25 November - Galatians 4-6

Jude Sat Oct 27, 2018 7:20 am

My soul doth magnify my YAH, and my spirit hath rejoiced in EL my Saviour; For HE that is mighty hath done to me great things; and Holy is HIS Name. Now unto HIM who is ever present in my helpless estate; who is able to keep me from falling and to present me faultless before the presence of His Glory with exceeding joy, unto the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise EL our Saviour be honour and glory and majesty, dominion and power both now and for ever Halleluyah!

GALATIANS 4

1And I say, for as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, though he is master of all,

2but is under guardians and trustees till the time prearranged by the father.

3So we also, when we were children, were under the elementary matters of the world, being enslaved.

4But when the completion of the time came, Elohim sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under Torah,

5to redeem those who were under Torah, in order to receive the adoption as sons.

6And because you are sons, Elohim has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

7So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir of Elohim through Messiah.

8But then, indeed, not knowing Elohim, you served those which by nature are not mighty ones.

9But now after you have known Elohim, or rather are known by Elohim, how do you turn again to the weak and poor elementary matters,a to which you wish to be enslaved again?

10You observe days and months and seasons and years.

11I fear for you, lest by any means I have laboured for you in vain.

12Brothers, I beg you to become as I am, because I am as you are. You did not wrong me at all.

13But you know that through weakness of the flesh I brought the Good News to you before.

14And my trial which was in my flesh you did not despise or reject, but you received me as a messenger of Elohim, as Messiah יהושע.

15What then was your blessedness? For I bear you witness, that if possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.

16So then, have I become your enemy, speaking truth to you?

17They are ardent towards you, for no good, but they wish to shut you out, that you might be ardent towards them.

18And it is good always to be ardent in what is good, and not only when I am present with you.

19My little children, for whom I am again in birth pains until Messiah is formed in you,

20even now I wish to be present with you now and to change my voice, for I have doubts about you.

21Say to me, you who wish to be under Torah, do you not hear the Torah?

22For it has been written that Aḇraham had two sons, one by a female servant, the other by a free woman.

23But he who was of the female servant was born according to the flesh, and he of the free woman through promise.

24This is allegorical, for these are the two covenants: one indeed from Mount Sinai which brings forth slavery, which is Hag̅ar,

25for this Hag̅ar is Mount Sinai in Araḇia, and corresponds to Yerushalayim which now is, and is in slavery with her children.

26But the Yerushalayim above is free, which is the mother of us all.

27For it has been written, “Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many more children than she who has a husband.”

28And we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of promise.

29But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him born according to the Spirit, so also now.

30But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the female servant and her son, for the son of the female servant shall by no means be heir with the son of the free woman.”

31Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female servant but of the free woman.

GALATIANS 5

1In the freedom with which Messiah has made us free, stand firm, then, and do not again be held with a yoke of slavery.

2See, I, Sha’ul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Messiah shall be of no use to you.

3And I witness again to every man being circumcised that he is a debtor to do the entire Torah.

4You who are declared right by Torah have severed yourselves from Messiah, you have fallen from favour.

5For we, in Spirit, by belief, eagerly wait for the expectation of righteousness.

6For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love.

7You were running well, who held you back from obeying the truth?

8That persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

9A little leaven leavens all the lump.

10I trust in you, in the Master, that you shall have no other mind. And he who is troubling you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

11And I, brothers, if I still proclaim circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling-block of the stake has been set aside.

12O that those who disturb you would even cut themselves off!

13For you, brothers, have been called to freedom, only do not use freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

14For the entire Torah is completed in one word, in this, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”

15And if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

16And I say: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not accomplish the lust of the flesh.

17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you desire to do.

18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under Torah.

19And the works of the flesh are well-known, which are these: adultery,a whoring, uncleanness, indecency,

20idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

21envy, murders, drunkenness, wild parties, and the like – of which I forewarn you, even as I also said before, that those who practise such as these shall not inherit the reign of Elohim.a

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness,

23gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah.

24And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires.

25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

GALATIANS 6

1Brothers, if a man is overtaken in some trespass, you the spiritual ones, set such a one straight in a spirit of meekness, looking at yourself lest you be tried too.

2Bear one another’s burdens, and so complete the Torah of Messiah.

3For if anyone thinks himself to be somebody, when he is not, he deceives himself.

4But let each one examine his own work, and then he shall have boasting in himself alone, and not in another.

5For each one shall bear his own burden.

6And let him who is instructed in the Word share in all that is good, with him who is instructing.

7Do not be led astray: Elohim is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he shall also reap.

8Because he who sows to his own flesh shall reap corruption from the flesh, but he who sows to the Spirit shall reap everlasting life from the Spirit.

9And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not grow weary.

10So then, as we have occasion, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of the belief.

11See with what big letters I have written to you with my own hand!

12As many as wish to make a good show in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only so that they should not be persecuted for the stake of Messiah.

13For those who are circumcised do not even watch over the Torah, but they wish to have you circumcised so that they might boast in your flesh.

14And for me, let it not be that I should boast except in the stake of our Master יהושע Messiah, through whom the world has been impaled to me, and I to the world.

15For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but a renewed creature.a

16And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and compassion be upon them, and upon the Yisra’ĕl of Elohim.

17From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the scars of the Master יהושע.

18The favour of our Master יהושע Messiah be with your spirit, brothers. Amĕn.