Keep in Step with the Spirit (Sunday, 29th December 2024)

1. Walk in the Spirit. 
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 

2. There is a war in your members.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

3. Yielding to the flesh produces bitter fruit.
Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Gal 5:20  Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Gal 5:21  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

4. Yielding to the Spirit produces sweet, life giving fruit.
Galatians 5:22-24 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Gal 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

5. There is evidence of walking in the Spirit; not seeking self.
Galatians 5:25-26 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Gal 5:26  Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.