Reprinted by permission. (translation: Tagalog: Ang Dating Biblia (1905)) The woman then said, "Remember, you cannot paint like the great master unless you have his spirit.". Some see only part of it. The epitaph did not give the dates of her birth or death. Judas repented, yet "went out and hanged himself." Kept my Lord on the cross of Calvary; He is not dealing in strange mysteries for a few select saints. He is through with the vainglory of this life. As we rely on Christ’s righteousness in this manner, far from leading to a license to sin, it actually motivates us to deal with the sin we see in our lives by presenting our bodies as living sacrifices to God. His love and His sacrifice on the Cross was for YOU as though you had been the sole object of His affections and actions! Harold Shaw Pub. III. Grace hath redeemed us once for all. He had been crucified with Christ. We live spiritually in the sphere of faith. Paul declares, therefore, that under the Law he was tried, found guilty, was condemned, and in the person of his Substitute he was slain. Without the indwelling Holy Spirit, they cannot do it. It is this that marks the real difference between the old life prior to our salvation and the new life now that we are saved. The crucifixion of Christ had a twofold object- His personal crucifixion for sin, and our spiritual crucifixion to sin. That very thrill convinces me that I am the subject of a life that is eternal, that I possess a nature containing the germ of perfect holiness, and that before long, beneath a warmer sun and a brighter sky, the germ will reach its full perfection, and I shall be- not what I now am, a sickly, drooping plant of righteousness- but a full-blown, perfect flower of holiness, blooming in deathless beauty in the Paradise of Heaven! [⇑ See verse text ⇑] Paul is making the case that nobody can be justified before God by following the works of the law. It is, "Christ in you the hope of glory." Title: Galatians derives its title (pros Galatas), from the region in Asia Minor (modern Turkey), where the churches addressed were located. He had *preached the *good news about Jesus and many people becameChristians. Reprinted by permission. (Wuest's Word Studies from the Greek New Testament), Martin Luther who was well versed in trying to live a righteous life in his own power wisely wrote this warning….    But, ere I live it, must I wait By this he is disclaiming the right of the sin nature to rule over him in view of the power of God released through the death of Christ upon the cross. Your joy is to let Him drive and define your life. He came to realize that only Christ can successfully live the victorious Christian life for it is, after all, His resurrection life which reflects His victory over the power of sin and death. "Crucified" is not a command to obey but a fact to be believed! Alas, how seldom can it be realized! Galatians 5:24 (note) Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. "Christ in you the hope of glory." "—Galatians 2:20, Robert Greene (R. G.) Lee was born in 1886 on a South Carolina farm to poor but religious parents. (Luke 4:6). How can it be that Thou, my God, should'st die for me? For God’s love is an eternal love that had no beginning, that shall have no ending; that cannot be heightened by any act of ours; that cannot be lessened by anything in us. Our Daily Walk), The true Christian life is a re-incarnation of Christ. Now his zeal was motivated not by a desire to earn God’s favor but by love and gratitude for the righteousness of Christ that was his by faith. The gradual unwinding of the mainspring throughout the day drove the mechanism of the watch to keep time. The life of faith demands total separation from what is evil and total devotion to what is holy (2Cor 6:14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2Cor 7:1-note). The two principles- self and grace- are in deadly antagonism the one to the other in the regenerate. It is miraculous in operation by the grace of God. Once for all, O sinner, receive it, A life filled with resurrection power comes only out of death. Tagalog: Ang Dating Biblia (1905) × 6 . Having received Christ, he is to this world as one who is utterly dead. That Christ liveth in me. What God does desire and what is a manifestation of true faith is our (Spirit of grace [Heb 10:29] enabled) obedience, for "to obey is better than sacrifice" (1Sa 15:22). A genuine Christian is a person who is able to say what Paul said in Galatians 2:20. Vance Havner - EN-CHRISTED --Weigle A messenger came to the home of a minister of the Gospel with a request that he visit a sick lady. It is also, "Not I, but Christ. He is the only One who can. "To be carnally minded is death; to be spiritually minded is life and peace" (Rom. But one always has to watch, lest devotion to a group or movement supersede devotion to Christ Himself. Come, and He saves us once for all. 3:16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? Baptism sets forth this glorious truth, but how many church members even suspect the meaning of it? is my religion a reality? The article, as inserted at this point, gives it special prominence or moment—“in faith, and that of the Son of God.” The genitive is that of object—faith resting on Christ, as in Ga 2:16. We cannot live the Christian life—Christ lives in us (Phil 1:21; Gal. (see notes Romans 6:3 - this describes our identification with Christ), 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. , ὃ δὲ νῦν ζῶ ἐν σαρκὶ κ, but that which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith on, since the beginning of my Christian condition of life, in the natural human phenomenal form of the body consisting of flesh, . New Testament Commentary, Grudem, W. A. Self is carnal, Christ is spiritual. He made a supreme effort but soon found he could paint no better with that brush than with his own. Paradoxes are not contradictions. This personal pronoun when used with a verb (as in this verse) intensifies and emphasizes the subject of that verb. By Rev Charles Seet. It is not a matter of imitation, but of realization. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. If so, little wonder that you are frustrated, disappointed, etc! In proportion as Christ lives in us, self dies. And why? 3. Not surprisingly, Paul's phrase "in the flesh" might be confusing if one does not understand which "flesh" Paul intends. That's a picture of how much God cares about you. THE NEW PRINCIPLE: There is, in reality, no place where life is not; there never was a time when life was not; and there never will be a period when life will cease to be. Some have spoken of this real life of Christ in the soul as being mystical and untrue; but there can be no kind of doubt that it is the constant affirmation of the New Testament. One day the African heard that the Christian is crucified with Christ. It included only her name, the names of her two husbands, and this melancholy mini-biography: Sleeps, but rests not. And symbols apposite-the Church's neck; 2:20. “I am dead; the law has killed me, cursed me, slain me, and I am therefore free from its power, because in my Surety I have borne the curse, and in the person of my Substitute the whole that the law could do, by way of condemnation, has been executed upon me, for I am crucified with Christ” [Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. He, thus, was a sacrifice. 1Cor. When He was crucified, I was crucified with Him. His redemptive work is grounded in the love that expressed itself in the cross, the word "loved" being an aorist in tense and referring to the event of the cross as the issue of eternal, electing love (cf. But believers must also think of themselves as “alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:11). In Spiritism there is the extinction of personality—never in Christianity. So here in Galatians 2:20 Paul is describing the nature of our union with Christ in which our Lord obviously remains Christ and the believer retains his or her personality and physical nature. He seeks now not his own will but the will of Him who saved him and sent him. Christ is our life (Col 1:27-note; Col 3:4-note). Whenever I’m in the driver’s seat of my life, the destination is nowhere good. crucified with Christ, and yet at the same time risen with Christ in newness of life! death with Christ ended Paul’s enthronement of self; he yielded the throne of his life to Another, to Christ (Ed: Cp the "presentation" in Ro 12:1). We are dead and our life is hid with Christ in God.- All the Days. The Bible says that we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. The principles of the flesh and of the Spirit are contrary, the one to the other. TRANSCENDENT SPIRITUAL UNION. Even more important, God values you (Matthew 6:26, 27, 28, 29, 30-see notes) and has gone to great lengths to show His love. The minister was so moved by what he heard that he did a strange thing when he returned home. Because we have a natural tendency to look within ourselves for the basis of God’s approval or disapproval (Ed: Beloved, does this not hit a nerve so to speak - it certainly does in life, even after 25 years of walking clothed with His righteousness! (Tom Constable's Expository Notes on the Bible), I died in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, through faith I was identified with Him, so that God imputes (Ed: puts on my "spiritual account") to me everything that happened to the Saviour in Whom I have put my trust; and since He met all the demands of the law, paid the penalty and died under its curse, I (because I was represented in Christ through grace) suffered the same penalty and God today considers me as though I actually, personally, hung on the Cross myself, and met the full penalty of the law, which is eternal death. (Real Stories for the Soul), F B Meyer in a devotional entitled "Christian Living" wrote…, THE HEART of true religion is to believe that Christ is literally within us. It is a life unto death, and yet a life unto life! Self-righteousness, self-trust, self-glorifying, must yield to the humbling, emptying power of the Spirit. Then he added, "She is very happy in the review of a well-spent life." So life and light and love come forth All my opinions, sentiments, habits, are subject to the truth about Him "Who loved me and gave Himself for me" and I live devoted to him who died devoted for me." (2) Second, His death was a penal sacrifice, for He had to deliver Himself over to the cross. ", He is the subject of new and spiritual life- not born with him naturally, nor communicated to him humanly, but is the result of a new birth, and is imparted by the Holy Spirit. Timothy George is right in remarking, “Not only are we justified by faith, but we also live by faith. That’s the first way Galatians 2:20 speaks of the new self: a Christ-inhabited, No longer did his own desires, preferences, and tastes come first. There is a far better, surer way than that: let the steam in, and that will do it. How much and how fully Christ can be Himself in us at present is an interesting subject. THE HOLY SPIRIT MANIFESTING Perhaps you have experienced the new birth and you have Christ’s Spirit living within you, yet you feel so powerless. THE WELL-SPENT LIFE Reprinted by permission. 2Ti 1:14 (see note) Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. And the name is chosen with fitting solemnity. In the New Testament Paul several times makes use of a corrective—"I, yet not I." It is as the Son of God that He has and gives life. The Preacher's Commentary Series, New Testament. He believed that by virtue of Jesus Christ’s death, he had himself paid the law its due, satisfied divine justice, and found reconciliation with God. Later, when we have new faculties in another world, we can know and enjoy His presence and power without limit, but we earthbound creatures understand only in part. The spiritual life is Christ. Paul had been many years in Christ ere he used this language of assurance. what a salvation this, In the matter of SANCTIFICATION. The Preacher's Commentary Series, New Testament. Son of God is one of the titles which the early Christians used to refer to Jesus Christ. The Apostle makes use of the present tense to emphasize this truth. That assurance was unchanging. One day they were horrified to note a long line of smoke in the west, stretching for miles across the prairie, and soon it was evident that the dried grass was burning fiercely and coming toward them rapidly. Just as Rick was dependent on his dad, we are dependent on Christ to complete our Christian race. But every true believer is a quickened soul, and with the Apostle, in the words under consideration, can exclaim, "I live!" I've gradually learned to bring this "death" into effect by allowing my flesh no more rights than a corpse! Gladly I'll forfeit all of earth's treasures, Galatians 2:19, CSB: "For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live for God." Is it fear of surrendering your will to His perfect will? Remember, we need the Gospel not only as a door into an initial saving relationship with Christ, but also as the first bookend to keep our daily lives from becoming a performance treadmill. If our salvation depended upon our doing that, apart from a second birth, we would all be just as good as checked through to hell. The fact appears on the surface that it involves, as it is intended that it should involve, a total denial of the Deity and Atonement of Christ; while it equally includes a daring negation of the Office and Power of the Holy Spirit as the Divine Communicator of spiritual life, by whom alone the soul, "dead in trespasses and in sins," becomes truly and emphatically a "living soul. As he walked along, a former companion saw him and began calling, “Augustine, Augustine, it is I!” He took one look at the poor, disreputable woman whose company he had formerly enjoyed, and he shuddered. This life is miraculous in origin for it is the gift of God. Christ-strengthened me. Comment: Note He was not "accursed" but became a curse in the same sense that "He was made to be sin" in 2Cor 5:21. May it never be! With the things that now are the faith of Christians has to do; and it is concerning the life that we now live in the flesh that I shall now speak, trying, by the help of God’s Spirit, to show the influence which faith has upon it. III. When Paul died with Christ, Saul the self-righteous, self-centered Pharisee (the "I" of Gal 2:19) died and so did all that he had "accomplished" up to that time (see Phil 3:7 "But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ." The new life is Christ living in the man, and where Christ lives all is beauty and blessing. Living to God, he appears dead to the world. Rick was dependent on his dad in order to finish the race. Galatians 2:20. occupy the heart, and activity becomes blessedness, and work is rest, and service is freedom and dominion. Susannah Wesley, for example, had 19 sons and daughters.    To this and that book's date? (Spurgeon, C. H. Daily Help). Every Christian has a powerful engine under the hood, nothing less than the resurrection life of Christ is made available through the person of God the Holy Spirit Who lives within these mortal bodies. "If I yet pleased myself I would not be the servant of Christ." 7:10 He paid the law’s demand when he died in Christ. We see the spike in His ankles. Neither can you convince an unregenerate soul, spiritually lifeless, "dead in trespasses and sins" that, before it becomes an heir of glory, it must become a subject of grace. A. Crucified with Christ - This describes a our spiritual death with Christ some 2000 years ago, a very real supernatural, albeit somewhat "mystical" event that occurred in the past in the eyes of God. Paul says that this new life must be lived in the flesh, but not by the flesh (the evil disposition). Lee died at the age of ninety-two. One evening at dusk, after they had devastated a small chapel, they decided to sleep in it that night. (Ed: See Ro 8:9, Php 2:13-note where to "work" = Greek verb "energeo" in present tense = the Spirit continually energizes the "Christ life" in us. Pray that He may be to you all He can under present conditions! (Gal 3:13,14). A useless contraption fit for the junkyard! 3:19). For Your mercy, full and free; Then he said, “I’m going to put this in the fire until it turns red in the heat.” In a short time the tip of the shaft of the iron began to glow. He was simply the best exegete of his generation. The principle of living is not by the Law which has slain us because it found us guilty. Do you have such a relationship? —2 Timothy 4:7-8. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. When Paul was crucified with Christ, he said in a manner of speaking "Goodbye" to the world. You cannot ride the group’s train to Heaven, but you come singularly to Jesus Christ by faith. (Ed: See study of Galatians 5:16 one of the most important passages in the Bible in regard to growing in grace or progressive sanctification) (Spiritual Power Today-Read the entire excellent article) (Bolding and links added), Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord, But there’s more to it than that. Imitate him in "public." The verb, "gave," means to hand over, to deliver over (cf. But, not the least result of Christ's crucifixion for sin is the believer's crucifixion to sin- in other words, the gradual, and, when death releases him, the entire overthrow of sin's power and dominion in the regenerate soul. (Packer, J I: Your Father Loves You. We can consent and cooperate, but this is a supernatural work of God from start to finish. We were essentially co-crucified with Him. cf Php 3:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9-see notes on 3:3; 3:4-6; 3:7-8; 3:9) All he had accomplished was in a sense buried with Saul along with his old life in Adam. Suppose I try to run a store. Think of the Meaning of this New Relationship. Are you trying to live the abundant life in your own power? Examination of the context shows that Paul uses "flesh" in Galatians 2:20 to refer to the physical part of man which includes the idea of the entire person. It is in this latter sense we are to interpret the language of the Apostle. I kept reading, and came to recognize my own "works of the flesh"—my envy, anger, hatred, and selfish ambitions (Galatians 5:19, 20, 21-notes). 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