We have seen in our previous study that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” And now, here in verse 15 we find the contrary being spoken of by the Apostle Paul: “But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another.” Our study this evening will be focusing on this warning which Paul gives to the believers in the churches of Galatia. Is it really possible that Christians can bite and devour one another? We see from these verses that it is not only possible, but that it does really happen, because Paul is not issuing this warning to them so that they would just beware of wicked men who were false teachers. He has already done that many times in this letter. Rather he is issuing this warning to the Christians themselves, who had not yet learned that there is a fleshly way to engage disagreements over doctrine, and there is a spiritual way to engage in disagreements over doctrine. It appears that in these churches, that they were in danger of being consumed by one another in the way that they were interacting with one another over what was true and false in relation to the gospel. We want to look 1st of all at the problem; that of Christians biting and devouring one another. And then 2nd – We will look at the remedy for this problem which is given to us in verse 16 – Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...