But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature.
At Robertson word pictures: "turn not your liberty into an occasion for the flesh" (eiv apormhn thi sarki), as a spring board for license.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
The Old Identity
Galatians 5:13
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
Sinful nature is how NLT describes the greek word sarkos. KJV uses "works of the flesh", Barclay uses "the lower side of human nature", Amplified has "doings (practices) of the flesh", Phillips "activities of the lower nature", and Wuest "actions of the evil nature".
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
Sinful nature is how NLT describes the greek word sarkos. KJV uses "works of the flesh", Barclay uses "the lower side of human nature", Amplified has "doings (practices) of the flesh", Phillips "activities of the lower nature", and Wuest "actions of the evil nature".
Understanding our Identity
Galatians 5:13
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
We are called. Our calling is the new identity we have in Christ. In this new identity as a child of God, as a born again person, as a new creation, freedom is a characteristic trait. We have been given freedom. In our immaturity we can use that freedom to satisfy our sinful natures or use it in a mature way to serve one another in love.
And Identity is what identifies us with something. Our new nature in Christ should identify us with God. We are learning to walk in His nature, we are becoming like Him.
For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
We are called. Our calling is the new identity we have in Christ. In this new identity as a child of God, as a born again person, as a new creation, freedom is a characteristic trait. We have been given freedom. In our immaturity we can use that freedom to satisfy our sinful natures or use it in a mature way to serve one another in love.
And Identity is what identifies us with something. Our new nature in Christ should identify us with God. We are learning to walk in His nature, we are becoming like Him.
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