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Let us now turn in our Bibles to Paul's letter to the Galatians. We've been working our way through this letter and we are coming to the last two chapters, the last section on the life of gospel liberty. And today our text is Galatians 5 verses 16 through 21. Please give your attention to the reading of God's word. 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. Now 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. Thus far the reading of God's word. Let us pray. Lord, we ask that you would open our eyes, that we might behold wonderful things out of your word. We thank you for the clear teaching of the Apostle Paul concerning the gospel and how we are made right with you by faith alone. And we thank you that he also shows us how we are to walk by the Spirit as those who have been justified in Christ. We ask that you would bless us and encourage us today. In Christ's name, amen. In the preceding context, just the paragraph before, which we did not read, but if you remember from last week, the preceding context deals with this fundamental contrast between these two ways of relating to God, these two fundamental religions, if you will. One is the religion that is focused on the law. This was the religion that the Judaizers were proclaiming. In one perspective, you could say, well, aren't they Christians too? Don't they profess to believe in Jesus as the Messiah? Yes, they do, but it almost seems like an afterthought. Their fundamental piety, their fundamental way of relating to God is through the law. That's what they're proclaiming as the key. If you really want to deal with the sinful tendencies that you have, if you really want to fight against the flesh, The way to do that is to be circumcised, and then circumcision is sort of the first step in a life of being committed to observing the Mosaic Law in its entirety. I'm not just talking about the moral commandments to love your neighbor and to love God, but the entire Mosaic Law with all of its ceremonies and rituals and circumcision and clean and unclean distinctions and so on. All of that is a way of disciplining the flesh and helping you to fight against sin and to be obedient and to please God by your works. Ultimately, the religion of the Judaizers is a behavioristic religion. It's a religion that says, here's the law, all the things that you should do. Then you take your will, which is able to keep the law, and you conform your will, and you force your will through willpower to keep the law, and then you do the works of the law, and through doing the works of the law, that is the good things that the law requires, you will be accepted before God, and you will be able to become a good person, and you will be able to fight against The flesh. The Judaizers were behaviorists. That is the one religion that Paul is describing in this context, and he says, if you Galatian Christians go along with what they're saying, back in verse two, if you accept circumcision on the terms that they are preaching it as necessary for salvation, then Christ will be of no advantage to you. And so Paul then contrasts that religion, that piety, that law-focused way of trying to be right with God and to become a better person, and he contrasts that with The Christian gospel with Christ. Christ is the only way that we can have our sins forgiven and be saved. Christ is the only way, by faith in Him, by receiving what He has done because He has fulfilled the law for us and taken the curse of the law in our place. It's only by faith in Christ and receiving of Him that we are able to be accepted before God, not by the works of the law. not by doing what the law commands, but by trusting in Christ and receiving the forgiveness and grace that comes from Him. That has been the main burden of the whole book up until this point. But now in this third section, the first section was on the Apostle of Gospel Liberty, chapters 1 and 2. The second section was on the Doctrine of Gospel Liberty, where he was proclaiming this doctrine that we are accepted as righteous in the sight of God, not because of our works, but because of what Christ has done. And we receive that by faith. Now in this third section on the life of gospel liberty, which begins here in chapter 5 and continues into chapter 6, Paul is talking about the doctrine of sanctification. The doctrine of justification is that we are righteous in the sight of God. We are reckoned and counted and deemed to be righteous and acceptable before God because of the work of Christ. without the addition of our own works. But now in chapter 5, under the topic of the life of gospel liberty, he is describing a different understanding, a different view, if you will, of sanctification. How can we fight against the powers of the flesh and against sin? How can we grow in obedience to the Lord and become more and more like Christ? And so he is digging deeper now. He's saying these two different religions, the Judaistic religion and the Christian religion, not only have different ways of being accepted before God, they have different understandings, different views of how we can grow in our sanctification. The Judaizers had a behavioristic theory, a behavioristic view of sanctification. And Paul says this theory, that if you just simply exercise your will and by willpower just be more obedient and keep the law better, this theory fails to account for the deeper reality of the flesh. the flesh, this idea that he talks about. He doesn't just simply refer to sin, he doesn't simply refer to disobedience to God, or individual trespasses against the commandments of God. He speaks here of something deeper, something more powerful, something more... influential upon us, and that is this reality of the flesh. All humanity is under the power of the flesh. All humanity is in bondage to sin. And so he says, Paul says, The right view of sanctification, the right theory of how we can become more pleasing to God is not through the law method, the way that the Judaizers are teaching, but rather by walking in the Spirit. He says, verse 16, but I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. You will not carry out the deeds of the flesh. And right away you're wondering, what does that mean? What does it mean to walk by the Spirit? Well, we'll come to it. We'll begin to flesh it out and understand it better as we keep going. But notice that Paul will use another phrase in a couple of verses that is a synonym for walking by the Spirit. That's in verse 18. And so this will give you a little clue then to help you. He says in verse 18, if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Walking by the Spirit is the same as being led by the Spirit. Letting the Spirit that Christ has given to us, letting that Spirit be the power that is the only true power that can overcome this Power of the flesh. The flesh is a very powerful current. It's almost like, you know, we've had a lot of flooding in the country in the last few weeks, and you see those videos, right, of the floodwaters coming and just sweeping everything away. It's astounding how powerful it is. And what Paul is saying is that we need to understand the power of the flesh so that we can understand the power of the Spirit, which is greater. The Judaizers, they have a very behavioristic, simplistic view of sin. They just think of sin as being when I decide by my own free will to commit a sinful act. And it's up to me to decide that. And I can take that same free will and if I want to, I can try to do something good instead. And they have no consciousness, no awareness of this reality of this powerful flood water of sin that just carries us along. We're like, our wills are not as powerful as the Judaizers think. Our wills are like little paper airplanes in a hurricane, right? Our wills are like the debris that's being carried along by the flood water. We don't have as much power as we think we do. That's what he's saying there in verse 17. He says, walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh for And then verse 17 is giving us this deeper theology of the nature of sin. 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. One way of putting this, one commentator commented on this verse and he says, basically what Paul is saying here in verse 17 is that whether we are conscious of it or not, our actions at every point are governed by either this powerful reality called the flesh or the spirit. Man's will is not as free as we think it is. Now it is true that we do have freedom of will in the sense that when we decide to do something we're not being coerced by some outward power, right? We have the desire, we have the ability to choose to have vanilla versus chocolate, right? We can spontaneously decide one thing over the other. In those mundane issues of life our will is able to act with some degree of spontaneity without being coerced. But when it comes to the moral realities of our relationship with God, when it comes to the fundamental morality of life, good and evil, sin versus obedience, man's will is not fundamentally free. We are under the influence of something far more powerful. There's an undertow that carries us along. If you're a believer in Christ, of course, that undertow, that power of the flesh has been fundamentally and decisively broken by the work of Christ. But even as believers, we still have that undertow. We still are carried along. How often does it happen to you in the Christian life where you are surprised at how easily you fall into temptation and sin? I think the Lord sometimes lets us fall into sin because he wants to wake us up to the reality of the flesh, that it's much more powerful than you think. We should never think that, oh, I'm a Christian now, I have the spirit now, everything's great, and I'm just gonna like, I'm gonna roll into heaven on beds of ease, it's gonna be easy. No, there is a powerful conflict going on as we live in this fallen world. When Paul talks about the flesh, he's not just referring to some part of you, like your flesh, your sinful nature. He's referring to this almost cosmological reality that's so much bigger than all of us. The reality of the flesh, which is influencing our culture, influencing all the world around us. That's the same concept that the Apostle John is referring to. I read that for the call to confession, which he refers to as the world. The world and the flesh, they're the same idea. It's this bigger thing, this bigger reality that is dominating humanity. It has even a corporate dimension to it, right? There's a corporate aspect to it where we're all in this reality of being under the power of sin and the flesh apart from God's grace in Christ. And so Paul then, he begins with this command. We'll explain more what the command is. Walk by the Spirit. But he's saying there's an indirect way of dealing with the flesh. You can't just simply go out and directly fight the flesh by your own will. You can't just say, like the Judaizers, well, just work harder, just try harder, just screw up even more energy and more determination and just be a good person and keep the law. Paul says, that's not gonna work. We need a completely different way. We need to bypass that and we need to walk by the Spirit. And if we do that, he says, then you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. Then he goes into verse 17 and explains kind of this presupposition behind that command in verse 16 to walk by the Spirit. And as a result, if you do that, you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. He needs to explain that, why he's giving this more indirect route, this way of thinking, not just directly fighting the flesh with your own will, but rather walking in the spirit. And the result is that you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Why is that? It's because of this powerful doctrine in verse 17 about the reality of the flesh. And the fact that as believers, we are in a constant battle, a constant warfare between the flesh and the spirit. And we must never get to the point where we are just simply resigned and at peace with our sin. The Judaizers say, You must be under the yoke of the law. You must get circumcised as a sign of committing yourself to the law as a way to restrain and overcome your sinful desires. And Paul says, No, there's a gospel way of sanctification, and that gospel way is to be led by the Spirit. Notice that, so verse 16 is the fundamental command, walk by the Spirit, and if you do that, you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. Verse 17 is giving this deeper theology of understanding that our wills are very weak, and that there are these powerful currents around us, the flesh versus the Spirit. But then he returns in verse 18. Verse 18 is very important because now he's saying, don't get the impression, maybe the way he worded things in verse 17 gives this wrong impression, that the spirit and the flesh are two equal forces. That they're equal. and there's like a draw between these two. He's saying no. He's saying the Spirit is powerful. The Spirit is able to overcome the flesh. But notice how he puts it now in verse 18. But he says, if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now that's really interesting. Why does he all of a sudden bring up this issue of being under the law? It wasn't quite what I was expecting, you know, in the flow of the argument here. I wasn't expecting him to mention the law again. Why does he mention the law again? Because this is against, he's speaking against the theory of sanctification that the Judaizers have. Their theory is sanctification by law. That's how you grow. That's how you become more obedient, is sanctification by keeping the law and striving to obey the law without any sense of the power of the flesh being this warfare against us, without any sense of relying upon the Spirit. It's just simply using your will to keep God's law. And so he brings this up here. He says, if you are led by the Spirit, If you are carried along by the more powerful force of the Spirit, that is evidence that you are not under the law. That is evidence that you are not under the law as a way of salvation. You're not under the law the way the Judaizers are trying to get the Galatian Christians to be under the law. They're saying you have to do this in order to be saved, in order to be right with God. But if you're led by the Spirit, that is evidence that you are not under that system. You're not under that other religious system that Paul has been describing, these two systems, law-focused versus Christ-focused versus the gospel method of sanctification. If you are led by the Spirit, then that shows that you are not under the law as a covenant of works by which you are justified or sanctified. And then in verses 19 to 21, he says, now the works of the flesh are evident. And he lists off many of these sinful fleshly behaviors that are related to the Ten Commandments. In fact, you can go through these and you can identify Which commandment is in view there, right? The first few ones, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, that would go under the 7th commandment, right? Applications of the 7th commandment. Or the next one, idolatry and sorcery, that would go under the 1st commandment. The next one, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, those would all fall under the 6th commandment. Perhaps there's also the 10th commandment in there, you shall not covet, right? But it's interesting that Paul doesn't give this list of the works of the flesh in the form of the Ten Commandments. We can theologically connect each of these sinful behaviors with one of the Ten Commandments. But he doesn't say, if you break the Ten Commandments, you will not inherit the kingdom of God. It is possible to take this whole section here, verses 19 to 21, in that very strict law-centered way, but he doesn't do it that way. Instead, he describes the fleshly behavior that lies behind the breaking of the Ten Commandments. And then he says, if you practice these things, in verse 21b at the end, that I warn you that those who do such things, or practice such things, or in the ESV there's a footnote that says, make a practice of doing these things. If you live in these behaviors as a pattern of life, without any evidence that you are in that spiritual battle that Paul has described in verse 17, then you show by that that you are not one who is going to inherit the kingdom at the end. In other words, what he's saying, he's not saying that if you commit any one of these sins that you will not go to heaven. Christians do commit these sins. We struggle with all of these things, right? We struggle with all of these sins. But he's not saying simply committing this sin means that you're excluded from the kingdom. What he means is, in the context, going back to verses 16 through 18, if you show by your life that you are completely under the power of the flesh, and there's no struggle, there's no conflict there, you're not striving to repent of your sin, you're not striving, you don't grieve over your sin, you don't have any hatred of your sin, then that shows that you don't even have the spirit and that you are one who is not destined for heaven. Those who are at peace with their sin and show no sign of the spiritual battle that Paul has described in verse 17 and who are simply Totally fine with engaging in all of these fleshly behaviors without any awareness that they are contrary to God's desire for us, that they are not pleasing to God. Without any sense of repentance, without any sense of detesting your own sin and longing for growth and longing to walk in the Spirit, then that shows that you are not one who is going to inherit the kingdom of God. We could always add behind this whole list of things, the works of the flesh are evident, and just list them all off, sexual immorality, idolatry, and so on, and just say, anyone who practices these things without repentance, anyone who is making a habitual practice of these things without any sense of acknowledging that these are not pleasing to the Lord, that they will not inherit the kingdom. So what do we derive from this passage? We derive this very important doctrine that there is something deeper than sinful deeds and sinful behavior. There's something deeper even than good deeds and good behavior. Sanctification is not simply a matter of behavior modification. There are some who teach that. For example, J. Adams, probably a well-known biblical counselor, he taught that. He taught that sanctification is simply a matter of modifying your behavior. And therefore, we know from experience that it only takes, what, 60 days to change a habit? All you have to do is get rid of the old habits and start new habits, and there you go. You're sanctified. That's not what the Bible teaches. That's not what Paul teaches here in this passage. Behind sinful deeds, there lies a more powerful reality called the flesh that has sway over us. And to fight the power of the flesh, we need something greater than the law. We need something greater than just simply saying, use your free will to exercise good things over bad things. And the wonderful news of the Gospel is that we have the infinitely powerful Spirit of the Living God dwelling within us. The Judaizers and all legalists reduce sin to behavior. And then they have a behavioristic solution. But the Gospel tells us that our sin problem is so much deeper. And the gospel gives us the gospel solution, which is the finished work of Christ and the gift of the Spirit. And so that brings us full circle then back to that question. What does it mean to walk by or be led by the Spirit? That's what we wanna know, right? That's like, okay, this is the issue then. What does it mean to walk by the Spirit? What does it mean to be led by the Spirit? Well, first of all, notice that it is a command, right? He says it. Verse 16, I say, walk by the Spirit. And that word walk is an imperative. He's commanding the Christians in Galatia to not listen to the Judaizers and their theory of sanctification, which is based on the law, but rather to walk by the Spirit. And he says, if you do that, you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. So it is a command. But it's a unique command. It's different from the Ten Commandments, for example, right? It's different from the law, which has a curse attached to it. If you don't keep these commandments, you will be under a curse. This is a unique command. It is a gospel command. It is more like the command of the gospel to believe in Christ, to repent and to believe. That is a command, right? But it's not a command of the law that condemns you and curses you. It's a command that brings us back to the gospel. Paul is giving us an indirect method of attack. He's saying, don't try to suppress the desires of the flesh directly, rather walk by the spirit. And as a result, you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. So what does it mean then to walk by the Spirit? How do we keep this command? It means, fundamentally, to believe in the gospel and to receive the promises and blessings that are offered in the gospel. When we think of the gospel and its fundamental promise, we tend to focus just on justification. That is, if you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you will be forgiven and have the righteousness of Christ reckoned to your account, and you will be guaranteed to be raised from the dead on the last day because of the righteousness of Christ given to you. But there is another element of the promise of the gospel. The promise of the gospel is not only believe in order to be forgiven, and justified, the promise of the gospel also contains the promise of the gift of the Holy Spirit. We see that in Galatians itself. Let's go back. It's very interesting. We don't really focus on it because in that whole section on the doctrine of gospel liberty, we're so focused in Galatians 3 and 4 on justification that we can sometimes miss the references to the Holy Spirit even in that section. Let's go back to Galatians 3. Remember at the very beginning in Galatians 3.1, he says, oh foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? Because they're already being kind of swayed by the Judaizers and sort of like, hey, that sounds, maybe we should get circumcised. Maybe we should keep the law. And Paul's saying, don't listen to them. Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes. When I was among you at the beginning and proclaiming the gospel to you, it was before your eyes that Jesus Christ in my preaching was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this, and here he refers to the Spirit again, did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith? When they received the Spirit back in the beginning, when they first became Christians, They were not circumcised. They didn't know anything about the idea that you had to keep the law in order to be saved. That wasn't even in their thinking. They just heard about Christ and how he was crucified for them. And so he says, think back on your own experience. How did you receive the spirit? Was it by doing what the law commands? No, it was by hearing the gospel and receiving it with faith. Are you so foolish, having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Do you think that you can now perfect yourself and grow in sanctification by means of keeping the law and the works of the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain? Actually, I would translate that, did you experience, referring back to their conversion experience, did you experience so many things in vain, if it was indeed in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and work miracles among you do so by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Just as Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness." So right here at the beginning of the section on the doctrine of gospel liberty, Paul has informed us of a fundamental idea, which is that how do we receive the Spirit? Is it by doing the works of the law? No, it is by simply receiving the truths of the gospel, hearing the gospel, hearing the good news of Christ crucified, and how he bore the curse of the law in our place, and receiving it by faith. He talks about the Spirit again a little bit later on in that same chapter in Galatians 3, when he talks about the curse of the law, Galatians 3 verse 10. He says, are under a curse, right? But we want the blessing, not the curse. He says, curse would be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law and do them. Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for the righteous shall live by faith. But the law is not of faith, rather the one who does them shall live by them. But Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. He was crucified. He was hung upon a tree. For it is written, cursed it is everyone who is hanged on a tree. So that, and here we go again, In Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham, not the curse of the law, but the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles so that we might receive the promised spirit by faith. And then once again, I won't read it, but you recall in Galatians 4 and verses four through six, he again mentions the Spirit in direct connection with the work of Christ. Christ redeemed us so that we might receive the Spirit. How do you receive the Spirit? By faith, by trusting in Christ, by going back again to the gospel and receiving the great news of the gospel by faith in Christ. And as we apply that then, beyond our initial conversion to the rest of our Christian life, it is the same. Hear the gospel again. Receive it again with a believing heart. And in this way, you will allow yourself to be led by the Spirit. This is the promise of Christ in the gospel. That's why I picked out that verse in our silent meditation at the beginning here in our bulletin. When Jesus was preaching the gospel on the last day of the feast, the feast of, I believe it was the Feast of Booths, on the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out. At that time when the Jews did this festival, they added a water ceremony to it where there was water flowing out in this wonderful river. And Jesus says, this water, he's at that feast literally in the temple with the Jews. He says, this water that you see here, this is nothing. He says, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. And then John adds his little narrative comment on that. Jesus didn't specifically speak of the spirit. He used instead this metaphor of the rivers of living water. But John, the narrator, says this is what he's talking about. Now this he said about the spirit whom those who believed in him were to receive. When Jesus proclaims the gospel promise to us, that gospel promise is not only that if you believe in Him and rest in Him and His perfect righteousness, that you will be forgiven and declared righteous, but also that you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is just as much a part of the gospel promise as the gift of righteousness. It is part and parcel of the Gospel promise. And so if you then are struggling with sin, if you are desiring more and more of the Spirit to help you in that warfare against sin, then the answer, the solution is to go back again to the promises of the Gospel. That's why Paul says, allow yourself to be led by the Spirit. He doesn't just say walk in the Spirit, but he also says be led by the Spirit in verse 18. If you are led by the Spirit, then you show that you are not under the law as a covenant of works. You show that you are under the grace of the gospel. Believe again in the gospel promise that you have the Spirit within you. When you are struggling with sin, and feeling weighed down by your sins and struggles and temptations and all you can see is how often you fall short and how often you fail. It's so easy to simply look at yourself and to only see yourself apart from Christ and to see yourself as a filthy, seemingly unregenerate sinner. That's what it feels like, right? But the gospel points you outside of yourself to Christ, to look at Him, and to see in Him all that you need. The gospel promise is that you do have the Spirit. You do have the Spirit, even though you don't feel like it, even though you're struggling, you do have the Spirit. That is the gospel promise. How do you know you have the Spirit? Because you believe in Christ. And who can believe in Christ apart from the power of the Spirit, changing your heart to give you faith in Christ? A heart that by the Spirit has been transformed to have good and holy desires. Doesn't mean you're not gonna have conflict. Doesn't mean you're not gonna sin. But it means that you have now this power within you, the power of the living God given to you from Christ himself. And these two powers, the flesh and the spirit, are not equally matched opponents. The wonderful news of the gospel is that we have the greater power of the spirit of Christ living within us, empowering us, and helping us. Praise God for the gift of the Holy Spirit. And it takes just as much faith to believe in the reality of the presence of the Holy Spirit in your heart as it does to believe in the finished work of Christ and His imputed righteousness. You can't see it. You can't see that righteousness, right? The Spirit is within you, but you don't see all the empirical fruit and evidence of it right now. But you have the Spirit because you believe in Christ, because you trust in Christ. So what does it mean then to walk by the Spirit? It means to, again, refresh your heart in the truths of the gospel, and to exercise faith in Christ again, and to believe His promise. He made that promise, we read it, right? John 7, Jesus said it. It's a promise, it's a guaranteed promise. If anyone thirsts, Are you thirsty? Are you thirsty? Are you struggling? Do you need grace? If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. And whoever believes in me, as the scripture has promised, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." You do have a new heart. You do have the Spirit dwelling within you. When he says being led by the Spirit, verse 18, if you're led by the Spirit, he's not referring to kind of the typical charismatic piety, you know, I feel led to go to Africa and do a missions trip or something like that. He's not talking about that. He's talking about this wonderful reality of receiving again the joy of the good news of the gospel. Receiving again this reminder that you are in Christ and therefore you have all that Christ has purchased for you. He has purchased that Holy Spirit by his cross and by his perfect obedience to God. And he has now blessed you with it. He has blessed you with that powerful spirit that is within you, giving you a new heart. transforming you, giving you good and holy desires, and also working within you. that hatred of your sin. When you do struggle, you find yourself saying, I don't like that, that's not who I am, that's not what I want to be. That's the spirit within you giving you that conviction of sin, giving you those holy desires and that hatred of sin and that desire to live in a way that is pleasing to the Lord. The good news of the gospel is that in this battle with the flesh, we are not alone. It's not up to you. It's not up to your individual will, which is such a flimsy airplane in the hurricane of sin, right? It's not up to your individual will and just getting enough determination to do right. You're not in this battle on your own. You have the Spirit of Christ dwelling within you to empower you, to strengthen you, to help you to repent of your sin. to give you the strength to live for him and to continue to honor Christ in every way. Let us pray. Lord, how we thank you for your promise, Lord Jesus Christ. The promise that you've given us, that if we are thirsty, that we can come to you and drink. and receive the power of the Spirit of God within us. We thank you for that wonderful gospel promise that we have not only forgiveness and righteousness, but we have the infinite power source of the universe, the Spirit of the living God dwelling within us, helping us in our battle against sin, helping us to walk with you day by day. We thank you. Help us to believe that. Help us to trust in you and to walk in the spirit. This we ask in Jesus' name, amen.
Walking by the Spirit
Series Galatians
Sermon ID | 7212517676686 |
Duration | 39:12 |
Date | |
Category | Sunday - AM |
Bible Text | Galatians 5:16-21 |
Language | English |
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