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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. Do not let liberty become license; do not say, “I may do this or that, and therefore I will do it because it pleases me.” You are not to do anything because it pleases you, but you are to do everything because it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, “Do not make licence out of your liberty. Remember that liberty from sin is not liberty to sin.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The condensation of the whole law is contained in that one word “love.” In the first table, we are taught to love God; and the commands of the second table teach us to love our neighbor.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. Do not turn your liberty into license. The apostle, in this Epistle, had began urging the Christians of Galatians to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free, and never to be again entangled with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The legal spirit is all for expansion; it multiplies it commands, and lays down its ritual for this, and that, and the other; but the gospel spirit is all for condensation. It has condensed the whole law into a single word, that is “love.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Oh, if that “one word” were so engraven on our hearts as to influence all our lives, what blessed lives of love to God and love to men we should lead!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This man finds fault, the other must have his own way, a third is for something quite new, a fourth is for nothing but what is antique, and so they fall to squabbling and quarrelling.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye bite and devour one another, Finding fault, slandering, injuring, bearing malice, and so on: —“If ye bite and devour one another,” Gal_5:15. Take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. “You will eat one another up; you will, each one, condemn his neighbor.” Paul represents the great Judge coming, and waiting outside the door; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. When dogs and wolves bite one another, it is according to their nature; but it is bad indeed when sheep take to biting one another. If I must be bitten at all, let me rather be bitten by a dog than by a sheep. That is to say, the wounds inflicted by the godly...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Be obedient to that great principle of the Spirit which goes with the doctrine of grace and salvation by faith, and then you will not be obedient to that lusting of the flesh which is in you by nature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walk under the Spirit’s power, following his guidance. The Spirit never leads a man into sin. He never conducts him into self-indulgence and excess.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. If your life is guided by the Spirit of God, — if you are spiritual men, and your actions are wrought in the power of the Spirit, “ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. You are pulled about by two contrary forces; you are dragged downward by the flesh, and you are drawn upward by the Spirit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. How often that is the case! Ye would be perfect, but “ye cannot do the things that ye would.” We would, if possible, escape from every evil thought; we would not even hear of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: They will never agree; these two powers are always contrary one to the other. If you think that you can help God by getting angry, you make a great mistake. You cannot fight God’s battles with the devil’s weapons. It is not possible that the power of the flesh should help...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. The law is ever to you the blessed rule by which you judge your conduct, but it is not a law of condemnation to you, neither are you seeking salvation by it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye be led of the Spirit ye are not under the law. The Spirit never brings the soul into bondage, the terrors and the fears which come of legal slavery are not the work of the Spirit of God. Where he works, holiness is delight, and the service of God is a continual joy. Oh, that we may be thus led of the Spirit!
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Any kind of sensual indulgence — whatever it may be — a lustful glance, the cherishing of an unclean desire,— the utterance of a foul expression, all this is condemned, as well as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, They are clear, plain, self-condemned.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelling, 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...