Led by the SpiritLesson Text: Galatians 5:16-26

Heritage Addition church of Christby Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Morning, August 16, 2015

Ever played follow the leader

Nothing Miraculous

1Co 13:8-13 NKJV Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. (9) For we know in part and we prophesy in part. (10) But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. (11) When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (13) And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Nothing Miraculous

Nothing Miraculous

According to Acts 8, post resurrection you need an apostle!!!

Works of the flesh are Well-Known and Plain to see

They are still well-known, but they are not reviled today

1. Fornication – unlawful sexual union of any kind. It is more specific than sexual immorality. Adultery is fornication involving at least one who is married to another.

2. Uncleanness – impure, immoral, corrupt, lust driven.3. Lewdness – (KJV Lasciviousness) Looseness, irregular

indulgence of animal desires, wantonness, lustfulness. Also, Licentiousness which is excessive indulgence of liberty, lewdness given to the unlawful indugence of lust. (Today we use the terms that something is “sexy” or “hot.”)

Works of the flesh are Well-Known and Plain to see

They are still well-known, but they are not reviled today

4. Idolatry – (eidololatreia) lit. to worship what you know by seeing; can be excessive attachment or veneration for anything that borders on adoration.

5. Sorcery – (pharmakeia) our English word Pharmacy. The use of drugs for spells, poisoning, altering mind for deception in sorcery. (Taking drugs to alter the mind is a work of the flesh!)

6. Hatred – (ESV enmity) A deep seated hatred, opposite of love, it is the quality of being an enemy.

Works of the flesh are Well-Known and Plain to see

They are still well-known, but they are not reviled today

7. Contentions – (ESV strife) It is the expression of enmity.8. Jealousies – (zelos) (KJV emulations) Here it is in a

negative sense meaning a zealous jealousy. It is a desire to have what another has.

9. Outbursts of wrath – an anger that boils over.10.Selfish ambitions – (eritheia) (KJV strife, ESV rivalries,

ASV factions, NASB disputes) The root of the word means seeking to win followers. It denotes an electioneering or making secret plots or schemes for office or part making arising from selfish ambition.

Works of the flesh are Well-Known and Plain to see

They are still well-known, but they are not reviled today

11.Dissensions – (KJV seditions) literally standing apart, division, wanting to be separate.

12.Heresies – (hairesis) ASV parties, ESV divisions; A body of men following their own tenants (sects – Pharisees, Sadducess etc.) By definition all denominations are heresies.

13.Envy – displeasure at the prospering of others. Unlike jealousy a desire to deprive another of what he has.

Works of the flesh are Well-Known and Plain to see

They are still well-known, but they are not reviled today

14.Murders – Omitted here from what is considered the best manuscripts, but definitely a work of the flesh, Rev. 21:8

15.Drunkenness – intoxication. 16.Revelries – carousing; likely a consequence of

drunkenness.

Consequence for Practicing the Works of the Flesh

Gal 5:19-21 NKJV Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (20) idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, (21) envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23

1Co 6:9-11 NKJV Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, (10) nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (11) And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

But We have GOOD NEWS!!!

We Must Walk According to the Spirit to be led by the Spirit

Walk – (peripateo) lit. to walk about. It is to conduct one’s self.

Joh 16:13 NKJV However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

Eph. 6:17 …sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God

Joh 17:17 NKJV Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

We Must Walk According to the Spirit to be led by the Spirit

When we are led by the Spirit we do not fulfill the lust of the Flesh

Fulfill – to carry out into full operation.

Jas 1:15 NKJV Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

Gal. 5:17: The flesh continually (PAI) desires or lusts against or contrary to the Spirit.

We Must Walk According to the Spirit to be led by the Spirit

When we are led by the Spirit, we are not under the Law

Being under the Law we are cursed, Gal. 3:10.

Gal 5:5 NKJV For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Gal 3:13 NKJV Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"),

We must live by theGal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

1. Love – (agape) a selfless love. God’s love to man, John 3:16.

2. Joy – The emotion caused by the expectation of good.3. Peace – The contrast to outbursts of wrath.4. Longsuffering – lit. long to temper or patient.5. Kindness – (KJV gentleness) good hearted basically

moral goodness.

We must live by theGal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

6. Goodness – uprightness of heart and life (good in character).

7. Faithfulness – the character of one who can be relied upon.

We must live by the

Gal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

8. Gentleness – Better meekness, strength under control, humble, submissive to Divine will.

9. Self-control – the virtue of one who masters his desires and passions, especially his sensual appetites.

Those who are Christ’sGal 5:24 NKJV And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Gal 2:20 KJV I am crucified (RPI) with Christ: nevertheless I live (PAI); yet not I, but Christ liveth (PAI) in me: and the life which I now live (PAI) in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Those who are Christ’s

Col 2:11-13 NKJV In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, (12) buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. (13) And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

Don’t FallGal 5:26 NKJV Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

1Co 10:12 NKJV Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.