YHWH or self two different fruits but you can only have one: Galatians part 8

Galatians 5:13-26

 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Yeshua has freed us by faith from the old man from Adam and made us a new man by faith with the same liberty to live for YHWH that He has for we are one with Messiah through His Spirit; and If we are one with the Son then we are one with the Father. Why then does Paul warn us about the flesh and what does this warning mean.

The scripture witnesses to two men who found they lived in this liberty of a oneness with the life of YHWH, and both these men were tempted by the flesh in as much as they were tempted to act in the interest of the self.

The first of these two men was named Adam. He was the first man and though formed of earth his life was the breath of YHWH shared (breathed) into him. It was not robbery if Adam said he and his father where one but Adam was also a creation for YHWH had formed Him in flesh and a son is subject to his father. The temptation that came to this first son of YHWH was to be a self; despising that his Father had shared all of Him and held nothing back from him. He instead desired to be his own source of living.

When he threw off his freedom of his father’s life in him he discovered too late that the creation is dead without the creator. When Adam became a self he was cut off and held no more life than we see in a stone.  It was in this condition that the father after the flesh of us all brought forth sons and daughters. In them was the darkness of the self-willed desires. YHWH would come to those in this darkness who by foreknowledge were known to desire what they did not know existed His life. In the existence inherent from Adam we are all a self and as such we are alone. No one knows the true us and we do not know anyone except by what they let us see.

The second man born into the liberty of oneness with YHWH was formed of flesh in a young maid’s womb. Through some linguistic gymnastics most of the world has come to know His name as Jesus; I often use Yeshua because it is closer to His name (after two thousand years languages change so who can be sure) and its meaning reflects His life. He knows if you are speaking to him; regardless of pronunciation. This second Adam was born and raised among a people who YHWH had prepared by speaking to them His words and promises and when He came of age to become a minister of YHWH unto all men, the liberty of oneness with YHWH’s life was tested in Him also.

We see Yeshua tempted in three distinct ways which show us that He was fully tempted body (hunger), soul (recognition of who He was from men),and spirit(purpose for which He was born). With each of these temptations we see Him drawn to trust in the self to bring about that which is His life. Yeshua answers each temptation with faith in YHWH’s life for His providence.

, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

If we use our deliverance from bondage as a way to provide anything for the self we will go in the way Adam went before us the result will be death of self once more this death brings forth the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness(joining oneself to the death of the world), lasciviousness(lust for things of this world), Idolatry(to submit to anything other than YHWH inorder to receive from it), witchcraft(to manipulate others with words ), hatred, variance, emulations(trying to be equal to or surpass another), wrath, strife, seditions(stirring up a rebellion), heresies(separating one from another), Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Our great defense is to love, not as men love which is for the benefit of them whether from the one “loved” or others, but as a selfless love which is generated by YHWH’s life in us. This love never considers the need of the self but instead only seeks for that which can be to the benefit and good of others. This love is entwined with the life of YHWH so that to walk in one is to walk in the other. To say you have love and no need of His life is a lie, and again to say you have his life but not this love is also a lie.

As a side note YHWH does not want you to hate you; He desires that the self dies in Messiahs cross that you would be one with Him.

 

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

This is a two way door if you place your trust in your flesh to bring life you will not be able to do what the Spirit desires for you, but if your trust is in the Spirit to be your life then the self will find no place in you.

Being under the law is about trying to perform the things described in the law and is dependent upon the self; who’s  fruit can only produce the works of the flesh.

Paul has said our faith works by love in 5: 6 then said if we by love serve one another we will fulfill the law in 5: 14 if we walk in the Spirit (the trust dependence and expectation of YHWH’s life in us) we are not trying to perform the law but are transformed by love into that which the law describes.

. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:7-10

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.  And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Brothers all of us have known what it is to try to have life by the self; it is the failure of the flesh to live that made us to cling to the offer of life from YHWH through His Messiah. If we are honest we will also admit to trying to bring that life promised to us to pass in our own way and time but as Paul points out Hagar is in bondage and can only produce bondage. The promise has its own life in need of nothing more than acceptance.

I have heard over the years legion of sermons on the fruit of the Spirit, they are legion because they are many but they are men’s teachings telling men how to attain fruit. The fruit of the land is not formed by men; in the same way the fruit of YHWH’s breath shared with us is not developed by us.  We may water and weed and plant all our days but only YHWH brings fruit to manifestation and only when we place all trust in Him will He give himself to us.

 If we were allowed to deceive ourselves that our actions brought His life we would be a self alone forever with no life in us. YHWH is purging the old leaven of self from us for if any self is left it will leaven the whole lump. So don’t hide any leaven of self in your heart  but freely give all to Him that He may purge you.

You are the garden of YHWH there is a fruit of the self and a fruit of Spirit within you if you have accepted Messiah. If you will approach this tree of life you will lose your life; for the sword of the word will pierce you and divide you asunder. This flaming sword will burn away the chaff of men’s ways but in your death you will find the tree of life and when you eat its seed you shall become that seed and that seed will produce fruit of Him.

YHWH's life is free: Galatians part 7

Galatians 5:1-6 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

Acts 16: 1-3 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.

 

Paul has used Hagar and Sarah as a representation of a believer’s heart. In the conception and birth of Ishmael we see Abraham and Sarah trying (with sincerity I am sure) to bring to manifestation that which YHWH has promised and in which Abraham has placed His faith. The conception and birth of Isaac was a good bit different.

The outer works of Abraham in both cases look the same; he goes in unto a woman in order that she would conceive what YHWH has promised Him.

 However if we look inside his heart we see in the first a faith that believes YHWH but depends on men expecting God to bless that which men work; for he knows his wife Sarah’s womb has been barren despite years of trying to conceive, he knows that Hagar is young enough to bear children, he knows YHWH’s promise cannot fail, and his own helpmate is counseling him that this is the way YHWH will bring His promise to pass.

Paul concludes that when men depend on the self in any way the seed sown is by a man in bondage to death and sin and can only bear fruit of that same bondage.

Now let us look at the heart when the same “work” is done by faith with Sarah. Sarah has passed menopause more than a decade before so no hope from there, He has no confidence in his own body to produce, the only reason he believes and expects a son to come from this union is the  promise of YHWH.

The conclusion of this is that when men try to perform the will of God all that can be produced from corrupt flesh is corruption; in this same manner when we put no confidence in any other reason than He said so that He would will and do in us, that it is no longer I but Christ in me, that the life we now live in our body we live by the power of the Spirit of God.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Take hold of the freedom to Life YHWH’s life in you by trusting in Him alone to give you life and be one with you. Never letting your faith (reliance, dependence, trust, and expectancy) be in self, or men, or the world system of men for if you do you will find yourself in bondage to corruption once again.

Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace

If we attempt to take this verse and use it against the scriptures to say that Paul has said if we obey the law then we have fallen from Jesus grace; we miss the point of what Paul is saying. Paul is not advocating disobedience to the law he is teaching the only way a man can come into obedience to it.

Paul is warning the Galatians that seeking to be justified by the law is impossible. For to be justified is to be made or declared as innocent the law can only do that if one has never sinned and never sins again.

Do we believe YHWH will lie for us because we tried hard and did pretty well? No he will not lie. Do we believe He is gives blessing on a bell curve; giving more to those who keep 70% compared to 50% and really pouring it on one who may keep 99%.

 Only one has ever been found to keep 100%. He was the way of the words of life, He is the truth of what the law described, and He is the life because His life was YHWH’s life. When we trust in that which He endured we receive his death and our old self is put to death; hidden in Him. We remain in Him and become partakers of His resurrection, receiving YHWH’s breath into us, sharing His life, no longer a self but one with Him, and all that are of that same faith.

So it is that Paul warns if you seek to attain to life by your own power to affect your actions what Messiah has done will have no effect for you.

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love

We of the faith of Messiah do not look to that which we inherited from Adam for whatever power our self had brought only corruption and it can have no power in faith as it is crucified in Messiah. Instead we expect the Spirit to live through us and we know that he lives a righteous life. For this reason whether a believer is circumcised as the Jews where or uncircumcised as the gentiles had no effect on the righteousness lived through us by the Spirit through our faith in Yeshua the messiah of YHWH.

YHWH said through Moses love YHWH your Elohim with ALL YOUR heart, soul, and might and these words shall be in your heart.

Messiah said I came to fulfill the law and again He said if you love YHWH with all you are and love your neighbor as yourself all the law will be fulfilled in you.

Paul adds that our faith works  by love.

Do we trust Him that he will do what He promised? Even the world knows you cannot have love without trust. Can we fall into him without trying to uphold ourselves trusting Him to be obedient in and through us.

Paul never abandons the law, He is probably the greatest commentator on the law among those who witness to Messiah, we see Him keeping feast and Sabbaths  and participating in temple worship,  He even still considers himself a Pharisee, unless He is a liar. The way in which He relates to it however is completely different. He sees the law as a description of the living word not as a way for men to obtain life.

This is the reason that Paul confuses many. For he comes strongly against doing the things in the law then says the law is holy and righteous then adds without righteousness you will not enter the kingdom of Heaven. These things all being true at the same time are because Messiah has set us free from the sin and death we received from Adam.

This “life” received by the flesh is of flesh and can only produce the works of the flesh. The life Yeshua gives us is by the Spirit it only comes by the Spirit and can only produce the fruit of the Spirit.

Is your life found in boundage or YHWH's promise?: Galatians part 6

Galatians 4:19-31 (KJV)

My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.  Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Paul after showing that we have become sons of YHWH by faith in Messiahs work, not by our observance of ceremony and ritual, goes on to remind the Galatians that when He delivered the gospel to them he came as a man needing the same salvation of faith in Messiah he was sharing with them. He reminds them of their love for him for the message that He and they had need to be crucified in Messiah that they might share in the same Spirit that raised Yeshua from the grave providing for both He and them to have life.

In an obvious contrast to Pauls message of equality of need answered by an equality of faith bringing an equality of life; these false teachers place themselves greater than the Galatians in living for YHWH by a greater knowledge of YHWH and that if followed they will teach them to become as them. In effect telling those who are disciples of the word of YHWH manifested in the flesh that to possess YHWH they must become disciples of men born after the flesh.

The law of Moses is not only the ten commandment or only the ordinances and statutes but it includes all that Moses has given from Genesis through Deuteronomy; for it is not a teaching of what men should do but who they should be.

So it is that Paul begins to show the difference between the first covenant between YHWH and those born of the seed from Adam and the second between YHWH and the Son born of His seed. Paul knowing all things in the law are a witness of Messiah brings out the lesson of Ishmael and Isaac.

Ishmael and Isaac are the fruit of what has taken place to form them; while one became a great nation in the earth he was cast out of the promise of the inheritance of those born from above of YHWH the other would in the earth (until that day) a remnant among the earth. But this small one among the nations would receive the words of life from YHWH given to men led by His breath until the seed was brought forth to be the word of YHWH manifested in flesh by whom men of every nation would be made to inherit the life of YHWH.

So Paul takes us back to the way in which these two sons came to be using allegory to show us that in which way we trust to bring forth life will determine which child is brought forth in our own lives.

Abraham is visited by YHWH in Genesis 15 and promised a seed from his own body shall inherate that which YHWH has blessed and promised him.

Abraham believes YHWHs promise, but Sarah and Abraham see no way that they can produce a child and perform YHWH’s promise so they inspire a plan to bring about that which YHWH has said will happen. The plan is that Sarah will give as a wife that which belongs to her, her servant Hagar. Who conceives when Abraham lays with her and brings forth a son from Abrahams own body just as YHWH has said.

The problem is YHWH’s ways and thoughts are not like the ways and thoughts of men; and no man (regardless of how close he may be to YHWH’s heart) gives council to YHWH. Those things that He has spoken He brings to pass; not by men’s might or their ability but by His Spirit. So YHWH comes to Abraham again and gives him the token of circumcision of the foreskin and tells Him that Sarah will conceive a son that shall be his heir. Showing Abraham and us that only when the flesh is removed can that which YHWH has promised be brought to manifestation.

How do these things being so show us what Paul is teaching about the difference between the covenant of given at Sinai and the one which is given from above in Messiah. The covenant of Sinai came with a promise that if we loved YHWH our Elohim with all our heart and soul and might that the words He spoke that day would be in our heart. As Sarah and Abraham heard and believed the promise but could not see that YHWH had to bring it to pass; so they proclaimed “we shall do all that YHWH has said”.

Every man born from the seed of Adam has been born in a bondage of sin and death it is bondage which depends on the self to generate life. So though they believed the promise; they thought to bring the life and righteousness described in the law to manifestation by the strength of self.

Paul uses this to show that those in bondage even if a faith comes into it cannot produce anything except bondage. The promise of YHWH is the work and glory of YHWH and until the flesh of the self is removed He will not manifest it for He shares His glory with no flesh.

For this reason our old man of flesh is removed in Messiahs crucifixion that our life may be of YHWH alone making us to be one with Him.

Paul concludes that we must cast out the child of the bondwoman born of the self-trying to take hold of the promises.  The life in us is of a promise that the life described by the law shall be our life if we place all trust and reliance and dependence on YHWH to manifest His life in us. Not by our generation but we are freely generated by YHWH.

Our battle of faith

This is an unusual blog post in that it was not intended as a blog but in a discussion today I dealt with this same verse ...our subject was if salvation replaced righteousness ...also as many of you know I published a book on amazon a short while back showing the armour is about the things we trust in Messiah to live through us...any way I felt an I should share the following...thank you for your love of our Father
When a Hebrew teacher speaks of having received righteousness or salvation(same thing your salvation is from bondage to sin so once freed you can be righteous) He is not speaking of a position of belief. That is the thinking of Greek philosophy which separates what is in the mind from what is in the body...To a Hebrew the actions seen in the living reflect what is in mind and heart...where does such a thinking come from the scripture. The conclusion of these things we are justified by faith placed in Messiah for by faith we reaped the result of our sinfulness in him stripes, bruising, chastisement, death. As He who knew no sin suffered the result of sin by faith he carried us in Him that our old man is crucified...in a liked manner He carried us to His resurrection and gave us the life of YHWH that was in Him so that we who knew no righteousness might become YHWH's righteousness....this is not a mental position of understanding but to something experienced in our entire being....these things being so why do we see failure... When that which we place our trust and reliance in is the self to live we see sin in our life when we trust Him to live in in and through us we see righteousness...the strongholds in our mind coming from a deceitful heart that says it trust him while trusting its own ways are torn down as Yeshua renews our mind ...for His righteousness is revealed in us from faith to faith...as we rely on Him He teaches us to rely more and more...as in baptism when you are placed in dirt the dead man seems to remain...some things even seem to grow...but as long as he remains dead he will become the dirt around him even if some more hardened(an example of lingering unbelief)parts cling for years there is no doubt it shall become that in which it is baptized...if we continue in faith in Messiah this is the result...our fight is a fight of faith...to rely depend and expect with all our heart all our might and all our soul...we are not fighting flesh and blood but spiritual wickedness(this is not fallen angels and imps but the false trust of Adam that He can be his own source of life) all trust in self and men and this world of men must be brought into captivity to Messiah within you...for we are not fighting men or supernatural host but that all of their lies and false ways would be cast away from us that we become the living word having only the life of YHWH in us one with Him...this is the mark of the prize of the high call of life in messiah Yeshua...

YHWH is our Father not our taskmaster: Galations part 5

Galatians 4: 1-10

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

 

7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

 

 Paul, after showing that Messiah is the seed and only by our living being hidden in Him can we hope to have part in His inheritance returns to His prior example of a child and schoolmaster.  

Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all

We must always keep in mind the difference between what is being said in scripture and its application. If we take an application of scripture and make it into a definition of what is being said then later it can cause confusion to our understanding of other things.

For example I once heard of a church built on a mountain road which had outgrown its building and parking. The church was backed up to the mountain and without cutting a space of the mountain out there was no way to expand. They looked into the cost of such a venture and found out it was far beyond their budget. Not knowing what should be done the elder called a prayer meeting asking all with “mountain moving faith” to attend. Shortly after this meeting the elder received a call from a building contractor who was in needed a large quantity of stone and wanted to know if they would be willing to sell to him a portion of stone from their church property.  The area cleared was not only large enough for their expansion but the money from the sale paid for it.

There is no problem with this elders application of a scripture to their need unless one where to assume that this was the meaning of the scripture in context.

In a similar way Paul talks about being a bond slave or making ourselves a slave to righteousness but if we apply that meaning to our present text we may believe Paul is referring to two classes of believers but that is not what Paul is saying in this passage.

Paul understands that all men have one creator. The man who believes he is his own master is deceiving himself by rebellion. YHWH’s longsuffering and forbearance places all men in mercy (a delay of decreed death) in order that those born of men who He foreknows as His children may come into His grace (Messiah’s taking of death that we may come into life)

Paul is here telling us that the children despite being born as a prince; has no more idea how to live as a king than anyone else. So a young prince is put under the teaching and instruction of a tutor. This tutor does not make this child a king but shows him who a King is. In the same way the law can never make us Israel (a prince with YHWH) that comes from being born from Him. It merely teaches us who He is and thereby who we are.

 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

 Many read this as saying that the law was bondage but look again at what it says; we even though elect of YHWH had the same bondage to sin within us that every son of Adam had. When the law had fully taught of the life we agreed with as what we should be but clearly where not; YHWH sent forth His begotten son not of Adams seed but born from a woman. Possessing the life described in the law to redeem those who had been taught by the law; to the purpose that we could obtain His life by adoption.

 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

The same life force of YHWH in Messiah is now in us as we are one with Him as a sons life comes forth from His father so we as sons have His life issued to us. Most have heard it said abba means daddy as a term of endearment…I have found nothing in my research that says it means anything other than Father. Still let us look at a few things about why Paul uses this phrase: 1) to repeat a word is to give it emphasis as Yeshua would say truly truly I tell you. So Paul is saying YHWH is not just a father figure to you He is your Father. Also to consider in a patriarch society the eldest living male was a clan leader and even servants in His house might call him father but only his children would call him abba. With this in mind it may well be Paul is emphasizing that we are not servants but sons.

7Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years

In short since we are sons we are heirs to YHWH’s entire house. When we were in bondage to our sins we attempted to have life by being a good person which we judged by our own ability to produce actions. How can we, who have come to know the life of YHWH in us, ever believe such could be accomplished by our own effort? Can a man by his own ability bring himself into the presence of YHWH? Is He indebted by our actions? How can we believe we can generate the Life described in the law?

Messiah makes you righteous: Galatians part 4

Galatians 3: 19-29

Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed .Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

 

Law and grace are not conflicting forces but they are one coin. This has caused confusion and strife and vexation of spirit for thousands of years.

 If we are truly weary of trying to find our own way we must understand these two things. To the end of understanding let me give two examples of the problems we face by comparison to things which will go past our preconceived thoughts.

A coin has two sides without both sides it would be counterfeit. These two together make up one because they are a three dimensional thing. If in our mind we laid two of them on a table, one head up the other tail up, and thought of them as two dimensional things we would see two different images with two different scripts there would be no way for us to determine if either was counterfeit or which one had correct image and script. So we see the side of law clearly saying that to do the things contained therein is the way of life, and at the same time we see that we can do nothing to have life but accept it by grace.

Most people upon reading that last sentence have a determination of which one is correct; and that is the problem. Both are one hundred percent true.

How can this be? Because YHWH’s word is one word; he testimony of Messiah given by Moses and the prophets and the testimony of Yeshua and the apostles are both needed in order that we have the two witnesses required by scripture old and new to establish all things… in this case life in us.

In our second example let us consider the difference between instruction and experience. Instruction is a very good thing but experience trumps it. If you were in need of a heart transplant would you rather have it performed by a professor who had read medical books for the last two decades and instructed hundreds of doctors or but never used a scalpel or a doctor who had taken this man’s courses and gone on to successfully perform the surgery several times.

Common thinking is the law tells us something to do while the witness of the apostles and Yeshua instruct us in how to live. This thinking is 180 degrees opposite of reality.

 The law instructs us in what righteousness and holiness and life are, but also concludes that no man has ever experienced these things by attempting to do the things described therein. Instead these instructions served to teach all that the life therein described was not found in them; showing the death that was present.

Grace is not a belief in the mind but a power source for living what is described in the law. Yeshua lived these instructions perfectly and then by the wisdom of YHWH provided for the same life that was in Him would be living in us as we placed our faith in Him. In this way we see the things described in the law being done in our body showing that life is present. It is in this way that Messiah does not destroy the law He establishes it.

When I try to explain these things, perhaps due to my inability, those who can see the law describing life assume I mean it doesn’t matter what we do only what we believe and those who see that no man Has ever kept the law in himself assume I mean we must work to have salvation.

We cannot gain salvation by our doings but when we obtain salvation by trusting the life of YHWH to live through us we live according to the instructions.

Paul is saying the same thing to the Galatians. They cannot obtain by their own ability the life described in the law, but by faith as they trust Messiah to live through them they will do what they could never do live righteously and Holy.

 

“Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;”

Paul has before concluded that life does not come by trying in ourselves to follow the description of life but life comes by placing our faith in Messiah to live it through us. So why did YHWH give us the description. 1) That we would see our need for a redeemer 2)that our sinfulness could be caged to prevent us from going in the way of Sodom and those who lived before the flood before we would realize number one at least in part accept the redeemer when He came.

 

“And it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one”

The law was given to us by a mediator(Moses) showing clearly it was between two parties, but the promise of Abrahams covenant was that YHWH would give himself to Him and all nations by his seed but YHWH is one as the seed Yeshua said by His cross we would know to be one.

“Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. But the scripture hath concluded all under sin that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe”

As I have discussed the law is not against the promise it is the means by which we see our need for its righteousness, our inability to obtain it, and it drives us to faith in Him that can give it to us.

“But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed .Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith”

Until we trust Him to live it through us the law keeps us reminded that we are unrighteous but we must be righteous driving us to place the fullness of faith in Him to live through us. So the law is an instructor showing us what we must trust the Messiah to do through us, so that by faith we are made innocent.

“But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.”

If we are an apprentice to someone learning a trade; there will come a time when the instruction he has given becomes a part of who we are, as the expression goes second nature. When what we have been taught becomes part of who we are we no longer need to be instructed. YHWH is life, the law is a description of Him(His likeness), when His image and likeness is seen in us we are shown to be His children.

“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Baptized in Messiah…when you are buried in the ground you are hidden in it...eventually that dirt is not only around you but in you...there comes a day when you are the dirt and the dirt is you and you are one…so His life is our Life which means the same life is in all who believe making us one,

“ And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

Instead of the doing of the law bringing us into the promise of being one with YHWH it is faith in the promise that brings the law into us.

Jeremiah 31: 31-37

 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The LORD of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YHWH's breath of life is not gained by work: Galatians part 3

Galatians 3:1 …foolish Galations who hath bewitched you before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth crucified amoung you

Galatians 3:2 …received you the Spirit by the works of the law or the hearing of faith

Galatians 3:5 He that ministereth to you the Spirit and worketh miracles among you by works of the law or by the hearing of faith

Galatians 3:11-14 no man is justified by the law…for the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4) and the law is not of faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them(Leviticus 18:5, Nehemiah 9:29, Ezekiel 20:11) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law (Deuteronomy 28: 15-66) being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree (Deuteronomy 21: 22-23) that the blessings of Abraham(Genesis 15: 1) might come on the gentiles through Jesus Christ that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith

Galatians 3: 16 now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made He saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ (Genesis 15: 5)

 

In the beginning of the third chapter of his epistle to the Galatians Paul turns his argument from the false teachers to the believers themselves.

Paul may be writing in Greek to a church who commonly spoke Greek but he still thinks like a Hebrew. Considering this we see that by his opening remarks Paul is shockingly saying that the Galatians are thinking like a person who denies there is a god. Which is not to say they do not believe there is a God but only to say they are thinking in the same manner that such a person would think; for the heart of the matter is they are trusting they must make themselves acceptable to YHWH when creation is a work of our Elohim alone.

“who has bewitched you” this teaching they had committed themselves to follow was nothing more than a slight of hand illusion promising to bring them the life of YHWH. Paul is asking them how can you be deceived to listen to such a thing when:

 1) You have experienced in yourself the old man of sorrow and desire for sin leading to his own destruction dying in Messiah. (verse 1)

2) more than this you received and experienced YHWH’s breath of life in you. How did this life come into you? Was it by some action or deed on your part or rather did you hear in your heart your need for Him and simply trust His promise to love you and make you His. (verse 2)

3) When Messiah works the life of YHWH in you and does amazing things that you can’t explain; is it reward for something that you have performed or because He said I will be everything you need and you found yourself relying and depending on and expecting Him to do what He had spoken. (verse 5)

In verses six through ten Paul argues that Abraham believed YHWH and righteousness was accounted to him. Was this merely a matter of YHWH giving Abraham a title of being righteous? No, the word in Genesis means to weave or interpenetrate. So it is literally YHWH weaving into him His way of being.

Consider within your own life before coming to the Lord many of us could lie or steal or curse as a natural part of who we were, but after these things become unnatural to us. Why did we change our own nature? No it is imputed righteousness from YHWH living in you.

What did YHWH promise Israel through Moses: Deuteronomy 6: 4-9

 hear o Israel (when YHWH says hear we should know He is giving us truth)…YHWH is our Elohim (not only is He the power by which all things have been made but specifically He is our maker)

 YHWH is one (He is not about being with you as Him and you together for that is two, but instead He makes you Him and Him you because He is one)

thou shalt love thy Elohim with all thine heart, soul, and might (everything you are is to love Him. What is love? Trusting completely and giving all that you are to another)

and these words which I command thee this day shall be in thy heart and though shall teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house and when thou walkest by the way and when though liest down and when though risest up and though shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes…( most read this and think these are things I must do, but that is not what is said. This is a declaration of the results of giving all we are to Him in love…He is YHWH who does not change)

YHWH doesn’t just declare us as being right as a result of having faith but instead He makes us right as a result of that faith…can you see

The mistake made at Sinai by the people was that they claimed we will do all that YHWH said to do…by this they said they would be their maker…not by insincerity or disagreement but by looking to themselves. This is the same thing that kept them out of the land for forty years for they said we are not able to take the land.

This was a faith thing not a obedience thing. We can see that when they were told they would stay in the wilderness they decided in obedience to go up but YHWH warns them not to for He was not with them… because their obedience was a work of themselves and not an action of faith in Him.

These things being said we see Paul shifting gears in verse 11; it is as though he has said if you want to be instructed from the law allow me to tell you some things these so called teachers have not told you about.

Paul had been a disciple to Gamaliel before His conversion. It would be the equivalent of having an earned doctorate from every Ivy League school rolled into one except this school taught only the law of law and prophets.

After His conversion to become a disciple of Messiah not only does the Holy Spirit begin to show him the true life in all he has learned, but also he is taught by divine revelation the things of scripture that are plainly said but not perceived by the flesh of the first Adam.

Let us consider the things Paul says as he opens class on the law and prophets.

1)      for the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4) first point the law teaches justification by faith

2)      faith but the man that doeth them shall live in them(Leviticus 18:5, Nehemiah 9:29, Ezekiel 20:11) not if they are known not if they are learned not if they are agreed with but if they are done they bring life.

3)      ) Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law (Deuteronomy 28: 15-66) every man has broken the law and the curse is upon them by their own actions… also the law has no do overs if you have ever broke it then you have brought yourself into the curse

4)      being made a curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree (Deuteronomy 21: 22-23) Messiah as the only man ever qualified to not suffer the curse took it upon His own shoulders …the law is not a curse sin is the curse…the law describes life but because we cannot perform it we are shown that in us is death by that law

5)      that the blessings of Abraham(Genesis 15: 1) might come…the promise that YHWH is our shield and exceeding great reward comes on us through Messiah as we trust and rely and expect Him to live His life in us making us one

6)      now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made He saith not and to seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ (Genesis 15: 5) the lawyer in Paul brings out that the seed by which the nations would be blessed is a singular seed which is Yeshua…conclusion being only in Him can you obtain the promise

 

I will stop here as I believe I should. I end this post with this in genesis 15 the word number is the same as the word tell the …I assumed it was speaking of the multitude of Israel but it speaks of Messiah and all in Him the word in its full meaning includes the following plus  the number of times translators  used it… assigned (1), count (17), counted (6), counts (2), declare (6), declared (2), elapse (1), measuring (1), number (3), numbered (5), proclaim (1), recount (1), recounted (3), relate (3), related (9), relating (2), speak (1), state (1), surely (1), taken (1), taken account (1), talk (1), tell (23), telling (1), told (15), utter (1).

See that YHWH was showing Abraham the unspeakable greatness of Messiah his seed after the flesh not the multitude.

YHWH's life in us: Galatians part 2

Galatians 1: 17-19 neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me…then after three years I went up (returned) to Jerusalem to see Peter… but other of the apostles saw I none save James the Lords brother.

Galatians 2:1-2 then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem…I went up by revelation and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the gentiles but privately to them which were of reputation…that because of false brethren unawares brought in who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ that they might bring us into bondage

Galatians 2: 6 …these who seemed to be somewhat…God accepteth no man’s person…in conference added nothing to me

Galatians 2: 9 …James, Cephes, and John who seemed to be pillars perceived the grace that was given unto me they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship…        

Galatians 2: 11-21 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

 

As we discussed in our look at chapter one Paul has started by pointing out that only YHWH through His Son by His Spirit can bring to us the living of YHWH’s life through us; and thereby it is not from men. The reason for this is that those who were teaching necessity of circumcision were using the fact that they had come from Jerusalem where the apostles of our master where; thereby implying if not outright saying that what they taught was what the apostles taught.

With this in mind we see Paul continuing His argument that not only did He have the revelation of the gospel from YHWH, but had spent time personally with the apostle Peter and by the Spirits leading years later had met with the apostles in conference to discuss what he preached. The conclusion of this conference was not only did they not find anything to correct or add to, but they recognized that YHWH had given Paul an apostleship equal to that of Peters call and gave their fellowship to him.

When we read phrases such as “seemed to be somewhat whatsoever they were it maketh no difference to me God accepteth no man’s person” we may think Paul did not hold these men in regard. One does not conference with others to be sure he has not ran in vain or refer to men as pillars if he does not hold them in regard.

Paul is simply bringing out that YHWH has no favorites. His life in us is one. A called apostle is no more favored of YHWH than any other saint. We submit to one another because we trust Messiah’s life in us and we trust His life in those He brings us into fellowship with.

So saying Apostle Jo told me is of no more importance than to say my taxi driver told me for the flesh prophets nothing but His Spirit is our life. Yet these false teachers were using that they had come from Jerusalem and implying if not saying that the things they were teaching were the same as the apostles in the Jerusalem church.

 Having a clear understanding of why Paul was inspired to write the epistle to the church at Galatia will give us better insight into what he is saying and what he is not. As we have said in our looking at the first chapter of this letter; there where some “teachers” at Galatia who were telling the brethren that it was necessary for them to be circumcised if they were to truly share in the covenant with YHWH.

Since it is widely taught in the church that the old covenant was a works righteousness based covenant (it was not) there is little reason, seen by most, to study the writings of Moses. This false idea alone has cheated many from understanding the life delivered to us by Messiah; but more immediately to our current consideration it stops us from understanding the core of the argument being addressed.          

Geneses 17: 7-14 and Exodus 12: 43-49 are most probably the text these teachers used to convince the Galatians that it was necessary to be circumcised if they expected to be in a right relationship with YHWH.

Pauls argument is not against the scriptures or the law but instead against the misunderstanding and carnal perception these men held of the scriptures and law.

Paul has effectively in my mind erased any special authority that these men might have claimed. Once more I find myself trying to charge ahead but let’s slow down and consider the first precept which Paul brings out to oppose those things which were being taught.

We are told of Peter coming to Antioch and eating with the gentiles. It is almost with certainty that Peter, Paul, and Barnabas were not eating pork chops and bacon as we see these men still participating in temple worship and Paul celebrating and honoring the feast days long after these events.

 What Paul is speaking of is that the Jews did not eat with gentiles because the pans cutlery and other food prep items used on their clean meat may have come in contact with something unclean and not been cleansed. Not forgetting that often the gentiles themselves were considered unclean and a Jew would not enter their homes much less fellowship by eating a meal with them.

Peter had already been taught of the Lord that YHWH was cleansing believing gentiles exactly as He was cleansing Jewish believers so He had no problem eating with these brothers. Then come some Jewish believers from Jerusalem’s congregation and they prefer to not eat with gentiles. Peter himself gets caught up in this old understanding and the problem explodes; after all Peter is the most influential and respected living disciple. Even Barnabas is carried away with their separatist ways.

We also see that the gentile believers begin thinking that perhaps they themselves are not living right. Paul sees a danger that goes beyond actions, the same danger which the galations now face; so he confronts Peter.

1)      The Jews who believe have life in the same way the gentiles have attained to life; faith in YHWH’s life given to them.

2)      We being Jews know the law and therefore can clearly see more so than the gentiles, who are ignorant that many of the things they do are sin, our need for a savior and that we can find justification only in Him

3)      If we by trusting in our sinful selves offend the law then seek Messiah to justify us then we make  Yeshua the minister of sin instead of the minister of YHWH’s life.

4)      If after I have been baptized into Messiahs death to put to death the old man who’s very nature was sinful; I attempt to live by that same power of self-ability a righteous life I make myself once more a sinner

5)      The law declared that sin brought death, I trust the law is true and right, and by that trust I cast the man I was onto Yeshua by dependence on Him, that He may carry the old me to the death of His cross that the life of YHWH’s breath that was placed back into Him may also bring me life.

6)      It is Messiah who lives in me now and by my trust, reliance, and expectancy of His life I am in this body of flesh but I do not live by its power or might or ability.

7)      I cannot depend on the power of my flesh and the power of YHWH’s Spirit at the same time; so I do not frustrate His life in me by trying to make myself perform the way of life (the law)

8)      If I could walk in the way of life by the power of my own ability then Messiah died for no purpose.

 

This is only the beginning of Pauls argument. We will see that the law is a description of who we will be when we trust YHWH to live in us, but when it is seen as a way to attain to life it only shows us how sinful we are. It also is not something to be thrown away it is the word of YHWH and His word is Him. Messiah is that word manifested in flesh; so if we are against the law we are against Yeshua.

It is like fire if used well it is a source of life but if used incorrectly it can be death.

What only YHWH can give: Galatians part 1

 

 

 

Galatians 1: 1 an apostle not of men neither by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead

Galatians 1: 6 …you are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ

Galatians 1: 9 …if any preach any other gospel unto you than that you have received let him be accursed

Galatians 1: 11- 12 …the gospel that was preached of me is not after man for I neither received it of man, neither was I taught but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Galatians 1: 15-16 …it pleased God…who separated me…called by His grace to reveal His son in me…I conferred not with flesh and blood

Is it not a strange thing that a epistle written by Paul to expose that false teachers were making merchandise of the brethren at Galatia in order to purchase for themselves pride and ego from the approval of other men has been used to deceive men that they can have YHWH’s life while keeping Adams death.

There is an expression that I have heard “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater”; meaning just because the bathwater is not usable and should be thrown away does not mean we are to also throw away the clean baby.

Yet this is what we have done with Galatians and in so doing have indeed preached another gospel than that which we received.  This wrong thinking has done more to damage the wholeness of the body of believers than can easily be understood by most.

This false gospel has birthed into the elect of YHWH a corrupt way, a false Jesus, and a powerless grace that make Yeshua a minister of sin instead of salvation. This leaven is not new; in several of Paul’s epistles he has addressed both this false grace and the opposite lie which frustrates the grace given by YHWH by returning to that which can never bring righteousness and justification to the doer.

The problem with coming against such an ancient heresy is that it has been deeply entrenched into many believers to one degree or another. However that is not my battle but it must be done by the Spirit.

 So in my liberty to choice to obey YHWH I give my members over to His breath to use as His living word sees fit. I tell you a wonderful truth that Yeshua has purchased for you the same liberty to obey Him by the life He and our Abba live in us by the Spirit. There is no freedom found in the life of men only slavery and bondage of sin.

This is not a witness that the Spirit need make through me for almost two thousand years ago he inspired Paul to write that which He is to teach you. My heart is simply to look at what we might at times overlook in our assumption of “yes I know”.

It is hard to not jump to the conclusion as I know how much closer our walk with Him is when we come to a place where we no longer frustrate His gift of life within us. Yet it is Yeshua through Paul who is the wise master builder of His Holy temple. As His helpmate we will build His message according to His blueprint.

There are five things listed in the first chapter of this epistle that are declared to be given to us by the will of the Father in the authority of the Son through the quickening of the Spirit and not of men. This should come as no surprise as Yeshua made clear that no man comes to the Father but by Him.

In the order that Paul has mentioned them they are:

1)      Ministry… Messiah has made us a royal priesthood and as such every believer has been given a ministry or work to be done. While a man may or may not recognize the will of the Spirit in you they can never call you into it or prepare you for it. Remember Yeshua’s light rebuke of Peter when He asked about Johns fate “…what is that to you? You follow me”

2)      Calling into grace…the gift of YHWH is YHWH for as He promised Abraham I AM your shield and exceeding great reward; this promise Yeshua has grafted us into by faith. It should be obvious that no man including yourself can make YHWH abide in you and make Himself yours.

3)      The gospel…the good news of the kingdom of heaven coming to you and being in you as you are in it is not given by men. One of your brethren may preach truth to you but for that truth to be effective and living you must settle between you and YHWH if you believe it, trust it, rely on it, and expect its manifestation This is why Messiah has said the kingdom of heaven is not with observation (what is seen and heard outwardly) but within you( what is seen and heard inwardly)

4)      Revelation…the prophet said when speaking of the new covenant that YHWH would make with Israel (of which we have been made partakers) that men would no longer say “know YHWH for he would be known of all in that covenant” as Paul said in another place God gives the increase. Our brethren will be used to strengthen and encourage our faith but revelation comes from YHWH alone. If you try to explain to someone who you are your word will be unable to give a perfect picture because as our Master said only the spirit of a man knows that man…since every work of YHWH is a perfect work words won’t do so He gave you His Spirit.

5)      Life…it is the life of the Son which is the life of the Father which the Sprit lives through us when we abandon all trust in our old man; and instead trust He is dead in Yeshuas cross and the life we have now is the Spirit living in us. This is done by faith which is not of our self but it is Messiahs faith in us. Not of works lest any man should boast means neither you nor any other man brought you to life.  YHWH by foreknowledge knew that if He gave himself to you; you would desire Him. So through Yeshuas death He has given Himself to you, as a gift, for He is life and being made one with Him is life eternal.

The Galatians had lost sight of this and been duped by those who claimed they knew YHWH for generations and would show them the true way to possess Him. In my opinion they are already blown out the water but the Holy Spirit has no need of my council…to be continued.