PART TWO, Escape from legalism.

Legalism invariably leads to quarreling, and apparently it had done so in Galatia.  How strange!  Here were people who wanted to be under the law.  The law requires them to love their neighbors.  Yet the very reverse has happened.  They have been backbiting and devouring one another.  This behavior springs from the flesh, to which the law gives a place, and on which it acts.

(The Believer’s Bible Commentary by William MacDonald)

Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. FITS TODAY.

Galatians 5:22-26 BACK TO THE ECCLEISA

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.  And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Paul beseeches the Galatians to avoid that which is contrary to “walking in the Spirit,” which is a life under the bondage of legalism that can only give rise to conceit, provocations and envy.

The Christian is responsible to routinely confess (own up to, acknowledge) repent any known sin in his life (1 John 1:9); this clears out any hindrance to the control of the Holy Spirit from acting on our part, the all done outside of faith is sin,.  The second is to procure the control (empowerment) of the Holy Spirit by faith alone (Colossians 2:6). 2 Chronicles 16-9 This is in effect the being submissive to God’s Spirit in one’s daily living.

It;s nto hard to see the groweth your asking for just have to avoid the pitfals of bondage self and any of thee bondage religions or practices which are merely added by man as an absolute.

The real differnce .

• Love—that which God is (1 John 4:16) and which is preeminent in every believer led by the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 13; Romans 5:5)
• Joy—extraordinary inner happiness and delight with God’s plan, which is fueled by the anticipation and assurance of the believer’s glorification upon Christ’s soon return.
• Peace—total contentment with God and His plan, which bleeds over on all fellow believers.
• Longsuffering—patience in afflictions, annoyances and persecutions.
• Kindness—compassion toward others.
• Goodness—the basic quality of the divine nature (God’s righteousness), which is the opposite of evil and which seeks to duplicate itself in all others.
• Faithfulness—abiding trust in God and His Son, which produces confidence, fidelity and reliability in the Christian life.
• Gentleness—the quality of humility and the expression of kindness.
• Self-control—the ability to avoid self-indulgence, which can only be achieved by walking in Christ.  It is used of the control of sexual desire in 1 Corinthians 7:9.