Spirit Filled Life Pt1

Called to freedom-free to serve one another-how can we love our neighbor???try harder follow more laws???

Luke 11:13 LEB

Therefore if you, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

Ephesians 5:18 ESV

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

The Command: Walk by the Spirit (Gal. 5:16)

Big Idea: The Christian life is not lived by willpower but by Spirit‑empowered walking.

Y2K==2 Cor 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

New creation-Genesis 1 begins with God-Galatians 3 & 4

Spirit is involved-He convicts us of sin John 16:7-11

born again through His power John 3:1-8 born of the Spirit

affirms us as children

Romans 8:1–11 ESV

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible Chapter 5

Walk in the Spirit—Greek, “By (the rule of) the (Holy) Spirit.” Compare

Alan Redpath-”It is quite remarkable how easily many of us can cast aside impressions made as the Word of God has been preached, and how quickly we can revert both in manner and conversation to purely social and secular things. We may often have a service of which we say, ”Well, we had a good time and helpful message’, but somehow there has been no real word from the Lord to our hearts, no vital impact from the Holy Spirit, and therefore no lasting response.”

A phone with a dead battery has all the features but no power. The Spirit is the power source.

the quickening of the Spirit of God...there is a very real difference.

1. The Clear Command — “Walk by the Spirit” God never commands what He does not empower.

2 Peter 1:3 ESV

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

• Present tense: continual, habitual dependence

• Not mystical drifting but intentional alignment

• Cross‑refs: Rom 8:4–5; John 15:4–5

The command reveals God’s will

• The promise reveals God’s power

• The Spirit enables what the flesh cannot

• 2. The Promise Attached — “You will not gratify the desires of the flesh”

Conflict is not a sign of failure but of spiritual life.

The flesh opposes the Spirit

• The Spirit opposes the flesh

• The believer is not powerless

• Cross‑refs: Rom 8:5–9; James 4:1

• Spirit‑walking is the only effective strategy against the flesh

• The Spirit doesn’t merely restrain; He redirects desires

• Cross‑refs: Ezek 36:26–27; Phil 2:13

• 3. The Pathway of Walking in the Spirit

• Word‑saturated obedience

• Prayerful dependence

• Community accountability

• Daily surrender

What area of life needs Spirit‑dependence rather than self‑effort

• Begin a daily “Spirit‑walk prayer”

• Identify one fleshly pattern to surrender