Today, I am reading and commenting on  Galatians 1-6.

Here, in his letter to the Galatian Believers, Paul warns against following teachers who fail to preach Christ crucified.  Paul writes that we have been freed from the Law of Moses by putting our faith in Christ.  He tells us that we have been freed from the Law by putting our faith in Christ.  We should not allow ourselves to be enslaved once more.  However, our freedom does not mean that we should allow ourselves to be caught up once more in doing sinful things.  Our faith has allowed the Spirit to live within us, so we should live within the Spirit and according to the Spirit.  We should not gratify our fleshly desires by partaking in sinful actions such as sexual immorality, selfish ambition, factions and envy, and the other sins Paul lists here.  Instead, we should follow the Spirit and serve our fellow Believers with humility.  As I read this, it seems that the preachers against whom Paul was writing suggested that it was okay for one to indulge in the fleshly desires Paul described here as long as one followed the rituals of the Law of Moses (such as getting circumcised).  I am going to finish with a few verses from this passage which I find inspiring:

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.