Welcome to the Journey Women Podcast. I'm your host, Hunter Beelis. Life's a journey we

were never meant to walk alone. We all need friends along the way. On the Journey Women

Podcast, we'll chat with mentors about gracefully navigating the seasons and challenges we face

on our journeys to glorify God. On today's episode of the Journey Women Podcast, we're

kicking off a brand new series on the free to the spirit. I know y'all, I know, it sounds

a little bit Sunday school, but the truth is, if you're like me, you've probably been

subject to some misinterpretation and misapplication of this famous passage in Galatians. We tend

to think of the spirit as a list of good Christian virtues to adopt as moral Christian living,

instead of seeing it as our invitation to be indwelt by the spirit of Christ and to be

made more like him as a result. So in this series, we hope to grow in our understanding

of how the spirit helps us mirror the character of God. We plan to cover each one of these fruits

in a way that helps us see that God's commands aren't about behavioral modification, but

that they're really an invitation to mirror the character of God by the help of the spirit.

This passage is Amy so beautifully lays out in the introductory episode summarizes so

much of true gospel living. Amy describes it beautifully when she says,

we want to read these verses as an invitation to lean into what it means to live our lives

as gospel Christians, to be reminded that because of Christ's sanctifying work on the cross,

because of the power of His resurrection, the door has been open to us to accept a life

of righteousness in Christ through faith. So as we accept Christ's invitation of grace,

by placing our faith exclusively in Christ, we receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit

and it's the Holy Spirit in us that is going to bear the fruit of righteousness and the fruit

of that righteousness, that righteousness that we already have because Christ has positionally

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