WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

WALKING IN THE SPIRIT

The power of having the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. This is the fruit of the Spirit. Paul tells us in Galatians 5 if we walk in the Spirit we shall not fulfill the lust of our flesh of the Conflict Between the Spirit & the Flesh, the Works of the Flesh, & the Fruit of the Spirit. All are in Galatians 5:16 - 26

Galatians 5:16 - 18 (Conflict Between the Spirit & the Flesh)
16) I say then; Walk in the Spirit & you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17) For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, & Spirit against the flesh, & these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
18) But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Galatians 5:19 -21 (Works of the Flesh)

20) idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissension, heresies,
21) Envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, & the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:22 - 26 (Fruit of the Spirit)
22) but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
23) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24) And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions & desires.
25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
26) Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Now to break down the Fruits of the Spirit & show where they go.
- The first three goes for God, Love, Peace, & Joy. God really looks for these in a Christians; as these are acceptable to God
- The next three are toward man Goodness, Long-suffering, Gentleness; this part of it is our-ward life, people we come in contact with.
- The next three are for self, Faith, Temperance, and Meekness.

To produce love, joy, & peace the Holy Spirit has to do it. As humans it is not in our nature. We may try to counterfeit it, but we cannot produce it. It is an act of God. We can only hold love, joy, & peace by receiving Jesus Christ, by faith into our heart. Which in turn the Spirit is there & if we have the Spirit we have the fruits of the Spirit. You know if Christians & the Church would live the way the church of God is to be acting; what world this would be!! We would be the mightiest power this world or any world has ever seen. We have really lowered our standards of life!

2 Peter 1:5 - 8
5) But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge,
6) to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,
7) to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
8) For if these things are yours & abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We need to adorn the doctrine of Jesus Christ our LORD within our lives & to grow in the fruits of the Spirit. With just seeing our life of love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, & temperance in our language, our expressions, our eating, our drinking, our habits, our home life, our work, & our guarded expression. In other words as Jesus Christ would have us live in the fruits of the Spirit. We then could save our neighbors, our friends, & our family. Plus even people we don't know, just by living our life in the fruits of the Spirit!! Being the same; not hot one day & then cold the next day; being the same each day. God wanted the church to be the same ALL the time.

IN CHRIST JESUS,
REV. LONDA