The Father's heartbeat is for you to stand fast in the liberty Jesus provided.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Standing fast therefore… Because you are children of the freewoman, children of the promise, children of the covenant of grace, and not children of the bondwoman under the law of sin and death, STAN D FAST! He who the Son sets free is free indeed; don’t be moved from your freedom.
Galatians 5:2 Indeed I, Paul , say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.
Coming under any portion of the covenant of the law of Moses makes you a debtor to keep the whole of the law. Christ will profit you nothing. Jesus brought the liberty; performance of the law or adherence to the traditions of men voids out the profit found in grace. It is imperative not to mix grace and law.
Galatians 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
The performance of man cannot not enhance the life of faith though the Spirit. However, the life of faith through the Spirit can bring victory to the performance of man. We must live from the divine influence in our life; we live from the victory Jesus provided. When we are working to get the victory we have indeed fallen from grace.
Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. 7 You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
Here is a best kept secret, faith working through love equates to victory 100% of the time. Surrendering to Christ in me brings certainty to abundance of life. However, if you have faith in Christ plus a little leaven, of any kind, it short circuits the grace of God flowing freely in your life.
Galatians 5:10 I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. 11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution?Then the offense of the cross has ceased. 12 I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off!
Paul was confident that the believers would come back to the heartbeat of the Father. Jesus Christ and Him crucified would be the only truth preached as way of victory. It is not the cross plus anything. The cross is so powerful it will overflow into an abundant life with Jesus. Paul desired that anyone teaching believers to live outside the hearing of faith would cut themselves off. Remember those practicing the law were trying to get the Gentile believers to come to physical circumcision. Paul was suggesting these false teachers should emasculate themselves. Call them accursed who are trying to bring back to the bondage of adherence to the law; live in the heartbeat of the Father. His will is your liberty from sin and your deliverance from this present evil age.
Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
We have real tangible liberty. However, we are called to not misuse the liberty as an opportunity for the flesh. Let your liberty empower you to love and serve one another.
Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! 16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Let the love of Christ compel you; genuine love has a restraining factor. Because of the love of God in your heart you will love your neighbor as yourself. Live as the newly created being God has made you; the lust of the flesh will not have a chance to be filled.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
If you are born again the Spirit is stirred in you for encouragement as well as for correction. The children of God are led by the Spirit of God.
Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you! If Christ is in you, you have died to sin; the Spirit is life because of righteousness. It is time to renew your mind! Reckon yourself dead to sin and alive unto God. Present yourself to God as an instrument of righteousness.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
If you can walk comfortably in a lifestyle of sin you have never been born again! Those who practice a lifestyle of sin will not inherit the kingdom of God . After Jesus Himself purged us from our sin sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. Because God is our Father, He will bring His loving correction to us.
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
Sinners have their fruit to wickedness; believers have a new creation ruling in them. The fruit of the Spirit is love. God’s love brings joy! God’s love brings peace. God’s love brings longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control. This is in everyone who is been born again; renewing our mind will bring the fruit to maturity. Simply abiding in the vine will produce the desired fruit.
Galatians 5:24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Those who belong to Jesus Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Do I speak of sinless perfection in the life of the believer? Yes, but it is the sinless perfection found exclusively in the obedience of Jesus Christ. Your wholeness, freedom from sin, and deliverance has one source, the perfect performance of Jesus Christ. It can be fully trusted and we should never trust in anything else! If we trust in ourselves we will become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Live by the heartbeat of the Father!
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