 So next I'm going to deal with Galatians. There's no particular order that I'm doing this by the way I'm just picking a passage and then finding something on it and cracking on so I'm going to do Galatians next particularly around the five and six area So he's used Galatians across several different videos So he's not exactly done a big chunk where right this is where I deal with Galatians But he spread different things that he has to say about Galatians across different videos depending on the point that he's trying to get across so We're revisiting this video again everyone who lost their salvation and After the Simon the sorcerer example where he didn't actually say that Simon lost his salvation by the way his next answer is Galatians, so he introduces his point saying that Paul said to the Galatians in 5-7 you were Running well who hindered you from obeying the truth And I must and then he goes on to say This bit next I am astonished that you so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ now if you look in the transcript About this is about four minutes 35 in so he points out the 5-7 verse But then he goes on to say and then he said Now again, this is just the way that he reads the Bible Paul did not say that and then say that because if you just look at the numbers This one is for chapters later than this one now Now maybe that's just a slip of the tongue Maybe he just did it by accident But like he's starting with towards the end of the book and then going back to the beginning of the book and again This is the way that he reads the Bible like a convoluted Conspiracy but it's like he thinks that Paul the Apostle is like the Tasmanian devil You just give him a pen and he goes It's like you can't just write a normal letter from start to finish Well first he said this at near the end of Galatians and then he said this at the beginning No, he said that this at the beginning and then he said this but maybe it was just a slip of the tongue I don't know and so the crux of the matter that he's going to get across in Galatians that that supposedly means people lost their salvation is 5 1 to 4 where he has to tell the Galatians submit again. Do not submit again. Sorry. You are severed from Christ You have fallen away from grace and so that that bit there is is how he would justify That you can lose salvation at from from that passage and I'm gonna kill multiple birds with with one stone So in another video where he's giving a death blow to grace abusing eternal security apparently He quotes a later chapter in Galatians about sewing to the flesh versus Sewing to the spirit and he goes on to say that Paul gives us four things We we must do in order to reap eternal life and again notice how it's it's all self It's just no Jesus whatsoever. It's all about what you do typically But this is the kind of thing where he takes this verse here about he used those to his flesh from his flesh will reap corruption That that means hell. That's how he interprets it and then this bit here Reaping in the spirit reap eternal life that that means going to heaven So that that's how he's reading reading that so we'll need to explore that as well while I'm on Galatians Now some people obviously oh sass folk will have confronted him about that and said well Well, anybody who falls away was never saved but then he's going to ask the question Well, somebody who isn't a Christian, how can they sew to the spirit for a little while and then give up? And so again because he's seeing it through the lens of that's what it means that they lost their salvation So we'll kind of explore those three themes in Galatians now first Let's look at the the target audience here and obviously yes, it's it's Christians It's the brethren but we'll be a bit more specific about the nature of the audience that is addressing his letter to because a Puc on apologetics is going to take the the Galatians 5 bit about fallen from grace And he's going to make it about you like you personally can fall from grace and lose your salvation That's how he's going to frame it But that that doesn't really work in the way that the letter set up as to who it's addressed So it's it starts out in verse 2 that it's addressed to all the brethren with sorry Sorry, that's all the brethren which are with him on to the churches of Galatia now emphasis on the word Churches, okay. This is a plural audience. It's written to lots of different Congregations at Galatia. Okay, so we've got plural that it's not it's not written to one person This is not an instruction about one person So we immediately have a problem when you start taking verses about we'll see you can lose your salvation because look all the churches at Galatia didn't all collectively lose their salvation. That's what that's ridiculous that you would read the Bible like that Now in the King James you don't actually get this from modern translations But to an extent you can obviously use the context but the King James shows you that it's it's ye As opposed to the and thou so again, it's a plural audience. He's written writing to churches It's a group of people. This is not about one person Particularly So, you know that you can't just take something that's written to churches and say well You personally can lose your salvation Because of Paul's letter to a group of people that that doesn't make any sense. Okay, so You are so soon removed from him that called you again plural. It's ye and you are plural Into the grace of Christ onto another gospel. So there's the issue where obviously the risk here is another gospel That's the the danger that's approaching the churches at Galatia Which is not another but look what he says and this is key in verse seven. You must understand this There be some that trouble you emphasis some That are troubling you So again, is it that all the churches in Galatia have all been given over to this bad Gospel and they're all just losing their salvation down to the last man woman boy and girl Sorry, that's not how this is happening. Epi Eusion. You are wrong again The churches at Galatia have got some among them that are troubling them who are Perverting the gospel of Christ. It's those some it's those specific people Within some of the churches of Galatia that are causing this problem. Okay So immediately the you can personally lose your salvation because of Galatians is immediately falling apart Just by looking at the the issue that Paul's trying to address A few verses I didn't put on the tablet But then I thought it would actually be good to just go to go to those briefly So after verse seven when he says there be some that trouble you He then goes on to say but though we and that is obviously a group of people that's alongside paul there Or an angel and that that can just be one angel an angel Preach any other gospel than that which we have preached let him so that's a personal one person Pronoun there let him that person or whoever it is be accursed And just in case you missed it the first time he rephrases it in verse nine If any man so is it all the churches of Galatia No, if any man preach any other gospel let him be accursed So the one that preachers another gospel is the one that's accursed here. That's the strong language Now when he says fallen from grace, that's not strong language like being accursed is strong language So these people that pervert the got the gospel there's some among them And if any man be one of those that that trouble you and pervert the gospel It's him that's a curse. It's not all the churches of Galatia that are accursed But but there's a danger of this false gospel creeping into the church of Galatia A little 11 11's a whole lump. So obviously they've got to start purging that they've got to start cleaning up house. Okay And Paul gives an example from his own life. He profited the jew's religion But then it pleased God to separate him by calling him to his grace So when when Paul was doing all of this stuff and profiting the jew's religion with their false gospel That was before the grace of God. He wasn't saved when he was doing that So these people that are good, they're not saved. They don't get saved and they lose their salvation They are unsaved people among the Galatians that are troubling the Galatians Okay, and and it's those trouble causes that all the accursed people. Okay, so again This is a group of people or particular individuals or particular Camps of people within the churches of Galatia plural. Okay, so context. It's all about that So then let's fast forward to Galatians five I'm not going to do anything between two alphabets because it's it's mainly five and six that were focusing on for some of the stuff that epi you see on his set. So It introduces five stand there for in the liberty where with Christ has made us free Well, well, what has he made us free from well that the overall flavor of the letter Is that he's made us free from the the law that that's why you we've made being free from Okay, that that's how we're liberty. We're not under the law as he will explain elsewhere in in this letter. All right Now then let's look at verse two So it says if you and there's that there's that plural you there So here he is addressing all recipients of the letter If you are circumcised and and presumably because he's dealing with false gospels This is circumcised for the purpose of the gospel for your eternal life We're not dealing with like, you know, you just have to do it for a medical reason Or you just want to do it for some reason or you were already circumcised because you're Jewish It's if you seek to be circumcised for the purpose of the gospel for your eternal life. Okay Uh, well, then if that's the case Christ shall profit you nothing. Okay, so in other words It doesn't matter if you believe on Christ if you mix circumcision in with the gospel That there is literally no point in believing on Christ. What what is that supposed to do for you? And so Um, you know, this is again where the faith plus work stuff starts to creep in Uh, so he clarifies that further for I testify again to every Man that is circumcised. So while the letter is addressed to the churches in Galatia Again, it's those some that trouble you any man that that particular man that that is one of those that trouble you It's every man that is circumcised for this purpose that Paul's dealing with He is a debtor to the whole law So if you're a debtor to the whole law, you can't just say well, okay We ought to follow this particular law, but not all of them Now if you want to be circumcised you're a debtor to the whole law either It's all the law or not the law because as the bible also explains it you break one You've broken the whole law. We we saw that earlier with james. Okay Now keep that in mind because that's going to be very important with some of the upcoming verses That we're going to deal with and more of where epic use continues to just embarrass himself So, uh, either you follow the whole law or or we're not we're not under the law It's that simple that it's it's both extremes here So you can't you can't be under the law and also believe in christ to be saved easily It's got to be one or the other and so here's the really crucial bit here then Christ is become of no effect on to you Okay Whosoever of you so again not not like you personally or like all the churches in galatia or anything like that Whosoever of you are justified by the law so anybody that's among the galatians who think they are justified by the law They are the ones that have fallen from grace. Okay So this is not someone who's affirming their beliefs that it's by faith This is someone who thinks that they are justified by the law. Okay Now then you might wonder because obviously paul does use language like Uh, so for example, he says fallen right and then he says become of no effect So then it might look like well, he was once In effect for you that the problem is though that we don't really have a lot of background About the people that trouble them that he's dealing with that. There's nothing really that indicates they used to believe it was by faith But then they started believing that it was suddenly by works for for some bizarre reason. Okay But again remember that we're dealing with Uh plurality of people we're dealing with churches. And so it's the danger of People among you so the some that trouble you they're the ones that are perverting the gospel of christ So this is uh people among them So you can't then just take that statement to say that oh well you can lose your salvation because First of all, you would have to be somebody for this to be true You would have to be somebody who used to believe it was by faith And then suddenly decided that it was by works all of a sudden. Okay. Well, I've never really known anybody I've ever known falling to that camp. Okay Usually it's the opposite way around people used to be believe it was by works And then they realized that it's actually by by faith The next thing to look at is notice what paul says They're actually fallen from He says the fallen from Grace so he didn't say You are fallen from Salvation that's not what he said. Sorry. It's not quite catching up with me at the moment. He didn't say you fallen from salvation He didn't even say Eternal life. Okay. That's not what paul said they fell from right That's just not what he said simple as that and again If you want to say this is a you can lose your salvation passage Well, again, you're gonna have to speak with paul and judgment day and explain to him Why he wrote this letter so badly because he could have just said you have lost your salvation He could have just said you have lost your eternal life That's what paul could have just said so he just spell it out for us He didn't do that So don't change the words that paul actually used that the holy spirit moved him to speak He fell from grace. That's what he felt from and so it raises the question then what is Grace what is it that they actually fell from that's what we need to understand Well, it's simple. We just need to know exactly what grace means. Well, if we were to look in the dictionary You have things like unmerited divine assistance Or a virtue coming from god But obviously the problem is with the religious definitions in the dictionary is that they are religiously biased So that those definitions could have been shaped by Christians interpreting it this way that might not be the secular or standalone meaning of grace in itself But then you look a little bit further and it's got words like approval favor mercy pardon privilege So it seems to be favor but as an act of kindness or courtesy not not something that you Just have earned or deserve particularly And it can mean different things across different places in the bible But it is tied into the gospel in many places You can see some of them on the screen there that they believed through grace the gospel of the grace of god And so on and so forth and then when you get to Paul's writings in like romans and things It's it's all about we're justified freely. So again, that's that justification for righteousness It's freely through god's given grace. So it's something that god gives us But it's something that we we haven't earned. It's not like It's not, you know, it's it's not a debt. It's not like a reward. It's the it's grace. It's unmerited. Okay So we could call it then god's undeserved favor or god's undeserved kindness something that god gives you For free you you don't earn it. You don't deserve it. So that's why Ephesians 289 says four by grace Are you saved through faith because it's the gift of god? He's not of works. He can't boast in them So this group right here the people that paul is dealing with these whosoever's these particular people among You so not all of you but whosoever of you Why did they fall from god's unmerited favor? Well, it's quite simple They thought they were justified by the law They're not because we wait for the hope of righteousness by faith So again, you can see why paul said similarly in romans were justified by faith without works for righteousness Not the same thing that james was talking about when he said by justified by faith and works Because james wasn't dealing with our righteousness specifically. Okay So in jesus christ if you have the faith It doesn't matter whether you're circumcised or uncircumcised It's faith which works by by love and of course Again epi you see i'm loves to take that word work right there and say we'll see you've got to be doing works But that's not what that says is that faith works faith which works by love. So that that's the love that's working the faith Okay, so here's the problem and if you still want to take that that statement right there fallen from grace As meaning you lost your salvation Well, the problem with that is that just about everybody who believes he can lose your salvation thinks that they're justified by Works and if you're justified by works, well, you're a debtor to the the whole law You can't just say well, there's new testament works versus old testament works Because a lot of the things that the new testament tells you to do are things from the old testament So we'll see more of that as we progress through galatians and it just shows where epi you see one's false dichotomy between works of faith versus works of the law just completely crumbles and falls apart Okay, so then verse seven is where Uh, it's the verse that epi you see unquoted early that well, you see you did run well Who hindered you that you should not obey? Uh, the truth Well again, it's dealing with a plural audience and we already know that there are some that trouble you we already know that Going into this verse. Okay, so don't you know don't let him get away with playing tricks on you With his first and another trick that he tries to pull as well Is that he tries to pick on this word? Obey or see for see it says you must obey. This is what you know You must be doing these things to get to heaven. Well obey what because it doesn't say Obey the law. Is that what it says? No, does it say obey the the commandments of jesus? Is that what it says? No, that's not what it says It says obey the truth. Okay. Well, how do you obey the truth? Well, if the truth says that you're justified by faith and not by the works of the law for righteousness And you think you have to do works of the law for righteousness. You're disobeying the truth. Okay If the bible says that jesus died and rose again, you know for sins And you think there's some other way of doing it. Well, guess what? You're disobeying the truth You're not following the truth that the apostles left with you and the truth that they left is that salvation is by grace Through faith without works that justification on to righteousness is without works that whosoever believe a thinning should not perish Not whosoever repent of this sin shall not perish So, you know any of these false gospels like surrender your life to christ or repent of your sins They are disobeying the truth quote unquote now. They might be obeying some of the commandments They might be obeying thou shall not steal but they disobeying the truth though. Okay Now in in in the case of the churches at Galatians Paul goes on to say I have confidence in you that through the lord you will Non otherwise minded but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment again whosoever he be So again, it's not all the churches in Galatia are going to lose their salvation or anything ridiculous like that But the those that trouble them they're going to bear their judgment whoever they are Okay, because because they're bringing in this false gospel that again whole whole background of his argument points here so Uh, he then goes on to say I would that they were even be cut off which trouble you so you know It'd be better if if you didn't have to deal with them because as he said earlier A little leaven leavens the whole lump and so ask yourself this question Why are there millions and millions and millions of Catholics out there bowing down to statues of Mary? That's not in the bible. Where did it come from? Well, the thing is it's not like christians Just woke up one day and started bowing down to statues of Mary What you'll notice a lot of heresies that have crept in they've crept in gradually Okay, so, you know, it started off Well, well the bishop's got to give you the bread and then it started off Well, you know, you've got to start being baptized to actually be saved. Oh, well, then now it's got to be this And what happens is it's gradual It's not just something that boom flecks all just do all the works to be saved because If you said right, let's obey all of these works of the law to be saved Well, someone's going to go hang on a minute. That's that's not what Paul's been telling us So it's it's all these gradual things and so circumcision is just one of the the gateways to this happening Okay, that's what that's what you must understand about this Obviously, we don't want to take a little leaven like circumcision And then leaven the whole lump where he just flat out just becomes work salvation because that's that's what most of christianity is today All the catholics think you have to do the sacraments to be saved All the seventh day adventists and jehovah's witnesses think you have to be doing a bunch of works to be saved All the evangelical and protestants think that you have to be turning from your sins to be saved Okay, it's all works works works works There's different amounts of works in different groups But that's what it all comes down to it's just a slightly different form that it takes all the pentecostals You know think that there's got to be this speaking in tongs and all this bit Maybe not all of them, but that that's what a lot of it's out there. It works a creeping in there somewhere Okay, and this is how it creeps in it's just a little leaven and it leavens the whole lump. Okay Now then verse 13 is a really good verse because it it ties in Paul's whole point While answering the objections that people are typically going to throw at us when when we point this stuff out Okay, so you have been called it says On to liberty. Okay. That's what you've been called on. Right. Well, what is liberty? Well, liberty is like another word for freedom. Well, what what freedom or what liberty Do we have what what are we set free from? Well, it's simple If you be led by the spirit You are not under the law. He explains that that later. So Under the law, it's the opposite of liberty and and again remember when we looked at james There was the royal law, but you will be judged by the law of liberty Well, how do we be judged by the law of liberty? What what is such a law because it If liberty is the opposite of the old testament law, it can't be the same thing It can't even be remotely similar Well, the thing is you're not under the law. Okay Now then you might wonder what does it mean To be un not under the law anymore. Well, the thing is when it comes to law and legalese In the secular world, they don't really often use the phrase Under the law. Okay, rather they use its opposite in that there's this phrase above the law So if someone thinks that they can literally do what they like and the rules don't apply to them And there will be no consequences Then in that aspect they think they are above the law But the whole point of saying it in illegally is is that no one actually is above the law That that's supposed to be the whole point of it. Okay So this is not a complicated concept at all if we have the law Well, if you're under the law, then the rules and their associated punishments for breaking those rules apply Whereas if you're above the law They they don't apply. Okay. So essentially because you're not under the law The punishments that come for sin under the law don't apply. Well, you know, what is the law? What is the wages of sin? It's death. Okay, that's the the punishment for sin Well, that that rule doesn't apply anymore because you're not under that law, right? Now then even though we're under liberty Okay, even though that does apply and we are not under the law as paul said Nevertheless despite what he's just said Only you is not liberty for an occasion to the flesh. Okay, but but love one another love and serve one another for all the law Is fulfilled in one word Even in this that you shall love your neighbor as yourself So again, here's the problem with the way that epi you see home frames his gospel because he would take that statement You shall love the your neighbors yourself as one of the things you have to do to be saved. Okay Here's the problem with that though folks is that to love your neighbor as yourself Is fulfilling the law. Okay. Now that's the old testament law. It's an old testament commandment Now you might wonder well, well, what about doesn't paul talk about ingalations about the law of christ as opposed to The the old testament law. Well, that is coming up but he hasn't talked about it yet So contextually we're still under the old law. That's the same law that circumcision was found in This is an old testament commandment. It's an old testament law. It's not some magical new revelation In the new testament. Okay, this has always been in place. So it's still the old testament law Now it's just explained that, you know, you're not justified by the law You've fallen from grace if you think that but you are justified by faith Nevertheless, you shall fulfill the law if you do this but you're not under the law. Okay So this is liberty The law can't hurt you but nevertheless as long as you do this you shall fulfill the law in any case. Okay So here's what we're saying. Here's what free grace says Yes, obey the law. Yes. Love your neighbor. Yes. Love your god. Yes Do the works of the spirit. Yes. Do these things and yes Do those good things in the law But guess what that's not going to help your justification onto righteousness That's not going to help you get saved And the reason why I point that out is because epi Eucion just loves to straw man Faith alone and free grace and osas is just saying that we want to justify sin and go on sinning Well, the thing is folks, that's just a lie It's just a false accusation And the thing is it doesn't even bother me that he wants to falsely say that we say that Because you know what in romans 3 8 paul actually pointed out that there were people that slanderously affirmed That he said let us do evil that good may come Well, guess what epi Eucion your damnation is just for falsely affirming that we say that because we don't affirm that Now, do you think paul would have been accused of saying something like that? If he said repent of your sins and do all of these works to be saved No, you know what we we get accused of saying that by epi Eucion apologetics Well, you know what they falsely accused paul of saying that so go ahead epi Eucion and make your false accusation Because all you're doing by doing that is you're affirming us and you're vindicating us and you're really only Dismantling yourself. Okay. You're just proving yourself to be these people Whose damnation is just when you falsely accuse faith alone and osas of wanting to go out and sin Okay, we don't want to go out and sin all we're simply saying is let's understand the separation between the liberty And the law and the purpose of each. Okay Now then so when he says uh, you shall love your neighbor as yourself What what's the opposite of that? What's going to happen if you don't do that? Well, he goes on to explain in verse 15, but if you bite and devour one another Oh, you will lose your salvation. You will fall from grace. You will forfeit your eternal life Oh wait, that's not what paul said and if you could lose your salvation You'd think that would be pretty important for him to mention it here. He doesn't say it though folks, does he? He said that you be Not consumed one of another so if christians saved christians are constantly trying to devour each other And attack one another and bring each other down That's not going to be beneficial spiritually for them. Is it but again if it's so important It's so dangerous that we can lose our salvation this right here. And that's not really the least that's the least of our problems Okay, losing our salvation would be our biggest problem for some reason paul didn't seem to want to mention it in verse 15 Why because it's such a garbage that only people like epi eucion apologetics would believe Okay, it's just simply not the reason for the opposite of loving your neighbor. Okay This is the danger right here. This is the thing that paul is warning us about you will consume one another He doesn't point out that you lose your salvation if you don't love one another Okay, don't put words in paul's mouth that paul didn't say don't make paul sound like a crazy person For giving us all the wrong information to work with. Okay. Now that he gives us some practical advice here If you walk in the spirit You shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh Okay, so that and there's kind of a battle going on here and he details this battle Much more in romans chapter seven. So I think after I've done galatians We'll go and look at romans because epi eucion always loves to abuse romans eight And that's got a lot of similar themes to what we're reading here in galatians So we'll deal with romans after we've dealt with Galatians, but there's very similar themes here is that what's happening is the flesh Lusts against the spirit. Okay and the spirit against the flesh These are Contrary to to one another. Well, what what is the effect of that? It's so that you cannot do the things that you would okay. So it's You would do these things yet. It's saying you you cannot do these things And this works both ways. You see your flesh Wants the alcohol it wants the fornication. It wants the pornography. It wants the cigarettes It wants this it wants that and the other But the spirit is there so that the flesh cannot do these things But it doesn't just say that the spirit is against the flesh It also says that the flesh is against the spirit as well So what does your spirit want to do? Well, the spirit in you the holy spirit living in you Wants to learn more about god's word wants to give the gospel to the lost. That's what the spirit would do But the problem that the spirit has is that the flesh Doesn't want to do these things and so the spirit cannot do these things when it should be doing Okay, so there's the flesh and the spirit Warring against each other. These are these are contra it's one of them. Okay That these are both within you and they both want to do the opposite things Because you as a bible believe in christian You know that the pornography and the alcohol it is wrong You know that it's wrong and the spirit in you the christian in you says, you know, I don't want to do that Yet the flesh itself still has the urge to want to do that. Okay, those of you that have had a history Of uh drunkenness of alcoholism. There's still a part of you that that has some sort of addiction that wants to do that. Okay Those of you that struggled with pornography, you know that if some woman's walking in the street and she's Rather loosely dressed, you know that there's a temptation within you to want to look at that And yet your spirit also knows that you shouldn't be looking at that And so that's what paul's describing here It's that war there and so we can talk more about it when we look a little bit at roman 7 because paul gives us a Lot more detail to go on but the point is that these two are Going against each other. Okay So that's why he says you have to do the walk So that you shall not not fulfill. Okay, but that's that's a walk. It's a practice It's something that you've actually got to walk in that is something that you have to do For this particular purpose. Okay Now then How can you possibly walk in the spirit? How would that even be remotely possible? Well, the thing is it says in verse 18 if you Be led of the spirit So in order to walk in the spirit the spirit's got to be Leading you if the spirit's not leading you how can you possibly walk in it? You don't know who he is or where he is or what what it is even So Leading the spirit. It's the spirit that's leading. Okay. There's the emphasis there Now if you are led by the spirit, it doesn't say if you fulfill the walk But rather it says if you fulfill if you are led by so it's it's the spirit leading you Okay You are not under the law So it doesn't say you are not under the law if you walk in the spirit You are not you are not under the law if you are led by the spirit Okay, so it's the fact that the spirit leads you not you walking in it. Okay That that's why you're not under the law Well, we know that the holy spirit is given to those that believe because that's what john chapter 7 says So you have to believe to have the holy spirit in you to then lead you Okay, and if the spirit is leading you you are not under the law. So the the law has no more Dominion over you it can't it can't condemn you for You know that the sins that you have done because you are led by the spirit You're you're not under that law, right now now the walk Obviously, that's something that you do Okay, and it doesn't say walk in the spirit so that you shall maintain your eternal life or anything ridiculous like that You walk in the spirit so that you shall not fulfill fill the lust. Okay, but in order to not be under the law Okay, it says that you have to be led. Well, who does the leading? It's the spirit that does the leading. Okay You being led that's that's not like an active verb that you're doing It's a sort of passive verb It's something that you're receiving. Okay, the spirit is leading you and you're not leading the spirit It's something that the spirit is doing to you, but you walking in the spirit That's something that you're doing So it's the spirit that causes you to not be under the law you walk so that you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh Okay, so don't don't confuse these two things here and it's all again just emphasizing why salvation is about what christ did It's not about what you do what you do is not the cause of you going to heaven What christ did is the cause of you going to heaven. Okay? Nevertheless, you are commanded walk in the spirit. Why because you's not your liberty as an occasion to the flesh That's what he's trying to get you to do here. That's the objective of this letter So paul's just making a separation between You're not under the law so things like trying to be circumcised and trying to do all these works For the gospel is not going to help you. You're under liberty. So those of you under liberty Well, because you're led by the spirit now we can start talking about walking in the spirit So it's making a separation between the works of a believer and what you actually have to do for the gospel Okay, which is to believe on the lord jesus christ that thou shalt be saved Now then he goes on to explain the works of the flesh. Okay What are the works of the flesh? What does the flesh work? What does it do that they're manifest in other words? Another way of reading is it's made known. It's made apparent That the flesh is adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies, okay And then you've got the murders drunkenness revelings and such like okay And he goes on to do I have told you in time past this is on something he said something similar to the carinthian church That they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of god Now then here's the problem is what most people miss you see people then look at this statement all which do such things Shall not inherit the kingdom of god and they'll say oh well see if you start falling into these works of the flesh You won't inherit the kingdom of god and you know you will lose your salvation and you know here comes the works out again. Okay Well, again, here's the problem. Here's what they're failing to grasp. Okay What is it about adultery for example? Or what is it about fornication for example? Or what is it about idolatry or witchcraft for example? That is wrong. Why is it wrong to do those things? How do you know? That those things are actually bad. Okay Is it wrong to own a house? Well, there's nothing wrong with owning a house. Okay now the flesh this stuff here For many people wants a nice house. Okay once the six bedrooms and the big Rooms and you know it wants the nice curtains and we saw a pucion has a fairly nice house But but those things aren't wrong though. Why is it not wrong to want a nice house? Because there's nothing in the old testament law that says it's wrong to have a nice house. Okay, but all these things right here We we have laws against these things. Okay, the law Tells us that these things is wrong and so here's why Salvation or righteousness being justified by the law or by works doesn't Work pardon the pun. Okay Because the law says that these things are wrong and the law applies to your flesh The problem is is that the flesh wants to do those things in the law. So for example The flesh says thou shall not commit adultery. Sorry. The law says thou shall not commit adultery That's what the law says. It's wrong to do that and there is a punishment for that The problem is is that the flesh Does those things? Okay, the flesh wants to do that and so the flesh goes against the law To do those things But paul has already explained. He's already said this that if you're led by the spirit You're not under the law. Okay, so Again, it's no accident That paul uses Careful language here. Okay, so let me just clear some space up here. Let me show you The language that paul is choosing to use Being a man who was moved by the holy spirit to say these things Because if paul wanted you to believe That you could lose your salvation if you do these things And if paul wanted to believe you to believe that all these things Applied to you not inheriting the kingdom of god as somebody who's already a christian Then he could have just said right here He could have just said if you do such things you shall not inherit the kingdom of god But that's not how paul chose to phrase it. Okay He said they that's what paul actually said. It's if they which do such things. Okay, they People that are in the flesh they're people who are not led by the spirit And so They may even know that this stuff is wrong, but they choose to do it anyway You know, you look out at the wicked world the non-christian world. Why do they go out and commit fornication? You know, why aren't these people not waiting to get married? Why do they go out and cheat on their wife? Why are they full of uncleanness? Okay, why are they full of these other things in here? Why are the people going out and doing witchcraft? You know these people doing witchcraft folks? Do you think the bible believe in christians or do you think there are a bunch of pagans and wicked people? Okay They do those things and they are the ones that shall not inherit the kingdom of god But he's already explained if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law. Okay And we already saw examples earlier. Why did the publicans and harlots Go in before the chief priests and Pharisees the chief priests and Pharisees probably weren't Harletting around like the harlots were but it's because they believed that's what matthew 21 32 explained. Okay And then again look at the non-accidental language. It's not just Paul doesn't know how to write a very good letter Okay, he's using his words very carefully Look down at verse 24 They that are christ so they that belong to christ It's not they that have repented of all of their sins. It's they that are christ's Have crucified The flesh with the affections and lust and again look at what he says. He says have crucified. He doesn't say They are crucifying by dying daily. Okay, they have crucified. That's past tense. The flesh has been crucified. Okay Why is the flesh being crucified? Because they they are christ. They live in the spirit That's their born-again spirit. Jesus talked about that when he talked to Nicodemus in John chapter 3 said You've got to be born in the spirit to enter the kingdom. He doesn't say you've got to walk in the spirit daily You've got to be born in the spirit. Okay. Well, if you're born in the spirit, well now the spirit can lead you So, you know John started off with the simple language like being born in the spirit Whosoever believer fit him in that same chapter that which is flesh is flesh But that which is spirit is spirit. It's the spirit that's born again not the flesh. Okay The flesh is not born again. So if we live in the spirit Well, then he says let us also walk in the spirit. Okay, so because you live in the spirit If you're one of those people if you've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ that you've been saved by faith without works By God's grace. Well, let us also walk in the spirit. It's not walk in the spirit so that we can then be Live in the spirit. We live in the spirit. So let us also do this So walking in the spirit is something for the believer. It's not something to get saved and maintain your salvation Let us also having been already saved having already crucified the flesh Let's also walk in the spirit. And so this is what Paul's trying to get across He's already explained that you've got flesh and spirit against each other Now it says we have crucified the flesh yet here it is. It's still living. Okay, but It is getting older. Okay. It is decaying. It does get sick Okay, the flesh wants to do those things that are up there. Okay, you being born again Didn't magically make you want to just suddenly stop doing all these things and never want to do them again That's the very reason why it's called works. Okay For many of you it's hard not to do these things now, you know, everyone's things are different Paul's making a generalized statement here. I personally don't have a particular uh, desire to go and do witchcraft. Okay, that's not an issue for me. Okay, but you know Not looking upon a woman to lust after these bits right here. Well, that's harder for me. Okay Some of you maybe it might be something different. Maybe you don't struggle with That one there, you know, maybe you've got the incontinence of Paul there But but you struggle with some of these other things here. Okay, what whatever things They happen to be so this is Paul's whole point here. Okay We're not under the law so we will inherit the kingdom of god because we live in the spirit We are led by the spirit. However, don't use that as an occasion to the flesh Let's also walk in the spirit. Okay. Now. Why should we do that because you know, we don't want to devour one another That's why we should love one another. Okay, and again, it doesn't take a genius To figure that stuff out Because now notice what he said in verse 22 He said the fruit of the spirit now often when people read the word fruit They automatically assume that it means works. Okay, so they just like when john says bring forth fruit Well, that means the works Well, no because fruit is not work. Okay fruit is the product of work, right? So these are the works of the flesh This isn't the work of the spirit. This is the fruit of the spirit. Okay It's it's no accident that Paul is using this language Now your average person today probably isn't a farmer But back in the time of christ and the time of paul Many people were farmers So that's why you have a lot of these shepherd analogies and these farm analogies and these seed analogies and these vine analogies Because a lot of people were farmers that that was the main economy So the work is something that you have to do you have to put in the work. Okay, you have to do the walking Okay, that's what walking is work. You have to be putting in the walk. You have to be putting in the work But what what is what what happens when you work? You see you have to plant the seed in the ground You have to water the trees you have to work in the garden Gardening is something that takes a lot of work And that's why i'm rubbish at gardening and no house that i've ever lived in since i moved out of my parents Has had a tended gardening. I am useless at gardening because i'm just not prepared to put in the work for for literal gardening Okay, but walking in the spirit. Well walking is the work The fruit is the product if you've put in the work to grow a proper garden Well, then you can expect eventually your garden is going to grow something If you've put in the work to growing like a Vine tree like you know you can expect to harvest grapes from that the grapes are the fruit But the grapes aren't the work the work is the work that you put in to get those grapes So what is the fruit of the spirit? Well, it's it's love. Okay, it's joy And it's peace and it's long suffering. Okay, and it's gentleness and it's goodness. Okay, and it's faith Now all these are good things Okay, and even the unsaved wicked world To some extent still wants these things, you know, isn't everyone always banging on about how we'd love to have world peace For example, isn't that what they always say? Well, I don't know because I don't watch them But like beauty pageants. It's kind of like a cliche. Oh, I want world peace, you know Um, doesn't the unsaved world want love to some extent? Don't they want joy? It doesn't take a genius or a born-again person to want these things But the problem with the unsaved world is that they're looking in all the wrong places You see, they think that they're something they've got to do For their eternal life. So they want these things, but they're not going to get these things because they're looking in all the wrong places They're not looking to jesus for these things. Okay. Why? Because they're in the flesh and they haven't been born in the spirit They're not led by the spirit. So they don't live in the spirit. Okay Because they don't live in the spirit because they're still under the flesh They haven't believed on the lord jesus christ that they shall be saved That's why they're not getting any of this fruit Because they're looking in all the wrong places. Okay, but we who have been born again Those of us who believe christ those who believe it's by grace through faith not of works Those of us who aren't working into salvation. We've entered into rest as as the hebrus terminology tells us Well, because we live in the spirit. Well, then what we have to do is now walk in that spirit that we're living in So that we can hope to get some of this fruit and and who doesn't want love? Who doesn't want joy? Who doesn't want peace? No normal person doesn't want those things. Okay any normal person Wants those things because they're all good things But you're not going to get those if you think you have to work your freaking way to heaven You're not going to get those if you think you have to do buddhism and try and get nirvana. You're never going to get peace Okay, if you think that now buddhists want to bang on about peace all day long. All right But sorry, but there's no nirvana and no salvation in buddhism. Okay, you're not going to get peace You can try for it as hard as you want. Okay And when god judges you as being those who will not inherit the kingdom of god That's going to be the very opposite of peace. All right, so Again, this is why a pucy owns apology so-called apologetics is a terrible gospel It will never get you this fruit and that's why he constantly has to do these stupid videos like When how will I know if I've kept my salvation? How will I know if you know how many sins before I lose my salvation because everybody who's stupid enough to listen to him Is never going to find peace. They're constantly going to be scrambling around trying to get this peace and never quite getting there Because they've constantly got this problem the flesh. Okay, they're constantly trying to obey the law But the law is something that applies to the flesh. Okay, those that are in the spirit are not under the law Now that we're under the spirit now that we've got that out of the way believe on the lord get saved Well now let's talk about walking in the spirit. You see walking in the spirit It's something for people that are saved. It's not a step to get saved. So don't reverse the order. Yes, let's walk in the spirit Yes, let's get some of this love. Yes. Let's get some of this joy. Let's get some of this peace. But your works are To get those things it's to get that fruit It's not to be saved. Okay being saved is by grace through faith case closed It's not by works and there's no such thing as new testament works versus old testament works or some Stupid stuff like that because most of these things are old testament laws. That's a lot of what christ preached That's what loving your neighbor involves. It involves doing some things that are in the law But we're not under the law But nevertheless as long as we love our neighbor then we shall fulfill the law. Okay, if we walk in the spirit We won't fulfill these losts. Okay This really isn't that complicated folks. Okay, and all all we're trying to do here All we're trying to explain to you in free grace theologies That it is good to do these works and it's good to get some of this fruit of the spirit. This is good stuff But not to be saved. You are not going to enter into the kingdom of god because you do those things. Okay Doing those things is for people who are already in the kingdom of god. All right If we live in the spirit, right, do you live in the spirit? Yes. No, right. Okay. Yes, you live in the spirit You've been born again. Right. Let's walk in the spirit then let's get some work done. Okay That's why Ephesians explains after he already explains that it's by grace through faith and not of not of yourselves not of works God has ordained us on two good works because you have to get saved by the faith without the works The grace of the faith without works to then go and do those works to be ordained in those works And here's the problem with Epi Eusion They take this stuff that's the life of the christian and they put they put the cart before the horse as the saying goes Okay, and that's why this repent of your sins gospel to be saved doesn't work You've got to first believe when you first believe then we can deal with turning from your sins. Okay And that's something that I've explained in my repentance for salvation video So moving on to Galatians 6 then so obviously the chapters Didn't exist when paul wrote this letter. So it really just carries on going from 26 that there's no new thing here So following on from what he's just said Brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault. So what do we do to such a man to whom this happens? Well, you which are spiritual so we we can take spiritual as to be those who are Better at walking in the spirit those who are who have these rooms of the spirit because they're doing the walk Well, then you who are more spiritual than the man who is overtaken with these faults and by fault We presumably mean these sort of fleshly sins up here He doesn't say restore his salvation Help him to get his eternal life back make him repent of all of his sins so we can be saved all over again It doesn't say anything like that But he just says restore such and want in the spirit of meeting us. Well, well restore him on to what? Well, he doesn't say exactly But if we just take the context of this verse It's restore him out of this fault that is overtaken him. Okay, that's the restoration get him out of that fault If he's got a problem where he's doing is let's say he's got a problem with drunkenness Well, you are spiritual and not struggling with drunkenness restore him back on to soberness. Okay That that's all the context that we've got to work with nothing about losing salvation He says bear one another's burdens. And again, this is like the love thy neighbor thing So doing fulfill the law now Again, a pucio in his videos about galatians try to trick you into thinking that like The law of christ is like separate from the old testament law So, you know, these are the works that we've got to be doing to be saved But once again, we've already we've already put so many holes in that because a lot of what christ tells you to do Is old testament law anyway? And it says you have the bible said you have liberty. Okay Paul already explained this early that you're under liberty. You're not under old testament law Well obeying the law is hard. That's why it's called works. Okay, because because of the flesh wants to do these things above That's why it's hard to do works. That's why it's hard to obey the law Well, you can't really then say that we're at liberty if we're set free from that law But then there's this other law that applies and you've got to be sacrificing yourself every single day And you've got to endure all the persecution to the bitter end And if you don't make it to the bitter end, you're not saved Well, you can't say that we're under liberty then that's not liberty. That's still being under a law and it's a hard law That's hard works. Okay So that again that just completely falls apart and if you were to say well, we're not under the law But we're under the law of christ. Well, the problem is that the bible doesn't strictly define exactly what the law of christ is But if we're going on the context that we've had so far in Galatians Well, then logically the only thing that the law of christ can be is liberty. Okay, so Salvation entering to the kingdom of heaven. It's liberty. It's rest. It's simply believe It's by grace through faith not of works But as christians we walk in the spirit and so we fulfill All these laws anyway because now the spirit helps us to do those things You see the flesh without the spirit doesn't have any help the spirit gives us that help. Okay And again, it's the spirit that's being born again Your flesh will not inherit the kingdom of heaven your flesh has been crucified. He said earlier Your flesh is still dead. You are still a dead man dying in your flesh It's the spirit that's going to be saved. That's the aspect of you that's actually born again Okay, this is what paul's trying to explain and he also explains it in romans as well And you know what? Let let me ask you this Hypothetical question. Okay. Now. I'm using more of a man-made argument here. I accept that but Just think about this just just use some ounce of just common sense and just logic for one miserable day Okay, I mean that's the people who listen to this guy Who do you think? loves god more because if we have to love god to be saved Well, well who got loves god more? The person who does all these works in the hope that he's going to get something out of it and hope that he's going to Go to heaven because he does those things Or the guy that's going to heaven for free even if he sits back and does nothing But goes and does those works anyway. Okay, because epi-eusion wants to bang on about are you doing all these things? Are you walking in the spirit? Are you obeying all of these and have you turned from all of your sins? You know, you're not going to make it to heaven. Well, guess what even if I didn't even if I did nothing for god I'd still be going to heaven because it's a free gift But guess what there's loads of people who believe in faith alone and one saved always saved who were doing that anyway So who loves god more the person who's trying to get something out of god for doing it? Or the person who does it over and above what he actually needs to do because we don't need to do those things you see When epi-eusion goes out evangelizing He we saw an example of where he's just screaming in a field with hardly anybody in it Okay Getting nobody saved because it's just repent of your sins which has no power at all But you see there are independent fundamental Baptists out there and people like that who are actually knocking on doors Speaking to people one on one having a meaningful conversation and their faith alone And they're one saved always saved and yet look at them giving up their saturday To go and do that while everyone else is just staying in bed or watching the football or whatever and doesn't want to talk to them Because they're so busy watching the football So they don't even need to do those things They could sit on their backside at home doing nothing for god and still get in and yet there they are Going out and do though doing those things Why because they're the people that love the lord their god and they're the people that love their neighbor Because they're doing work that they don't even have to do and yet there they are doing it So just logically speaking Who loves god more the person who repents of all of his sins to get into heaven love god more Or does the person who doesn't have to repent of his sins at all to get into heaven and yet still repent of his sins anyway Again, who loves god more might then ask the question. Well, well, what about rewards? Isn't that something that you're trying to get out of it? Well, to be honest nobody that I know It constantly bangs on about that. It's not really part of our Everyday conversation. It's not really something that we think about So when I'm out soul winning with my buddy James Nelson, we're not really thinking about what rewards we're going to get We're thinking about the soul of the person who we're going to preach to that's what we're really concerned with But even so it doesn't change the fact that heaven itself is still a free gift And if we sat on our butts doing nothing we'd still be going So it still work over and above what we have to do to be saved And so yeah, we acknowledge that there is a thing about works But then the thing is as well if I'm struggling with sin every mistake I make and every fault I'm in Is still counting against me on those rewards. So if we are concerned about the rewards, we'd still be repenting vass in any way So, you know He's got to try and trick you with these arguments. Don't let him deceive you. Don't let him walk circles around you Okay, don't let him get away with it But to wrap up Galatians 6 and really bring it to a close Is uh this bit verse 7 and 7 to 9 in Galatians 6 and so this is where He's going to say that these these things these these works that we must be doing To reap eternal life and by that he means you Earning because that's what that's what reaping is. It's it's bringing in the the things that you've been growing or working In the farming context, you will work that eternal life Okay, you will you will bring that in for yourself your eternal life If you do that those things and he's using this passage. So if you You know don't saute your flesh do saute your spirit. Do good. Don't give up, etc So that that's what he's arguing here about uh a minute and a half up to about three minutes in okay Now in his works of the law Uh video he essentially he argues from the the same passage Galatians 6 So he's saying that well, you can only reap eternal life and again He means that you will earn your salvation If you don't give up so you you keep on fighting with the works of the spirit there Otherwise, uh, you know, you won't earn that that salvation so He then sort of asks a hypothetical and he addresses it so Christians will have confronted him and said well if somebody Isn't saved and they gave up and they uh, they they're not saved it's because they were never saved to begin with and so then he has to address that because um, he he's arguing that how how can a person So to the spirit quote one quote So like let's just get that back up there. How can a person so to the spirit If he's not saved and so that that's the question that will just briefly answer as well And later in his works of the law video about six minutes 20 And this is where he says if you sow to the flesh or or what he equates with walking in sin Then you will die But if you if you sow to the spirit then you will live and of course what what he's he's now paraphrasing He's not quoting exactly what Galatians 6 actually says. He's now paraphrasing it And he's making about well if you sow to the flesh aka walking sin You will die and go to hell. That's what that's the substance of what he's saying there Because that that would be the opposite of eternal life, which is what what the spirit reaps. Okay So we're going to look at that because how he's framing it again Is problematic with the words that paul actually uses And again further towards well towards the end of this video He then says what what paul is arguing here in galatians that these works of obedience What he's saying is instead of obeying the old testament law We now have a new law or the law of love as he's calling it or the law of christ And so That paul's telling us we need to obey this new testament law the law of christ to love your neighbors yourself You have to be doing that work But again, it just shows how he completely butchers the bible because instead of just reading it like a normal letter He's going like that everywhere Because we've already looked at these verses. Okay When paul mentioned the law of christ That's in chapter six. He hasn't mentioned it until then it's in chapter six that he mentions the the law of christ. Okay As for the old testament law, if you're going to say that this new law the law of love this new testament law Love your neighbor of yourself. Well, again, we were already looking at galatians five. He says He says that you're not under the law. He's already pointed that out in galatians five You have been called on to liberty However, even though you're not under the law, you've been called on to liberty Don't use the liberty for an occasion of the flesh But love and serve one another. Well, why because all the law is fulfilled in one word that you shall love your neighbor as yourself Well, again, that's an old testament law. It's not a new testament law It was there in the old testament and he says the law is fulfilled Well, what law the law of love the law of christ No, because he hasn't mentioned the law of christ yet until we get to chapter six He's the context of this conversation because we're dealing with circumcision is old testament law So you're not under old testament law, but nevertheless if you love one another you will fulfill that law Okay, that's what paul's arguing here. And so it just shows how he's just mixing everything up and just making it So confusing that you can't just read this like a normal letter. Okay So before we actually study galatians six closely then let let's just answer His question real brief. Okay. How can somebody So to the spirit But then uh, if they if they then give up that they were never saved How did they so to the spirit if they were never saved to begin with? Okay, that that's that's what he's arguing about Because again, he believes in conditional security. So he's trying to frame it out Well, if you can so to the spirit, but then you can give up and lose your salvation You must have still been sowing to the spirit. Otherwise Galatians six doesn't make sense So he's arguing that they must have been saved if they were sowing to the spirit. Otherwise How did they so to the spirit? Okay Well, the way that he's trying to frame that question or even answer that question Doesn't even make any sense because we have absolutes here that there's two camps of people He that sows to his flesh shall have his flesh reap corruption He that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. Okay, so whoever that is He that sows he shall reap. So that that's an absolute Okay, that that shall happen. It shall happen So if he then says let us not be wearing well doing for induced season We shall reap if we faint not that means we shall only reap if we faint not and again I'm just I'm just explaining this under a par about a paradigm where this even means what he was talking about. Okay So the simple answer is if somebody's not saved, how can they so to the spirit? Well, They can't because if they so to the spirit They should reap life everlasting But if they give up and it turns out they're not saving and they don't reap life everlasting Well, how can they so to the spirit they can't they didn't because if they did they would have reaped life everlasting But because they didn't they didn't reap life everlasting Therefore they didn't so into the spirit because as we've already explained earlier in this refutation Salvation is yes or no. You are not slightly saved a bit more save maybe be you're either saved or you're not saved Okay, it's really one or the other He's trying to read this as a progressive journey When salvation is just really yes or no. Okay, there is no progression You're either saved or you're not saved and it and paul's just putting us in two camps here There's those that so to the flesh and there's those that so to the spirit The idea of someone sewing to the spirit and sewing and sewing so it just dropped off because he stopped That's not offered by this passage here. There's just there's just nothing to go on He's just adding his own conjecture And even under the conditional security model it still doesn't work even under their model. Let me just explain to you why So let's again the concept of sewing and reaping. Okay, so this is a nice little chart for those of you that are quite visual So on the vertical axis we have sewing and reaping the more you sew the more you reap upwards We then have time time is moving along from now until the future Now above the line eternal life below the line damnation. Okay So think of just again think about how stupid this is. Okay, so we've got we've got a man Okay, and he he starts sewing to the spirit. Okay He's sewing to the spirit He's sewing to the spirit So he's sewing and he's sewing and he's reaping and he's reaping and he's reaping And then for some reason he does something here that Epiucion would say caused him to lose his salvation So he goes and he goes and he goes all the way down here because he didn't he's now lost his salvation He's not going to reap eternal life Well, all of this sewing that he did here. It doesn't matter how much he sewed It doesn't matter how much he reaped he did not reap eternal life So even under their model it doesn't work because all of this sewing and reaping It doesn't matter whether he sewed a little bit. It doesn't matter whether he sewed more It doesn't matter whether he sewed more than any other man on the planet If he lost his salvation He sewed nothing because he didn't reap this eternal life now the bible Paul said if he shall sew to the spirit Yeah, he shall reap life everlasting. That's what Paul said if we don't give up Well, this guy gives up. Well, Epiucion would say lost his salvation So then he has to go here Well, he didn't sew to the spirit then because then any sewing he did was pointless anyway He couldn't sew to the spirit So again, even in conditional security this completely falls apart And so it just shows why eternal security was already correct because none of this matters anything It doesn't matter Nothing happened. He didn't sew to the spirit. Okay, and this is all assuming that that's even what Paul's talking about in this passage Which he isn't so that was very easily debunked. That wasn't even difficult so Once again as we've seen multiple times now his explanations make absolutely no sense whatsoever They just don't even fit with what Paul's even describing here But let's now look at the verses and let's look a bit closer That what Paul's saying and let's actually take it in the context of what we've been reading up to now in Galatians But let's just bring up to speed where we were so we were just finishing off Galatians 5 then starting Galatians 6 So Paul's already explained you're not under the law Okay, you're under liberty But don't use your liberties an occasion for the flesh because if you love your neighbor You shall fulfill the law anyway, but you're not under that law. Okay, that's what Paul's been Arguing up until this point and so then he's going to you know encourage the brethren to restore one another If one's overtaken in a fault bear one another's burdens We saw that the law of christ really that there's not really a lot explained as to what Paul means by that But if it meant all testament law, well, we're not under the law as far as salvation is concerned anyway And if you're saying it's a new testament thing, well, we're under liberty now Okay, we're not under a condemn condemning law Otherwise, you can't really say that we're under liberty and this there's not really any Reason to replace the old testament law even that would be pointless So that that's what we've been reading leading up to getting on the next verses in Galatians 6 So Paul did kind of move the conversation on a little bit because he's now saying you know bear one another's burdens You know love one another and so he then goes and say let every man prove his own work Now he's already explained, you know the works of the law. They're not a part of salvation So Where you know every man proves own work every man shall bear his own burden He shall rejoice in himself alone and not in another so this is not about bragging to be saved or anything like that But you know, you're under the spirit. Well, let's love one another every man prove his own work. Okay And so on So then he goes on to say be not deceived and again, this is the key bit that we've got to deal with for Because of Epi Eusion's false teaching here that God is not mocked for whatsoever a man sows That shall he also reap okay So he that sows to his flesh shall of his flesh reap corruption Okay He that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting And so there's there's a few things it is quite a tricky couple of verses when you first look at it Because if you just take those verses on their own like he did It does make it look like you know There's some work involved because you've got to sow to the spirit is induce some work To reap this life everlasting business Okay, but but to read it that way you'd a have to kind of ignore the overall context of the conversation that Paul's been having with them up to now And b you'd also have to just ignore other parts of the bible as well And make Paul sound like a crazy person who just contradicts himself left right and center So let's let's try and look at this with a bit of scope. Okay, so that we don't get things wrong here So what do we know from other writings of Paul? Well, we know from Ephesians that salvation is a gift Ephesians 2 8 9 we know from Romans that righteousness is a free gift So if salvation if righteousness is a free gift, okay the gift of god is life everlasting You can't then work Sorry, sorry. It's flipping out on me just a moment. You can't then sow and reap like work Okay for something that's a free gift All right that that doesn't work It just doesn't you can't work for a free gift that that falls apart immediately So you can't even take that verse to mean that because if it did it would contradict the bible Your salvation your eternal life your righteousness is a free gift case closed So it can't mean that otherwise Paul contradicted himself Here's another problem Epi you see and we'll say that where it says shall of the flesh reap corruption That means go to hell and shall of the spirit reap life everlasting that means go to heaven Well, again, we've got another problem here because you're putting words in Paul's mouth like hell that Paul didn't say If this is so serious, okay If sowing to your flesh can cause you to lose salvation and take you to hell Paul needs to use more clear language Than an ambiguous statement like shall of the flesh reap corruption because there's a number of different things that could even mean Okay, so again, you're accusing paul of using fluffy vague language for something that we really better be right about We really need clear teaching on this. Okay So, you know, believe it on it I can't even actually find in the concord is where paul even mentioned the word hell directly So don't don't put words in paul's mouth that he never actually said. Okay Next thing to point out so earlier when we were looking at his proof text from galatians 5 about losing your salvation We saw that the letter was more addressed to Um, the people that he's writing towards directly. So you were the churches at galatia. You plural this that and the other Well, now he's using slightly different language because now he's saying things like for He that sows to the spirit shall of You know to his flesh he that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting So we're now using more Individualized language Okay And it's not even saying if you do these things then this shall happen And if you do these things that shall happen like all of the churches at galatia will either go one way or the other This is just about for he whoever he is because you know, this is a this is an indirect pronoun So he whether it's him or it's him over there or it's him down there Whoever he is And we've got two camps of people. So we've got he that sows to his flesh And we've got he that sows to his spirit. Okay And then he goes on to say Uh for induces and we collectively shall reap if we faint not so, you know if we keep going and so This is not about you personally if it doesn't say if he keeps going in he will faint not. Okay This is just we the churches at galatia all of us who are the brethren Let us not be weary and well doing because in due season We faint not so There it's individualized in verse eight whereas in verse nine It's more collective and and this is the stuff that people like epi use it. They just completely ignore this You know, they take that he and they make that the same thing as we Will see you've got to sort of the spirit and then you've got to not give up. Okay But that's not what Paul said. He said if we don't don't faint, you know, we will reap. Okay, we collectively So there's a collective reaping going on here Okay, and there's a collective we must not faint. Let's keep fighting together Let's keep battling this thing together. What whatever it happens to be We keep going. We don't give up. Let us collectively not be weary and well doing and we collectively shall reap Okay, it's not he personally shall reap if he personally does not give up That's not what Paul said And again, don't put words in his mouth that he didn't freaking say because it gets on me nerves when people do that So with the he then let's deal with the individualized We've got two camps of people. There's just two types of people The idea of a third person that was sowing in the spirit and then suddenly starts Sowing in the flesh is not offered here. Okay, we've got two types of people And you'll find that this pattern actually comes up quite often Across the bible like in the gospel of john We've got he who believes and is not condemned and he who believes not is condemned already The idea if someone who believes and then stops believing is just not offered by that passage You know, you've got him who abides and him who doesn't abide you've really often got two camps of people So to make someone who was in this camp and that camp We really need a third type of person and that third type of person is missing from a lot of their go to passages Okay, so we've got he that sows to his flesh. That's type one of the person Okay, and we've got he that sows to the spirit and that's type two of a person. Okay There is so we've just got two types of people There is no criss-crossing going on here that there's just not no text to go And if you want to say there's criss-crossing going on here We've just got him who's going that way and him who's going that way. He's sowing to the flesh He's over there sowing to the spirit. Okay, and we will not we better faint No, we will reap all if we faint. No, okay So the we there presumably being the people who are walking in the spirit because that's what he's telling them to do now then What has paul been explaining in Galatians 5 he warned them about Circumcision. Okay, and how did he introduce his Book he introduced it about people those among you that were troubling you bringing in these false gospels That's what he was warning them about so there's these false gospels And at that time at least in Galatia it predominantly revolved around the circumcision issue. Okay And those who are in the circumcision camp their flesh will profit them nothing that was paul's argument And just in case you've forgotten about that. Well, I think he's talking about something else now Well, then he reminds you in these later verses just in case you forgot about it. Okay That many desire to make a fair show in the flesh. They constrain you to be circumcised. Okay And they want to glory in your flesh. Okay, and they want to keep the law which were not under the law So again, this is the bit that epium doesn't want you to look at this is the bit. He doesn't point out to you Okay, so those that are in the flesh according to the Galatians narrative It's not well the Christian who was walking in the spirit and then started spinning That's not going on here at all. Okay. Those who are in the flesh are the circumcision group Okay, that's who they are. All right And so to the something to the spirit is what we are supposed to be and that's why once we get to verse nine It goes on to the we instead of the he. Okay Those of us that are walking in the spirit Collectively not individual person that we need to faint. No. Okay, so This does not teach that you can lose your salvation. You've got nothing to go on here You are completely butchering what paul is talking about if you make it say that that's not what he said Okay. Now, let's pick up on the issue of what he actually reaps. Okay First say he that sows to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption Okay, and he that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting So again, he that's in that camp he reaps from the flesh he that reaps that camp he reaps from the spirit Okay, the idea that again, there's some criss-crossing going on here. It's just not offered at all by this verse Now if you're gonna if you were gonna teach that He that uh, reaps to the flesh shall of the flesh shall go to hell. Sorry shall lose his salvation Well, then this statement doesn't make sense of the flesh because now it's your soul that's reaping corruption Okay, not the flesh now If this were talking about a believer So if there was a danger of a believer sewing to the flesh by doing the works of the flesh That he previously explained like fornication adultery this that and the other Well, then it wouldn't be obvious flesh It would his spirit would be reaping corruption because he would be losing his salvation and going to hell But it's the flesh that reaps corruption Well much earlier in this refutation We dealt with what happens to believers that sinned they suffered in the flesh David his child died Abraham. He never saw his son again presumably or very little of him from that point Saul died by falling on his own sword. Okay. We saw examples of people's flesh That that was corrupt now Jesus Christ his flesh shall not seek corruption as it was prophesied Heroes again three days later his flesh didn't even seek corruption But that only applies to him. It doesn't apply to anybody else and your flesh here is still dying anyway Okay, you have not been born into some new fleshly body that's powered by the spirit now You're still in flesh and blood and that's dying It's a future resurrection that we hope for which Paul explained in plenty of other places. Okay So that doesn't even make sense that you can take that to mean you will go to hell when it's the flesh that reaps corruption Okay Now if we actually understand it in its proper context that those who are of the flesh were the circumcision group Well, what did Paul say about these people? Well, he said they They were trying to bring you under the works of the law. Okay, that's what they were trying to do The works of the law circumcision is just one of the works of the law if you're going to be circumcised Well, you're a debtor to the whole law So you can't just say well, we still have to love our neighbor though because then you still are debtor to the whole law However, we spin this So he said that they want you to follow the works of law and what else did he say about them? Well, they introduced his letter to the Galatians Saying that there be some that trouble you And they were bringing in a different gospel or a false gospel. Okay So those that reap corruption of the flesh their flesh is reaping works of the law salvation It's reaping circumcision to be saved. It's reaping false gospels. Okay, that can get nobody saved They preach a false gospel a false gospel is getting nobody to heaven So that's why they reap corruption because their gospel is of the flesh. It's not it's not of the spirit Okay Now then that's them dealt with what about the spirit people? He that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting So that you can just take that to be the opposite of the other people the people that were sowing to the flesh Well, they had their false gospel. They had their circumcision gospel. They had their works of the law gospel So those that reap to the spirit shall reap life everlasting. That's that's the opposite gospel. Okay That's the opposite to to what they're all doing. Okay Now we've already explained salvation as a free gift You can't make this about earning your own salvation when it's a free gift. Jesus gives freely So what is it that he sows? And what is it that he reaps? Bear in mind we start off with he that sows to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Let us not be weary and well-doing for it says we shall reap if we faint not. Okay So what is sowing in terms of if we're presumably dealing with the false gospels and the right gospels What is the sowing that goes on? Okay. Well, this is this is not really explained here There are all the passages sort of parallel passages that you could use to explain this Okay, so let's let's have a look at some stuff that Jesus said So one passage that comes to mind is the parable of the sower. Okay. Jesus uses a similar concept There's there's the sowing there. Okay So people you give this parable a sower went out when he sowed his seed and the seed fell In various different places now to some seed that sprouted believers So others it sprouted false believers or just people who Temporarily and then it would choked up. So, you know different kind of seed falls in different places And in some parts it's fruitful in other parts. It's not fruitful So when it falls on good ground, it's fruitful when it doesn't fall on good ground Something else happens to it and it doesn't bring forth fruit. Okay He then has to explain his disciples what he means by this parable So he says the seed is the word of God. Okay, that's what's being sown. That's what's being planted Okay, you sow the seed of the word of God here. Let me show you what the bible says about this life everlasting business You know, do you believe you would go to heaven? Well, let me show you what the bible says the word of god Okay, the word of god brings life. Okay And so a lot of seed falls in various places And uh, in some cases it's not fruitful So for some the word of god falls by the wayside the devil gets them Lest they should believe and be safe So there's some seed where unfortunately they're not going to believe and be saved Because the the seed that you planted that that sowing that you did it just falls by the wayside It didn't fall in the right place. Okay, not necessarily the sower's fault, but that's just where it ended up There's some that will receive the word of Word with joy and they will for a while believe and in time of temptation fall away And of course that's one he's going to take as you can lose your salvation But we already dealt with that in john chapter six that they from the jesus knew from the beginning They believe no so again, you'll you'll see some temporary results where it looked like your sowing actually reaps something But then it turned out it never did. Okay, you just ended up with a plant that you thought would grow for it when it did That's just how it is There's some that uh fell among the thorns and they were just choked by the things of this world So again, you've thrown your seed you've done your sowing But some seed that you threw just fell on thorns. Okay, it didn't reap anything But then some of the seed so at least a quarter of the seed that you've thrown falls on good ground Okay, which in an honest and good halving heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit with patience And it's bring forth fruit. That's that's not talking about work there because that's outside of the concept of what he's talking about here But you you've planted the seeds in somebody you've given them the word of god. They've believed they've got saved There's the fruit. Okay. Now. There's actually another passage where jesus talks about once again a very similar concept of sowing and reaping Okay for the purpose of life everlasting because that's what Galatians said remember he said we he shall of the spirit reap life everlasting That's what he's going to gather in from the sowing that he's doing. Okay Well, we've seen look chapter eight that that will be if he sow seed on the good ground he's going to reap that Okay, it's getting other people say it's not getting himself saved because he was saved by the free gift Who so ever believe it? So let's look at the parallel passage. Here's another one. John 4 Jesus talks about from verse 34 and was my meat is to do the will of him that sent me in to finish the work Now he was giving the gospel to the Samaritan woman at the well It is giving the gospel to other Samaritans in this chapter So there are yet four months and then comes harvest behold I say unto you lift up your eyes and look out on the field They are white already to harvest these Samaritans they sit it out there It's ready to harvest the harvest is there folks And so again, we've got this concept of reaping however Jesus says something slightly different here. This is interesting He says he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit on to life eternal Well, what's the context is not making his own life eternal It's getting other people say these Samaritans that Jesus is going to reach out to Both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. Okay. Well, you sowed you reaped But let's rejoice together. Okay collectively rejoicing And herein is that same true one sows and another reaps Now Paul was saying he that so shall reap whereas Jesus is saying well that one sows and another one reaps. Okay So there you're even reaping where you've bestowed no labor even So let's then bring that what we've learned about Jesus's words there going out into the field getting those Samaritans saved reaping. Okay. What another man has sown Let's bring this into Well, Paul said he that sows to the spirit Shall reap life everlasting. Well, what's the reaping getting other people saved with the right gospel not the false gospel of works of the law Not the false gospel of circumcision. That's what Paul called another gospel. Okay It's the faith the household of faith. He goes on to say the faith. Okay So let us not be wearing well doing because we shall reap if we faint not so You know, it's very easy if you're one that you feel like you're sowing to the spirit and you're not reaping personally You know what someone else might be reaping from the work you've done. You might have sown the seed Someone else reaps. So a lot of my evangelism is really kind of hit it and quit it We just that we turn up to a door Show them the gospel and then we leave and we'll probably never see them again But I don't know what's going on later in that person's life. I don't know if he found a church of true believers I don't know if he may have not even got saved at the door, but he gets saved later Okay, and and then he may be fellowships with somebody else and I'll never never know that that happened But I sowed though, but somebody else reaps. So it doesn't matter that we don't reap our own sowing Okay, what matters is that we together reap and so we faint not we all keep on going and he said earlier Let every man prove his own work and then he shall have rejoicing in himself alone And not in another so you can't just keep doing this reaping and then you rejoice in what somebody else has done Let him rejoice in his own work. He did the sowing and you can have the reaping and you can rejoice in your reaping. Okay So all of this makes absolute perfect sense It's got nothing to do with whatever you see owns talking about and even if you actually follow it through It proves him wrong. Okay. So there you go. That's what Galatians is actually teaching you So he that sows to the spirit shall reap life everlasting You know what he that's actually saved he that sows to the spirit He can now get other people saved whereas he that sows to the flesh with his another gospel He's not going to get anybody saved. He just reaps corruption from the flesh. Okay, that's what buddhism reaps That's what catholicism reaps. It just reaps corruption. It just makes false believers. Okay, they don't get born again So that's pretty much Galatians in a nutshell for you. So I'll just move on to another passage, I guess