Galatians 5:16-18
For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh
This I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For 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. But if ye be led of the Spirit,
ye are not under the law. (Galatians 5:16-18)
In chapter 5, verse 13,『 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty
for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. 』 Freedom is free from yoke. The yoke is the servant's yoke. If you are
in Christ, you are free. Salvation is a question of whether you have a yoke or
enjoy freedom. The law is the yoke of the servant, and Christ gives freedom. If
those who claim to have been freed to wear the slave's yoke, then it makes no
sense. If you are free in Christ, you become the Son of God.
If you don't
become a son of God, you become a servant of Satan. The Son of God cannot be a
servant of Satan. As a son of God, he cannot be a servant of Satan. It
definitely becomes one of the two. There is no middle. Being a son of God has
the law of the Holy Spirit in your heart, and if you are a servant of Satan,
you have sin in your heart, and you are locked in the law. When applied to the
law of the Holy Spirit, the law (Moses' law) cannot be applied. Those who are
trapped under the law become those who live by the desires of the body, and
those who are guided by the Holy Spirit do not fulfill the desires of the body.
What the Apostle Paul
is trying to say is, "He who is guided by the Holy Spirit is not under the
law." Galatians 5:19-21 spoke of those who are under the law, those who
desire to fulfill their fleshly desires.『 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,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 』However, in comparison, the followers of the Holy Spirit are also
explained in Chapter 5:22-23. 『But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. 』The person who wants to
fulfill the greed of the body is the person who lives with the body of fresh
because the spirit dies, and the person who follows the Holy Spirit is the
person who lives with the body of the spirit.
In 1 John 5:18『 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he
that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 』Saints have two
bodies. It is the body of the spirit and the body of fresh. However, the body
of fresh is dead with Jesus Christ, and the body of spirit is resurrected. The
body of fresh is the desire of the body, and the body of spirit is the heart of
the Holy Spirit. So, the two are unable to work together. Those who are born
again as spirits have a physical body alive, but their desires are dead. The
body is just a skin.
In Galatians 5:24『And they that are Christ's have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts. 』 So, believing in
Jesus is a belief in believing (with the body of the body) to die with Jesus
Christ and resurrecting (with the body of the spirit) with Jesus Christ.
In John 13:34-35『 A new commandment I
give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have
love one to another. 』 The love of Jesus
Christ is saving the Spirit. It does not mean physical love in this world, but
saves the dead spirit. As Jesus died on the cross, God gave the believer the
life of the Spirit. Likewise, the Saints in Christ are to impart life to
others.
The
fulfillment of the law is the death and love of the cross of Jesus Christ.
Likewise, when the saints in Christ seek to save the spirit of others, Christ's
love applies. The completion of the law is to give life to the dead spirit and
save it. When we enter into Christ, the law is completed, and the spirit is
revived. So, if the spirit of another person rises to the gospel, he too will
fulfill the law through Christ.
In Chapter
5:16, 『This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not
fulfil the lust of the flesh. When the Holy Spirit comes into your heart, the
Bible says that what the Holy Spirit does is testify of sin, righteousness, and
judgment. Sin is not believing in what Jesus did. Jesus died on the cross and
took away all the sin and blasphemy in the world, telling us that it is a sin
not to believe it. Righteousness is that Jesus, as the last priest in this
world, went to God of the throne with all the sins of the world. And the
judgment is a testimony that the death of Jesus' cross began the judgment of
Satan, the king of this world.
When the Holy
Spirit is in the saints, the Holy Spirit testifies that Jesus has taken away
all the sin and blasphemy in the world. However, those who think they must
repent of their sins every day ignore what the Holy Spirit testifies. In other
words, it means not being in Christ. Those who are in Christ do not have to
worry because the Holy Spirit bears witness to the sins of this world. Those
who are in Christ are dead on the cross with Jesus.
Those who
think they are saved only by repenting every day are those who have not escaped
their sins, and those who are locked in the law. So, they are not free of all
the problems of sin in life, and if any one sin is committed in the world, they
will be judged by the law. Jesus solved all the sins of the world through the
death of the cross. Those who believe this must be freed of the problem of sin
in Christ. The Bible clearly said that the Holy Spirit testifies to this. We
must be born again with water and the Holy Spirit. Water means that the body of
fresh on the cross is dead, so it is reborn as the Holy Spirit. Those who are
born again are born again as spirit bodies, and the Holy Spirit is with them.
Without the
Holy Spirit in me, only myself exists. This is "self-righteousness".
You are trying to lead yourself to God. That is the idol. If you believe that
the Holy Spirit guides you, even if you are not in Christ, you are trying to
reveal your righteousness, believing in your idols, and falling into vain
glory. In Galatians 5:24-25 『And they that
are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live
in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. "If you are not in Christ
and repent of your sins every day, crying, and asking for forgiveness, you are
like "ask yourself for forgiveness to you“,
because there is no Holy Spirit, it is like trying to solve your problem. He
believes that he was saved by believing in Jesus even without the Holy Spirit,
and that he became a holy person by repenting every day and believing that he
was cleansed by the blood of Jesus.
If the Holy
Spirit is in my heart, I can believe what the Holy Spirit is witnessing, but
because there is no Holy Spirit, I cannot hear what the Holy Spirit is doing,
and so I do not believe the Holy Spirit. Whether the Holy Spirit is present or
not is whether the believer died with Christ against the world or the law. How
do you know? The Bible says that you can know by fruit.
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