Galations for C2 Group
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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. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Mankind's sense of right and wrong has always seemed to be on this merry-go-round of everyone else is doing it.
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Lance Armstrong story
Pastor mentioned Bernie Maylof story also
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Time and again it has been demonstrated that right and wrong cannot be justified by cultural norms:
- what everybody else is doing, or
- what we sense to be right.
It is to this issue that Paul writes and says when the Spirit comes into your life there is conflict between what you once felt was right and what the Spirit would lead you to do.
Paul clearly points out the acts of the sin nature or what we might call the character of the life without the Spirit of God.
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.
The person without the Spirit of God justifies all these actions and more as normal.
We justify our actions until we are confronted by them. This is what the Spirit of God does in our lives.
In moments just like this…
The answer is to walk in the Spirit.
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.
We start with the desire to do right; that leads to action that is right, that brings the transformation to being right.
This is the work of the Spirit in our lives.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
Against such things there is no law.
The law only revealed our error and our hopelessness, Jesus brought the answer and opened the door for real change.
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Happens when I open my life to the spirit of god
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Jesus is the answer and His answer comes not just in understanding but in transformation.
You were made for joy.
Joy is about the abiding hope and presence of God that lives in us.
We are supposed to be a shining light of the Nature of Christ.