Hymn 659, the tune is Evening
Star, 29. The Lord my Saviour is, for me he
shed his blood, and shall I scorn his name to own, forbid it, mighty
God. Hymn 659, tune Evening Star,
29. The Lord my Saviour is, the Lord
in His heav'nly throne, ? And shall my soul with faith
to her ? ? Bow beneath mighty God ? If we care for nature, We stir to make them die. God
them I will cause a great cause, which not in God denies. The depth, the great inquiry,
That I might be set free. No child pervades with heavy
heart, ? For he did a kind of thing ?
? His glory does not stand alone
? we could not make the bed. Then when I come, I shall find
her, this my dear love bring, Let us read together from Paul's
epistle to the Galatians and chapter 2. Galatians chapter 2. Then fourteen
years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas and took
Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation and
communicated unto them that gospel which I preached among the Gentiles,
but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means
I should run, or had run, in vain. But neither Titus, who
was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised,
and that because of false brethren unawares, brought in, who came
in privily to spy out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus,
that they might bring us into bondage. To whom we gave place
by subjection? No, not for an hour, that the
truth of the gospel might continue with you. But of these who seem
to be somewhat whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to
me. God accepteth no man's person. For they who seem to be somewhat
in conference added nothing to me. But contrary wise, when they
saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the
gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter, for he that wrought
effectually in Peter to the apostleship of circumcision The same was
mighty in me toward the Gentiles. And when James and Cephas and
John, who seemed to be pillars, received the grace that was given
unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship,
that we should go unto the heathen and they unto the circumcision.
Only they would that we should remember the poor the same which
I also was forward to do. But when Peter was come to Antioch,
I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the
Gentiles. But when they were come, he withdrew
and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
And the Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas
also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw
that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the
gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew,
livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compelst
thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? We who are Jews
by nature are not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a
man is not justified by the works of the law but by the faith of
Jesus Christ. Even we have believed in Jesus
Christ that we might be justified by
the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law. For by
the works of the law there shall no flesh be justified. But if
while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also
are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God
forbid. For if I build again the things
which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I, through
the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless
I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which now I live in the flesh,
I live by faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself
for me. I do not frustrate the grace
of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ
is dead in vain. May the Lord bless the reading
of his own precious word and grant to us a spirit of real
prayer. Almighty, most merciful and eternal
God of heaven, we desire to bow before thy great and thy glorious
majesty. Thou art in heaven and we upon
earth, and thy word exhorts us, therefore let thy words be few,
for in the multitude of words there want is not iniquity. We pray to be led and guided
and directed by the Spirit of God. And we pray that the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God our Father and
the sacred fellowship of the Holy Spirit may rest and abide
upon us. May we be led by the Spirit of
God. For as many as are led by the
Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And may it please thee,
Lord, Lord Jesus, to come and stand in our midst, that we may behold thy glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth, that we may behold thee by faith, that we may touch
the hem of thy garment, that we may draw from that sacred
fullness that is in thee. Oh, we pray. that we may be favoured
this afternoon to know those precious drawings of our Eternal
Father and those divine leadings of the Holy Spirit. Oh, we do
pray, most gracious Lord, that thou wouldst meet with us as
we meet around thy word and grant that thy word may be made a living
word and indeed that thy word may live in our hearts. that
we can say with the dear apostle the life I now live, I live by
faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Lord
we pray that thou would lead us forth by thy good spirit into
the word of truth, into some of those glorious mysteries of
the gospel, into the sacred glory of the person of Jesus, the Son
of God, that we may behold him as our prophet, as our priest,
and as our king, that we may follow him, that we may serve
him in our day, in our generation, that we may be obedient, that
sweet obedience of faith, and that we might be submissive,
that we may know that Spirit of Christ, not my will, but thine
be done. Lord, we do pray that thou wouldst
remember those that are in affliction, and put forth thy healing power,
and grant thy restoring mercy, and thy upholding grace. We do
humbly pray thee, and be Jehovah Rophi, I am the Lord that healeth
thee. Lord, may we know that healing
power of thy grace in our hearts, we do humbly beseech thee. And
we pray that we may be favoured to continue in the spirit of
love and of union and communion, that we may love each other,
serve each other and bear each other's burdens. And we pray
for that grace as we're exhorted in thy word to be kind and tender-hearted,
forgiving one another that even as God, for Christ's sake, hath
forgiven you. Lord, do graciously hear us,
we humbly pray thee, and go before us as a church and as a congregation,
and work mightily, powerfully, effectually. And may we, O Lord,
commend thy grace in the way that we live, in the things that
we do, in the spirit that we're of. And that we read even of
thy own disciples, and when thou didst say to them, ye know not
what spirit ye are of. Lord, give us the spirit of Christ.
Let that mind be in us, which was also in Christ Jesus. We do humbly beseech thee, and
grant that we may truly love each other and serve each other,
and bear each other's burdens. By this shall they know that
ye are my disciples, because ye have love one to another. May the love of Christ be shed
abroad in our hearts. May that sacred spirit of humility
and love be found in our hearts, that we may esteem each other
better than ourselves to be. O gracious God, do grant us this
this spirit of Christ, this mind of Christ. Grant us that mind
of Christ, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
And we pray for that grace, to be humbled under thy mighty hand,
that we might be exalted in due season. We do seek, O Lord, that
thou wouldst graciously bless us together as we gather around
the table of the Lord and grant thy sweet presence and thy divine
love, thy heavenly power to be known and felt in our hearts,
that we may remember the tremendous cost of our salvation through
the precious blood of the Lamb. And we do pray, most gracious
Lord, that thou in thy precious mercy Bless us as a church, as
a congregation. Remember the little ones and
the children and bless them indeed. Put the fear of the Lord into
their hearts. An unctuous light to all that's
right and a bar to all that's wrong. And graciously bless the
young friends, each one of them. Bless them with living faith.
Bless them to become true followers of thee and of those who through
faith and patience inherit the promises, bless them with light
and understanding in thy word, and may thy word be sealed into
their hearts by the Holy Ghost. Lord, we pray that thou wouldst
graciously remember parents and give them wisdom and grace to
bring up their children in the nurture and the admonition of
the Lord. Lord, we pray that thou in thy
precious mercy would bless the families that gather for family
worship. For all things are sanctified
by the word of God and prayer. And may there be that sanctifying
influence in the home. We do humbly pray thee. Lord,
we do pray that thou in thy precious mercy would remember all in the
midst of the journey of life graciously bless them. Remember
this village and send the glory and light of the truth into this
village. Remember the prodigals that have
wandered away, stretch out thy almighty arm, cause them to be
in one, cause them to return. Oh Lord, thou alone are able
to do these things and we pray that thou wouldst remember all
that are in the midst of life and graciously visit them with
thy great salvation, wherever they be. And Lord, we do pray that thou
would remember the little hills of Zion, up and down the land,
wherever thy servants stand, where thy people gather. We would
not be left, O Lord, to a party spirit, but we pray that wherever
thy servants are, and wherever thy people gather, that the gospel
may have good success, that the glory and light of the gospel
may spread again in the length and breadth of the nation. We may, Lord, be favoured, for
our gospel came unto you not in word only, but in power, in
the Holy Ghost, and with much assurance. Remember those, O
Lord, that would desire to eat this Passover with us. We pray
that the time may come when they may be constrained by Thy grace,
by love, to follow Thee and to serve Thee in their day and in
their generation, as promised in Thy word that Thy people shall
be willing in the day of Thy power. We pray, O Lord, for a
day of power. We pray, O Lord, that thou would
return to Jerusalem with mercies, that thou would make bare thine
holy arm in the gospel. We pray, O Lord, for any that
are in any particular trouble or trial or perplexity or sorrow
or sadness or bereavement. We lovingly commend them to thee
and to the word of thy grace. We pray, most gracious Lord,
that thou would lead us and guide us and direct us. We pray, dearest
and most gracious Lord, that thou in thy precious mercy would
remember all thy servants as they labour in word and doctrine.
Lord, we beseech thee to yet send forth labourers into the
harvest and yet gather in precious souls Lord, we thank Thee that
Thou art a God that hears and answers prayer. We thank Thee
that we have indeed a great high priest who is passed into the
heavens, Jesus, the Son of God. We thank Thee for the throne
of grace, for the power of Thy love. We thank Thee for the incarnation
of the Son of God. the holy life he lived and the
holy law he fulfilled and the bringing in of everlasting righteousness
through that holy life. We thank thee for Calvary where
sin has been put away and divine justice has been satisfied. We
thank thee for the precious blood of the lamb that cleanses from
all sin. We thank thee They died for our
sins and rose again for our justification. Gracious God, do hear us. Do be with us in this service.
Do come and open thy holy word. Do touch one's lips with a live
coal from off the heavenly altar. We ask for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. Let us now sing together hymn
number 439 to the tune Rockingham, 398. When I survey the wondrous cross,
on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count
but loss, and poor contempt on all my pride. Hymn 439, tune
Rockingham, ? There the Godhead stood ? ? A
King of riches ? ? The Lord of His eyes ? ? High in the sky ? and the ? Save thee, O God, of Christ thy
God. ? ? Love and praise to thee we
sing. ? I shall return to thee. Namo'valokiteshvaraya Greatly feeling to need the Lord's
gracious help, I direct your attention to the chapter that
we read, the second chapter in Paul's epistle to Galatians,
and we'll read verse 20 for our text. Galatians chapter 2, verse 20. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live. Yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. What a wonderful, precious thing. If we can come in with the first
clause of our text. I am crucified with Christ. You know that is the very essence
of the Christian gospel. I am crucified with Christ. When we view that scene of suffering
sorrow and agony and grief, to realize was for me. I think it's Joseph Hart says
in one of his hymns, was it for crimes that I had done he hung
and suffered there. What a question isn't it? Was
it for me? Did he suffer, bleed and die
for me? I am crucified with Christ because
then my beloved friends have It becomes a very personal thing. The crucifixion of Christ becomes
a very personal thing. It was for me that he suffered
and bled and died. It was for my sins. We often
refer you to that beautiful word that so opens this precious truth
in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and the last verse, verse 21. For he that is our heavenly Father,
for he hath made him, that is Jesus the Son of God, for he
hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. Christ knew
no sin. Christ was without sin, who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So he took our sin and we receive his righteousness.
What an exchange isn't it? He that knew no sin was for
he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might
be made the righteousness of God in him. Isaiah puts it very
clearly, doesn't he? He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him and with his stripes we are healed. I am crucified
with Christ. He was numbered among the transgressors,
for He bare the sin of many. That's why He was numbered among
the transgressors, because He bare the sin of many. The Father,
in that divine act of grace, transferred all the sin of the
church onto His Son, Jesus Christ. That is why he suffered and bled
and died, because he carried, he bear all the sin of the church. I am crucified with Christ. How many of us here in the chapel
this afternoon, that is the burden or exercise of our heart? I want
to know if my sins were laid on I want to know if he suffered
and bled and died for me. I want to know that that suffering
Saviour suffered for me, died for me. That's what the Holy
Spirit exercises the heart of the Lord's children, as to whether
they have an interest in the Saviour's blood. my pardon sealed,
and peace with God. I am crucified with Christ. Now, looking at this from another
angle, I am crucified with Christ to pass through afflictions, troubles,
trials, sometimes persecution, temptations to be crucified. The apostle
speaks of it particularly in the Galatians, to be crucified. He means now the believer now
in a crucifying pathway. Now if we think of what is being
set before us, crucifixion is something that is very painful,
exceedingly painful, humiliating. And some of the Lord's people
have to walk in a path that is very painful, very humiliating,
very trying, very perplexing. You may wonder sometimes why
it is that I have this particular trouble. And you probably think
like the Apostle did when he had the thorn in the flesh and
the messenger of Satan to buffet him. He thought he could well do without
it and you may have something in your pathway at this time
and you think that you could well do without it. It's so trying
and perplexing to your flesh. Now the reason that the Apostle
says that he walked that pathway of that thorn in the flesh, that
messenger of satan to buffet him. He says quite clearly lest
I should be exalted above measure. See we have a very proud nature
and all of us have it. You might get some people that
are of a very very very nice disposition but you know We all have pride. Every one of us. And pride is
something that is part of our fallen nature. Part of our fallen nature. And
the Lord, he'll often lead us in a path that is crucifying
to our fallen nature. something that you wish you didn't
have. When I was meditating here on
Friday, my mind was much drawn to the epistle to the Romans,
especially the last part of chapter 8. And the apostle speaks there
of the wonderful grace of God and of the wonderful salvation
wrought out says from verse 29 for whom he did foreknow he also
did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that
he might be the firstborn among many brethren Moreover, whom
he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called,
them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. These wonderful acts of divine
grace, predestination and justification and glorification, all flow as
fruits of the suffering Saviour. What shall we say then to these
things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared
not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us all things? Who is he that
condemneth? It is Christ that died. Yea,
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand
of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, famine or nakedness or peril or sword and it was
particularly this verse 36 for as it had written for thy sake
we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for
the slaughter those killing experiences that the Lord's people have that
are exceedingly trying to our flesh whether it be temptation
or affliction or a particular trial that is in your pathway,
say, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long. It's a mercy
that the Lord does this. And what he is doing is crucifying
our flesh. Our flesh is our biggest enemy.
The old preachers often used to say about the world, the flesh
and the devil. The world is our enemy. The devil
is our enemy. But our flesh is our enemy too. One hymn writer says, doesn't
he, this wicked heart is no small part of all my grief and shame. Now that flesh, my beloved friends,
has to be crucified. For thy sake we are killed all
the day long. We are accounted as sheep for
the slaughter. Nay, that means no. In all these
things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For
I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principality,
nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. For
thy sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep
for the slaughter. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live. You know, sometimes in these
crucifying experiences the Lord's children have, when you get a
view given by the Holy Spirit of your sinful heart, of your
corrupt nature, is crucified. When you're brought to see the
sinfulness, when you feel so undeserving of the very least
of the Lord's mercies, I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless
I live. There are, though you feel death
within you and all about you, the apostle in the second epistle
to the Corinthians he says that we have the sentence of death
within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves. Now that
is one of the purposes of what we've just read in the Romans,
for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are killed to
all hope in the flesh. are nevertheless I live in spite
of all that in spite of all the sinful corruption of my heart
of my nature many times when I go to preach I feel very deeply
very painfully my sinfulness and the corruption of my heart
and I thought can ever any profit come from this man and it kills us to all hope in
ourselves and then perhaps when one feels so deeply that and
feels it's impossible to go and preach and then the lord will
bless the word and that's the sense here of the meaning of
the word i'm crucified with christ nevertheless i live when that
sweet hope is raised up in the heart in the finished work Jesus
Christ and then you say in spite of all my flesh, in spite of
all my sinfulness, in spite of all the corruption of my nature,
in spite of all the deceit of my heart, nevertheless I live. Yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me. Christ liveth in me. When it says, I think it's in the Colossians
Christ in you, the hope of glory. And that is our hope. It's in
the, absolutely entirely in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Not in anything we can do, not
in anything that we can accomplish, but in everything that Jesus
has done. That holy life that he lived,
that holy law that he fulfilled, that is our righteousness. We
cannot produce any righteousness ourselves. No, it's the perfect
obedience of Christ, it's our righteousness. You may try, but
you can't do it. Nevertheless I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. What a wonderful thing, when
you know him. Like the apostle says it in the
Philippians, doesn't he? That I may know him in the power
of his resurrection. And that's what you need to feel,
isn't it? the power of his resurrection lifting you up after this sinful
wretched self and giving you a clear view of the glorious
person, power and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nevertheless,
I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. Christ liveth in me. But then
he speaks of our walk and our conduct now. And the life which
I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God. The life I now live in the flesh. The life that the true believer
now lives in the flesh is not the life that he used to live.
No. It's a new life. and that life
is in Christ, and that hope is in Christ, and that mercy is
in Christ, and that peace is in Christ. There's nothing in
self. So don't think that when he says
the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith. You see,
it's not a life in himself, it's a life in Christ. Christ is the
way, the truth, and the life. Christ said, didn't he, at Lazarus's
grave, I am the resurrection and the life. I am the resurrection and the
life. You know it's a very precious
thing when we feel that resurrecting power, so that though we feel
so much in ourselves, that death that is within us, and yet Christ made precious. There are so many contrasting
things in the heart and life of the believer, in their experience. There's this feeling sense of
death within them and death about them. And yet, the new man looks
by faith to Jesus Christ and he finds life. So instead of
death, there is life. And when we look within, there's
darkness. But then when Christ is made precious, there's light.
I am the light of the world. In John chapter 11, we read there
of the Lord Jesus speaking by the grave of Lazarus. Jesus said
unto her, verse 25, I am the resurrection and the life. He
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. believe is thou this she saith
unto him yea lord i believe that thou art the christ the son of
god which should come into the world i believe it's when we
have those clear believing views so the christian then knows the
contrast in their personal experiences contrast between that which is
of the flesh and that which is of the spirit. And the Christian
believer, the apostle speaks of it here in the epistle to
the Galatians and he speaks there so clearly of the flesh lusting
against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. In chapter
5 we read the exhortation verse 16, this I say then, walk in
the Spirit as in the Holy Ghost and you shall not be filled with
the lusts of the flesh. See it speaks there for brethren, verse 13, for brethren
you have not been called unto liberty only use ye have been
called unto liberty only use not liberty for an occasion to
the flesh but by love serve one another for all the law is fulfilled
in one word even in this thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself
now he speaks of the works of flesh but if you bite and devour
one another take heed that you be not consumed one of another
This I say, then walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfil
the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth 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. You cannot do the things that
you would. the same conflict is spoken of
in Romans chapter 7. The apostle there he says that
which I would I do not and that which I would not I do. I find
a law within my members that when I would do good that evil
is present with me. So this conflict that is constantly
in the heart of the true believer and the flesh lusted against
the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one
to the other. Do you find this conflict in
your heart? This is all part of this crucifying
pathway. It is. He has a great list here
of the works of the flesh. Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness. idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
endings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like, of
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.
You see, my beloved friends, but then he goes on, seeing we
have it in our text, the life I now live, he says here in verse
22 chapter 5, but the fruit of the spirit, that's the indwelling
of the spirit in the heart of every true believer, but the
fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law,
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 vain
glory, provoking one another, envying one another, or that
the Lord would deliver us from those things which indeed are
of our flesh. and which are opposite to the
spirit of Christ and the mind of Christ. I am crucified with
Christ. Nevertheless, I live. Yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh. You see, again, we will come
back to this point. The life which I now live It's
not the life which I used to live. The life which I now live, in
the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved me
and gave himself for me. And then he adds on this word
here, I do not frustrate the grace of God, for if righteousness
come by the law, Christ is dead in vain. The apostle here is
laying out very clearly that all our life and all our hope
is in Christ, in the life of Christ, in the sufferings of
Christ, in the death of Christ, in the resurrection of Christ,
in the ascension of Christ into glory. That's where our life It's not in the law, it's not
in what you and I can do. You see there were those deodizing
teachers in the church at Galatia that were trying to bring the
brethren in Galatia back under the law. And he goes on in chapter
3 here, O foolish Galatians! Who hath bewitched you that ye
should not obey the truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ had been
evidently set forth, crucified among you? The Apostle himself
had preached the cross of Christ, the person of Christ, the love
of Christ, the sacrifice of Christ, evidently set forth crucified
among you. So he asked them this question,
this only would I learn of you, received you the spirit by the
works of the law or by the hearing of faith? Are you so foolish having begun
in the spirit? Because this is what was happening
here. Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit? Are you
now made perfect by the flesh? So what the Judaizing teachers
were teaching them is that now they had come to live in faith
in Jesus Christ. They could now fulfill the law. That was the great error that
they were teaching. My beloved friends, the Christian
believer cannot fulfill the law. There's only one person who's
ever done that. That's the glorious person of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has honored and magnified the holy law of God in his holy
life. You can't do that, I can't do
that. No man has ever done that but Jesus Christ. And this is
the very point that the apostle is laying down so strongly here. Are ye so foolish, having begun
in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye
suffered so many things in vain, if it be yet in vain? He that
ministereth to you in the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for
righteousness, Abraham was made righteous by faith in Jesus Christ. My beloved friends, you and I
will only ever be righteous in the person of Jesus Christ, by
faith in Jesus Christ, never by what you and I have or can
do. All our righteousnesses are as
filthy rats. And what the apostle says here
in this last verse of the chapter two, I do not frustrate the grace
of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ
is dead in vain. Righteousness comes by faith
in that precious redeemer. Righteousness comes through the
precious blood of Jesus Christ, the holy life of Jesus Christ,
the sufferings and death of Jesus Christ, the precious blood of
Jesus Christ and in his death and resurrection, that's where
all our hope is, in exactly what Jesus Christ has done, not in
anything that we have or can or ever will do. He goes on in verse 10 of chapter
three and he says, for as many as are of the works of the law
are under the curse. Very solemn searching word, isn't
it? For it is written, cursed is everyone that continueth not
in all things which are written in the book of the law to do
them. Any person under the law must fill that holy law in thought,
word and deed. What the apostle is driving home
here, we cannot ever get to heaven by the works of the law, by the
works of our flesh. that no man is justified by the
law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live
by faith and the law is not of faith but the man that doeth
them shall live in them Christ has redeemed us from the curse
of the law being made a curse for us for it is written cursed
is everyone that hangeth on a tree I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. May the Lord add his blessing
to these few remarks.