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Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

Walking By The Spirit

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Do not let Freedom be an Opportunity

for the Flesh

Rom 6:1

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace

might increase?

Rom 6:18 …and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of

righteousness.

Rom 6:22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God…

1Pet 2:16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering

for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.

Jude 4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were

long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly

persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness

and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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Love

Liberty Law

Legalism License

But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow become

a stumbling block to the weak. (1Cor 8:9)

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1Cor 10:29-33 …why is my freedom judged by another's conscience?

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered

concerning that for which I give thanks?

Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all

to the glory of God.

Give no offense either to Jews or to Greeks or to the

church of God; just as I also please all men in all

things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the

many, that they may be saved.

James 1:25-27 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of

liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful

hearer but an effectual doer, this man shall be blessed in

what he does...this is pure and undefiled religion in the

sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows

in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the

world.

Freedom – An Opportunity to Serve Others

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Rom 8:14-15 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are

sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of

slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a

spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, "Abba!

Father!"

Rom 8:5-7 For those who are according to the flesh set their minds

on the things of the flesh, but those who are according

to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set

on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life

and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile

toward God…

God’s Sons are led by the Spirit

Matt 3:17-4:1 …and behold, a voice out of the heavens, saying, “This is

my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.”

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to

be tempted by the devil.

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The Deeds of the Flesh

1) Sexual Immorality

Immorality

Impurity

Sensuality

2) Heathen Religion

Idolatry

Sorcery

4) Substance Abuse

Drunkenness

Carousing

3) Conflict

Enmities

Strife

Jealousy

Outbursts of anger

Disputes

Dissensions

Factions

Envying

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http://thechristadelphians.org/htm/books/Fruit/Fruit_mainframe.htm

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Fruit of the Spirit and 1Corinthians 13

JOY (chara) "rejoiceth"

"hopeth all things"

PEACE (eirene) "beareth all things"

"endureth all things"

LONGSUFFERING (makrothumia) "suffereth long"

"not easily provoked"

GENTLENESS (chrestotes) "is kind"

"envieth not"

GOODNESS (agathosune) "rejoiceth not in iniquity"

"thinketh no evil"

FAITH (pistis) "believeth all things"

"never faileth"

MEEKNESS (praotes) "not puffed up"

"vaunteth not itself"

TEMPERANCE (egkratera) "behaveth not unseemly"

"seeketh not her own"

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Gen 1:11-12 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants

yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind,

with seed in them, on the earth"; and it was so. And the earth

brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their

kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their

kind; and God saw that it was good.

A New Creation

Gen 1:28 And God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful

and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over

the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over

every living thing that moves on the earth."

Gen 2:15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him into the garden

of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.

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Keep in Step by the Spirit

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Matt 4:21

And going on from there He saw

two other brothers, James the

son of Zebedee, and John his

brother, in the boat with

Zebedee their father, mending

their nets; and He called them.

Restoring the fallen – Mending the net

1Cor 1:10-13 Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, but you be

made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. For I

have been informed concerning you, my brethren…that there are

quarrels among you. Now I mean this, that each one of you is

saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I

of Christ.” Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you,

was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

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Bearing Another’s Burden

Rom 15:1-3 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of

those without strength and not just please ourselves.

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to his

edification.

For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written,

"The reproaches of those who reproached you fell upon

Me."