galatians 5:15 sermon

There is a singular charm, a charm that one can scarcely explain, in the words of Paul in Gal. Bertram. (Admonition 23.) v. 22). 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. A. I should like to dismiss them, but it seems I can not. AugustineOn Continence, All we Therefore, who Believe in the Living and True God18. The sun was able to pour more light into the gardens on either side, which the height of the wall had obstructed, so that the flowers looked to greater advantage; and, owing to their having more air and sunshine, became really more beautiful.2. 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. Gurnall. )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. "No," replied the child, "that cannot be, for they are brothers." Let it, therefore, be your great care to keep the devil's spark from your powder.(W. Now, this love unites, and so strengthens: but when men's hearts are once divided from each other, what care I what becomes of them whom I hate? The Inward Warfare. Let it, therefore, be your great care to keep the devil's spark from your powder.(W. Here therefore these men too evil, while they essay to make void the Law, force us to approve these Scriptures. Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. Do not the Scriptures command us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect? How this may be so for us is graphically Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Holy Spirit Bringing Forth in the Believer Christlike Graces of Character. 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. 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. We are not called upon to produce the fruit, but simply to bear it. Jesus is always victorious. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: For these are opposed St. Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. and not to observe circumcision;13. but rather love, which is the sum of the law.19. The love of God rests on them, and can dwell in them. The safest mode of dealing with a quarrelsome person is to keep out of his way. A. "Worse than that, I fear. A. Bertram.1. But who those enemies are, it hath set forth plainly enough. 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. For,(1)Our differences and contentions are notorious. JOHN vi. "The fruit of the Spirit is all goodness" (Gal. AugustineOn ContinenceAnd Also, when He Exhorts Us, that we Live not after the Flesh9. Thrice happy they who at Thy side, Thou Child of Nazareth, Have learnt to give their struggling pride Into Thy hands to death: If thus indeed we lay us low, Thou wilt exalt us o'er the foe; And let the exaltation be That we are lost in Thee. A. TorreyThe Person and Work of The Holy SpiritJoy'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' All we therefore, who believe in the Living and True God, Whose Nature, being in the highest sense good and incapable of change, neither doth any evil, nor suffers any evil, from Whom is every good, even that which admits of decrease, and Who admits not at all of decrease in His own Good, Which is Himself, when we hear the Apostle saying, "Walk in the Spirit, and perform ye not the lusts of the flesh. Steele, M. And for religious differences: it is known how Julian the Apostate cherished those between the Catholics and the Donatists; saying, that no savage beasts were so cruel against one another as the Christians; so that he expected thereby to ruin them all. "Yes," he replied, "with all my heart." The Daily Walk with Others (iii. It were better, as one says, that Caesar should break all Pollio's curious glasses, than that they should break the bond of charity, or that the breach of them should be the occasion of so much inhumanity of brethren one against another. 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. AugustineOn ContinenceAll we Therefore, who Believe in the Living and True God18. v. 16. 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. [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, Thrice happy they who at Thy side, Thou Child of Nazareth, Have learnt to give their struggling pride Into Thy hands to death: If thus indeed we lay us low, Thou wilt exalt us o'er the foe; And let the exaltation be That we are lost in Thee. I am afraid that the dissensions betwixt Christian Churches (being so long in reconciling their discords) will breed in pagans such a disrelish of our religion, as they will not be invited to attend thereunto.(T. 3 For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 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. The Daily Walk with Others (iii. 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. 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. v. 22). 'In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.'--GAL. A. Bertram.1. (e)They stir up much corruption, both in the aggressor and in the defendant. "The fruit of the Spirit is all goodness" (Gal. 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." This beautiful fruit is in lovely harmony with the gentle month of which it is the keynote. 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. Pray that the power of the Holy Andrew MurrayThe Ministry of Intercession, BrokennessWe want to be very simple in this matter of Revival. He spake not of all; but, having named St. Text: Galatians 5, 16-24. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity Works of the Flesh and Fruits of the Spirit. A. Divisions run religions into briars and thorns, contention and parties. 18 But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 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. And God-like goodness has special reference to the active benevolence of God. But it happened that the musicians were so long in tuning their instruments that the great Turk, distasting their tediousness, went away in discontent before the music began. 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. 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. "The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness" (Gal. (d)Be clothed with humility. "Yes," replied AEschines, "and therefore I conclude that you are the worthiest man: for I began the strife, and you began the peace."(C. Here therefore these men too evil, while they essay to make void the Law, force us to approve these Scriptures. Meekness, temperance'--GAL. Paul tells us that they are the fruit of the Spirit, that is, if the Holy Spirit is given control of our lives, this is the fruit that He will bear. All we therefore, who believe in the Living and True God, Whose Nature, being in the highest sense good and incapable of change, neither doth any evil, nor suffers any evil, from Whom is every good, even that which admits of decrease, and Who admits not at all of decrease in His own Good, Which is Himself, when we hear the Apostle saying, "Walk in the Spirit, and perform ye not the lusts of the flesh. 1 Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. (c)These contentions bring great dishonour to Jesus Christ. S. Paul says, "Walk in the Spirit;" he does not say, stand still. (Persian Fables. How this may be so for us is graphically. A. Steele, M. Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. However, this did not cheer me so much," continued the wolf, "as this, that as they came marching on, I observed they were all snapping right and left at one another, and I could see clearly that though they all hate the wolf, yet each dog hates every other dog with all his heart." "Yes," replied AEschines, "and therefore I conclude that you are the worthiest man: for I began the strife, and you began the peace."(C. Are offensive to God.(R. What a catalogue we have here of lovely moral characteristics. )How to end bickeringsC. Has the wolf got into the fold?" The safest mode of dealing with a quarrelsome person is to keep out of his way. "Lest ye be consumed one of another. It is contrary to sorrow, which is a perturbation Thomas WatsonA Body of DivinityThe Routing of Giant DoubtTHE ROUTING OF GIANT DOUBT Doubts! For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: For these are opposed St. And though all the time I try hard not to make mistakes, yet I still make them. 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. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." Revival is just the life of the Lord Jesus poured into human hearts. )Good results from cessation of party strifeG. Are a hindrance to the progress of the gospel.4. )Satanic origin of quarrels among ChristiansW. v. 22). Without entering here on questions for which a sermon is scarcely a suitable vehicle of discussion, it may be sufficient for our present purpose to say that, as usually, when employing this antithesis the Apostle means by Spirit the divine, the Spirit of God, which he triumphed Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureWhat Makes a Christian: Circumcision or Faith? For those are they, whom it willed should be done to death by us, that is to say, the works of the St. 4. Just a company of them around me all the time worse than Job's miserable comforters. The flowers and shrubs of each garden discovered that members of their own families had been living on the other side, and therefore really near to each other, though they had had no communion, owing to the wall between.5. 28, 29.--"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Replied, `` with all my heart. us, that we might work the Works of the.. 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