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Galatians | Week 8 | Pastor Luke | 08/31/22
This morning, Pastor Luke continued on with our Galatians series with a sermon out of Chapter 5: 16-26.
His message was broken down into three parts:
1. There is an inward battle going on within us, but not with equal forces.
When we come to Christ, we enter into a battle between our flesh and our Spirit. The battle itself is evidence of the Spirit of God within us. But this is not an equal fight, as the Spirit of the living God is immeasurably stronger than our flesh. If we allow the Lord to work, we are always on the winning side.
Transformation within the Christian life is not optional, it’s essential – and it comes through the Spirit of God.
It is not an equal fight, and so we need to stop hitting snooze on our sanctification. Revival happens when the human heart partners with the Spirit of God within us.
2. The Flesh
Paul mentions four categories of sin to define what the flesh looks like:
Sexual
Relational
Excess
Religious
These categories have not changed over time. It is the same flesh and the same God, just a different day. The Lord came to set us free, so that we can love others fully and walk completely in the purposes of God for our lives.
3. The fruit of a follower
Jesus embodied the fruits of the Spirit, and they are the litmus test of the Spirit of God within us. As followers of Jesus, the goal is to mature – we want to live, walk, and love like Jesus.
It is the fruit of the Spirit and not the fruits of the Spirit, and therefore we are only as mature as our least mature quality. We all need the Lord to work in our hearts, because we never arrive. This leaves us in a place of great humility, where we consistently need the Lord to search us, know us, work in us, and take us from strength to strength.
One of the paths to maturity is walking through hardships. We all have the opportunity to walk through hardships either with our eyes on Jesus, trusting in Him – or walking in our flesh with discouragement, fear, and panic.
Our lives are to be testimonies to the world that we know and trust in a living God.
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This morning, Pastor Luke continued on with our Galatians series with a sermon out of Chapter 5: 16-26.
His message was broken down into three parts:
1. There is an inward battle going on within us, but not with equal forces.
When we come to Christ, we enter into a battle between our flesh and our Spirit. The battle itself is evidence of the Spirit of God within us. But this is not an equal fight, as the Spirit of the living God is immeasurably stronger than our flesh. If we allow the Lord to work, we are always on the winning side.
Transformation within the Christian life is not optional, it’s essential – and it comes through the Spirit of God.
It is not an equal fight, and so we need to stop hitting snooze on our sanctification. Revival happens when the human heart partners with the Spirit of God within us.
2. The Flesh
Paul mentions four categories of sin to define what the flesh looks like:
Sexual
Relational
Excess
Religious
These categories have not changed over time. It is the same flesh and the same God, just a different day. The Lord came to set us free, so that we can love others fully and walk completely in the purposes of God for our lives.
3. The fruit of a follower
Jesus embodied the fruits of the Spirit, and they are the litmus test of the Spirit of God within us. As followers of Jesus, the goal is to mature – we want to live, walk, and love like Jesus.
It is the fruit of the Spirit and not the fruits of the Spirit, and therefore we are only as mature as our least mature quality. We all need the Lord to work in our hearts, because we never arrive. This leaves us in a place of great humility, where we consistently need the Lord to search us, know us, work in us, and take us from strength to strength.
One of the paths to maturity is walking through hardships. We all have the opportunity to walk through hardships either with our eyes on Jesus, trusting in Him – or walking in our flesh with discouragement, fear, and panic.
Our lives are to be testimonies to the world that we know and trust in a living God.