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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: themselves in the affairs of the world, seek advantages for themselves and
not for Christ. With what results they shall presently find out.
Since the devil lies in ambush for those in particular who hate the world,
and seeks to deprive us of our liberty of the spirit or to brutalize it into
the liberty of the flesh, we plead with our brethren after the manner of
Paul, that they may never use this liberty of the spirit purchased for us by
Christ as an excuse for carnal living, or as Peter expresses it, I Peter 2:16,
"for a cloak of maliciousness."
In order that Christians may not abuse their liberty the Apostle encumbers
them with the rule of mutual love that they should serve each other in
love. Let everybody perform the duties of his station and vocation
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