Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? Gal. 3:3
When is it that we actually begin in the Spirit?
Is it not when we deny ourselves and take up the Cross of Christ: when we first come to the Lord by repentance and acceptance of Christ as our Lord.
This verse infers that there must be a continuance of our, “beginning in the Spirit.”
A daily thankfulness to God and the Lord Jesus Christ for Redemption purchased on our behalf at, “Christ’s Cross at Calvary.”
Romans 8:1, is really speaking of the same thing.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Galatians 3:3 says, “having begun in the Spirit,” and Romans 8:1 says, “to walk after the Spirit.” I believe we are being told here to continue to walk after, “trust in Christ,” just as we started out doing at the time of salvation.
In other words, we start out trusting in Christ and we are to continue trusting in and thanking Him for redemption.
If we want the Holy Spirit to work in our life: if we want to be directed and led by the Holy Spirit, then of necessity we must continue in His will for us to “trust in the finished work of Christ and all which he accomplished on our behalf on the Cross.”
This is a continual thing which should take place day by day. A renewed and refreshed faith in what Jesus did for us, “each day.”
This is the premise on which the Holy Spirit works within an individual.
Without a renewed trust in Christ each day, one will find themselves trying to be made perfect by the flesh.
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