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Read Galatians 5:16-18
Has someone ever asked for your help or advice and all you did was give negatives?
Paul
There were 2 guys playing catch.
One of them didn’t throw very good.
His movements were off, he didn’t look coordinated.
He knew his throw was off.
So he asked his friend, what am I doing wrong?
And his friend mockingly said, “Well you look like this?”
And he mimicked his friend’s bad form in throwing.
The other friend was insulted and said, “I know I do it wrong.
Help me do it right.”
That’s kind of how Galatians has been up until now.
The Promise of the Spirit
Has someone ever asked for your help or advice and all you did was give negatives?
There were 2 guys playing catch.
One of them didn’t throw very good.
His movements were off, he didn’t look coordinated.
He knew his throw was off.
So he asked his friend, what am I doing wrong?
And his friend mockingly said, “Well you look like this?”
And he mimicked his friend’s bad form in throwing.
The other friend was insulted and said, “I know I do it wrong.
Help me do it right.”
That’s kind of how Galatians has been up until now.
Paul has been pretty rough and negative with the Galatians.
He dismissed of his normal friendly greeting at the start of his letter and got right into it.
Chapter 1, “I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—”
In Chapter 3, he called them foolish Galatians, and he mockingly accused them of being bewitched, having some kind of magical curse being put on them.
Paul’s not saying anything wrong.
His language is appropriate, because the Galatians have messed up.
They have accepted another Gospel.
They have accepted a gospel of works.
They’ve cast aside, solus Christus, Christ alone, and added on the law.
They are toying with the idea of making circumcision a requirement for salvation.
Their error, what they are believing is bad, but it’s not uncommon.
It comes down to the basic question of how are you made right with God.
You have sinned, and if you have sinned, then you are a sinner.
So dear sinner, how do you get rid of that sin?
How do you become pleasing in God’s eyes?
The Galatians were being taught and were coming to the conclusion that you become good in God’s eyes by doing things.
By being circumcised and by obeying the law.
And we continue to do that same thing.
People think that they have to do something to become good.
That becoming good in God’s eyes is as simple as balancing the scales.
Do more good deeds than bad deeds.
This kind of thinking is like the person who is trying to climb a fence but is just a little too short.
He’s reaching and straining for the top of the fence.
His fingers are near it, but he just can’t grab hold.
And Jesus comes along and gives him a boost.
Just a little lift up so that he can finally climb over it.
That’s a blending of my efforts and Jesus giving me a little push.
But the Gospel is not a you and Jesus working together kind of thing.
It’s not the two of you teaming up.
You were dead.
Unable to get over the fence.
He had to pick you up and carry you over it.
It’s Christ alone.
Paul has let them have it.
A nonstop teaching on how Christ is better than the law, and anything else you want to throw on top of it.
Each week that we have been going through Galatians, we are reminded that it’s only through Christ.
He makes us good.
His death paid for our sins.
In our text this week, Paul turns a corner.
He gives a solution.
2 Guys are playing catch.
One says, “What am I doing wrong?”
The other says, “You look like this.”
The first one says, “How do I fix it?”
This week Paul fixes it.
He gives a solution.
The solution is quite simple, you see it in verse 16, “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”
Paul’s solution is walk by the Spirit.
Paul Finally Teaches a solution - Walk by the Spirit
You walk.
Our Flesh Resists the Spirit - Loathes the spirit
It’s to walk around.
In life you aren’t stagnant
You are always moving.
Life is linear.
Think of a line.
You are born and you start here.
Then as you go through life, you move along on that line.
Every single person does this.
If you remained at the start, you’d be babies your whole life, which doesn’t happen.
So you move through life.
You walk through life.
And how do you move through life?
For the Christian Paul says that we are to move through life, to walk through life by the Spirit.”
That’s capital S, the Holy Spirit.
This doesn’t mean you walk through life as a spiritual person.
Lots of people do that … and they are wrong.
So you walk through life, in or by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Why or how is this the solution?
Because up until now the Galatians have been walking by the flesh, and they’ve been doing it wrong.
And we do the same thing.
You think that you can become pleasing in God’s eyes, purely by willpower.
That’s the American way.
If you work hard enough, you’ll get it.
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