Exposition of Galatians 5:19-21

In these verses Paul makes clear to his readers, the churches in Galatia, what our "new ought" is in Christ Jesus our Lord. We are indeed the free-born sons in Christ, born, from above, from the heavenly Jerusalem and therefore we ought to walk also with our conversation of the heavenly Jerusalem. Hence, the very earnest exhortation of Paul "only use not your liberty as a strategic point of attack foe the flesh, but rather by love serve one another." We are indeed not under law! In these...