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Well, hello, church. If you would
open to Galatians chapter five. Galatians five. I hope I don't need this chair
behind me, but if I sit down at some point, this is the longest
I will have stood for five days or so. So we'll see how this
works. Let's start in verse 16. And we'll read all the way through
26. This is the Word of the Lord. It says, but I say, walk by the
Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For
the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires
of the Spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed
to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to
do. But, if you are led by the Spirit,
you are not under the law. For the works of the flesh are
evident. Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery,
enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions,
divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God. But, the fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is
no law. And those who belong to Christ have crucified the
flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let
us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited,
provoking one another, envying one another. Father, Lord, I don't know where the
minds or the hearts of everyone in this room have been this week.
We pray that You would send Your Spirit to come and direct them
toward You, toward Your Word, Guard us from drifting thoughts
that would take us away. Distract us. Guard us from the
enemy who would twist. This this scripture before us. And we ask for clarity. And we
ask that you would actually use this to conform us to the image
of your son. so that Christ, You would get
more glory out of our lives. And so please help us through
this inspired text. We pray it in Jesus' name, Amen. Well, the plan for the next two
weeks, Lord willing, is to meditate on four words. Walk by the Spirit. I want to think about that. We're
picking up where Kent left off last week. This is a really big
transition point in the book of Galatians. Y'all know we've
worked for a few months through the book of Galatians into midway
through chapter 5. And so we've heard Paul come
out and basically say at the beginning, hey, this is not my
words. This is revelation from Jesus
Christ that I received that I'm passing on. We've heard him lay
out the superiority of the new covenant over against the old
covenant, saying, if you in the new covenant go back to the old
covenant law and submit yourselves to it, that you have turned to
a different gospel. You've turned away from grace,
you've turned away from the Lord Jesus Christ. We've heard him
talk about salvation always, whether it was for Abraham or
for us, has always been by faith in Christ alone, apart from works. And we've heard these arguments
that he's given against these false teachers who have come
into these churches in Galatia and are teaching a different
gospel. So this is a transition point
where now he's going to begin to teach the role of the Holy
Spirit in the new covenant. That's where this is moving.
Now when we get into talking about the Holy Spirit, Christians
a lot of times immediately think of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We think of Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit. We
think of the sovereignty, I guess in our circles we think of the
sovereignty of the Spirit. We start thinking of ways we
can argue how much control the Spirit has at salvation and how
much He doesn't. I know there's a season of my
life where I obsessed maybe a little bit of a strong word. I was certainly
very passionate about studying out and seeking after fillings
or manifestations of the Spirit of God for ministry, for preaching. But when I come to the Scriptures
and I look at what is important for the Christian regarding the
Holy Spirit, walking by the Spirit is at the top of the list. Here's the question. Do you walk
by the Spirit? Do you walk by the Spirit? I believe that you can be a born-again,
Spirit-filled believer and have seasons of life, days, weeks,
where you do not walk by the Spirit. I don't believe in a type of
carnal Christianity. Maybe some of your minds go there.
You think, well, you're meaning for years. I don't believe someone
can get saved and five years later there's no evidence that
that person has the Spirit of God living in them. They don't
love the word of God. They don't care to obey the word
of God. They don't want to be around the people of God. They
don't love the son of God. And yet they're in dwelt with
the spirit of God. I don't believe it. I don't think the Bible teaches
it. First John would be a good place
to go and study that out. So I'm not talking about that,
but I do believe it is possible for a person to have the spirit
of God in them, but not always walk by the spirit. And to demystify
this idea a little bit, it's probably worth saying that walking
by the Spirit is the same thing as walking by Jesus, or walking
with the Spirit is the same thing as walking with Jesus. And I
get that from Romans chapter 8, verse 9 and 10, where it says,
you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If, in fact, the
Spirit of God dwells in you, Anyone who does not have the
Spirit of Christ, he interchanged them. The Spirit of God, the
Spirit of Christ, does not belong to him, but if Christ is in you.
So Paul's switching them. Walking with the Spirit, being
indwelt with the Spirit, being indwelt with Christ. Those are
the same thing. This is the same idea, I believe,
as abiding in Christ. To walk with the Spirit is to
abide in Christ. I think those are in essence
the same thing. So we're talking about the Christian
life. We're not talking about how to become a Christian. We're
talking about how to how to live the Christian life. And there's
really two ways to live, Paul says. You either live according
to the flesh, or you live according to the Spirit. You live according
to the flesh, which is, and we'll build this out more next week,
Lord willing, it's just a radically self-centered life. That's what
it means to live by the flesh. And a life lived by the Spirit
is a life of self-denial for the sake of loving others and
loving the Lord. And those things are in direct
opposition to one another. They're not almost the same,
they're opposites. And verse 16 says, if believers
want to conquer the flesh, they must continually yield to the
spirit. That's what the verse says. Verse
16, if I say, but walk by the spirit and you will not gratify
the desires of the flesh. That's a promise. A promise. Now think about how
much money people spend on counselors, AA meetings, medicines, different
curriculum and books and blogs, uh, trying to overcome sin and
addiction. And I'm not saying those things
are wrong, but we have here a very clear promise from God that says,
if you walk according to the spirit, you will not gratify
the desires of the flesh. A promise from God. I don't think most Christians
believe that. I just don't think we believe or put any weight
on those type promises for the most part. Here's what I'm not interested
to do for the next 20, 30 minutes. Talk about why you should walk
according to the Spirit. We could give verses for that.
I don't really care to do that tonight. I don't really care
about giving warnings of what will happen if you don't walk
according to the Spirit, but walk according to the flesh.
We could give warnings. That's quite dangerous to take
the path of the flesh, but I'm not going to do that tonight.
I don't even really want to get into the benefits and the blessings
of walking according to the Spirit, although they are massive. I want to talk about how to walk
according to the Spirit. How do you do it? Because at
the end of the day, you can be really motivated and go, oh,
man, I want to walk according to the Spirit. Because there's
so many blessings and benefits to that over against the dangers
of walking according to the flesh. But if you don't know how, what
is it? I mean, who cares if you're motivated? We need to know how
to do this. And we tell each other this stuff.
We give advice. We go, brother, you just need
to follow the Spirit. You just need to walk with the
Spirit. You just need to be led by the Spirit. You just need
to abide in Christ. You just need to put on the full
armor of God. Do you know how to do that? Preachers are really good at
telling you what you should do. I can give you lots of verses
on what you should do or why you should do it. You can ruin
a lot of good sermons. Can you raise your hand in the
middle of the sermon, please? I guess I'm giving you permission
to do this to me at some point, if you ever do. But you can ruin
a good sermon by saying, hey, preacher, how do you do that?
Or maybe just wait till the end of the sermon would be better.
Come up to him. How exactly do you do that? You
just told us for 50 minutes to do such and such. How exactly
are we supposed to do that? I want to meditate on how to
walk in the Spirit. And I think this is where we
have to start. You can't walk by the Spirit unless you're alive
by the Spirit. You've got to be alive. John 6.63, Jesus says, it is
the Spirit who gives life. The flesh is of no help at all.
Or 2 Corinthians 3, 6, the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. Or Jesus in John 3 seemed to
believe this when He says, the Spirit gives life to those whom
He will. So whenever the Spirit wants
to give someone life, He wants to give you life or you life,
you get life. And it's the Spirit's will who
that will happen to according to Jesus in John 3. Or in our
text, I think we see this balance. Jump over to verse 25, Galatians
5, 25. Listen to this. If we live by
the Spirit, see it? If we live by the Spirit, now
here's the balance. Let us also keep in step with
the Spirit. So if it's the spirit that gives
you life, it's the spirit that should sustain your life, help
you live your life. You could walk in and step with
the spirit. Now I want to back up and say
something because I know our church, we may be out of balance
on this. I don't know the perfect balance. I know the scripture
teaches both, but as a, as a more reformed leaning church, we tend
to emphasize the sovereignty of the spirit. Certainly when
it comes to salvation. I think he deserves credit for
applying the work of Christ to us, for causing the new birth.
I think the Spirit of God deserves that credit. He deserves credit
because he seals us, it says, for the day of redemption. If
you're going to make it to the day of redemption, make it to
glory, it's because the Spirit sealed you and persevered you
to the end. Um, I don't believe that the
new Testament teaches that someone can resist the spirit if the
spirit wants to save you. I think grace is irresistible. That's a different sermon, but
we preach that. And I think those are glorious
doctrines. Um, but when it comes to sanctification or the daily
Christian life, Christians can resist the work of the Spirit
in their lives to some measure. Why would the Bible say, don't
grieve the Spirit of God, or do not quench the Spirit? Because
you can do that. You can stiff-arm Him and say,
not today. It's the flesh. Right? Or maybe not the whole day, but
maybe that moment that you want to rebel and you go, not right
now. and you resist the Spirit. That is very possible, and we
all do it. And every believer here knows
exactly what I'm talking about. Tom Schreiner in his commentary
on Galatians said about verse 25, he says there's a tension
in this verse between divine enablement and human choice. On the one hand, believers must
choose to live by the Spirit. Okay? Make sure you hear that.
Believers must choose to live by the Spirit, while on the other
hand, the Spirit empowers believers to live a life pleasing to God. If we live according to the Spirit,
let us also keep in step with the Spirit. That's the balance,
that's the tension, which leads us back to the question, how
do we walk according to the Spirit? And let me just say one more
thing before I give what I hope will be a very simple path forward
in this. I've taught this numerous ways
over the years. Looking back over some of the
notes of ways I've taught this particular doctrine over the
years, I don't think they're super clear. I was just praying
this week, Lord, give me a clear way to teach this. This should
not be complicated. Walk by the Spirit should not
be a complicated thing. I mean, I have books on this
and you go through and read it and it's technical. It's not
complex or difficult, it's just like you don't remember three
days later what you read. And what's the point? You remember
how to walk in the Spirit for three days? I mean, we need something
better than that if we want to keep this going. So I want to
put two things before us, kind of two points, and I hope this
will bring some clarity. There's probably more that could
be said here, but this would certainly, I think, help us to
walk by the Spirit. Number one, you must know God. All right. How are you going
to walk by the spirit? If you don't know the spirit
or the son or the father, how can you walk with God? If
you have not biblically or experientially or personally known him. And the answer is you can't,
you must know him to walk with him. All right, Hosea 4.6, my
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because you have
rejected knowledge. And that would be primarily knowledge
of God. Second Peter 1.3, he has granted
to us everything we need for life and godliness through the
knowledge of him. And then chapter three, verse
18 of second Peter, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
Jesus Christ. Philippians 3, 8, I count everything
as loss for the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus, our
Lord. You know, it's popular to hear
Christians say, oh man, all that matters is passion. You know,
I just want passion for the Lord. But the Proverbs say, zeal or
passion without knowledge is not good. Proverbs 9.10 says,
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the
Holy One is insight. Proverbs 15.14, The heart of
him who has understanding seeks knowledge. Don't just be scared
to get puffed up with knowledge. That is possible. There's a warning
there. But overwhelmingly, the Scripture is telling us to seek
knowledge. An intelligent heart acquires
knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. If you
love the Lord and you gain knowledge of the Lord, you will increase
your love of the Lord. You will not turn yourself into
a stoic by gaining knowledge if you have a heart for the Lord.
You'll increase your heart for the Lord. Jesus said, this is
eternal life to know me. Ephesians 1.17, Paul praying
for the churches, he says that the Father of glory may give
you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of
Him. We could go on and on, but the
New Covenant, in its essence, is about knowing the Lord. That's
what the prophets prophesying to what the new covenant would
be. It was all about knowing the Lord. Listen to Jeremiah
31, 31. Behold, the days are coming,
declares the Lord, when I will make a, here it is, new covenant
with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like
the covenant I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by
the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant
that they broke. though I was their husband, declares
the Lord. For this is the covenant I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, declares the Lord. I will put My law within
them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their
God, and they shall be My people, and no longer shall each teach
his neighbor and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they
will all know Me." Know Me. From the least of them
to the greatest. From the person who gets saved
and first day they're saved, to the person who's been a Christian
for 50 years. They will all know Me, declares
the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember
their sins no more. I love that you can't disconnect
knowledge of God with the experiential reality of forgiveness from God. That to know God is to know Him
as a God who has forgiven all of our iniquity. Jeremiah 9.24
says, let the one who boasts in this, that he understand and
knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love,
justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things,
I delight, declares the Lord. That one's relevant. Who, who
in our day, I mean, Christians, I guess, uh, among Christians
are not talking about justice. Maybe it'd be wise to back up
and think about the God of justice before, before we start boasting
of our own justice and righteousness or condemning others for their
lack of justice or righteousness. Maybe we should back up and say,
uh, let's take a good long look at the God who is perfectly just
and righteous. and then boast in that. And I think God wants us to know
Him, guys, so much so that He sent His Spirit with the primary
role to be our Helper so that we would know Him. Jesus said
this in John 14, 16, I will ask the Father and He will give you
another Helper to be with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth,
whom the world cannot receive because they neither sees Him
or knows Him, but you know Him. You know him, for he dwells with
you and will be in you. In that day, you will know that
I am in the Father and the Father is in me. And listen to this promise in
verse 21. Whoever has my commandment and keeps them, he it is who
loves me. And he who loves me will be loved
by my father, and I will love him, and listen to this word,
and manifest myself to him. The spirit of God manifesting
to the believer, knowledge of God, so that, why? So that we
treasure him above all things on this earth. To get a glimpse
of who God is, even in some small measure, is to see He is more
valuable than anything on this earth. And that's the primary
role of the Holy Spirit. So how do we know if we're treasuring
God as He's revealed Himself to be? That leads to the second
point. You will joyfully surrender to his will. So you know God
in order to walk by the spirit, and then you joyfully surrender
to his will. I'm talking about a volitional
surrender, a joyful, willing surrender. Let me contrast this
with someone who is not a believer for a moment, a non-believer. does not submit to God because
they won't submit to God. Romans 8, 7 says the mind that
is set on the flesh is hostile to God for it does not submit
to God's law. Indeed, it cannot. So think,
think about that. Non-believers don't submit to
God because they won't submit to God and they won't submit
to God because they can't submit to God. Hence the need for the
new birth. You need the new birth to happen
before you're going to submit to God. You have to have your
eyes opened to know God, to be inclined, to want to follow him
and love him and, and trust him. And so before that happens, we
can't submit to him because we won't submit to him. That's why
Paul keeps calling this slavery. That's why it's called slavery.
It's a slavery that even reaches to the level of desire. Listen
to how Paul says it in Galatians 5.17, he says, the desires of
the flesh are against the desires of the spirit. and the desires
of the Spirit are against the flesh, for they are opposed to
each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do." Guys,
there is a want in a Christian. There is a want. And it's a want
that's a stronger want for God and the things of God than for
sin. And it's possible to, to, to
lose focus, right? To, to, to fall into the, the
fleshly things, but there is a want in the Christian because
of the new birth, because they're alive, because they know God
and love God. That want is stronger than the
want for the flesh. And it causes us to do something
very profound. It causes us to surrender ourselves,
surrender our will to God's will. That's what Paul's saying here.
This is what Jesus demonstrated in John 5, 19. He showed us what
this looks like. The son can do nothing on his
own accord, but only what he sees the father doing. He says,
I only do the will of him who sent me. That's Jesus. What is Jesus doing? He's walking
by the Spirit. What does that look like? Submitting
Himself fully to the will of God. And being happy about that. You know, guys, this is such an area of shame
for all of us. It just is. Because we fail so
miserably. You know, how little do we really
rely upon the Lord? Jesus is saying, I can do nothing
apart from the Father. And it's like, we go whole days
and we don't pray for anything. That's shameful. The very Son
of God had to live moment by moment in reliance upon God,
and yet we sit there and try to live a whole day by ourself.
Just arrogance. Foolishness. It's shameful. You know, I posted on social
media this week, it came up in my little memory thing, or whatever
it's called. God never gives you more than
you can handle. And then, I don't even remember
the exact quote, but I made a comment saying something along the lines
of, if He loves you, He always gives you more than you can handle.
You're not supposed to be able to handle everything on your
own. He's going to pile it on to the point you know you can't
handle it if He loves you. Because it'll make you finally
dependent on Him. And when we depend on the Spirit,
rather than ourself, who gets the glory? God is magnified,
not us. And so if God loves you, he'll
put you in that position often. Oswald Chambers said, if anyone
desires to live a life of faith and trust in God, he must not
merely say that he trusts in God, he must really do so. You
know, so it's easy to say, oh yeah, I trust in God. Um, what,
what areas of your life are you actually doing that? In your
marriage? Parenting? With your work? With your words, with your thoughts,
with your entertainment choices, what you look at on your phone
is where's God in the midst of all of this? At what level are
we really depending upon him? You know, we don't mature out
of this. It's not like this is for all
the really immature Christians who haven't learned to walk well
on their own. The most mature Christians are
the ones who are best at this. That's how you know you've actually
progressed in the Christian life, is that you're actually more
dependent on the Lord. That you actually realize your
weaknesses more clearly. You know, I don't know if y'all
remember, like right when you got saved, this is at least how I felt.
I'm like, man, this Christian life is easy. You know, I wanted
to read my Bible. I wanted to go to church things.
I'm like, man, this is, there was like, it felt like, why aren't
all y'all doing this? This is easy. And it did not
take very long to realize it's not easy. And I see my weakness
far more now. I read an article about Billy
Graham. It was written by his pastor for the last 15 years
of his life. And this guy was being interviewed
by Christianity Today. And I guess the interview was given
after Billy Graham died a few years ago. And he said this,
Mr. Graham had a profound sense of
his own personal weakness and inability before a holy and righteous
God. There were many times where I
would look at Mr. Graham or respond to his question
wondering why he, Billy Graham, world-renowned evangelist, would
need to ask a question like that. I thought that he would have
known the answer, that he had arrived, but not Mr. Graham.
He believed that his strength was only in the Lord, and his
weakness was made perfect only through Christ. and that this
life is a constant pursuit after the holiness of God and crying
to God to fill him with the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.
And then he said later in this article, what was really shocking
is that here I am sitting with one of the most influential men
to ever live in this country, one of the greatest men of God
that I knew alive, yet he made me feel like I was that man,
not him. And he genuinely didn't see himself
that way. He was the humblest man I ever
knew. And it sounds like the Apostle Paul, to me, at least
a little bit like him in 2 Corinthians when Paul boasts of his weakness
because Jesus told Paul, Paul quit praying that your weakness
would go away. My power is made perfect in your
weakness. Not once you get strong, But
in your weakness, my power is made perfect. And then Paul said,
I finally stopped praying about it, because I would rather have
Christ's power than to get rid of the weakness. You know, somebody,
there's probably some, maybe multiple people here today that
you don't even know how you got here. You certainly didn't feel
like worshiping or loving anyone and just spiritually kind of
dry and dull. Listen to the promise from the
Lord for you. Isaiah 40, 29. He gives power
to the faint. And to him who has no might,
he increases strength. Even youth shall faint and be
weary, and young men shall fall exhausted. But they who wait
for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up
with wings like eagles that shall run and not be weary. They shall
walk and not faint." They shall walk and not faint. Walking by the Spirit isn't something
you do. That's not what it tells us.
It says walk by the Spirit. It does not say walk by your
own strength. Walk by the Spirit. You surrender
your will to His. And oh, the joy, the love, the
peace that flows when you do that. This is not a point of
misery. You surrender to the Spirit.
I don't know what background everybody comes from when it
comes to surrendering to the Spirit. Some Christian backgrounds,
some weird things start happening. That's not what we see in the
Scriptures. You surrender yourself to the Holy Spirit, and the fruits
of the Spirit become manifest. And you begin to look more like
Christ. David Wilkerson, said, if the
Holy Spirit is in you, let Him have control. If He lives in
you, then take your orders from Him and let Him have His way. You know, a verse in the Old
Testament that tells us how to walk in the Spirit, it's Proverbs
3, 5, and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your
heart and lean not on your own understanding and all your ways. acknowledge Him, and then He
will make your paths straight. That's how you walk in the Spirit. Walk. It's present tense in the
original language. It's something you do and then
you continue doing. It's a lifestyle of surrender
to the will of God. So I want to end with just three
practical questions. I encourage you to think over
these. Maybe in Citigroup we can talk through these. I've been asking myself these
three questions, so they're kind of personal to me, but I think
they apply to anyone here. How hurried are my devotions? How hurried are my devotions?
Do you prioritize a daily, unhurried time for meditation and prayer
in the Word? And then, here's a follow-up
question to that, and do you move at the pace of the text,
or do you move at the pace of the culture? And whatever you
have to do that day. And a related question would
be a corporate question for us. When we do a gathering like this,
are you in late and out quick? Or do you linger? Do you fellowship? And I know this season it's certainly
different to be able to do that. Here's another question. Do I
have enough room for God's wonderfully humbling providences? We do know, right, that God isn't
having all of His plans for our lives frustrated by the devil. He is not taking orders from
anyone. He is moving history forward. He's moving our lives forward
uninterrupted by the devil, uninterrupted by the world, uninterrupted even
by our own sin. I don't know if everybody has
a view of God's sovereignty like that, but God regularly frustrates
our plans and self-reliance with His mercies because He loves us. Because He loves us. I love productivity. I love to do stuff. It is painfully
frustrating to me to move from one house, move into another
house and not be able to do anything and be laying in a bed. I, it's
like fingers on a chalkboard, you know, it, it drives me insane.
I like to accomplish things. I like to have things that I
do and then I get something done in the day. Um, God often doesn't. want us to be productive, it
seems. He doesn't want us to be lazy,
but sometimes he's not so concerned about our productivity as he
is that we would manifest more of the fruits of the spirit.
And so maybe he slows us down sometimes so that he can bring
more of his spirit's fruits out of us. Here's a third question. Do I have enough margin in my
schedule and life for other people's needs and requests? I've seen this happen in our
family with some of y'all and some of y'all who are watching.
A lot of our members are obviously not here today. I've watched
y'all be able to give up hours of your day, full days, and just
come over and help us. That's convicting to make someone
like, man, do I have full days I can carve out to serve someone? Or a few hours even? You know,
as believers, we don't just move at the pace of what we need for
our own soul. We are called to move at the
pace of also what is needed for the souls of others. Do you have any margin in your schedule
to help serve love? with your time, with your money,
with your energy. And I'm not talking first and
foremost about a stranger that you've never met before, although
we are to serve all of our neighbors. But how about the body of Christ?
How about the people in this room? How about those in this
covenant community? Think about Jesus' life. Jesus'
life. He walked. He walked in perfect
lockstep with the Spirit. He walked and he walked and he
accomplished a lot. And I would dare say he was busy
and he wasn't lazy. But he was never frenzied. He
was never stressed. He never felt overwhelmed, but
yet he still accomplished a ton. And he knew when to get off to
pray. He moved at the pace of love because he walked with the Spirit.
So guys, this is not the takeaway from the message. The takeaway
is not, OK, Jesus walked perfectly with the Spirit. Therefore, we
all need to walk perfectly with the Holy Spirit. You know, aim
for that. I hope you will aim for that.
That's not the message. The message is that we should
worship Jesus because He walked with the Spirit all the way to
the cross. because a bunch of us can't walk
by the Spirit and continually walk by the flesh and needed
a man to come down who was the very Son of God who could perfectly
walk by the Spirit and do all the will of His Father and surrender
Himself to the point of death, even death on the cross. Worship
Him. As we worship Him, as we exalt
Him, as we make much of Christ and His ability to live by the
Spirit, I think what happens is that we begin to walk by the
Spirit. And we find this new power and motivation to follow
in His steps. Let's pray, Church. Father, Lord,
these things are much easier to talk about, to preach about
than to do. And so God, we want to be doers
of your word, not hearers only. There isn't much to disagree
with. We all know we should walk by
the Spirit. And Lord, we know that we need you to do that.
And so Lord, our request is simple. Help us to make application.
Help us to not leave here and move into our week. And this
never changes us. We pray, Holy Spirit, as it says
in James, that you would be jealous Lord, that you would be jealous
over the spirit you made to dwell within us, and that you would
give more grace so that we would seek to know you more, and we
would surrender ourselves to the God that we know and love.
So help us, Lord. For your name's sake, we pray.
Amen.
How to Walk by the Spirit
Series Galatians
| Sermon ID | 71320175112942 |
| Duration | 42:14 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Bible Text | Galatians 5:16-26 |
| Language | English |
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