The War Within: Flesh Versus Spirit
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🗓️ 19 June 1983
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The text for this morning's message is found in the fifth chapter of Galatians |
| 0:06.7 | verses 16 through 18. |
| 0:11.6 | But I say, walk by the spirit and do not gratify the desires of the flesh. |
| 0:18.0 | For the desires of the flesh are against the spirit, and the desires of the spirit are against the spirit and the the flesh for these are opposed to each other |
| 0:27.0 | to prevent you from doing what you would |
| 0:30.0 | but if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. |
| 0:39.0 | The upshot of last Sunday's message was that when I get up in the morning I ought to feel as |
| 0:45.4 | much concern for your welfare as I do for my own. And that is devastating to me because it is so incredibly hard. |
| 0:58.0 | It's a hopeless feeling to know that you have to make the measure of your love for others, how much you care for yourself. |
| 1:08.0 | And so many of you might have gone out last week feeling like instead of freedom, Christianity was a very great |
| 1:17.1 | weight on your back. |
| 1:20.1 | And I think this text today, verses 16 to 18 of Galatians 5, is intended to help lift the load if you feel it weighing down. |
| 1:30.0 | The secret is to walk by the spirit. That's the key phrase, isn't it? In |
| 1:36.6 | verse 16. If the Christian life looks too hard, we must remember it is not primarily we who are called to live it but rather |
| 1:47.6 | God called to live it through us. We have to learn to walk by the spirit, whatever that means. And the command of |
| 1:57.0 | love therefore is not intended to be a new legalistic burden to weigh us down, it's intended, on the contrary, to be something that flows |
| 2:06.0 | freely when you are walking by the spirit. |
| 2:12.0 | People who try to love without God's spirit are always going to be trying to fill this bottomless |
| 2:18.3 | cavern of need and never experience their life as an overflow to others. |
| 2:27.0 | So love ceases to be love, and we have to admit that it's just plain not easy in ourselves. We have to learn to walk by the spirit. |
| 2:37.0 | So I want to build my message around three questions. One, what is it to walk by the spirit? Two, why is it so |
| 2:49.4 | important to walk by the spirit? three how very practically can we do it what why and how the three most |
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