Shingi’s Bible Commentary: Galatians Chapter 5 part 1

October 06, 2025 01:11:10
Shingi’s Bible Commentary: Galatians Chapter 5 part 1
Shingi's Bible Commentary
Shingi’s Bible Commentary: Galatians Chapter 5 part 1

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Study Guide:
Galatians Chapter 5: “The war between the flesh and the spirit”

Welcome to this explanatory guide, designed to illuminate the core ideas presented in Shingi’s Bible Commentary on Galatians Chapter 5. These notes serve as a clear and accessible resource for those new to biblical studies, simplifying complex theological concepts and providing a structured understanding of the text. Shingi’s primary teaching method in this commentary is to unpack the allegory of Abraham’s two sons from Galatians 4, using it as a lens through which to interpret the entire chapter. This guide will walk you through the central theme of the commentary: the profound difference between living under the burden of religious law and living in the freedom offered through Christ.

1. The Core Conflict: Liberty vs. The “Yoke of Bondage”

The study frames Galatians 5 around a central conflict between two opposing ways of living: one defined by Christ-given liberty and the other by a legalistic “yoke of bondage.”

1.1. What is the “Liberty” We Are Called To?

According to Teacher Shingi, the liberty discussed is the freedom that Christ has bestowed upon all believers. This freedom is not something that must be earned but is a direct result of one’s spiritual birth. This is allegorically explained as being “born of the free woman,” which signifies being born into Christ and becoming part of the “Jerusalem which is above, which is free”. The key benefit of this liberty is that it is an inheritance of freedom, a foundational aspect of the believer’s new identity, not a reward for good works.

1.2. What is the “Yoke of Bondage”?

Teacher Shingi defines the “yoke of bondage” as the act of becoming entangled with the Law of Moses and attempting to be justified by it. This “yoke” represents several interconnected ideas:

Apostle Paul issues a stark warning: anyone who attempts to be justified by the law becomes a “debtor to do the whole law,” and for that person, Christ becomes of “no effect”.  Shingi highlights the severe consequence of this path, noting that if you fail to keep even one point of the law, you have violated the whole law and are therefore “worthy of death”.

This fundamental conflict between liberty and bondage is illustrated by Teacher Shingi through two distinct spiritual origins, or “births.”

2. Understanding the Two Births: Flesh vs. Spirit

The commentary draws upon the allegory from Galatians 4—the story of Abraham’s two sons, Ishmael and Isaac—to illustrate the difference between a life lived under the law (“born after the flesh”) and a life lived in Christ (“born after the Spirit”).

Born After the Flesh Born After the Spirit
Linked to Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the “bond maid.” Linked to Isaac, the son of Sarah, the “free woman.”
Represents a life lived “under the law” and in a state of spiritual “bondage.” Represents being “born of the promise,” free from the law, and possessing an “inheritance of freedom.”
The commentary notes that those born this way historically persecute those born of the Spirit. These are the “children of promise,” just as Isaac was, who receive God’s favor by faith, not works.

Having established these two distinct spiritual lineages, Shingi proceeds to explain how a person who is “born after the Spirit” is meant to live out their newfound freedom.

3. The Christian’s New Way of Life

For the believer born of the Spirit, the old system of law is replaced by a new, internal operating principle.

3.1. What Replaces the Law? “Faith Which Works by Love”

Shingi states that in the new life in Christ, external markers like circumcision or uncircumcision are irrelevant. The only thing that now matters is “faith which works by love”.

To define this principle, Shingi makes a critical cross-reference to Galatians 6:15, where the same formula (“neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision”) is followed by the phrase “but a new creature.” By connecting these two verses, he argues that “faith which works by love” is synonymous with being a “new creature.” It is the very “living composition” and “spiritual genetic makeup” of a believer’s born-again spirit.

Shingi explains that this faith operates in two distinct but connected ways:

  1. Awakened by God’s Love for Us: Faith is first activated by the transformative realization of God’s unconditional love. Shingi emphasizes that this love was proactively demonstrated when Christ died for us while we were still sinners, before we even knew we needed saving. Understanding this profound, unmerited love makes faith in God’s promises both logical and easy.
  2. Expressed Through God’s Love in Us: Once a person is born again, God places His own love inside them through the Holy Spirit. This enables the believer to naturally and unconditionally love others, regardless of how they are treated, because it flows from an internal, divine source.

3.2. What Does it Mean to “Walk in the Spirit”?

Teacher Shingi offers a distinctively practical definition for this often-misunderstood phrase. He asserts that the Bible is the only definitive source of information about the spirit realm. Based on this foundational premise, he concludes that to “walk in the Spirit” is simply to “walk in the Word”.

The reasoning behind this definition is as follows:

He grounds this interpretation by drawing a sharp terminological distinction between praying “in the Spirit” (praying in accordance with the Word of God) and praying “with the Spirit” (praying in tongues by the power of the Holy Spirit).

This explanation of how a believer should live leads directly to the tangible outcomes produced by the two opposing lifestyles—one led by the flesh and the other led by the Spirit.

4. The Two Lifestyles and Their Outcomes

Shingi links the two opposing lists in Galatians 5 back to the allegory of the two births, showing that each lifestyle produces a distinct type of evidence or “fruit.”

4.1. The “Works of the Flesh”

These behaviors are presented as the manifest results of a life not led by the Spirit. Shingi further connects the “works of the flesh” directly to the spiritual lineage of the “bondwoman” (Hagar and Ishmael).

The list of these works includes:

Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness, Lasciviousness, Idolatry, Witchcraft, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Wrath, Strife, Seditions, Heresies, Envyings, Murders, Drunkenness, Revellings.

4.2. The “Fruit of the Spirit”

In stark contrast, the “fruit of the Spirit” is the natural outcome of a life born of and led by the Spirit. This fruit is connected to the spiritual lineage of the “free woman” (Sarah and Isaac).

The list includes:

Love, Joy, Peace, Long suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance.

5. Conclusion: A Call to Live in Freedom

The central insight of Shingirai Mudyirwa’s commentary on Galatians 5 is a call for believers to fully embrace their identity in Christ. The Christian life presented is not one of striving to adhere to an external list of religious rules (the law) but one of confidently living in the liberty that Christ has already secured. This freedom is realized by walking in the truth of God’s Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to naturally produce His fruit, which is the ultimate expression of a faith that works by love.

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[00:00:00] Walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walk in the spirit. [00:00:05] What does it mean? Walk in the spirit? [00:00:08] All right, that's when it says, I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. Okay, so you find that phrase with the Spirit, and then it says, I will pray in the spirit when he's saying praying in the Spirit. And there's another verse, a very popular verse that is also confused where it says that In Jude, verse 20 says that you, beloved, building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. [00:00:40] And a lot of people have said that means to pray in tongues. [00:00:45] No, that doesn't mean that. [00:00:49] So that means that without this book, there is no definitive definition or description of the spirit realm and what it does and what happens there and how it works. [00:01:01] And the Bible is the only book that gives us that information. There is no other book in the world that gives us this information. [00:01:09] Oh, neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything. But faith, which works by love, faith, which works by agape, that is the love of God. [00:01:22] It is unconditional love. So it doesn't matter how you treat me, I'm gonna love you by the love of God. It doesn't matter what you think about me, I'm gonna love you by the love of God. [00:01:36] This book is the spirit world. [00:01:40] It's a spiritual book. [00:01:44] All the information that is in this book is spiritual information. [00:01:49] It's, it's, it's, it's the spirit world in writing. [00:01:55] It is the realm of the Spirit in written form. [00:02:00] So if you want to operate and to understand and to know the realm of the Spirit, what you need to do is to get into this book and it will define and describe to you in accordance with God's knowledge. [00:02:23] Praise the Lord. Greetings, everybody, and welcome to Shingi's Bible Commentary and grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. And we're going to get into what we know how to do best, which is we're going to look at what the Word says says Hallelujah. Yeah, it's been a long time coming and, you know, we're still on our subject of the book of Galatians. [00:02:54] And I trust that you have been blessed with a lot of the materials and the things that we've been sharing with you on the platform, what the Word says, you know, so rich, rich, rich with content. What the wordsays.org go there if you haven't been there already. [00:03:10] You'll find something that will bless you. You find so many teachings, so many revelations, the abundance of revelations of the Word of God. You'll be so enriched in your knowledge of the Word of God and that platform that has been a blessing to so many people across the world, even unto me and the people that are around me. Oh, what a blessing. And we thank the Holy Spirit, we thank the Lord Jesus Christ for the grace, for the ability, for the supply of the Spirit to empower us and to enable us, you know, to serve the body of Christ through this platform on what the Word says, and one of the powerful, powerful, powerful programs on what the Word says, which is this Bible Commentary, you know, and we're still on Galatians. We're in the book of Galatians. We're going to go through as many, as many books as we can, the Lord willing. And currently we just want to complete Galatians. And we are on Galatians chapter five. And you know how we do it on Shinki's Bible Commentary? First, what we're going to do is that I will read the whole chapter first, and then I'll come back and we'll go through it verse by verse, you know, to get understanding, you know, of what we're talking about. If you haven't already gone through Galatians chapter one, Galatians chapter two, chapter three, and chapter four, please go back so that you can get the context of what we are talking about. [00:04:41] Hallelujah. You can get the context of what we'll be discussing in Galatians chapter 5 and what Paul was talking about, what Paul was communicating so that you can get the full understanding, the full picture, the full picture of what Paul was addressing with this epistle to the Church in Galatia, to the Galatian Church. [00:05:03] Okay, without further ado, we're going to get into it right now. We're going to read through the whole chapter and we'll come back to it verse by verse. So Galatians chapter 5, I'm going to be reading from verse 1. [00:05:17] Stand fast therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I, Paul, say unto you that if you 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. [00:05:48] For we, through the Spirit Wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. [00:06:01] You did run well. Who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth? [00:06:06] This persuasion comes not of him that calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded. But he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. [00:06:22] And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? [00:06:29] Then is the offence of the cross seized? [00:06:32] I would they would even cut off, which trouble you. For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty only. Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. [00:06:46] For all the law is fulfilled in one word. Even in this you shall love your neighbour as yourself. [00:06:53] But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. [00:07:00] This I say. Then walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh, lust against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would. [00:07:17] But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. [00:07:21] Now the works of the flesh are manifest. Which are these? [00:07:25] Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, 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, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law. [00:08:05] And they that are Christ 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 vainglory, provoking one another, envying one another. [00:08:23] Verse 26. And that is the end of Galatians chapter five. [00:08:27] What we're going to do right now is so that you can get a brief context, so I can give to you a picture of where the Apostle Paul is coming from with this, from Galatians chapter four into chapter five, so that you can get a kind of like a picture of what he was talking about. But if you haven't listened to Galatians chapter one, chapter two, chapter three and chapter four, I advise you to go and do so. [00:08:53] But I'll give you just a brief background from Galatians chapter four coming into Galatians chapter five, before we continue with verse by verse of Galatians chapter 5. So I'll read from verse 21. Says, tell me, you that desire to be under the Lord. Do you not hear the law? So, for it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by the bond maid, the other by the free woman. He says that the bondwoman is those that are under the law. And then it says they're the children of the free woman which are under Christ, which are under the. Which are in Christ and are of the free and of the liberty of, or the freedom of the free woman, which is Sarah. [00:09:39] Okay? So he says in verse 25, says, for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to. To Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage with their children. So he's telling you that if you're under the law, that you're in bondage. Glory to God. You are in bondage. But if you're not under the law, then you are free. You are the one of the free woman, and you have an inheritance. Glory to God. An inheritance of freedom. Hallelujah. You are the one that is born of promise. You're the one that is born of the Spirit. Then there are those that are born after the flesh. [00:10:12] Okay, I want you to keep this at the back of your mind as we get into Galatians chapter 5. The flesh, the one, the bond woman, that is the one that is born of the flesh that gave birth to Ishmael, which is of the flesh. And then there's the one that is of the free woman, which is Sarah, which is. Which gave birth to the one that is born of the promise that is born of the Spirit. [00:10:37] So there is that the one that is under the law, or the one that is born after the flesh. And then there's one that is, you know, free from the law, the one that is born of the promise of the Word, of the Spirit. Okay, that is very important, okay, when you studying the Word and you're looking at it contextually as you get in from Galatians chapter four, getting into Galatians chapter five, okay? [00:11:05] And you see it when we get into Galatians chapter five, when we're talking about the one that is in bondage with the children. [00:11:12] Hey, guy. The one that is in bondage, the one that is born after the flesh. [00:11:17] Okay? And then when you get into Galatians chapter five, and then he says, the works of the flesh, the workings of the flesh are manifest. And then he lists them. Then he says, and then the fruit of the Spirit. And then says, hey, God was born of the flesh. [00:11:31] And then it says, but Sarah is the one that gave birth to the child that was born of the spirit. And then it says, the fruit of the spirit. Now, I want you to take that contextually From Galatians chapter 4 and see where Paul is coming from with this message. As you get into Galatians chapter five, it will make sense, because a lot of people have said so many things about Galatians chapter five, you know, and they don't say, so they. So. So they. They create their own ideas as to what the Apostle Paul was referring to, you know, and we get all kinds, all manner of teachings that are different. But then if you stick to the text, all right, stick to the text and stick to what the. The Apostle Paul was teaching, you know, you will get the true message of what he was talking about. So verse 25, Galatians chapter 4 says, for this agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answer it to Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage with the children. Says, but Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. What does it mean that Jerusalem which is from above? He's talking about the Jerusalem which is of the Spirit. Those that are born of the Spirit. Those that are born of the word of promise says that they are free. They have. They live in freedom. They have. There's a liberty about their life. So that's what he means when he says, the Jerusalem which is above is free. Hallelujah. Jerusalem which is above is free. Glory to God. [00:13:02] And then he says, verse 28. Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. [00:13:09] But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him, that was born after the spirit. After the flesh, after the Spirit. Those that pursue the law of Moses, those that want to live in accordance with the law of Moses and says that they're the ones that are of the flesh. And then he says, they persecute. Those that are what? Those that are of the Spirit. [00:13:30] Okay, remember this background as we get into Galatians chapter 5. Those that are after the flesh and those that are of the Spirit. Those that are of the flesh. And then he says, those that pursue the law of Moses, Hallelujah. Says, and Moses and Mount Sinai, which is where from what? The one that was born of Haggai, which is of the flesh, the children of the flesh, the child of the flesh, says he persecutes the child of the Spirit. And all of this is prophetic. And we see it play out, and we've been seeing it play out over the years, over the centuries. [00:14:07] Glory to God in the Middle east even. [00:14:10] And now it's spreading around over the world. [00:14:13] It's spreading around over the world. [00:14:15] Those that are of the flesh persecuting those that are born of the Spirit. [00:14:21] So you see how prophetic the epistles are. [00:14:24] The epistles are prophetic. Okay, let's continue. [00:14:28] All right, Says now, we brethren, as Isaac was, we as Isaac was, are the children of promise. We're the children of what? Promise. The promise that is the word of the Spirit that was spoken to Abraham. And in Galatians, chapter four, Chingi's Bible Commentary, Galatians chapter four, we looked into that and we looked into the examples of that and what Paul was talking about, verse 29. But as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit. Even so it is now. [00:15:00] See how prophetic the epistles are. Says that even as it was then, even so it is now. [00:15:10] Verse 30. Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? Cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir. [00:15:19] Listen to that. The son who the son of the bond woman shall not be, shall not inherit, shall not have an inheritance with the son of the free woman. [00:15:30] Says that they shall not have an inheritance. That is very key to where we are going in Galatians, chapter five. Okay? [00:15:39] Says, cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. Verse 31. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bond woman, but of the free. Okay, that's verse 31. And then now we get into Galatians, chapter five, verse one. Then it says, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Do you get the picture now? Says, stand fast therefore, in the liberty. Why? Because you are born of the free woman. Hallelujah. Not of the bond maid, but of the free woman. If you are, if you are in Christ, if you have been born again, if you are born into Christ, you are born of the free woman. Hallelujah. You are the one that is of the Jerusalem which is above, which is free, which there is. Where there is freedom, there is freedom. Glory to God. And then he says, stand fast therefore, in that liberty wherewith Christ has made Us free. Christ has made you free. [00:16:38] Stand fast in that liberty. [00:16:41] Stand fast in your freedom in Christ. [00:16:44] And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Where does the yoke of bondage come from? [00:16:52] The yoke of bondage comes from the flesh. [00:16:55] And where does the flesh come from? The flesh comes from the law of Moses. From Mount Sinai. [00:17:02] Mount Sinai, where Moses received the law and the ordinances. [00:17:10] Verse two. Okay. [00:17:12] Behold, I, Paul, say unto you that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Christ shall profit you nothing. What is he talking about when he says, if you be circumcised? [00:17:25] He's talking about the ceremonial circumcision, all right? That is required and necessary for you to be one that is worthy to uphold and to live in accordance with the law. So he's not just talking about circumcision in general. [00:17:41] Okay, he's talking about this one that is specific to keeping the law. To keeping the law of Moses. [00:17:48] All right? So he's referring here to the one, anyone that wants to keep or to adhere to anything that has to do with the law of Moses. So he uses circumcision as that mark, as that ceremonial religious mark and sacrament, all right? [00:18:04] To be one that identifies in keeping the law of Moses. So that's what he's talking about here, says, I pause unto. He says, if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. Okay, so he's talking about that circumcision that has to do with adhering and keeping the law of Moses. Say that if you want to adhere to the law of Moses through circumcision and through keeping the laws and ordinances of Moses, says that Christ, the liberty of Christ says, shall not profit you anything. [00:18:33] Verse 3. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtor to do the whole law. So do you see now the. The context? He's talking about those that want to keep the law, those that want to adhere the law, those that want to be circumcised in adherence to the law of Moses, say so he says that if you do that, says then you are a debtor to keep the whole law. [00:18:58] Glory to God. And then remember what we said in the other Galatians, Galatians, chapter three. In Galatians, chapter four, that anyone. It says, if you. If you. If you do not adhere to keep the whole law. And then he says, or if you miss the mark against fulfilling any one law, it says, you have violated the whole law. Hallelujah. And anyone that has violated the whole law is worthy of death. [00:19:19] You're worthy of death. [00:19:22] Verse 4 says Christ is become of no effect unto you. Whosoever of you are justified by the law. [00:19:30] Justified by the law says you are fallen from grace. [00:19:34] Why do you want to keep the law? Why do you want to observe the law? Why do you want to throw the yoke of the law on those that are in Christ, on those that are Christians? Hallelujah. Why do you want to mix the law with the grace that Jesus Christ brought to us through salvation in Christ? Jesus says that you have fallen from the grace that is in Christ if you try to uphold or to keep or to live in accordance with the law. It says you are fallen from grace. [00:20:07] The grace of Christ will not profit you in any way. [00:20:10] Verse 5. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. Says through the Spirit we wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. Verse 6. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything. [00:20:27] No uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. What is he talking about? This is a big, big statement. This is a big and powerful declaration that the Apostle Paul is talking about here where he says that neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything. Says this. It no longer matters because of what Jesus Christ did with his death and burial and resurrection. Hallelujah. Says circumcision or uncircumcision is. Is no longer an issue. Says the only thing that matters now, now that Christ has died and is risen, is faith which works through love. Faith which works through love. What is that? [00:21:05] I always like to say and share with people that what is faith which works through love? Faith which works through love is speaking of the composition of who the new creation is. [00:21:19] Faith working by love is the living composition that makes up the new creation. This is the spiritual makeup, the genetic makeup, the spiritual genetic makeup composition of who the new creation is. The new creation is born out of faith and the love of God is born out of the composition of faith and the love of God. The faith of God and the love of God. What am I saying? That. So basically this is what Paul is saying, and you see it also in Galatians chapter 6, where the apostle Paul now mentions the same thing again, but he describes it differently. Okay, so now that is a double mention, which means that he's showing you who the new creation is. Actually, let's go there so that you can see what we mean here. [00:22:12] Okay, so Galatians 5:6 says, for in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision. And it is but faith which works by love. And then now when you go to Galatians 6:15. Okay, I'm going to read this. It says, for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision. Sounds familiar. And then here he says, but a new creature. [00:22:45] Ah, so now what he's saying. Okay, let's go back Galatians 5:6. [00:22:52] For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. And then in Galatians 6:15 says, for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. So that's why I'm. What, that's what I meant when I said that faith which works by love is the composition of the new creation. It's the composition of the new creature in Christ Jesus. [00:23:19] So? So? So? So, so the. [00:23:23] Your spirit, your born again human spirit is a composition of the faith of God and the love of God. [00:23:34] Okay, so in you, in your spirit, now that you're born again, you have in your spirit a composition. The. The composition of your of. Of the recreated human spirit is the faith of God and the love of God. These things are now natural in you. These things are now innate. [00:23:52] The inside you as a new creation. You have the faith of God working you. You are the living composition of the faith of God and the love of God together. Hahaha. This is the composition of the new of the recreated human spirit. [00:24:09] The composition of the recreated human spirit is faith, the faith of God and the love of God. [00:24:16] So the faith of God and walking by faith is now natural for you. So the love of God and walking in love is now natural for you. You can naturally express and release the faith of God. You can naturally express and release the love of God because you are now the living composition of God's faith and God's love. I am the living composition of God's faith and God's love. So everywhere I go, the faith of God is working. Everything that I do, the love of God is exuding from out of me. [00:24:51] What a life. [00:24:54] Oh, what a life. [00:24:56] Okay, let's get back to this. [00:24:59] For in Jesus Christ, verse 6, neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. [00:25:09] How does faith work by love? It means that you get introduced to the love of God as demonstrated by Jesus Christ through his death, burial and resurrection, and the love of God is manifested unto you. Hallelujah. You remember in. In Romans chapter 5. [00:25:31] In Romans chapter 5. Let me just read it to you quickly. [00:25:35] Let's get there quickly. [00:25:38] Romans chapter 5. [00:25:43] You see, you need to let Scripture interpret scripture. [00:25:47] Romans chapter 5 from verse 6 says, for when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Verse 7. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die. Yet peradventure for a good man, some would even dare to die. Verse 8. But God commends his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. So he's telling us that God commended his love. He extended his love before we knew that we even needed Jesus to begin with. [00:26:19] Nobody in this world knew that we actually needed Jesus until God commended his love toward us. You didn't pray for God to give you us a savior. We didn't pray, we didn't ask for God to send Jesus for us. God in his infinite wisdom knew that we needed Jesus. And while we were yet sinners, without knowing, without even being aware that we needed Jesus, God commended his love. [00:26:45] God commended his love. So when you now understand that God actually extended his love, Jesus is the love of God manifested the work of the cross is God's love manifested toward us? Since faith, which works by love, then when you get that understanding of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the love of God that is demonstrated in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. And you accept the gospel, now you know and understand that God loves you, God thought about you, and God sent his Son to die for you. And now because of that love of God demonstrated to you, you can now receive Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. And then, now that you have seen the magnitude of the love of God, the magnitude of the love that God has for you, ah, and you receive Jesus Christ through accepting the gospel, through accepting the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and you get born again, then God now puts that love in you. Ah, and then he says, and hope makes not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given to us, that is Galatians, chapter 5, verse 5. [00:27:56] Now you have experienced, you're overwhelmed with the love of God that God has for you. That, oh, I had no idea, but God loved me. Now I know that God loves me. Now I know that God loves me, says faith, says neither circumcision or uncircumcision availeth anything but faith working through love. What is that? Love number one. That is the love that God has for you. Hallelujah. Because now you know that even before you asked for Jesus. Hallelujah. Even before you knew that you even needed Jesus, God in his love, sent Jesus to die for you. You had no idea. You didn't even know. You didn't even ask for it. You were not even born, and God knew that you would need it. So now you know that God loves you, and God prepared for you. Ha ha ha. God loves me because he prepared Jesus for me and he sent Jesus for me. Now that love. He says that he puts that love in my heart. [00:28:55] Oh, he has put that love in my heart. That is faith. Working by love I have. Now I'm awakened unto the love that God has for me. That is now faith. And because of that, I believe. [00:29:09] Oh, glory to God. I believe and I say yes, I. I believe that Jesus Christ died for me. I believe that he was buried and on the third day, he was. He was. He was raised from the dead for me. [00:29:23] Faith which works by love. [00:29:26] Why did Jesus die? Because God loves me. Why did Jesus suffer? Because God loves me. Why? Because God didn't want me to suffer, so he sent Jesus to suffer in my place. Because God didn't want me to die, so he sent Jesus to die in my place. Because God didn't love me so much. He didn't want me to go to hell, so he sent Jesus to hell in my place. [00:29:50] Oh. [00:29:52] Ah. [00:29:54] Says while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Says much more than being now justified by his blood. We shall be saved from wrath through him. This is the love of God. [00:30:07] So Jesus Christ comes and takes on the wrath of God in my place because God doesn't want me to go through that wrath. [00:30:19] Wow. [00:30:20] Wow. Wow, wow, wow wow. [00:30:24] And that's why the apostle Paul now says, for in Jesus Christ, neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love. [00:30:35] So now number one is the love that God has for me. [00:30:39] So now it's easy for me to believe in what Jesus did. [00:30:45] And then now, because God loves me so much, it's easy for me to have faith in God for whatever it is that is required. [00:30:55] All right. For I walk by faith and not by sight. Why? Oh, how do you have Shingi? How do you have so much faith? [00:31:03] It's because I know and I understand that God loves me. [00:31:10] Oh, I know that God loves me. So I believe easily in the things that God said are for Me, I believe them because I believe that he loves me so much. He loves me so much. [00:31:23] Oh, God loves me. [00:31:26] Oh, God loves me. Why would I not expect the good things that God has prepared for me? Why would I not believe in it? Why would I doubt after God has displayed his love for me in this way in Christ Jesus? [00:31:42] That is faith, which is working by love. [00:31:45] Oh, I. [00:31:46] Oh, my goodness. I'm always thinking, oh, I look at my life and I'm like, God, oh, the love of God. I'm thinking about how much God loves me. When I look back at my life, when I look at where my life is now, and I'm like, oh, God, you love me so much. You love me so much. [00:32:03] And it gives me hope for the future. I'm excited about the future. Why? Because I know that the love of God has gone ahead of me. And then, not only that, he put that love inside of me by his Spirit. He says, the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit which has given to us. [00:32:19] Oh, now I have that love in me. So because I now have that love of God in me, I've now received the love of God. I've now received by understanding by the Spirit, the. The love that God has for me. I can now extend that love to the next person. [00:32:36] I cannot hate the next person. I cannot manufacture hate. It doesn't matter what the next person has done to me. It doesn't matter what the next person has said about me. It doesn't matter what the people think about me. Oh, I can only look at people and. And from my heart. [00:32:52] They can only be love. [00:32:54] They can only be love. [00:32:57] It doesn't matter what the people try to do to me. Oh, I can only express love towards them. [00:33:04] Hey, yeah. Now you understand. Now I can understand what Jesus meant when he said, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. [00:33:12] That same love is now in my spirit. [00:33:16] Oh, so people can persecute me. People can come against me. People can hate me. But, oh, from me the only thing that will ever come out of me is the love of God. Is love. Is love. Hallelujah. Love. Glory to God. [00:33:34] Oh, neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything but faith, which works by love. [00:33:41] Faith which works by agape. That is the love of God. [00:33:46] It is unconditional love. So it doesn't matter how you treat me. I'm going to love you by the love of God. It doesn't matter what you think about me. I'm going to Love you by the love of God. [00:33:58] Why would you want to live under the burden of the law, child of God? Okay, let's get back into it before I get too excited. [00:34:09] If I was not too excited already, Verse seven says, you did run. Well, who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth? [00:34:17] Obey the truth of what? The truth of the gospel. So now when you hear that phrase, when you read this phrase, when you study that phrase, and like, if I haven't pointed it out to you, but if you have been with us From Galatians chapter 1, 2, 3 and 4, you'd know that when we do the Bible study, it's in the King James Version, all right? My favorite version is the King James Version, okay? [00:34:39] All right, so it's the King James Version. So he says the truth. So when you find that obey the truth. That phrase, the truth, all right? In the King James version, where you study, when the Apostle Paul alludes to the truth, the truth, okay, what is he talking about? What is he referring to? The truth. What is the truth? He's talking about the truth of the gospel. It's something that is called the truth of the gospel, okay? Meaning that there is a truth that comes with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the truth, okay? Jesus also spoke about the truth, all right? He says, I am the way, I am the truth. [00:35:15] So it's not truth as in the opposite of a lie, okay? [00:35:22] He's talking about a specific truth, a reality, okay? What is real? [00:35:29] Okay? What is the reality? Says, I am the truth. [00:35:33] Jesus said that he is the truth. [00:35:36] He didn't say that he is the opposite of a lie. No, he's saying that he is the reality. [00:35:40] He's saying that he is more real, all right? [00:35:45] He's more real than anything that is the truth. The truth. And the gospel message is more real. Glory to God. [00:35:55] The message of the gospel. So he says, what is that now? It says obeying the truth. That means that submitting yourself to the truth of the gospel, submitting to yourself to the truth of Jesus Christ. [00:36:07] So when you see that phrase there, as you're studying the epistles, as the Apostle Paul uses them, and the other apostles use them when they say the truth, all right? Just know that they're referring to that aspect. It's not talking about, oh, you coming from the south, and then somebody asks you, hey, did you come from the south? And then you say, no, I came from the north, and that is now a lie. And then if you say this, I know I came from the South. That is the truth. Not. Not that kind of truth, you understand? But I think you get what I'm saying. [00:36:37] All right? [00:36:38] Verse 8. This persuasion comes, comes not of him that calls you, says, this persuasion. [00:36:45] This persuasion, what persuasion is he talking about? [00:36:49] He's talking about trying to mix the law of Moses with the faith that is in Christ, with the truth of the Gospel of Christ. [00:36:56] Okay? Says this persuasion comes not of him that calls you. Verse 9. Says, A little leaven leavens the whole lump. She's saying, rather do away with it because a little leaven, it spoils the whole lump. [00:37:12] You can't say no, but we must just take this one. All right? So that's what happened when he went with the Apostle Paul for his council visit. And the letter that was written to him by Peter and James to come and bring back to the church at Antioch says that, okay, you must do this one. You must not eat meat that is strangled and food that is offered to idols. Tell them to abstain from this and abstain from that, but also to believe in Jesus. That's the letter that was sent to them. So now that is what he's referring to when he says that a little leaven leavens the whole lamp. So basically, the Apostle Paul is saying that don't even touch anything that has to do with the law of Moses, saying, leave that, that anything, anything that has to do with the law of Moses. It's got nothing to do if you're a Christian. [00:37:54] Says neither circumcision or uncircumcision, neither anything that has to do with the law of Moses says, is going to benefit you in any way. [00:38:04] The only thing that is going to benefit you, he says, is faith, which works by love. There is neither circumcision or uncircumcision, says, but the new creature, a new creation, a new creation which is a living composition of God's faith and God's love. I am a living composition of God's faith and God's love. Everywhere I go, I go. And the faith of God is working in and through me. Everything I do, I do. And the love of God is working in and through me. This is the only thing that the Apostle Paul is saying matters not. Thou shalt not and thou shalt not. [00:38:43] Verse 10. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you not be none otherwise minded. But he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Okay? And verse 11. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution it says, if I was preaching circumcision, then where is this persecution coming from? The reason why I'm experiencing so much persecution, the reason why I'm experiencing so much persecution is because I'm not preaching circumcision like they're trying to get me to preach circumcision. [00:39:18] I'm not preaching circumcision like they're trying to get me to preach circumcision. That's what the Apostle Paul is saying, saying that if I was preaching circumcision, then why am I still being persecuted? So he's saying that if you're not. If you're going to preach the freedom of Christ, there's going to be a persecution that's going to come with it. Why? It's because of what he said in Galatians, chapter four. Remember, as then, he that is born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit is, even so it is now. [00:39:44] Say that even so, it is now. [00:39:47] Him that was born after the flesh persecuted the one that was born after the Spirit says, even so it is now says, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I still being. Why am I still suffering persecution? [00:40:03] Amazing, amazing, amazing. [00:40:06] Sin says, then is the offense of the cross seized? [00:40:12] All right, so there was an offense that came with the cross that brought. Brings about persecution from those that are of the flesh, those that are of the law of Moses. [00:40:23] They're very against the preaching of the cross of Jesus Christ. Verse 12. I would. They were even cut off, which trouble you? Oh, this is how the Apostle Paul was so passionate about this. Say that. I wish that they were even cut off them which trouble you. For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty. [00:40:42] Says you have been called unto liberty. [00:40:44] Hey, I've been called unto liberty. Just only used not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another, serve one another. Says, only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh. [00:41:01] Okay? So he's basically, what he's telling you here is that do not use your liberty, all right? Your liberty to indulge in carnal things, okay? So he says, don't use that liberty now to indulge in carnal things. [00:41:19] So liberty is not a license for you to be indulged in all these carnal behaviors and carnal things. [00:41:27] Okay? But it says, but in love serve one another. [00:41:32] Oh. Verse 14 says, for all the law is fulfilled in one word. Even in this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself says, the whole law is fulfilled in this. You shall love your neighbor even as Yourself, okay? And as a new creation, you are. You are the composition. Your human spirit, your born again human spirit is the composition. Is the composition of the faith of God and the love of God. [00:41:58] So loving your neighbor is natural. It is normal. It's not a law to you. It's not a law to us to love. [00:42:06] Why? Because it's so natural to love. [00:42:09] It is so natural to love. [00:42:11] It's no longer so. He's saying that the law is not for you. That's why I say circumcision or uncircumcision does not avail, it does not profit. It doesn't mean anything to the new creation. Why? Because the new creation is the living composition of the faith of God and the love of God deposited. [00:42:30] Deposited in the new creation. In the Spirit. In the new creation spirit. [00:42:36] Remember this as we go further, that he's talking about the, the, the, the. The recreated human spirits. [00:42:45] Okay? You see why when we get there and I'll remind you, okay? [00:42:50] Says thou shalt love your neighbor as yourself. Says the love of God has been shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Spirit. So love is no longer a commandment for us in that way like it was for them in the Old Testament. [00:43:02] Love your neighbor as yourself. It was a commandment. It was a commandment. But Jesus said that there's a greater love. [00:43:09] And then when he says greater love has no man than this. Than for a man to lay down his life for his friend. Friend. This is in higher love. [00:43:17] This is not. This is, this is higher than loving your neighbor as yourself. [00:43:22] Agape has to do with a higher love. It's a sacrificial love, okay? Where you sacrifice. [00:43:29] You sacrifice the indulgences of the flesh so that you can serve your brothers in Christ. [00:43:36] Okay? I could be out there doing all kinds of things, but I'm here at as a servant. Serving in Christ, serving the word of God, serving in prayer, Serving in ministering the word of God. Serving in praying for the body of Christ. Serving in doing the works of Christ. Serving. I could be doing any other thing. Hallelujah. But the love of God is shared abroad in my heart by the Holy Spirit. So I always come back. I have no choice. I always come back. And I have to serve. [00:44:06] Oh, I have to share the word of God with the body of Christ. I have to share the word of God with the children of God. In fastings, in prayers, in studies, in declarations, in ministries, in ministrations. [00:44:20] Laboring in the Word. Laboring in the Word. Oh, so many things that I would want to do. But the love of God constrains us. [00:44:30] The love of God constrained us. For we thus judge that if one died, then we're all dead. [00:44:39] It propels us. [00:44:42] Verse 15 says, but if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that you do not, that you be not consumed. One of another. Verse 16. This I say, then says, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walk in the spirit. [00:44:57] What does it mean? Walk in the spirit, okay? There's a difference between walk. [00:45:02] Now, King James, communication, right? When you study the communication. That's why also I love the King James. When you find these phrases, you know, obey the truth, okay? [00:45:15] And he's referring to a specific truth. Not just lie, truth, truth and lie. No, he's talking about a specific. That truth. [00:45:25] Okay? Now here, when he says the spirit, okay, he's also. [00:45:32] When you study the writings of Paul, you find that he used those phrases, those terminologies, the spirit to refer to certain things. [00:45:43] Okay? All right. And as I explained this construction to you, there's something that I always tell. I try to tell a lot of people, people, you know, that are very. [00:45:57] That are very. [00:45:59] They like to spiritualize a lot of things, okay? They like to spiritualize the things of God. Spirituals like ocus, pocus, pie in the sky type of thing. Do you understand? But the, The. The. The spirituality, they miss out in that. The spirituality of the word of God is so practical and so tangible. [00:46:20] It's not an airy fairy, like something in that cannot be, that only they have access to and nobody else can access because it's in the spirit. He's in the spirit in some way. It's mystical. Somewhere in the sky, in the air, somewhere where nobody knows where it is. No. [00:46:36] Okay? [00:46:37] And there's one truth that God revealed to me many years ago as I was studying. And then. [00:46:45] And this is. And the spirit of God said to me, shingi, that book that you're holding, I'm talking about the Bible. This one says this book, all right? [00:46:57] This book, all right, contains the spirit realm. [00:47:06] Okay? This is your access. The book is the access to all the corridors, right from start to finish. [00:47:16] All the four corners, if you want to put it that way. Okay, for lack of a better phrase, all the four corners of the spirit realm are contained in this book. [00:47:26] If you cannot understand this, oh, you're going to be deceived. [00:47:31] You're going to be deceived by a lot of things, okay? So what was the spirit of God saying to Me, what did you want me to understand? Says the moment when you open the scriptures, these book, these 66 book, somebody would now want to argue. But what about the other books? What about the other books? Okay, There are people who compile these books, and there's a reason why they excluded the others. And those are very well documented. And if you want to know the reason why, you can. There's so much research as to why only these 66 books were put into. [00:48:02] Were put into. [00:48:04] Were compiled in this way and why the others were left out. [00:48:09] All right? And they're very intelligent reasons why. [00:48:12] Okay? So it's not like there was something that was being hidden, because if there was something that was being hit. If you go and find out all those books that people claim that, yeah, they left out these books. These are not the only books. Why are these ones? There's a reason why these ones, okay? And you can find that information, like right now in 2025. Information and research is not a problem for anyone. If you don't know and if you don't want to find out, if you don't want to know the truth, it's because of you. The Bible says, in the last days, knowledge shall increase. [00:48:39] So if you don't know why, it's your fault. Okay? So go and research as to why only these 66 books were the ones that were permitted to be contained in this book like this. Okay? [00:48:51] That's for that other crew that always like to think that they're very clever. Okay, now let's go back to it. So now the spirit of God said to me, the spirit, everything you need to know. Say, this book is the spirit world. [00:49:05] It's a spiritual book. [00:49:08] All the information that is in this book is spiritual information. [00:49:14] It's the spirit world in writing. [00:49:19] It is the realm of the spirit in written form. [00:49:24] So if you want to operate and to understand and to know the realm of the spirit, what you need to do is to get into this book. [00:49:32] I need to define and describe to you in accordance with God's knowledge, what the things, the things that are and what they do and their function and their purpose in the spirit realm. [00:49:48] That means that without this book, there is no definitive definition or description of the spirit realm and what it does and what happens there and how it works. [00:49:59] And the Bible is the only book that gives us that information. There is no other book in the world that gives us this information. [00:50:06] Think about it. There is no other book in the world that gives us such a descriptive, such a descriptive depiction of the Spirit realm like the book that you have now that we're reading that you call your Bible. [00:50:20] So don't stop chasing child of God. [00:50:24] Stop chasing these people that seem to be spiritual, spiritual, spiritual, spiritual with these hocus pocus pocus types of spiritual things. Spiritual communication that nobody understands. So they can appear more spiritual than others. [00:50:37] There is nobody that is more spiritual and, and there's nothing and there's no one in this whole world that is more spiritual than this book that you have that is called the Bible. This is the most spiritual. [00:50:48] It doesn't get more spiritual than this. [00:50:53] If you get this then you're not, you're going to. Your, your, your understanding and your operation of the things of spiritual things is going to be. If you just get this in lock, these are the types of truths and the things that the spirit of God will reveal to you that will, that, that makes some of us different from others. [00:51:18] And you find that they're very intelligent and educated people that such a simple truth they cannot, they can't get it. It's not given to them. They don't understand it. So they argue, they argue it's. [00:51:32] And they, and they think that they're very spiritual. [00:51:35] You know, they think that the very spiritual is just in, in dreams and visions. The spirit realm is in dreams and the spirit realm is in dreams and oh my goodness. [00:51:48] And another thing that the spirit of God said to me was that the book is a portal. It's living and active. [00:51:57] Have you ever heard Hebrews 4:12 says the logos? The written word says it is living and active, says it is sharper than any two edged sword. That is why somebody 100 people can read the same verse or the same chapter and all 100 of them, they are confused. [00:52:20] They don't know what it is saying. [00:52:23] Why? Because this, the book in itself, the book by itself is spiritual. [00:52:31] There is living, pulsating spiritual reality and matter and life that is in the book, this Bible. [00:52:47] And very few Christians are aware of this, the spirit realm. If you want to have access to the spirit realm, go to your Bible. It will tell you everything that you need to know about the spiritual realm. There is nobody who is more spiritual than somebody who is filled with the Holy Spirit and is in constant fellowship with the written word, with the Bible. [00:53:14] You can't. There's no if. So if you understand that, then we get to verse 16 says walk in the spirit. [00:53:26] So now you see with that, with the backdrop of what I've just told you, you see what he's talking about? [00:53:34] When he says walk in the Spirit, what is he talking about? It is not saying that walk in the airy, fairy, pie in the sky type of thing. And you think that that is walking in the spirit. No, you're not working in the spirit. When you say walk, when you understand that the Bible is the spirit realm in writing, in written form, then when you, when you go to a, when you come to a verse, when it says walk in the Spirit, what is he talking about? [00:54:04] He's talking about walking in the word, walk in the light and in the understanding and in the spiritual substance and in the living and active word. [00:54:16] Walk in the living and active. That is how you walk in the spirit. [00:54:20] Anybody that does not understand that the Bible is the Spirit, it was going to be very confused about a lot of things regarding Christianity. [00:54:35] And that's why you have a lot of Christians that are chasing a lot of things and they never seem to arrive. They're chasing this, that and the other, that man of God, the power, power, power. [00:54:46] And, and that same guy, he, you, you go there holding the totality, the package of the description of the light, of the spirit realm. You're holding it in your hand, but you're. Because you're ignorant of it, people lie to you and they tell you all kinds of things. [00:55:07] Okay, but now when we're talking about here, see, when he says walk in the spirit, he's talking about walk in the light, walk in the word. So now you going to find this expression in the spirit and also with the spirit. They don't mean the same thing. That's why I said that when you study the, when you study the Apostle Paul, Paul, how they translated him in the King. Which is why I love the King James Version because it makes these distinctions of these phrases and terminologies of what, how the Apostle Paul communicated concerning certain things. Okay, but you can you only be able to notice them when you're studying it from the King James Version. I know a lot of you like a lot of versions or whatever. Those are great. Those are beautiful, you know, but when you get to read, really study the, the original Greek and Hebrew using. And also in reference with the King James Version, you'll find that a lot of. There are a lot of mistakes, man, that were made in these new translations. I don't have. I use them for other things just to, so I can understand more. There can be more picture, there can be more explanations, more synonyms, you know, of the other translations. But I, I see so many errors in other translations of, of how they, the, the terminology, the phrasing of certain things just gives the whole verse and the whole chapter of the, of that, of that Bible a totally different meaning. [00:56:31] And people have believed, have formed doctrines from those things, and they have landed in trouble. [00:56:40] Okay, so when we say in the Spirit and with the Spirit, what is he talking about? So now you discover that when you, when the apostle Paul was writing and he was talking about with the Spirit, okay, he was talking as with the Holy Spirit, with the ability being empowered by the person of the Spirit of God, all right? That's when he says, I will pray with the Spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. Okay? So you find that phrase with the Spirit. And then he says, I will pray in the Spirit when he's saying praying in the Spirit. And there's another verse, a very popular verse that is also confused where it says that In Jude, verse 20 says that you, beloved, building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. [00:57:36] And a lot of people have said to mean that. That is mean. That means to pray in tongues. No, that doesn't mean that. [00:57:45] Okay, to pray in the Spirit, in the Holy Spirit or to pray in the Spirit. It means that to pray in accordance with the word of the Spirit, okay, that means it's to pray in accordance with the word of God. [00:58:00] So how do you build. Build yourself up on your most holy faith? Praying in the Spirit or praying in the Holy Spirit? That means that you have to take the words of the Holy Spirit because all scripture was given by inspiration of God by the Holy Spirit. [00:58:14] Okay? So now these words are the words of. So now when you take those prayers, I have. [00:58:20] We have on what the word says, platform, but what we've started, prayers of the Holy Spirit. These are prayers, prayer points that are in the scriptures that are. That were written in the epistles, okay? Those are the prayers of the Spirit. That is what you call praying in the Spirit, which is different to praying with the Spirit. [00:58:43] Praying in the Spirit. [00:58:46] As you pray the prayers of the Holy Spirit, that means that you're praying the prayer points that the Holy Spirit put together in the scriptures. You get it? That is what it means to pray in the Holy Spirit. You're praying in accordance with the words that the Holy Spirit put together in the epistles. That's how you build yourself up on your most holy faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing. By what? [00:59:10] Not speaking in tongues. Faith comes by hearing and hearing. By what? Hearing the word of God. So praying, building yourself up on your most holy faith, building Yourself up on your most holy faith is talking about praying, praying in, with praying the Word of God. When you take the Word of God and you pray it over the situation, that's how you build your, that's how you build your most holy faith. [00:59:32] You take what the scriptures have said concerning the situation and you pray that thing, you pray that word over that challenge. That is praying in the Holy Spirit. [00:59:44] And that is different to praying with the Holy Spirit. [00:59:49] Praying with the Holy Spirit that is now talking about speaking in tongues. So that teaching of Jude, verse 20, it was taught wrong, you know, and it works. I mean it works like for a long time it worked for me, you know, up until the Holy Spirit was like, shingi, wake up. [01:00:12] Shingi wake up. Okay, so now. Oh, then the Holy Spirit gives you understanding when you rightly divide the word of truth. So there's praying with the Holy Spirit, which means that praying in tongues, praying by the ability of the Spirit of God that is in you, that is with the Holy Spirit. And that is different from in the Holy Spirit. In the Holy Spirit refers to in the Word of God. [01:00:40] Okay, so now when he says walk in the spirit, no, he's not talking about some airy fairy pie in the sky situation where you have to walk in so that you do not fulfill the lust of the flesh. He's talking about walking in the Word. [01:00:56] The words that are inspired of the Spirit of God says, walk in the Spirit, walk in the word of the Spirit of God, walk in the word of the Holy Spirit. [01:01:05] Oh glory. [01:01:06] And then he says, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lust against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one to the other, so that you cannot do the things that you would. [01:01:20] Oh, glory to God. [01:01:23] For the flesh lust against the spirit, the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. [01:01:34] And these are contrary one to the other. And remember, your recreated human spirit, your you, your recreated human spirit is a product of what being born again. Not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God which lives and abides forever, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but but of incorruptible. [01:02:01] All right. [01:02:02] By the Word of God. Your recreated human spirit is a product of the Word of God. [01:02:11] Your spirit is a product of the Word of God. [01:02:17] It is born of the Word of God, was recreated with the Word of God. [01:02:21] So walking in the spirit is walking in accordance with the Word of God, aligning your recreated human spirit with the text of the written word of God in accordance with the. With. With the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. [01:02:36] That is how you walk in the spirit. [01:02:40] You walk. You align your spirit. You align your life with the. With the written word. [01:02:48] So, like here, as we are studying the written word in Galatians, and the Apostle Paul is saying, set aside the law of Moses and stand firm in the liberty where which Christ has made us free. Okay? And then you, now you, you, you, you do that word. That is what that is walking in the spirit. [01:03:08] Okay? That means that I'm not going to now live my life in accordance with the law of Moses. Why? Because he has told you already, all right? [01:03:18] That anyone that wants to live in accordance with just one law. [01:03:23] Just one. [01:03:25] He says that you are a debtor to do the whole law. [01:03:28] You are a debtor to do the whole law. [01:03:31] And there's nobody today that can do it. It's impossible to do it. [01:03:36] That's why Jesus had to come and God gave us the law so that he could prove to us that it is impossible. [01:03:46] Okay? So now walking in the spirit is now taking this word that the Apostle Paul has given us and now doing it. [01:04:01] For the flesh lasts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. [01:04:09] Walk in the Spirit. [01:04:12] He's talking about walking in the Word. [01:04:15] Walk in the Word, the word of the Holy Spirit. [01:04:20] Okay? [01:04:22] And it says, for the flesh lust against the Spirit and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one to the other. So that you cannot do the things that you would. [01:04:31] Verse 18. But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law. [01:04:39] What does he mean, led of the Spirit? He's talking about the word of the Spirit of God. [01:04:45] The word of the Spirit of God regarding Christ. The revelation of this, of the new creation in Christ Jesus that was given to us by the Spirit of God through the Apostle Paul, that was given to us by the Spirit of God through the epistles. [01:04:59] Say that if you walk, if you are led according to those writing, according to those that says you will not. What? You are not under the law. [01:05:08] So you cannot mix the epistles, the revelation of the new creation in Christ Jesus, of the church of Jesus Christ, of the resurrected body of Christ, you cannot subject it to the law of Moses. [01:05:24] So if you are led of the Spirit, if you are led of the revelation of the word of God in Christ, Jesus says you are not under the law. [01:05:33] So there's no Christian that has any business trying to keep the law. [01:05:39] Says now the works of the Flesh are manifest. [01:05:42] The works of the flesh are manifest. [01:05:47] The works of the flesh are manifest. Which are these? [01:05:51] Okay, which are these? The works of the flesh are manifest. Which are these? Now, remember what I said to you earlier when we were talking about the works of the flesh. [01:06:04] Okay? [01:06:06] You must remember what was being said. [01:06:09] What was being said in Galatians chapter 4. The apostle Paul revealed in Galatians chapter chapter 4. I'll read from verse 28, says, now we brethren as Isaac was, are the children of promise. [01:06:21] But as then, he that was born after the flesh. [01:06:25] He that was born after the flesh, that is Isaac. No, that is not Isaac. That is Ishmael. He that is born after the flesh is referring to Ishmael, says, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit. [01:06:39] Even so it is now says, nevertheless, saith the scripture, cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman. And then now he comes In Galatians chapter 5, verse 19 says, now the works of the flesh. [01:07:02] The works of the flesh. [01:07:05] Who is he talking about? He's talking about those that are of the. What? [01:07:09] Those that are of the bondwoman. [01:07:12] Those that are of the bond women. That is Ishmael. [01:07:16] And then there are those of us that are of what? Of the free woman. [01:07:19] That is Isaac. [01:07:21] When we now bring back the context of the allegory into Galatians chapter 5, as. As the Apostle Paul continues with that context. [01:07:34] The child of the flesh, the children of the flesh, they persecute the children of the spirit. It says, now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these? Glory to God. And with that, I'm gonna do a part two so that we can. We don't make these too long, and they do not become too long. I will do a part two. Galatians chapter, chapter five, verse, Chapter two, Part two. This will be a part one, and we'll come back to this one on part two. So Galatians chapter five. [01:08:09] Have a lookout. Be on the lookout for part two. This is part one. I trust that you have been blessed. Glory to God. Hallelujah by Galatians, Chapter five, Part one. [01:08:20] Yes. We learned so many things. We looked into so many things. We learned so many things. [01:08:24] And I think with that, you'll be so blessed. Before we get into the last part of Galatians chapter 5, we'll take it up from Galatians chapter 5, from verse 16, going all the way to verse 26 in part 2. And please go and listen to Galatians chapter 1, 2, 3 and 4 again, if you haven't already. [01:08:43] And you can come back now and listen to Galatians chapter five, part one, and then also part two, and it will truly bless you so that you can see and understand what the Spirit of God was saying to us, the body of Christ, through these epistles. And I trust that they will bless you. You've gotten a lot more understanding of what the Spirit of God was saying to us, was trying to communicate to us with these scriptures. [01:09:09] And I delved into explaining some of them that have probably been misunderstood and not taught as accurately in this Bible. [01:09:24] But the church is growing. Revelation is progressive, it keeps growing. You know, we keep getting new. [01:09:32] It's not different from what they were saying. It's just that it's more specific, it's more refined. [01:09:38] Okay? The truth is more refined. [01:09:40] Right? So there's a lot of blessing. I. I was raised up in the times where a lot of these things were blessing to me at the time, and they served their purpose, you know. But in your journey in Christ, you'd find that those things, God. [01:09:55] As you continue to walk in God and in pursuit of the knowledge of the undiluted truth of God's word, the Holy Spirit will uncover these things to you. [01:10:05] And you coming to Shingi's Bible Commentary is also a desire that is in you of wanting to know the undiluted truth of what these scriptures say, you know. And that is what we do here on Shingi's Bible Commentary. My name is Shingi. I love you. God bless you. Remember, this is your time. Stay tuned for Galatians chapter five, Part two. It's going to be a blessing. We're going to get into the works of the flesh and the fruit of the Spirit, and it's going to blow you away when we get into that. My name is Shingi. I love you. God bless you. And remember that this is your time. [01:10:42] Sa.

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