Walking in the Spirit

Biblical Answer: Galatians 5:25

Means: Indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Receiving the Holy Spirit.

How (5:26-6:5): Reject Old Views. Adopt New Views. Find Satisfaction.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

Rejecting FalsehoodGalatians 5:26

“Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.”

Boastful: a false opinion.

For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.- Romans 12:3

Rejecting FalsehoodGalatians 5:26

“Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.”

Boastful: a false opinion. The Insanity of Pride:

–“Challenging One Another” A Too-High View of Ourselves

–“Envying One Another” A Too-Low View of Ourselves

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.”- 1 John 2:16

Rejecting FalsehoodGalatians 5:26

“Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.”

Boastful: a false opinion. A Sane View:

1. You are Loved by God

2. Yet, you are Sinful

3. You are Forgiven and Accepted

4. You Have a Significant Role and Future.

Rejecting FalsehoodGalatians 5:26

“Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.”

Boastful: a false opinion. A Sane View. God Wants to Change You:

“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God” 1 Cor. 2:12

If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

A New World Galatians 6:1-3

Empathy Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you

who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. - Galatians 6:1

Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. - Romans 2:1

A New World Galatians 6:1-3

Empathy Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you

who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. - Galatians 6:1

Bearing Each Others’ BurdensBear one another's burdens, and thus

fulfill the law of Christ. - Galatians 6:2

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” - John 13:34 (NIV)

IF theyshould love them -NIKV

A New World Galatians 6:1-3

Empathy Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are

spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. - Galatians 6:1

Bearing Each Others’ BurdensBear one another's burdens, and thus

fulfill the law of Christ. - Galatians 6:2

Maintaining SanityFor if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he

deceives himself. - Galatians 6:3

Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. - Galatians 6:2

Let’s DO Something!Galatians 6:4,5

[4] But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

[5] For each one will bear his own load.