The Rule of Faith
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· 3 viewsWhen we talk about a “rule,” we typically are referring to a specific way we are to behave or act. This is no less true when we talk about a “rule of faith” or a “rule of life.” What governs how we act in the world around us? Jesus teaches us how we are to live with a Chrisitan ethic through the Sermon on the Mount and other points in the gospels. Paul also outlines what the Christian ethic should be.
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1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 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. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 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. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
1. True freedom comes through Christ. (vs. 1, 13-15)
1. True freedom comes through Christ. (vs. 1, 13-15)
36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
2. The Spirit empowers us to resist sin. (vs. 16-21)
2. The Spirit empowers us to resist sin. (vs. 16-21)
11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
3. The fruit of the Spirit is produced in us when we are rooted in Christ. (vs. 22-25)
3. The fruit of the Spirit is produced in us when we are rooted in Christ. (vs. 22-25)
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.