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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Galatians 6:12 http://www.dailybiblestudy.org
12 As many as [hosos] desire [thelo] to make a fair shew [euprosopeo] in [en] the flesh [sarx], they [houtos] constrain [anagkazo] you [humas] to be circumcised [peritemno]; only [monon] lest [hina me] they should suffer persecution [dioko] for the cross [stauros] of Christ [Christos]. KJV-Interlinear
12 Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. NASB
There are many believers in Christ, who do not pursue their spiritual life in the proper way, and they end up as spiritual losers in life. Works and faith are mutually exclusive and cannot be combined. Trying to observe works while at the same time promoting faith, is playing both sides of the fence and is a false pursuit. Trying to avoid criticism and to please everyone, too, is an almost hopeless and impossible pursuit. And as Paul states here, those who promote works, and herein using circumcision as the example, do so only to avoid criticism or persecution from their peers. They do not engage in a daily study, and therefore they do not learn the proper attributes of the Christian life. With that failure to learn and failure to understand, many believers pursue false ideas. And any idea or belief that is not legitimate, amounts to works. All works are false when it comes to the spiritual life. In this example, the Jewish leadership tried to make circumcision a requirement of salvation. And as stated here, they did so in order to avoid ostracism from their Jewish peers. Therefore they promoted faith on the one hand, but only when combined with circumcision in order to make salvation complete. And that idea is a false idea. They were Christians and Jewish, therefore the phrase, for the sake of Christ. But their fear was not of God, but of other Jews who were locked on to the idea of circumcision as being a mandatory component of salvation. No one can be saved by means of works. No one can be saved by means of any overt thing that they do. Likewise, no one can advance in their spiritual life by means of their own works design, which basically means they reject Gods mandate to study, while believing that they are not required to follow Gods mandates, that they have their own way of doing things. This too, is a cheap attempt to get out of obeying Gods commands, by making their own beliefs more important than Gods process for learning and growing. While the Jews of old tried to comply with peer pressure, in order to escape criticism, so too, people even in our current day, try to seem spiritual, but in reality do nothing more than say the right things in an effort to impress people rather than God. But too, pursuing works is also an attempt to avoid or get out of ones spiritual obligations, by simply deciding that they are unnecessary. Ignorant people can easily fool ignorant people with their false fronts of spirituality. Wise people, on the other hand, are not fooled by others, because they are not impressed by what others say or do. They are impressed with the doctrine within their own soul, which is what really matters. Works and faith do not go hand in hand. To pursue one means that you reject the other. The spiritual life functions in a specific way and you cannot define your own way of growing up in the spiritual life. Neither can you blend together works with faith and have a good result. You cannot do a wrong thing in a wrong way, for it is wrong. A wrong thing done in a right way is likewise wrong. A right thing done in a wrong way is also wrong. You must do a right thing in a right way in order for it to be right.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
