That I Might Live unto God
J. Brown. Galatians 2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God. I. WE SHALL SHOW WHAT IT IS TO LIVE UNTO GOD, by pointing out some principal heads of, or ingredients in, as requisite to a living to God. 1. A reconciliation with God. Enemies cannot please one another. 2. A new principle of life. A dead man, as such, cannot live to God. 3. A hearty complying with the law of God as their rule. 4. It includeth a walking by the guidance of the Spirit of God. 5. It taketh in a holy life in all manner of conversation, and the study of sanctification. 6. It taketh in a lively, holy, divine, and spiritual manner of performing commanded duties. 7. It taketh in an eying of God and His glory, with singleness of heart in what they are doing. 8. It includeth a fixed, stayed, and constant walking thus, not by fits and starts. II. THAT SUCH AS ARE ALIVE YET UNTO THE LAW CANNOT THUS LIVE UNTO GOD. 1. They are yet married to their old husband, and not brought out of that state of enmity wherein they were and are (Romans 7:4). 2. They have no principle but the old principle of nature, helped a little with some education; for they are growing still upon the old stock of nature. 3. They are not subject unto the law of God, neither indeed can be (Romans 8:7), their will, ease, pleasure, etc., is all their care, with this their heart complieth. 4. Their guide is the flesh; for they walk after the flesh (Romans 8:4). 5. Instead of holiness, they are yielding themselves servants of unrighteousness unto sin, and sin is reigning in them, and being the servants of sin, they are free from righteousness (Romans 6:13-20). 6. All the service they do is in the oldness of the letter (Romans 7:6), and not in newness of the Spirit; it is carnal, vain, and selfish, every way corrupt. 7. Their ultimate end is themselves; their own peace, quiet, ease, profit, esteem, to get a name, or to make a price to buy heaven to themselves, that they may have whereof to boast. 8. Their constant trade of life, is either to serve Satan, by following vile affections, their own lusts and pleasures, or the world; and thus their days are spent. (J. Brown.) Parallel Verses KJV: For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. WEB: For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.