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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Galatians 5:1

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESGalatians 5:1. Stand fast in.—Stand up to, make your stand for. The liberty wherewith Christ has made as free.—As Christ has given you this liberty you are bound to stand fast in it. Be not entangled.—Implicated in a way which involves violence to true spontaneous life. The yoke of bondage.—Contrasted with the yoke of Christ, which is compatible with the fullest spiritual freedom.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Galatians 5:1Christian Liberty—I. Should be valued... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Galatians 5:1

DISCOURSE: 2077LIBERTY OF THE CHRISTIANGalatians 5:1. Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.THE doctrine of justification by faith is inculcated throughout all the Holy Scriptures, even in parts where we should never have thought of looking for it. Not only was it fully and explicitly declared to Abraham; but it was allegorically set forth by his putting away of Hagar and her son Ishmael, and his... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Galatians 5:1-26

Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Jesus Christ? Now, Paul taught righteousness through faith. There followed Paul teachers, Judaizers who brought another gospel, which was not really a gospel. For they were saying that was it was necessary to be circumcised and to keep the law of Moses in order to be righteous before God, to be... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Galatians 5:1-26

Galatians 5:1 . Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your celestial birth, comprising pardon, and all the blessings of the new covenant. The power to leave the galling rituals of the law behind, and put on the garments of righteousness, as the sons of Abraham and of Sarah. The yoke of bondage is now superseded by divine adoption, which makes us sons of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Galatians 5:1

Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us freer and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.The freedom of the ChristianIt is necessary that we first see generally what that “liberty” is, “wherewith Christ maketh His people free.” I cannot hold any one “free,” so long as his own conscience locks him up into the fear of death and punishment. The mind which has places which it is afraid to touch, can never expatiate every where; and the mind which... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Galatians 5:1

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Ver. 1. Be not again entangled ] ενεχεσθε . As oxen tied to the yoke. Those that followed Judas Galileus, Acts 5:37 , chose rather to undergo any death than to be in subjection to any mortal. (Joseph. xviii. 2.) If civil servitude be so grievous, what ought spiritual to be? Those poor misled and muzzled souls that are held captive in the pope’s dark dungeon, have an... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Galatians 5:1

Stand: Proverbs 23:23, 1 Corinthians 15:58, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Ephesians 6:14, Philippians 1:27, 1 Thessalonians 3:8, 2 Thessalonians 2:15, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 4:14, Hebrews 10:23, Hebrews 10:35-Malachi :, Jude 1:3, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21, Revelation 2:25, Revelation 3:3 the liberty: Galatians 5:13, Galatians 2:4, Galatians 3:25, Galatians 4:26, Galatians 4:31, Psalms 51:12, Isaiah 61:1, Matthew 11:28-Amos :, John 8:32-Zephaniah :, Romans 6:14, Romans 6:18, Romans 7:3, Romans... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.Stand fast therefore in the liberty — From the ceremonial law.Wherewith Christ hath made us — And all believers, free; and be not entangled again with the yoke of legal bondage. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Galatians 5:1

1. Therefore The separation of this verse from the last chapter is unfortunate, as this therefore closely connects it therewith. Ye are free sons of the free, stand fast therefore in freedom. Liberty From the old ritualism. It is not the high freedom from sin, guilt, and depravity, wrought by Christ, which is here specified; but the emancipation from old Judaism. This verse is perplexed with various readings, yielding slightly different meanings. With liberty Christ has made us... read more