(b)Learn Christian wisdom. 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. v. 22). His power is boundless. (d)They grieve the Holy Spirit of God. [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. "The fruit of the Spirit is all goodness" (Gal. I fear to come out boldly and declare that I believe that Christ fully saves me now. )Consumed one of another: Strife in the foldTwo friends met the other day. doubts! "(a)It includes the ruin of our outward comforts. '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. The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. 26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. May the Holy Spirit lead us, beloved, these days, into His sweetness, quietness, and gentleness, subduing every coarse, rude, harsh, and unholy habit, and making us like Him, of whom it is said, "He shall not strive, Rev. III 'Walk in the Spirit''Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. Gurnall.You all profess to have been baptized into the spirit of the gospel; but you do not show it when you bite and snarl at one another. Really I Robert Lee BerryAdventures in the Land of CanaanI have Said This, Lest Haply Married Fruitfulness Dare to vie with virgin Chastity7. For,(1)Our differences and contentions are notorious. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would. Are always unreasonable.3. (4) Consider, that there have been greater differences than ours among those that were the true members of Christ's Church. SheddSermons to the Natural ManWalking with God. I try to do good; but at times my efforts are so crude that I seem to do more harm than good. Fuller, D. D.)PeopleGalatians, Paul, PhilippiansPlacesGalatiaTopicsBeware, Bite, Biting, Care, Careful, Cause, Consume, Consumed, Destroyed, Destruction, Devour, Devouring, Fighting, Heed, Lest, Perpetually, Snapping, Snarling, WatchOutline1. (5) Consider your own personal moral failings. v. 22). There are dogs of so many sorts one can hardly count, them; and as for the worst of them," said he, "they are little dogs, which bark loudly, but cannot bite. 3. For those are they, whom it willed should be done to death by us, that is to say, the works of the St. We are told that, Aristippus and AEschines having differed, the former came to the latter and said "AEschines, shall we be friends?" v. 22). 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. (Persian Fables. (i)Observe that good old rule, of doing to others as you would be done to. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Dove and the LambVictorious living and effective soul-winning service are not the product of our better selves and hard endeavours, but are simply the fruit of the Holy Spirit. (Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.) The "works of God," as they denominate them, were not any and every duty, but those more special and important acts, by which the creature might secure William G.T. )Good results from cessation of party strifeG. They make me much trouble, but it seems I can not get them to leave me. The father had grown grey in a long life of depredation and danger, and his scars bore witness to his narrow escapes in the chase, or his less honourable encounters with the faithful guardians of the hen roost. It is contrary to sorrow, which is a perturbation Thomas WatsonA Body of DivinityThe Routing of Giant DoubtTHE ROUTING OF GIANT DOUBT Doubts! 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. v. 22). (3)Ignorant and proud people.These are many in number, and generally most conceited and contemptuous. A. Bertram.1. Text: Galatians 5, 16-24. Galatians 5:13-15 (One Body: Love One Another) November 11th, 2012. It is love that edifieth, but division pulleth down. Enfeeble and imperil the Church.5. v. 6. 16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. )Dissensions in the ChurchR. 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." For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. III 'Walk in the Spirit''Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. ). Neil. When men are divided, they seldom speak the truth in love; and then, no marvel, they grow not up to Him in all things which is the Head. (Persian Fables. The gospel, which makes wolves and lambs agree, does not teach the lambs to turn wolves and devour each the other. View all of our resources on the biblical book of Galatians. The perfume was borne across the breach; so that the gardens were the, sweeter. It is a sad presage of an approaching famine (as one well observes) not of bread, nor of water, but of hearing the Word of God when the thin ears of corn devour the plump full ones; when our controversies about doubtful things, and things of less moment, eat up our zeal for the more indisputable and practical things in religion.(American. (e)Apply yourselves to the practice of real piety. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. "The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness" (Gal. "Walk in the Spirit." --JOHN x"The fruit of the Spirit is love."--GAL. Are always unreasonable.3. We are not called upon to produce the fruit, but simply to bear it. Nothing is more important then, than that we should be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit, or to keep to the metaphor, that the "trees of the Lord should be continuously full of sap"--His sap. God has set us upon our feet in the right, The Life of Duty, a Year's Plain Sermons, v. 2, WHAT 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." "(a)It includes the ruin of our outward comforts. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." He replied with a sigh, "After all my experience, I am forced to confess that the best trick is, to keep out of their way." doubts! 28, 29.--"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. (Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.) These dissensions have a natural tendency to promote our destruction; nothing can more properly bring it to effect. Let none now seek to divide Christians by building up a wall of party spirit between them; for, "behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."(G. 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. A. Let me say a little on a subject which, like the last, is one of some delicacy and difficulty, though its problems are of a very different kind. He spake not of all; but, having named St. "For He is our peace, who hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." Let me say a little on a subject which, like the last, is one of some delicacy and difficulty, though its problems are of a very different kind. 'In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.'--GAL. The gospel will not allow us to pay our enemies in their own coin, and give them wrath for wrath; much less will it suffer brethren to spit fire at one another's face. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. 16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. Gurnall. I. doubts! Let us all, then, be entreated, conjured, and persuaded to forbear biting and devouring one another. (b)Learn Christian wisdom. Has the wolf got into the fold?" "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. Finally, so many benefits were seen to be the result of the occurrence that, instead of rebuilding the fallen part, the remainder was pulled down to a low level, that air and sunshine might have freer course, and the gardens a free communication. The perfume was borne across the breach; so that the gardens were the, sweeter. v. 22). He lists the works of the flesh,22. The gospel, which makes wolves and lambs agree, does not teach the lambs to turn wolves and devour each the other. (j)My last advice is, to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." JOHN vi. Do not labour to screw-up one another to the utmost. There is a singular charm, a charm that one can scarcely explain, in the words of Paul in Gal. AugustineOn the Profit of Believing. There is a singular charm, a charm that one can scarcely explain, in the words of Paul in Gal. Gal 5:17 John NewtonOlney HymnsAnd on this Account That, Which, the Parts that Beget Being Bridled by Modesty5. It is a very singular instance of imaginative misreading of plain facts that the primitive Church should be held up as a pattern Church. They make me much trouble, but it seems I can not get them to leave me. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would. And also, when he exhorts us, that we live not after the flesh, lest we die, but that by the Spirit we mortify the deeds of the flesh, that we may live; surely the trumpet which sounds, shows the war in which we are engaged, and enkindles us to contend keenly, and to do our enemies to death, [1832] that we be not done to death by them. The righteous man is the man of stiff, inflexible uprightness; but he may be Rev. 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. The wolves were somewhat afraid, for the dogs were many and strong, and therefore they sent out a spy to observe them. I fear to come out boldly and declare that I believe that Christ fully saves me now. Would that this true and simple and natural logic were always borne in mind; then might the Christian nest be more peaceful, more like a family Divine!Unity among Christians to be sought afterMelancthon mourned in his day the divisions among Christians, and sought to bring them together by the parable of the war between the wolves and the dogs. Are always unreasonable.3. This kind of love goes far beyond what the law demands. Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. and the fruits of the Spirit,25. (i)Observe that good old rule, of doing to others as you would be done to. (a) They weaken that confidence that is necessary for the preservation of a people. Are a cause of rejoicing to the enemies of the truth.6. 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 gospel will not allow us to pay our enemies in their own coin, and give them wrath for wrath; much less will it suffer brethren to spit fire at one another's face. For those that are at variance are to be admonished to know most certainly that, in whatever virtues they may abound, they can by no means become spiritual if they neglect becoming united to their neighbours by concord. '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. AugustineOn ContinenceAll we Therefore, who Believe in the Living and True God18. "Not at roll, I am sorry to say," was the answer; "our numbers are diminishing weekly." All real beauty of character, all real Christlikeness in us, R. 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. "Walk in the Spirit." )Consumed one of another: Strife in the foldTwo friends met the other day. "Worse than that, I fear. Finally, so many benefits were seen to be the result of the occurrence that, instead of rebuilding the fallen part, the remainder was pulled down to a low level, that air and sunshine might have freer course, and the gardens a free communication. Let none now seek to divide Christians by building up a wall of party spirit between them; for, "behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."(G. But who those enemies are, it hath set forth plainly enough. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. )How to defeat strifePersian Fables.A young fox asked his father if he could not teach him some trick to defeat the dogs, if he should fall in with them. It is a delightful passion. 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. Are offensive to God.(R. IIIFifteenth Sunday after Trinity Church Officers Warned of Vain-Glory. A. TorreyThe Person and Work of The Holy SpiritJoy'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' IIIFifteenth Sunday after Trinity Church Officers Warned of Vain-Glory. He lists the works of the flesh,22. Pray that the power of the Holy Andrew MurrayThe Ministry of IntercessionBrokennessWe want to be very simple in this matter of Revival. And on this account that, which, the parts that beget being bridled by modesty, is most chiefly and properly to be called Continence, is violated by no transgression, if the higher Continence, concerning which we have been some time speaking, be preserved in the heart. Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Divisions are as the north-east wind to the fruits, which causeth them to dwindle away to nothing; but when the storms are over, everything begins to grow. (Admonition 23.) Divisions are to Churches like wars in countries; where war is, the ground lieth waste and untilled; none takes care of it. What a catalogue we have here of lovely moral characteristics. A. Bertram.1. A. Gal 5:52. A. 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