They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

 

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

(Galatians 5:22-26)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.

『For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Freedom is freedom from the yoke. A yoke is a yoke of slavery, that is, it is under the control of Satan. Why did humans come under Satan's control?

Most churchgoers think of the Garden of Eden. They say that they became slaves of Satan because of the original sin committed in the Garden of Eden. But there are two original sins. The original sin of heaven and the original sin of the earth. The original sin of the Garden of Eden is the original sin of this world, but the original sin of heaven is that in the kingdom of God, the spirits followed Satan's delusions, so God put the spirits into the dust of this world and became Satan's servants. But God planned Christ before the foundation of the world, and sent him into this world to save the prisoners. So those who come into Christ will be set free.

『For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Jesus Christ fulfilled the law by dying on the cross, and those who are in Christ also have the law fulfilled through Christ. That is why the saints raise the dead spirits of their neighbors. To love our neighbor is to save the spirit. Just as Jesus gave life to the spirits of the saints by dying, so we love to try to save the spirits of our neighbors. It is to share the same grace received from God through Christ.

『his I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.』Those who are in Christ are with the Holy Spirit. So they have a spirit body that walks according to the Holy Spirit. Those who have a spirit body, in 1 John 5:18, “We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.”

The saint has two bodies. It is a spirit body and a physical body. However, the physical body is dead, and the spiritual body is resurrected. The body of the flesh is the desire of the flesh, and the body of the spirit is the mind of the Holy Spirit. So these two cannot be together. Those who have been regenerated by the spirit are physically alive, but their desires are dead. The body is just a shell.

『But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.』

The law to forbid means the law. The law has no access to the Holy Spirit. Because when the Holy Spirit enters the body of the spirit, it sends out the law. On the other hand, 『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.

All of these things happen against God. Those who claim to be in Christ and yet try to keep the law are fornicators, unclean people, idolaters, sorcerers, and those who are enemies of God again. And they are creating divisions in the church, creating heresies, and gibberish as if drunk. The believer must be in Christ and must live according to the law. Today, in the church, all things such as having to pay tithes, calling the church a temple, keeping the Old Testament feasts, or creating and keeping new ones are the appearance of drunken people and debauchery.

『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.” Those who are led by the Holy Spirit should not argue with each other over whether or not they have to keep the law because of the law. Those who are led by the Holy Spirit have no relation to the law because they have departed from the law. Those who are led by the Holy Spirit are those who died to the law on the cross with Jesus.

 

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