Monday, February 23, 2026
“They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you” (Galatians 4:17,18 KJV).
Let us see if we can identify and comprehend the dangers of relying on emotions….
Today’s Scripture can be elaborated thusly. False teachers manipulated (“zealously affected…”) the Galatians’ emotions. Hence, the Galatians gladly received their false doctrine (“…not well”). Consequently, as per Satan’s design, these Galatians were influenced to become isolated (“excluded”) from the Lord’s ministry through Paul. These unstable Christians therefore began to feel just as passionate about defending and supporting those false teachers and their Law-based error (“that ye might affect them”) as the Galatians had been eager about the Grace truths they heard from Paul in-person (“zealously affected… when I am present with you”). Paul did not disapprove of excitement per se, for our enthusiasm about the truth should never cease (“it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing”). The problem was letting emotions get out of hand to the point of delusion or clouded judgment (accepting the erroneous notion that works-religion, or Law, was more advantageous to sinners than was Grace).
Remember, we have had a completed Bible canon for 20 centuries, but whatever we have learned (or have chosen to ignore altogether!) from the 13 Pauline epistles, we have gradually turned away from those Grace principles to let the Law creep in. Moreover, our silliness with emotionalism has resulted in our zeal for denominational error but aggression toward dispensational truth; the blunder of Galatianism still appeals to the lust of our flesh. No one is sinless, yet everyone in Christendom prefers a system (the Law) that constantly points out sin. What they need to do is use the Law lawfully: learn once and for all how Christ died to put away their sins once and for all (grace), and they (!) need (!) to (!) get (!) on (!) with (!) grace (!) living (!) (Christ living in and through them as they walk by faith in an intelligent understanding of His words to them, regardless of what they “feel” or do not “feel”).
Whether they realize it or not, these modern “Galatians” advocate for their own misery and defeat….
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