Paul PRAISED the Galatian believers by telling THEM THAT
"YE DID RUN WELL" and THEN ASKED THEM, "WHO DID HINDER YOU THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH?"
(Galatians 5:7):
Indeed, they were RUNNING WELL in their HAVING "SUFFERED
SO MANY THINGS" (Galatians 3:4)
So much so, that AFTER HAVING "PREACHED THE GOSPEL"
throughout their region (Acts 16:1,6 cf.Acts 14:6-7)
- he went back through their region "CONFIRMING the SOULS of the disciples ... EXHORTING them TO CONTINUE
in the faith ... THROUGH MUCH TRIBULATION" (Acts 14:21-22)
The SAME ONES who had INITIALLY "CHARMED" THEM
THAT THEY "SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH" (Galatians 3:1) were also those who THEN CONTINUED TO "HINDER" THEM THAT
THEY "SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH" (Galatians 5:7)
These CHARMERS (Galatians 3:1) and HINDERERS (Galatians 5:7) FROM "JERUSALEM" (Galatians 2:1) were "FALSE BRETHREN ... CAME IN PRIVILY TO SPY OUT ... LIBERTY
... THAT THEY MIGHT BRING ... INTO BONDAGE" the Galatian believers under Paul's gospel ministry (Galatians 2:4-5)
Indeed, it was the SAME GOD Who had "CALLED"
PAUL "BY HIS GRACE" (Galatians 1:15)
Paul ADMONISHED the Galatian believers that "A LITTLE
LEAVEN LEAVENETH THE WHOLE LUMP" (Galatians 5:9):
Paul WARNED and CHARGED the ELDERS at Ephesus to "TAKE
HEED ... to all the flock ... FEED the Church of God ... FOR I KNOW ... AFTER MY DEPARTING ... shall GRIEVOUS WOLVES
enter ... NOT SPARING the flock ... THEREFORE WATCH" (Acts 20:17,28-29,31)
He EVEN WARNED THEM that "ALSO OF YOUR OWN SELVES
... SPEAKING PERVERSE THINGS ... TO DRAW AWAY" (Acts 20:30)
He SOUNDED the SAME WARNING and CHARGE (II Timothy 4:2-4)
to BELIEVERS living in the "PERILOUS TIMES" of the "LAST DAYS" (II Timothy 3:1)
Paul EXPRESSED "CONFIDENCE" in the Galatian
believers "THROUGH THE LORD" concerning their MIND TOWARD their TROUBLERS and their "JUDGMENT"
of them (Galatians 5:10):
THE ONLY ANSWER TO ERROR IS SEPARATION FROM IT !! (Romans 16:17-18)
ISRAEL, "being IGNORANT of GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS, and
going about to ESTABLISH their OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS, have NOT SUBMITTED themselves UNTO the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD"
(Romans 10:3 cf.Deuteronomy 6:25;Isaiah 64:6)
CHRIST, "is the END OF the LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS"
- "TO EVERYONE THAT BELIEVETH" (Romans 10:4 cf.Romans 3:19-26)
Thus, "the PREACHING of the CROSS is TO THEM THAT
PERISH FOOLISHNESS, BUT UNTO us which are SAVED it is the POWER OF GOD" (I Corinthians 1:18)
Paul DESIRED that "THEY WERE CUT OFF WHICH TROUBLE
YOU" (Galatians 5:12):
As concerning these TROUBLERS, i.e. LAW TEACHERS (Acts 15:1-2)
- Paul SOUGHT "LETTERS" FROM "the APOSTLES and ELDERS" to STOP this SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY (Acts 15:22-24)
Paul AGAIN REMINDED the "BRETHREN" that they
"have been CALLED TO LIBERTY" (Galatians 5:13) in which they were to "STAND FAST" Galatians 5:1):
He CAUTIONED them to "USE NOT LIBERTY FOR an OCCASION
OF the FLESH" (Galatians 5:13), BUT to rather "PUT YE ON" the LORDSHIP OF CHRIST "and
MAKE NOT PROVISION FOR the FLESH" (Romans 13:14)
He EXHORTED them to "BY LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER"
(Galatians 5:13) - for "FAITH ... WORKETH BY LOVE" (Galatians 5:6)