In our study of the book of Galatians, with Paul’s focus on the true gospel of grace, received by faith and not by works, based on the promise of the Triune God, the actualisation of the Law written on the hearts of believers, resulting in Love for God and for the neighbour, the work of the Spirit as opposed to the flesh, we must not miss the wondrous teamwork of the Three divine Persons of the Godhead in the Trinity.

In other words, we must acknowledge and appreciate the ongoing teamwork and oneness of the Three in One, even as we examine the work of just One in Three; we must not lose the beautiful harmony, deep love and fellowship that exist from eternity in the Triune God and the part that each of the divine Three plays in saving us from sin, restoring our ruined humanness, and bringing us finally to glory.

We need a constant vision of the transcendent Creator, the Father, who rules and speaks, the holy God who hates sin and judges it, and yet out of incomprehensible love has sent His Son to bear sin’s curse on the cross so that guilty sinners might be justly justified and saved.

We must recall what Scripture had shown about Christ: the Mediator nw glorified and reigning, and effectually calling blind, deaf, impotent, spiritually dead souls to Himself by the Spirit’s secret agency as God’s human messengers -pastors and parents, friends and neighbours – laboured to instill into them the message of law and gospel.

Scripture had revealed God’s everlasting covenant relationships with believers -that total commitment on His part which guarantees blessing for eternity and entitles Christians to call on their Creator as “my God, my Father,” just as each of them call on Jesus as “my Saviour, my Lord, and my God”.
In relation to the individual Christian, the Spirit’s ministry is fourfold:

(a) He enlightens, giving understanding on the gospel so that the spiritual person has the “mind of Christ” (1 Cor. 2:15-16).

(b) He indwells as the seal and guarantee that henceforth the Christian belongs to God (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 3:16, 6:19).

(c) He transforms, producing in us the ethical fruit of Christlikeness: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (2 Cor. 3:18; Gal. 5:22 -24), plus prayerfulness and hope (Rom. 8:26-27; 15:13).

(d) He assures, witnessing to our adoption by God, our eternal acceptance, and our future inheritance (Rom. 8:15-25,31-39; Gal. 4:6).

The Christian’s whole life is life in Christ in terms of the meaning, centre, and direction, so the Christian’s whole life is life in the Spirit from the standpoint of his knowledge, disposition, and ability to love and serve. Putting off the old man and putting on the new man, which God renews (Eph. 4:20-24; Col. 3:9-10), and being newly created in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17), corresponds to the new birth expressed in John’s gospel. The initial inward renewal (regeneration) is the Spirit’s work, as the living that expresses it.

All that we ever contribute to our own Christian lives is folly, inability, and need. Everything that is good, and valuable comes from Christ through the Spirit, with the Father overseeing it and directing it. If we ever become despondent and wonder about all the ‘wrongs’ happening in our Christian lives and in the church, do not lose the spiritual vision of what is going on in the teamwork of the Three in One who not only chose, before the creation of the world, to save us but also to make us His people, His children, His new recreation of a holy priesthood, a holy nation, in a renewed new heaven and a new earth, where we would share His glory, and reign with Him. All these the Triune God would do and achieve, despite great opposition from the evil one, despite the ‘sufferings’, ‘pain’ and apparent defeat in this fallen world for the moment. We have great reasons to worship Him, to praise HIm, to have confidence and faith in Him, and be thrilled in everflowing ardent spirit of giving Him all the glory and honour which truly belongs to Him (the Triune God).