The first question we then need to ask ourselves is what does this passage say about our GOD. First let's bring back something into a clear perspective, from this scripture in John 14:6-11, which clearly tells us that the Father and Son are one;
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves.
Many times we as the children of God try to fit God and Jesus into this human box, as the disciple Philip did while Jesus walked with him. We take the scriptures and mix them just enough with our human logic to allow our minds to justify our actions or thought processes for a given situation. In other words when we read that we have a high priest who can sympathize with us because He was tempted in every measure that we are being tempted, we want to say "Jesus" is just like me. Jesus was flesh just like us but he had the nature of His Father. He was not made from man's seed, but from incorruptible seed. Jesus may have faced all that we are being tempted with but we will never face all that He was tempted with. Jesus Christ is not our homie and He is like no other human that walked the earth. Jesus never had to repent for one word spoken or action taken. We will never experience that in this life. If God's ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts, then Jesus had to be as well because He and the Father are one. No one, once again, had to teach Jesus love, joy, peace, kindness, etc.... because that was his nature just like the Father and the Holy Spirit. We do not serve a Savior that was made by human hands or human ideology, nor a God who rests in a temple made by human hands. Our God and Savior are so much more greater than we can ever think. Let us learn about them from their inspired Word and not from our own logic. We are making God and Jesus Christ Ideals because we simply think of them lower than who they are, when we place them into man's image!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of experiencing the fruit of the Spirit on purpose!!!!!
Galatians 5
Freedom in Christ
1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth? 8 That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. 9 “A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.” 10 I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion, whoever that may be, will have to pay the penalty. 11 Brothers and sisters, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. 12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Life by the Spirit
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
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