you are
19:57Abraham's descendants and heirs [music]
19:58according to promise."
20:00But now he says, "If you belong to
20:02Christ, you've gone through a repentance
20:05that is most analogous [music]
20:07to death on a Roman cross."
20:11You have put to [music] death God
20:13through the Spirit has empowered you to
20:17put to death the deeds of the body, like
20:19he says in Romans 8, [music] to such an
20:21extent that you can say, "All these
20:24filthy fruits over here have been
20:26nailed, have been pierced, have died the
20:29slow, naked, humiliating death on a
20:32cross, and they no longer control me."
20:38If you belong to these passions,
20:41you cannot belong to Christ.
20:43You must divorce [music] the sin nature
20:46in order to marry the Lord Jesus.
20:49You must be stolen from the possession
20:52of the flesh in order to be owned and
20:55belong as the possession [music] of
20:57Jesus.
20:59Those who belong to Christ have
21:02crucified the flesh with its passions
21:05[music] and desires.
21:07If we live by the Spirit, [music]
21:11let us also walk by the Spirit. That is
21:14to say, if we have our life
21:17in God [music] only through the Spirit,
21:19then you need to also walk by the
21:22Spirit.
21:23Let us [music] not become boastful,
21:27challenging one another,
21:29envying one another.
21:32In this he gives us three [music]
21:34identifiers
21:36of the life that needs to be crucified.
21:38Boasting, challenging, and envying.
21:45If those three things [music]
21:46have been put to death,
21:49we can walk by the Spirit. And if we
21:51live by the Spirit, let us also walk by
21:53it.
21:56>> [music]

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