Chapter 5

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5:1 • In freedom, Christ has made us free; stand firm, therefore, and do not ensnare yourselves again under the weight of slavery. 2 Listen, I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will benefit you nothing. • 3 I testify even more to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to do ALL the law. 4 You are severed and separated from Christ, if you are trying to be made justly innocent inside of law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 Indeed, out from faith we eagerly welcome the Spirit, the hope of just approval and innocence. • 6 For inside of Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor not circumcision has any ability or meaning, but only faith energeoing all the way through love.

7 You were running well. Who hindered you from having confidence in the truth? 8 This persuasion to which you have yielded is not from the One calling you. 9 “A little leaven leavens the whole lump!” 10 I am confident towards you inside of the Lord, that you will have no other mind or thinking. The ones who trouble you, whoever they might be, will bear the judgment. 11 More than that, brothers and sisters, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross would have ceased. 12 I wish also that those turning you upside down would just castrate themselves. [r]

13 For you, brothers and sisters, were called on the basis of freedom; only not freedom into an opportunity to the flesh. • Rather, through love serve one another reciprocally. 14 For all law is fulfilled inside of one word: “You will love your neighbor as yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). 15 If you bite and devour one another, however, look out lest you destroy one another.

• 16 I say to you, walk by Spirit and you will not be bringing the desire of flesh to completion. 17 For flesh desires against the Spirit and Spirit against the flesh; for these are opposed to one another so that you do not do the things you might wish. 18 BUT – if you are led by Spirit, you are not under law.

19 Moreover, the works of the flesh are visible, including sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery (s), enmities, strife, false zeal, fits of rage, contentions, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, as to which, I say now, even as I said before, that those who are doing such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.

• 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 More than that, those who are of Christ Jesus have already crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. [t] 25 Since we live by Spirit, by Spirit also we are committed to walk. 26 We should not become boastful, provoking and envying one another.

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Gospel Comments	Notes
• Ruling Verse 7: Stand upon FIRM. Our confidence in Jesus is based on the foundation that God has already done all. Freedom is inside of Jesus and in the presence of the Spirit. • Definition: Either God is actively saving us, that is, Grace, or we are driving Jesus away in the deluded slavery of “saving ourselves.” The difference must be stark. • Ruling Verse 3: Inside of full and intimate union with Christ, protected by an absolute Cross (Ruling Verse 5), we eagerly welcome (faith) the Spirit flowing into us (Drink of Me), not as “coming” but as continuous forever. Then, through that same faith (Jesus sharing Himself with us), that same Spirit flows on out from us as Love shed abroad (see Romans 5:5), producing through us every fruit of Life (see Revelation 22:1-2). • Ruling Verse 10: We put the Lord Jesus Christ upon ourselves with zero thought concerning the flesh, one way or the other. • Ruling Verse 8: Love is the fulfillment of God-with-us. There is no Love apart from Spirit flowing through, energeoing all, and there is no Spirit flowing through except inside the intimacy of union with Christ, protected by the finished Cross. Loving one another is the fruit of the Christian Life. • Definition: Flesh uses law in its desire to get self “under control,” yet in doing so creates the story of self that is always opposed to faith and to God. Faith is a quality of the Spirit of God, now part of us, that speaks the knowledge of Jesus within, in utter Trust, to accomplish what human inward might and outward power can only oppose (see Zechariah 4:6). • Ruling Verse 7: God always leads us, and He always leads us in the celebration of all Victory already All, inside the energeoing flow of the Spirit. To walk in Spirit, to walk as Jesus walked, is to walk in utter Trust that God-Is, that Love flowing through is the only thing we are. All power, then, is only of God. • Ruling Verse 3: The fruit of the Spirit is the direct result of God flowing through us now into our world. It is the fruit of the Tree of Life (see Revelation 22:1-2). Because we live by Spirit, we are committed to a walk shared with God in every step, and out from our shared walk, the Spirit flows to all. • Ruling Verse 4: The Cross that protects us as we live freely inside of Jesus then becomes the same protection flowing out from us for the sake of others, beginning with all our brethren.	r. Paul’s anger resulting in intense sarcasm continues right on through this letter. s. This is the word ‘pharmacy’ – drugs, legal or illegal. t. Paul continues to express Galatians 2:20, an already completed cross.

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Notes

• Ruling Verse 7: Stand upon FIRM. Our confidence in Jesus is based on the foundation that God has already done all. Freedom is inside of Jesus and in the presence of the Spirit.

• Definition: Either God is actively saving us, that is, Grace, or we are driving Jesus away in the deluded slavery of “saving ourselves.” The difference must be stark.

• Ruling Verse 3: Inside of full and intimate union with Christ, protected by an absolute Cross (Ruling Verse 5), we eagerly welcome (faith) the Spirit flowing into us (Drink of Me), not as “coming” but as continuous forever. Then, through that same faith (Jesus sharing Himself with us), that same Spirit flows on out from us as Love shed abroad (see Romans 5:5), producing through us every fruit of Life (see Revelation 22:1-2).

• Ruling Verse 10: We put the Lord Jesus Christ upon ourselves with zero thought concerning the flesh, one way or the other.

• Ruling Verse 8: Love is the fulfillment of God-with-us. There is no Love apart from Spirit flowing through, energeoing all, and there is no Spirit flowing through except inside the intimacy of union with Christ, protected by the finished Cross. Loving one another is the fruit of the Christian Life.

• Definition: Flesh uses law in its desire to get self “under control,” yet in doing so creates the story of self that is always opposed to faith and to God. Faith is a quality of the Spirit of God, now part of us, that speaks the knowledge of Jesus within, in utter Trust, to accomplish what human inward might and outward power can only oppose (see Zechariah 4:6).

• Ruling Verse 7: God always leads us, and He always leads us in the celebration of all Victory already All, inside the energeoing flow of the Spirit. To walk in Spirit, to walk as Jesus walked, is to walk in utter Trust that God-Is, that Love flowing through is the only thing we are. All power, then, is only of God.

• Ruling Verse 3: The fruit of the Spirit is the direct result of God flowing through us now into our world. It is the fruit of the Tree of Life (see Revelation 22:1-2). Because we live by Spirit, we are committed to a walk shared with God in every step, and out from our shared walk, the Spirit flows to all.

• Ruling Verse 4: The Cross that protects us as we live freely inside of Jesus then becomes the same protection flowing out from us for the sake of others, beginning with all our brethren.

r. Paul’s anger resulting in intense sarcasm continues right on through this letter.

s. This is the word ‘pharmacy’ – drugs, legal or illegal.

t. Paul continues to express Galatians 2:20, an already completed cross.