Amazing Grace – Week 9 (11-5-23)
Amazing Grace
November 5, 2023
The War Within
Lived out Theology
Galatians 5:13-15
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
The Battle within:
Galatians 5:16-18
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Flesh (Sarx) <———> Spirit (Pneuma)
Mark 7:14-15
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
We Like a Good List
Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
— Expected —
Sexual; Religious; Addiction & Life (Wild Parting)
— Unexpected —
Middle 8 —> All relational
Lines create tension
Problem with List Mentality
Elevate —> Others Sin
Minimize —> Our sin & need for Jesus
Walk in step with the Law —> Do’s & Don’ts
Walk in step with the Spirit —> Fruit flows out
Supernatural —> Spirit Led & Growing
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:24-25
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:15 & 26
If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
What if our most powerful witness in the world is a unified body of Christ?