People need the Holy Spirit

A. As you think, so are you (5)

1. You live according to what your mind is set on.

Jeremiah 17:9 NASB95

“The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

Matthew 15:19 NASB95

“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

Romans 11:36 NASB95

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 10:31 NASB95

Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Ezekiel 36:26 NASB95

“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

B. The distinction between the flesh and the Spirit. (6)

1. The word “is” means ‘equals’ or ‘is the same as.’

C. The flesh is the enemy of God. (7-8)

1. The unbeliever will not submit to God’s law.

John 6:29 NASB95

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.”

2. The unbeliever is unable to submit to God’s law.

1 Corinthians 2:14 NASB95

But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

Ephesians 2:1 NASB95

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,

3. The unbeliever cannot please God.

Isaiah 1:18 NASB95

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.

John 6:44 NASB95

“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.

Fighting sin in your thought life

Fighting sin in your thought life

Fighting sin in your thought life

Galatians 5:16–17 NASB95

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please.

Will you honor God this week in your thought life?