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All right, day five in Galatians, chapter five. We're not going to make it

all the way through the chapter just next time I'm up. We'll pick it up where we left off. But Paul says

this, 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.

Okay.

He says, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

So the old school reformers would call this

mortification and vivification. That it's not enough to simply not do the bad things in your life.

It's not enough to simply throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.

But we've also, we have to do the things that stir our affections

for the Lord. If you look at John, in the book of John 15, Jesus has abide in me and I will abide in

you. And then he uses the example of a gardener. He says, my father's the gardener. I'm the vine.

You're the branches. And you got to stay close to me. And then he says,

abide in my word and I will abide in you, but then he also says that God is going to prune

away some things in your life. So John Owen would say, kill the sin or it'll be killing you.

So there are some things in your life that are hindering you from walking in the spirit.

And as long as you keep those things in your life, you will gratify the desires of the flesh

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