Self-Control

• the following message by Alistair beg is made available by Truth For Life For more information visit us online at truth forlife.org Galatians chapter 5 and we read from verse one for Freedom Christ has set us free stand firm therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery look I Paul say to you that if you accept circumcision Christ will be of no advantage to you I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law you are severed from Christ you who would be justified by the law you have
• fallen Away From Grace for through the Spirit by faith we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything but only Faith working through love you were running well who hindered you from obeying the truth this persuasion is not from him who calls you a little Leen leavens the whole lump I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other View and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty whoever he is but if I Brothers still preach
• circumcision why why am I still being persecuted in that case the offense of the Cross has been removed I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves that’s pretty strong language isn’t it so something was going on here of significance it wasn’t that he just had a hangout it was that the very essence of the Gospel was being challenged and set aside by these legalists who said you have to do this or you don’t truly belong to Christ and Paul is sorting that out verse 13 for you were called to Freedom
• Brothers only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh but through love serve one another for the whole law is fulfilled in one word you shall love your neighbor as yourself but if you bite and devour one another watch out that you’re not consumed by one another but I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh for the desires of the flesh are against the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh for these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do
• but if you are led by the spirit you’re not under the law now the works of the flesh are evident sexual immorality impurity sex sensuality idolatry sorcery enmity Strife jealousy fits of anger rivalries dissensions divisions Envy drunkenness orgies and things like these I warn you as I warned you before that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control against such things there is no law and those who belong to Christ
• Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passion and desires if we live by the spirit let us also keep in step with the spirit let us not become conceited provoking one another envying one another amen am God our Father we look away from ourselves again to you we come in our need in our need for understanding in our need for grace and for for forgiveness and for direction and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit Upon Our Lives as individuals and as a church family so that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ might be increasingly attractive as a