Because We WANT To!

~ Jesse Eyestone ~

11/23/2025

//  Intro

Galatians 5:16-23

  • 5:16   [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
  • 5:17   For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
  • 5:18   But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
  • 5:19   Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • 5:20   Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
  • 5:21   Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • 5:22   But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
  • 5:23   Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

    • //  The Law

    Deuteronomy 5:6-22

  • 5:6   I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
  • 5:7   Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
  • 5:8   Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven image, [or] any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:
  • 5:9   Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,
  • 5:10   And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
  • 5:11   Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold [him] guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
  • 5:12   Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
  • 5:13   Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
  • 5:14   But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
  • 5:15   And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and [that] the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
  • 5:16   Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
  • 5:17   Thou shalt not kill.
  • 5:18   Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
  • 5:19   Neither shalt thou steal.
  • 5:20   Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
  • 5:21   Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.
  • 5:22   These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

    • Deuteronomy 5:1-3

  • 5:1   And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
  • 5:2   The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
  • 5:3   The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, [even] us, who [are] all of us here alive this day.

    • Matthew 5:17

  • 5:17   Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

    • Galatians 3:21-25

  • 3:21   [Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
  • 3:22   But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
  • 3:23   But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • 3:24   Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
  • 3:25   But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

    • //  Love IS The Fulfillment!

    Romans 13:8-10

  • 13:8   Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
  • 13:9   For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  • 13:10   Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.

    • Galatians 5:13-15

  • 5:13   For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
  • 5:14   For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  • 5:15   But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

    • James 2:8-13

  • 2:8   If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
  • 2:9   But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
  • 2:10   For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.
  • 2:11   For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
  • 2:12   So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
  • 2:13   For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

    • //  Closing