It’s Saturday morning, the one morning in the week I can
usually sleep as late as I want. Let’s just say it is 6:20 AM and I’ve been up
for an hour with this message bubbling inside. I am excited to share these
principles that help us understand the a much higher way of living. How we
react to those things our flesh doesn’t appreciate is often a matter of life
and death, especially concerning relationships and offending others we love.
Like the old chorus says,
“If we walk in the Spirit of the Spirit we reap
life. If we walk in the flesh we reap sorrow. “
Our flesh and our spirit are in a constant battle. My
spirit really doesn’t care about the following but my flesh really doesn’t
appreciate
- Waking up earlier than I want to.
- Being the slightest bit hungry
- Being sweaty
- Fatigue
- Self control
- Getting picked on,
- Being bullied or put down
- A full bladder or rectal pressure
- Pain of any kind
- Physical or emotional injury
- People who complain too much
- NOT GETTING IT’S OWN WAY
…and
your probably doesn’t either.
I believe way to many who consider themselves to be
Christians have far too little understanding of the Holy Spirit. HE is
experienced far more than what can be taught. The old expression is completely
true, “It’s better felt than telt.”
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| WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS THERE IS FREEDOM |
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Please take some time to meditate on the verses that
follow. Roll them over in your mind and heart. It is my prayer that as you read
the following verses that the Lord will touch your heart. We need to constantly
yield to the Spirit of the Lord in order to walk in the liberty that results
from obedience to the Lord. We need more than the wonderful indwelling of the
Spirit received at Salvation, we need the promised Baptism of the Holy Spirit
so that we receive the power to become living witnesses of Jesus in all the
world and in all circumstances.
All
verses are New King James Version
John 4:23
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to
worship Him.
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and
truth.”
Philippians 3:3 For we are the circumcision, who worship
God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the
flesh,
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you
shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause
you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Acts 9:31
Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace
and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the
Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus,
who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:4
that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who
do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Galatians 5:16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall
not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in
trespasses and sins,
2 in
which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of
disobedience,
3
among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our
flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature
children of wrath, just as the others.
Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and
you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to
the end of the earth.”
Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with
other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Gal. 5:16
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of
the flesh.
17
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh; and 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.
19
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
20
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath,
selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21
envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and 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.
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
and desires.
25
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
