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Galatians 5:18-25
Excerpted from: The Christian Paradox (Part Two)I am going to give you five points. He does not enumerate them here, but there are five points that we can see in what he says in this long paragraph.
First: Walk in the Spirit. In other words, conduct yourself as well as you can under the guidance of God's Spirit. That is, strive to obey the prodding of the Spirit within you. Try strive to do what is right, do what is godly, what God or what Christ would do. It is to be your utmost intention to do these things, to follow the Spirit, and as much as lies within you, you should have those things as your normal behavior. This is far more than just confession of Christianity. It is living out as completely as possible the knowledge of God, the law of God, the instruction of God. So that should be top of mind, our intention, our motivation, everything is supposed to be in Christ doing what Christ would do. That is part of the law of your mind.
Second: Be aware that the two contrary realities will cause conflict and confusion within you. You will be battling this in your head. You will be trying to work it out. And the flesh, driven by human nature, will often win because of your weakness. You have inherent weakness in the flesh. And knowing that, knowing that you have this other law in you should drive you to do better, to overcome it. We should not just lay down and say, "I'm weak. I can't do this. I guess I'm going to sin." No, we should get our back up when we feel human nature trying to influence us and say, "No! I'm going to follow the Spirit of God, the law of my mind. That reality that is Jesus Christ and His perfect example."
Third: If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. By this he means that as long as we are sincerely trying to follow God, as long as we repent of our failures, as long as we are continuing to build a relationship with Jesus Christ and with God the Father, God will by grace continually forgive us. He will spare us from the death penalty because we are in cooperation with Him. We are working on our salvation and He is working with us. And so God covers us with the blood of Christ, and as long as we are continuing on that way, it remains on us.
Fourth: Work on mortifying, that is, putting to death, subduing, overcoming the works of the flesh. Work at it! If you find a bad habit in your life, quit it. Replace it with a good habit. Do not let those bad habits continue once you see them. Recognize them and put them to death. Because they will keep us from God's Kingdom if we fall back into them and not repent of them. That is a rejection of God's grace. So as he says in verse 24, this is what is called crucifying the flesh, putting it to death, living a life of self-denial, denying human nature its victories.
Fifth: Work on producing the fruits of God's Spirit in your relationships with others and in your personal growth in Christ's image. We need to be showing love and kindness and joy and peace, and all the others—not just believing them. We can believe in love all we want, but if we are not showing it, we are not practicing it, it means nothing. These fruits, as Paul says, have no downsides. There is no law that they break. You cannot make a law that makes love, proper godly love, a bad thing. So practice them because practicing them leads to eternal life. Because in practicing them we are growing into the image of Jesus Christ.
Now he ends his pointers here with a summary in verse 25. "If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." And I just mentioned this a minute ago. This summary in verse 25 signifies that if you are spiritually alive in Christ, put it into practice. Living in the Spirit is being spiritually alive because Christ has put His Spirit in you. He has raised you from the dead, and now you are alive in Christ. If that condition is what you are in, if you are in that state, walk in the Spirit. That is the bottom line. You have been called to this process of conversion, this process of sanctification. … . . .
Galatians 5:22-23
Excerpted from: The Bond of Perfection: SacrificeThose who are Christ's, those who have been crucified with Christ and thereby Christ lives in them, they have crucified and sacrificed their carnal selfish spirit. They have replaced Satan's way of get in order to live in God's sacrificial spirit of give. We could actually describe all of the fruits of God's Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23 as the fruit of humble sacrifice, devotion to God shown through the service to man. And God willing, we will tap into that maybe in the future.
Galatians 5:22-23
Excerpted from: The Wonderful Ordinance of Water BaptismA repentant attitude is not just an emotion. God is looking for fruits, not emotions.
We should be seeing these things in our lives in the way of fruit. They are foundational items of fruit to be produced by the converted person, but they are just the foundation. Everything else should be built on those fruits, especially on love.
Galatians 5:22-25
Excerpted from: Still Producing Fruit?You know what Paul is telling us here. These are not just virtues that live in our head. "They're, you know, just real spiritual things. 'I just love everyone in my heart.'" No, he says in verse 25, if we are living in the spirit of these fruits they are going to show up in our walk. And he gives us an example:
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