SPIRIT AND LAW

“O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith.”
(Book of Galatians 3:1-5)

The Amplified Version reads, “Are you so foolish? Having begun in (or with) the Spirit, are you now being made perfect (or ending with) by the flesh?”

Clever teachers and preachers, books and blogs simply cannot (or should not) bamboozle us into believing that one can begin in the Spirit and end in the flesh. The flesh or works of the Law “nullify the grace of God” and “if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died in vain.” (Galatians 2:21) Be on guard…don’t be bewitched. Every day is Halloween when one is bewitched. It is Trick or Treat theology.

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” Jesus