1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,240 Hi there, welcome to NECF. We're excited to share today's message with you. Don't 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:17,200 go anywhere, stay with us to the end for some valuable resources to enrich your faith. 3 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:22,440 Here's today's sermon. 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:28,640 So the topic is still the fruit of the life and the spirit. The fruit of the life and 5 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:35,440 the spirit. We're going to continue from where we start on Sunday. And our key text, the 6 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:43,040 two of them, the first one is from 2 Corinthians 5, 16 and 17. 2 Corinthians 5, 16 and 17. 7 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:49,680 I read it this time from the NLT. And it says, So we have stopped evaluating others from 8 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:57,760 a human point of view. At one time, we taught of Christ nearly from a human point of view. 9 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:04,720 How differently we know him now. So this means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become 10 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:12,840 a new person. New King James, a new creature. It says the old life is gone, a new life has 11 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:19,120 begun, a new life has begun, a new life has begun. And that is the reality for anyone 12 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:24,720 who is in Christ. We say that all that Christ has accomplished, all that Christ has accomplished 13 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:29,280 in his death, burial and resurrection, all of these things is what is encapsulated in 14 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,480 the life of the believer. And that life that we have, that is the way, that life that we 15 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:38,000 have in the spirit, praise God, that life that we have in the spirit. And we say the 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,720 summary of all of this is that at salvation, we receive everything that we need to live. 17 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:52,080 Receive everything that we need to live. So our work as God's children is anchored on 18 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:58,080 what has happened to us, is anchored on what has happened to us as at the point of salvation. 19 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:05,360 Our identity as a new creation in Christ Jesus is anchored on what has happened to us as 20 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:13,440 at salvation, praise God. So, and we say this other text is in Galatians 5 to 2 to 25. Galatians 21 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:21,880 5 to 2 to 25. We're going to draw a bit more on that passage today. In church we had explained 22 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:30,800 we said we talked about the new birth and we said the new birth is the birth or born 23 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,920 of the spirit. And we said it's also the same thing as born of God. We say that in John 24 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:43,800 3 verses 5 to 6, we see Jesus' conversation with the Godimnos, where he makes reference 25 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:50,160 to being born of the spirit, being born again. And in 1 John 5, 1 John 5, they make reference 26 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:56,320 to being born of God, being born of God, being born of God. And all of those things are the 27 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:03,920 same thing as the new birth, our identity as in our own contact in Christ, praise God, 28 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:09,480 our identity in Christ. And then we did all of that and we talked about how the gift of 29 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:13,880 the spirit is really given. It doesn't cost anybody. It didn't cost us anything, but it 30 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:19,720 cost our Father. It didn't cost us anything. It's not a partnership with him, but that 31 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,920 it's for us to have that experience, praise God. And we looked at several scriptures. 32 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:30,640 We looked at Romans 8.32, where we clearly emphasized to us that we were freely given 33 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:36,120 all these things. We were freely given all these things. And we looked at Acts 18 to 34 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:43,360 20, where we saw how Simon the Sorcerer was wanting to buy it. And Peter rebuked him and 35 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,760 says, your money perished with you because you thought that the gift of God can be purchased 36 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,920 with money. So nobody should sell it to you. It's what was given to us freely and we freely 37 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:59,880 received. And we also saw Ephesians 2 verse 8, where he tells us that, grace, we have 38 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:05,360 been saved through faith. And it's not of ourselves, but it is a gift of God. We say 39 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:10,160 it is a gift of God. We have received that gift. We receive the gift. And that is the 40 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:15,320 gift. That is what we're working in. And we said all of this is a fulfillment of a promise. 41 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:21,280 And we say that, and we saw in Ephesians 2, we looked at Ephesians 1, 13 to 14, where 42 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:26,520 we saw that it is the spirit that we are sealed with the spirit of promise, which is a guarantee. 43 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:33,480 We looked at that word guarantee. We say it's a down payment. It's down payment or anest. 44 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,400 We talk about deposit. And we use, we understood it from the analogy of when you go to get 45 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,400 a house and then you put a deposit. And we say that is nothing in comparison to what 46 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:48,520 Christ, the word God has done for us. It's the down payment is the whole thing. The down 47 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,840 payment is the full package. It's not part of the package. Praise God. It's not part 48 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:57,040 of the package. And then now, I'll just jump to, we talked about the prophetic, we talked 49 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:02,160 that we looked at Ezekiel and we looked at Jehovah, where we saw the promise being made 50 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:06,560 and we saw it's fulfillment. And we saw all of that in Acts. So now we're going to be 51 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:12,200 going to, so now the walk in the spirit, we're going to be talking more or focusing more 52 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:17,320 of the walk in the spirit. I'm going to be looking at Galatians, Galatians 5, 16. I want 53 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,960 us to open our Bibles. We're going to be going through scripture this evening and I want 54 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:28,360 us to follow, I want us to follow as fast as we can. We'll see what we, I'm not going 55 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,720 to rush, but we're going to cover as much as we can. So Galatians 5, and we're going 56 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:39,120 to be looking at 16, Galatians 5, 16. This is Paul speaking. He says, then I say then 57 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:44,720 walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the loss of the flesh. Walk in the spirit 58 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,920 and you shall not fulfill the loss of the flesh. Walk in the spirit and you shall not 59 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,180 fulfill the loss of the spirit. So what are we going to be looking at? The first part 60 00:05:52,180 --> 00:05:59,080 is the walk. Walk in the spirit, walk in the spirit. And then we'll look at the flesh and 61 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,280 look at the different ways we see flesh used in scripture. 62 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:06,440 And then see that you can't use the same thing all through. Look at a couple of scriptures 63 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,760 to be able to clarify that. 64 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,760 And we'll see also that in Romans. 65 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,480 So we're looking at, for this work in the spirit, 66 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,760 we're looking at Galatians 5.16 down to 25, 67 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,440 which is the second part of our text, 68 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:25,040 the second part of our key text, 69 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,160 it covers the second part of our key text, 70 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,440 and also Romans 8.1 to 9. 71 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,640 We're very much familiar with that passage of scripture. 72 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,360 So what I want us to do is to go to Romans 8 now. 73 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,520 Romans 8, we're gonna look at 1 and 4. 74 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,240 We're gonna look at 1 and 4. 75 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,920 Romans 8.1 and 4. 76 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:43,560 So we say that for this bit, 77 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,880 we're looking at the work in the spirit. 78 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:47,320 So Romans 8. 79 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:48,880 And if you look at it from the King James, 80 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:49,760 you will notice something. 81 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:52,200 In the King James, if you look at the King James, 82 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,040 if you have a different translation with you, 83 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,480 NLT or any other translation, you will notice something. 84 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,760 I want you to pay attention to that. 85 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,800 And you may put two. 86 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,000 Yeah, you'll notice something. 87 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,440 In the New King James, you will just see it say, 88 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:09,880 there is therefore now no condemnation 89 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,800 to those who are in Christ Jesus. 90 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:15,680 That's where it stops for. 91 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,560 Most people that are using several other translation, 92 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,120 but in the New King James, there's an addition to it. 93 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:22,440 And that addition is not out of place 94 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,160 because you will still see the same thing repeated 95 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,480 in the verse four. 96 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,120 So it says, who do not walk, that's in the New King James. 97 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,760 It says, who do not walk according to the flesh, 98 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,680 but according to the spirit. 99 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,080 Who do not walk according to the flesh, 100 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:38,880 but according to the spirit. 101 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,400 And then I want us to jump to four. 102 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,120 Four says something similar. 103 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,000 It just adds that, that the righteous requirement 104 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,720 of the law might be fulfilled in us. 105 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,640 Who do not walk according to the flesh, 106 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,240 but according to the spirit. 107 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,280 Who do not walk according to the flesh, 108 00:07:58,280 --> 00:07:59,360 but according to the spirit. 109 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,480 You notice that, that in of itself, 110 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:04,720 if you look at one, it's still saying similar 111 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,720 to what is said in four. 112 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,680 Where it says, therefore there's now no condemnation 113 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,360 to those who are in Christ Jesus. 114 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,520 It states that these individuals or these persons 115 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:16,720 are in Christ Jesus. 116 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,640 As believers, we are in Christ Jesus. 117 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,320 We are in Christ Jesus. 118 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:22,840 And our walk is in the spirit. 119 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,120 And that's why it goes to say that we do not walk 120 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,080 in the flesh, but according to the spirit. 121 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,960 So you see the very, you see the similarity. 122 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,640 You see the interplay of words. 123 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,600 It's still saying the same thing. 124 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,280 Say there's therefore now no condemnation 125 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,480 to those who are in Christ Jesus. 126 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,560 And they do not walk according to the flesh. 127 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:43,280 And please pay attention to the use of the word 128 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,520 that they do not walk. 129 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,800 They do not walk according to the flesh. 130 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:48,720 How do they walk? 131 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,040 We saw from Galatians 5 verse 16, 132 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,360 that they walk in the spirit. 133 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,160 They walk in the spirit. 134 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,440 So, and if you look very closely, it's not walk. 135 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,240 And it's not, you can't do both at the same time. 136 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,000 You can't do both at the same time. 137 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,280 It's either you're walking in the spirit 138 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,280 or you are doing the other, 139 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:10,480 which is you're walking according to the flesh. 140 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,480 Praise God. 141 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:15,360 And I want us to see what the word walk is. 142 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,680 We'll look at it in the New Testament 143 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,360 and look at a little bit of it in the old 144 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:23,760 and then we'll marry and sanitize everything together. 145 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,520 So the word walk in the Greek is the word peripateo. 146 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:28,960 The word peripateo. 147 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,960 It's P-E-P-E-R-I-P-A-T-E-O with a dash on top. 148 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,040 P-E-R-I-P-A-T-E-O, peripateo. 149 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:46,000 And it's used, you see that because Greek is what's used 150 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,040 in the New Testament. 151 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:50,840 We see that a lot. 152 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,200 And that word is a metaphor for a way of living 153 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:55,360 or how we conduct ourselves 154 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,960 and how we express it more on its definition. 155 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,560 And one thing that you will notice is that 156 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,160 if you're reading especially the epistles, 157 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,640 you see it said, you see places where you see walk in love. 158 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,560 You see where there's walk in the spirit. 159 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:11,280 You also see walk in love. 160 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,800 You also see walk in delight. 161 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,840 You also see walk in the truth. 162 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:17,600 And I'll give us references to those scriptures. 163 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,040 I think we can look at them still. 164 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:20,600 We have time. 165 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:21,600 So let's just look at them. 166 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,040 So you'll see instances in Paul's letter 167 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:26,240 to the church in Ephesians. 168 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,840 You will see in Ephesians 5, Ephesians 5 verse 2. 169 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,160 I want us to go there very quickly. 170 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,560 Ephesians 5 verse 2. 171 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,160 Ephesians 5 verse 2, that's for walk in love. 172 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,120 Ephesians 5 verse 2, let me just read from one. 173 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,960 Say therefore, be imitators of God as their children. 174 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:48,360 2 now says, walk in love as Christ also has loved us 175 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,840 and given himself for us an offering 176 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,640 and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. 177 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,760 So you see the word there, walk in love. 178 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,560 And it starts off as imitators of God, 179 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,080 as therefore be imitators of God as their children. 180 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:04,800 So there's already a father, 181 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,280 there's only a relationship that places on the nappies, 182 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,200 places on the napposition where we walk in love. 183 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,600 I want you to see that all of those things 184 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,880 are not speaking of different things. 185 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,240 All of those different places 186 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:18,840 are not speaking of different things. 187 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,800 And when we go to the other one, 188 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,720 which I said walk in the light, walk in the light, 189 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,400 we'll see that in 1 John, 1 John 1, 1 John 1. 190 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,320 I want us to go to 1 John 1, 1 John 1 verse 7, 191 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,760 1 John 1 verse 7, 1 John 1 verse 7. 192 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:40,760 It says, but if we walk in the light as he is in the light, 193 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,640 we have fellowship with one another 194 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,920 and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, 195 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:49,680 cleanses us from all sin. 196 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,800 So we see that if we walk in the light, 197 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,560 and we see all of it, we see walk in the, 198 00:11:55,560 --> 00:11:57,920 walk in love, walk in the light. 199 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,880 So let's see the other one, walk in the truth. 200 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,080 So since we're in 1 John, let's just move to 2 John, 201 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:09,080 2 John 1, 2 John 1 verse 4, 2 John 1 verse 4. 202 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,680 It says, I will judge greatly 203 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:17,360 that I have found some of your children walking in truth, 204 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:22,360 walking in truth as we receive commandment from the father, 205 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:23,900 walking in truth. 206 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:26,340 So we've seen all of these scriptures 207 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:28,760 and you can take time and look at the individual, 208 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,820 read the whole chapter and get more context 209 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:33,920 by just trying to build something there for us 210 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,200 that you'll see this walk in love, walk in light, 211 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:39,200 walk in truth, all of them, 212 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,920 we'll see how they marinate together. 213 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,520 It says all of this walk is talking about the way of living 214 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:48,400 and it's consistent with God's nature. 215 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,320 It's consistent with our divine nature. 216 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,040 It's consistent with our divine nature. 217 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:53,400 Speaks and it's not speaking, 218 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,400 it's speaking to individuals, speaking to individuals. 219 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,160 It says walk in love, walk in light, walk in truth, 220 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:00,720 walk in truth. 221 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,600 And I want us to see this word, 222 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,400 this word used in the Old Testament 223 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:07,760 and there's a scripture, 224 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,000 it is in Psalms 1, 1, 225 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,040 it's a place where we are very much conversant with. 226 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,480 Psalms 1, 1, Psalms 1 verse 1, 227 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,280 where it says, blessed is a man who walks. 228 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:24,440 The word walks there is a Hebrew word, halak or yalak. 229 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,240 It's either halak or yalak. 230 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,120 These are two variants of the word. 231 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:34,120 This is halak, halak is H-A-L-A-K, 232 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,120 or the yalak which is the, just change the H to a Y, 233 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,760 yalak, Y-A-L-A-K. 234 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:45,800 That's the word used there, walk. 235 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,760 It says, walk not, says who walks not 236 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:52,120 in the counsel of the ungodly, 237 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,600 nor stands in the path of sinners, 238 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,840 nor sits at the seat of the scoppers, 239 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,440 nor sits at the seat of the scouple. 240 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,480 If you notice that all of these things is speaking 241 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,080 of a position in a way, 242 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:10,560 because it says, doesn't you don't listen to ungodly counsel? 243 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:13,280 You don't hang around sinners, 244 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,480 you don't see that it speaks of a way of living. 245 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,000 And you know that that is in contrast. 246 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,720 You know, he does that in verse one, 247 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:23,600 and then you see in the preceding verses, 248 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:27,160 it contrasts it with what delight 249 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,800 of the person that is blessed is, 250 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,000 delight in the love of the Lord. 251 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,480 You see that there are two different ways. 252 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:33,280 And if you notice, when you read, 253 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,920 to contrast one thing against the other, 254 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:37,920 we look at Galatians, it was contrasting the walk 255 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:39,520 in the spirit against the walk in the flesh. 256 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,280 And I want us to understand something 257 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,600 that every of this thing, you don't want to, 258 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,360 it's not something that you can do, 259 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:47,040 it's not something that happens where you say, 260 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,880 you walk like this and then you can do both at the same time. 261 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,840 There's no middle ground for the two of it. 262 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:54,680 Once you notice that there's no middle ground 263 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,200 for the two of it. 264 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,840 So we will now see certain instances of individuals. 265 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:05,440 And I want us to go to Kings, 1 Kings 16, 1 Kings 16. 266 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:07,000 I think that one stood out to me 267 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,120 because I was very recently looked at it. 268 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,080 So I want us to use that one too. 269 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,080 Let's start with 1 Kings 16, 1 Kings 16, 16 verse 19, 270 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,320 1 Kings 16 verses 19. 271 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,480 We're speaking about Jehoiobam. 272 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,640 If you remember this, Jehoiobam of Solomon's son 273 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:28,640 and then there's Jehoiobam, 274 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:33,640 the one that took the other part of the kingdom. 275 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,240 It says in verse 19, it says, 276 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:41,200 because of the sins which he had committed, 277 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,880 because of the sins which he had committed 278 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,680 in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, 279 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,360 in walking, notice it uses the I-N-G, 280 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:53,760 walking in and it's W-A-L-K, 281 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,040 yeah, I was talking about it 282 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,520 because I'm saying it sounds like O-R-K, W-A-L-K. 283 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,880 In walking in the way of Jehoiobam 284 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,880 in his sin which he had committed to make Israel, 285 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,520 in his sin which he had committed to make Israel sin, 286 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,840 in his sin which has committed to make Israel sin. 287 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:18,840 So it means that you see someone walking in the sin, 288 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:21,760 in the way, walking in the way of Jehoiobam. 289 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,560 And when I saw this, I remember, 290 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:26,800 I think when we're talking about Balaam, 291 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:28,280 I think very recently, I think it was, 292 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:30,120 it was in Pastor Victor that was teaching. 293 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,120 And he said, in Peter, Peter was speaking, 294 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,320 that's 2 Peter 2.15, 295 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:37,240 where he talks about the way of Balaam, 296 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,000 following the way of Balaam, 297 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,400 where the individual, there's something that they had done 298 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:43,880 that makes them have, 299 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,960 it's almost like they had created a pattern of action 300 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,080 because of the way they did certain things. 301 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,920 And then everybody now, there's a way 302 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:53,240 that's created a system by which there's a way. 303 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:54,600 And what is that way? 304 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,200 In Balaam's situation, 305 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,080 it goes further to state what the way is. 306 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,640 He said, who loved the widows of unrighteousness? 307 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,400 Meaning that he, it's because of his eye, 308 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:08,400 his eye was on the money and he did something ungodly. 309 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:11,160 I remember we said, all of those things have their, 310 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:14,280 you see that you're on this side or on the other side. 311 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:17,880 And then let's look at also 1 Kings 22. 312 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,000 Let's look at 1 Kings 22, 22.52. 313 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,520 1 Kings 22.52. 314 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:30,000 And we'll see that he says in 1 Kings 22, verse 52, 315 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,000 he says, he did evil in the sight of the Lord 316 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,360 and walked in the way of his father. 317 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:39,280 And in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeorabam, 318 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,760 notice that they walked in the way of the father, 319 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:45,440 walked in the way of the mother. 320 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,880 And this is Ahaziah, Ahaziah. 321 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:50,680 And then they also included walked in the way 322 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,280 of Jeorabam the son of Nebat. 323 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,360 And that Jeorabam is Jeorabam the son of Nebat. 324 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:55,200 There's another Jeorabam, 325 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,160 but this is Jeorabam the son of Nebat, 326 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,720 who had made Israel sin. 327 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,180 And this individual had made the whole nation, 328 00:18:03,180 --> 00:18:05,800 had made the whole nation to sin. 329 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,960 And let's look at the other one in 2 Kings 3.3. 330 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,760 2 Kings 3.3. 331 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,320 He says, in 2 Kings 3.3, 332 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:18,080 nevertheless, he persisted in the sins of Jeorabam 333 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,760 the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin. 334 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:23,680 He did not depart from them. 335 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:27,480 This is another, this is Jehoram, 336 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:29,720 this is Jehoram to another King again. 337 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,000 So you see several Kings now, 338 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,200 there's a way, there's a walk, 339 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,800 there's a pattern that they are taking up. 340 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,520 And we have talked a lot about Jeorabam the son of Nebat, 341 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,400 but let's look at what Jeorabam the son, 342 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,200 what is that way, what is that pattern that he had created 343 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,800 that makes him the reference point, 344 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,960 the point of reference for every other person 345 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:50,800 that is coming up. 346 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,000 Let's look at it in 1 Kings, 347 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,800 let's go to 1 Kings 12, 1 Kings 12. 348 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,580 1 Kings 12. 349 00:18:59,580 --> 00:19:02,320 This is the point of the whole revolt against Jeorabam. 350 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,720 1 Kings 12, I think we'll just read 25 to 33. 351 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:07,760 1 Kings 12. 352 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,280 Remember, what we're looking at is the walk. 353 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:14,680 Walk, that is W-A-L, W-A-L-K. 354 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,560 So 25 now reads, 1 Kings 12, 25. 355 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:23,560 This is then Jeorabam built Shechem 356 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,080 in the mountains of Ephraim and dwelt there. 357 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:31,120 Also he went out of there and built Penelope. 358 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:33,480 And Jeorabam said in his heart, 359 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,200 now the kingdom may return to the house of David. 360 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:41,040 If those people go up to offer sacrifices 361 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,780 in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, 362 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:47,560 then the heart of these people will turn back 363 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:52,560 to their Lord, Jeorabam king of Judah, 364 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:57,600 and they will kill me and go back to Jeorabam king of Judah. 365 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:02,440 28, therefore the king asked advice, 366 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:03,960 therefore the king asked advice, 367 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,960 may two cows of gold and say to the people, 368 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,800 this is too much for you to go up. 369 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,400 Is it too much for you to go up to Jerusalem? 370 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,560 Here are your gods, O Israel, 371 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,560 which brought you up on the land of Egypt. 372 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:22,920 Does that sound familiar? 373 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,920 Then 29 says, and he set up one in Bethel, 374 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,520 and then the other, and the other he put up in Dan. 375 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,480 Now this thing became a sin for the people 376 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,480 went to worship before this one as far as Dan. 377 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,640 He said, he made the shrines on the high places 378 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,720 and made the priests from every class of people 379 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,440 who were not the sons of Levi. 380 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,720 Then I think we say we stop at 33, yeah, let's 32. 381 00:20:55,720 --> 00:21:00,720 Jeorabam ordained a feast on the 15th day of the eighth month, 382 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,720 like the feast that was in Judah 383 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,720 and offered sacrifices on the altar. 384 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:11,720 So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the cows 385 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,560 that he had made and at Bethel, 386 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,280 he installed the priests of the high places 387 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:20,540 which he had made. 388 00:21:20,540 --> 00:21:23,200 So he made offerings on the altar, 389 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,440 which he had made at Bethel on the 15th, 390 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,880 on the 15th day of the eighth month, 391 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,880 in the month which he had devised in his own heart. 392 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,480 And he ordained the feast for the children of Israel 393 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,240 and offered sacrifices on the altar and burnt incense. 394 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,720 And notice that all that he did, he had created, 395 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:48,480 he had made golden calves, Bethel, 396 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,360 he put one at Bethel, put one at Dan, 397 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:55,080 and people took, like people sacrificed to go to that, 398 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,520 I mean, besides the sacrifice, 399 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,480 that the sacrifice is sacrificed to go to that place 400 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,680 to do the sacrifices to this. 401 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,840 So you can see that this man had done these things 402 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,920 to appeal, has done these things 403 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:09,840 because he knew that he was like, 404 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:12,800 if I don't do it, I will lose the people 405 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,840 when they go to Jerusalem. 406 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,200 And this is all his own idea, this is all his own thought. 407 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,960 And this is how he came about it, worked. 408 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,240 And if you see all of them in the same pattern, 409 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,740 but I'm too, there's something that he wanted to gain. 410 00:22:24,740 --> 00:22:27,040 All of them, they are not, 411 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,400 all their drive is for themselves. 412 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,280 All the drive is for themselves 413 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,480 and all the drive is for what they're going to profit from it. 414 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,760 But note that this now is in contrast 415 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,160 to what we're talking about. 416 00:22:39,120 --> 00:22:43,920 If they can be a walk, the walk can be in one direction, 417 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,680 which is anti-God, because you know that what he did here 418 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:51,400 is inconsistent and away from what God's instruction is. 419 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,840 And if you know that, if you think back 420 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:56,760 at what the children of Israel did in the wilderness, 421 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:57,800 know that it's the same thing. 422 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,480 They just put gold in the fire and then have calf, 423 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,720 and then they worship it and then say the same thing. 424 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:04,160 This is the God that brought us up. 425 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,840 You see the same pattern, they repeat the same pattern. 426 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,320 And this man did not just one, he did two. 427 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:13,480 He did two, and you can see that in 29 and 30, 428 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:15,960 when he set them up and then people went there 429 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,280 and they went as far, people sacrificed to go and worship. 430 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,880 So we see that there is a walk and the walk here, 431 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,880 you see that the way, as we said that the walk is a pattern, 432 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,880 is a way of living, a way of living. 433 00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,240 And that way of living will set a stage 434 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,120 for how people will even live afterwards. 435 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:39,640 Well, we say that when we talk about walking the spirit, 436 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,520 the walk in the spirit is very different from going, 437 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,720 because we say it's a walk. 438 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,880 And that walk is not powered by our own desires, 439 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,120 but it's powered by God himself. 440 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:53,160 So a walk in the spirit is powered by the spirit of God. 441 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,520 The spirit empowers us to live a life of freedom, 442 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,840 empowers us to overcome whatever desires of our flesh. 443 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,640 And when you say being in the flesh, 444 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,920 being the walk in the flesh in that context, 445 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,000 and we'll talk about how it can be used in different, 446 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,840 or why you don't want to assume the same thing 447 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,320 every way you see the flesh. 448 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:13,960 When he says walk in the flesh, 449 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,920 in contrast to walk in the spirit, 450 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:20,920 he's talking about the walk that is outside of God's life, 451 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,400 a walk that is outside of God's life, 452 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,760 a walk that is not inconsistent, 453 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,360 that doesn't have God in it. 454 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:29,680 A walk that doesn't have God in it. 455 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:34,480 The same way what Jeroboam did was not an idea 456 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:35,920 better or inspired by God. 457 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:37,120 It has nothing to do with it. 458 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,480 It's something that he did of his own volition. 459 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,000 He did it because he wanted to have people 460 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,640 not go to Jerusalem. 461 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,480 That was what inspired that it was inconsistent 462 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:47,960 with what God wants. 463 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,440 And that's why he created a pattern. 464 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,640 If you notice, they say they did evil. 465 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,480 All the use of the word evil, 466 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,360 it says because it's anti-God, 467 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:58,800 that's why it is evil. 468 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,360 And the word for flesh, 469 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:02,520 this is when we're going into, 470 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,400 Pleszrof talks about what the walk is, 471 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,680 and we'll later on see that walk also, 472 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,320 we'll see from scriptures as we're gonna look. 473 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,480 Look now, we'll see that that walk has to do 474 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,360 with an understanding, a mindset. 475 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:19,960 That walk has to do with an understanding and a mindset. 476 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,640 We'll see that from scripture, 477 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,360 we'll see that from second Corinthians shortly. 478 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:27,800 But I want to explain first to us that the flesh, 479 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,720 the word flesh there is S-A-R-X. 480 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,120 That's the word in Greek. 481 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:34,720 That's the word flesh. 482 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:37,640 And it's also symbolizes, as I said earlier, 483 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,320 without God, symbolizes the sinful and old nature 484 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,000 that is under the law, 485 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:45,680 that's before the coming of Christ. 486 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,160 And then the flesh can also be the physical body. 487 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:50,600 When he speaks of the physical body, 488 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,080 it can also be the physical body. 489 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,040 So know that when we are reading, 490 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,600 we want to pay attention to how the word flesh is used. 491 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,240 Because there's certain parts of scripture 492 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:02,360 that it will say walk in the flesh. 493 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:03,920 It will say according to my walk in the flesh. 494 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,560 And then you'll be confused that it says, 495 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,200 that you should not walk according to the flesh, 496 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:09,160 but you should walk in the spirit. 497 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,840 So you don't want to, 498 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:12,760 you want to read it and read it in context. 499 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,080 You want to read it and read it in context. 500 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,280 And especially when Apostle Paul is speaking, 501 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,880 we'll see that in Romans seven. 502 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,120 When he's speaking and then he uses the word flesh, 503 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:23,600 he can use the same word flesh in the, 504 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:27,880 he'll use flesh in one verse. 505 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,280 And that means something different from the second one 506 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:32,560 he'll use in the second verse. 507 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,080 So you want to look at it and not be confused. 508 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,520 And it might look like a contradiction, 509 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,800 but it's not a contradiction because there's a context 510 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:40,320 what he's saying, praise God. 511 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,840 So I want us to look at 2 Corinthians 10. 512 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:46,840 We'll look at 2 Corinthians 10. 513 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,280 Okay. 514 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,000 2 Corinthians 10, one, two, three. 515 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,920 2 Corinthians 10, one, two, three. 516 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:54,640 Let's go there. 517 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,760 2 Corinthians 10, one, two, three. 518 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,640 So this is Apostle Paul speaking. 519 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,080 He says, he says, now I Paul myself, 520 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,040 I'm pleading with you by the meekness 521 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,160 and gentleness of Christ, 522 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:13,080 who in present I'm lonely among you. 523 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,120 He says, but being absent, I'm bold towards you. 524 00:27:17,120 --> 00:27:21,560 2 now says, but I beg you that when I am present, 525 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,280 I may not be bold with that confidence 526 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:30,280 by which I am intended to be bold against some. 527 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,360 This is the part I want to spread to you too. 528 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:40,360 Who think of us as if we walk according to the flesh? 529 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:44,760 He says, who think of us as if we walk according 530 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,160 to the flesh? 531 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,600 Then you see in verse three, he now says, 532 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:51,240 for though we walk in the flesh. 533 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,360 Let me take it back again so that you, 534 00:27:53,360 --> 00:27:56,280 so the ending of verse two says, 535 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,600 he's speaking of some people who think of us 536 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:01,640 as if we walk according to the flesh. 537 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,480 Then in verse three, he says, 538 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,520 for though we walk in the flesh, 539 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:11,920 we do not walk according to the flesh. 540 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,920 So know that he says, those people who think 541 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,440 we walk according to the flesh. 542 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,200 And then he now says, do we walk in the flesh? 543 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,520 So it will mean that in verse three, 544 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,760 in verse three, when he says, 545 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,240 for though we walk in the flesh, 546 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,280 what that will mean is that walking in the flesh 547 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,120 will mean walking in the physical body, praise God. 548 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:33,560 Walking in the flesh will mean walking in the physical body. 549 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,360 And if you want to see how that plays 550 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:38,120 or how you want to see how that, 551 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,800 if you look at it from, 552 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,280 when you read it from the NLT, 553 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,960 you probably will see what it says. 554 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,800 It says in verse three, it says, we are human, 555 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,000 but we don't wage war as humans do. 556 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,120 So know that he's talking about the physical. 557 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,480 And if you look at verse four, 558 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,040 if you look at verse four, 559 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,760 from the, he says, verse four from the New King James, 560 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,800 it says, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 561 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,560 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 562 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,400 The NLT will say are not bodily, 563 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,160 say but are mighty to the pulling down of stronghold. 564 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:20,840 So what it will mean there is that what we use to war 565 00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,000 is not what everybody, 566 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:24,440 every other person use to war, 567 00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,320 what we don't do from the physical things 568 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,520 that people use to war. 569 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:29,080 It says, but they are mighty 570 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,080 for the pulling down of stronghold. 571 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,320 Now, really from the NLT, it says, 572 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,600 we use God's mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, 573 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:41,280 to knock down strongholds of human reasoning. 574 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,840 Now, that is where you now, 575 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,720 you now move the whole argument to help us understand that. 576 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:51,280 When he talks about flesh or talks about his walk 577 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,680 and all of those things are not something that is, 578 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,000 it's not, it's, when it says human reasoning 579 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,840 and destroy false arguments, 580 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,640 you don't destroy false argument by fighting the person 581 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,400 or by physical altercation. 582 00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:06,680 You don't, if you want to destroy false arguments, 583 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,920 you do it because it's something that happens in the mind. 584 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,320 Let's look at five. 585 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,680 Five say we destroy every proud obstacle 586 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,920 that keeps people from knowing God. 587 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,960 We capture their rebellious thought 588 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,080 and teach them to obey Christ. 589 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,360 If you read all of this, 590 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,000 you can't leave this conversation thinking 591 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,200 if you read it from where it started 592 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,880 to where he had landed in verse five, 593 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,240 you can't leave that conversation thinking 594 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:37,760 that he's talking about something like exchanging blows. 595 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,080 It says we destroy, you know? 596 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,480 When you hear the word destroy, 597 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,040 you think of something decimating something. 598 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,200 When I say that I destroyed him, 599 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,680 you fuck, even when we use the word destroy, 600 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,360 we just say, we don't mean it literally. 601 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:52,520 We mean that I give him a piece of my mind, 602 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:54,760 or with that, you mentally, 603 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,520 you verbally assaulted the person. 604 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,440 You assaulted them with words. 605 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,920 So when he uses the word flesh here, 606 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,000 notice that he uses the word flesh 607 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,720 in the ending of the first verse 608 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,200 to mean not like without God. 609 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:10,560 And then he now goes down to, 610 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,680 and we'll see that, we'll see if you are still in doubt. 611 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,320 Note that when he used that word there, 612 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,160 he's talking about mindset, understanding, 613 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:18,920 and words that are spoken. 614 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,400 Mindset, understanding, or mindset, 615 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,960 or understanding of words that are spoken. 616 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,960 That is what he's making reference to. 617 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,840 Then we'll now see it in Romans seven. 618 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,120 And please follow in Romans seven, 619 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,360 because Romans seven is where a couple of people, 620 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,440 or where sometimes you will be thinking that Paul is, 621 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,920 is not like, he's saying one thing, 622 00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,040 and then saying, he's going back on his words. 623 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,640 But know that if you look at the use of the word flesh 624 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,080 in that properly, you understand that he's using it. 625 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:51,280 And if you look at it from different, 626 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:52,880 you'll see the words used there. 627 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,880 So we'll look at Romans seven, verse five and six. 628 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,760 Romans seven, verse five and six. 629 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,240 Romans seven, verse five and six. 630 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,560 So he says, for we were in the flesh, 631 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,840 notice the use of the word, we were in the flesh. 632 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,480 When he says we were in the flesh, 633 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,960 it means he's talking about the previous nature. 634 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,680 And then he says, the sinful passions, 635 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,200 which, and he uses the word past tense, says we were. 636 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,280 Remember, it says, Vandermann is a new creation. 637 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,800 All things are passed away. 638 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:23,640 So we were in the flesh. 639 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:28,160 So the sinful passions, which were aroused by the law, 640 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,880 notice that is the law, the element of the law comes in. 641 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,880 We're at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 642 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,920 Use the word, he takes the word bear fruit to death, 643 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,960 bear fruit with results in death. 644 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,880 Then six now, verse six, he says, 645 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:48,600 but now we have been delivered from the law, 646 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:53,600 having died to what we were held by, 647 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:58,680 so that we should serve in the newness of the spirit 648 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,800 and not in the oldness of the letter. 649 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,280 In the newness of the spirit 650 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,600 and not in the oldness of the letter. 651 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:10,760 Let me read it to Ross from the NLT. 652 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,080 It says, we were controlled by our old nature, 653 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,200 which makes it clear that the flesh there 654 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,360 is not speaking about physical body. 655 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,480 Sinful desires were working, 656 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,280 well, we say we're at work within us. 657 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,800 And the law arouse this evil desire 658 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:33,400 that produce a harvest of sinful deeds resulting in death. 659 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,800 Six now say, but now we have been released from the law, 660 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,800 but we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. 661 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,120 Now we can serve God, 662 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:50,120 not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, 663 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,640 but in the new way, 664 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,920 I like the way we use the new way of living in the spirit. 665 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,840 So the analysis ends with, 666 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:01,480 or we serve God in the new way of living in the spirit. 667 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,120 And I want you to pay attention to the use of it. 668 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,480 I told us that in the spirit, in Christ, 669 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,240 all of those things points to the reality, 670 00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:13,040 the new birth, the identity that we have in Christ. 671 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,920 It's not anything different. 672 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,680 It's the identity that we have, 673 00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:18,480 the new identity that we have in Christ. 674 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,520 And we want to be reminded of this identity. 675 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:23,560 We want to be reminded of the things that has been accomplished. 676 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,000 So what is, when you contrast that, 677 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,640 don't think that Paul is saying that he is still there, 678 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,880 there's still law, he's still battling this and that. 679 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,720 You want to understand that he's talking about his past 680 00:34:33,720 --> 00:34:36,560 and then he's making reference to where he's at now, 681 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,240 walking in the new way of living. As I said, 682 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:41,880 know that there is a mindset. 683 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,960 There is the walk now, is a walk of understanding that, 684 00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,400 look, there has to be a shift in the mindset. 685 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,680 And as I said, the shift in the mindset 686 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,320 comes from our interaction with God's Word, 687 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,160 comes from an interaction with the spirit 688 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,880 that renews our mind. 689 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,960 The spirit of God renews our mind. 690 00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:59,960 And that is why, as believers, 691 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,160 our goal is to consistently allow for, 692 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,400 when we pray, when we pray, 693 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160 when we read God's Word, when we are taught God's Word, 694 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,520 it's the renewing of our mind that ensures 695 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,840 that we align ourselves to the will and the dictates 696 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:15,600 of the God that we serve, 697 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,320 the will and dictates of God that we serve. 698 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,440 So we want to very clearly distinguish what it is, 699 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:25,440 the law and what it is that happens under the law, 700 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,760 what the experiment is under the law. 701 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,480 Now, when you're reading and looking at the word flesh, 702 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,400 you want to know what is the context, 703 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,520 what are they talking about? 704 00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:38,520 Is it flesh physical body or is it flesh without God 705 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,600 or the old nature? 706 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,920 And know that if it's making reference to that, 707 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:44,360 you know that we have a new nature. 708 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,880 So if it looks like it's contradictory, 709 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,640 you want to pay attention to what it's saying 710 00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:50,640 when you see the word flesh. 711 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:51,840 There are many other things. 712 00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,280 And I want you in your study of God's Word, 713 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,120 especially when you're reading all of that, 714 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,320 when it says in the body, it says flesh. 715 00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,600 You want to be able to pay attention. 716 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,400 I think we'll see one more in some way, 717 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,200 and I'll bring attention to it when we see it. 718 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,520 So I want us to now quickly move 719 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,520 and let's look at Romans 8 verses 2, 720 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,160 where it says, 721 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:19,040 for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, 722 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,480 for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus 723 00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,320 has made us free from the law of sin and death. 724 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,400 For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus 725 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,360 has made us free from the law of sin and death. 726 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,200 Remember we say in Christ, 727 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,200 the spirit that we have, the spirit of life, 728 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:38,840 say the law of the spirit of life, 729 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,720 and that is what has made us free. 730 00:36:40,720 --> 00:36:41,960 We have been set free. 731 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,800 So we're no longer bound to our past, has nothing on us. 732 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,120 We are living victoriously 733 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:49,960 because of that thing that has happened. 734 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,440 We are unable to live victorious life over sin 735 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,560 through what Christ has done by the power of his spirit. 736 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:01,560 So a believer knowing this doesn't say, 737 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:05,680 oh, I can't, it has a hold on me. 738 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,800 I don't know how to stop it. 739 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,080 I can't control myself. 740 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:12,040 I can't, you know, you don't know this. 741 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,680 You don't have an understanding of your identity 742 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,480 because you lack that understanding. 743 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,200 You say, oh, I don't, I'm powerless. 744 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,760 Anytime it comes, I'm just powerless. 745 00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:26,760 I don't know why you want to come to that reality 746 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,800 other consciousness of the fact that the victory 747 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,400 that has been won has been won totally. 748 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,520 It's not, there's no part of the victory won. 749 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,240 And then when you have to pray more 750 00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:37,360 and then it will not happen. 751 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,160 No, that is not what it is. 752 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,600 So that the law of the spirit means the principle 753 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,960 and the authority of a spirit led life. 754 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,360 That the, that authority, that law, 755 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,560 that thing that bounds, it's solid. 756 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,280 It's so solid that there is nothing 757 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,320 that you can't vacillate between it. 758 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,000 And your lack of, your not understanding, 759 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,560 it doesn't mean that it is available to you. 760 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,720 It, you're not, your lack of consciousness 761 00:38:05,720 --> 00:38:10,160 or it just means that you will feign powerlessness 762 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,720 in the face of it, but you have that power 763 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:15,680 and that authority because you, that is what you have. 764 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,760 That is what you possess, praise God. 765 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,880 You see, and embracing this life means 766 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,720 that we are going to continue to yield to God's guidance. 767 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:24,440 We're going to continue to see the victory. 768 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,560 We're going to, but he's going to walk us through it. 769 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,000 He's going to carry us through it. 770 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:29,520 And we're going to know in favor. 771 00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,800 And that's why relationship transformation, 772 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,480 all of those things work with our consciously 773 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:35,320 interfacing God's word. 774 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:36,440 And that's what God will do. 775 00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:39,080 When you look into God's word, it comes at you. 776 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,440 You will be, you will have power. 777 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,240 You have understanding that will help you. 778 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,760 Because I said, it's a mindset thing. 779 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,120 That's why knowledge is needed for us to be able to, 780 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:48,960 to walk in it. 781 00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,600 So that, that understanding that God is always walking in us. 782 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,200 He's always walking in us. 783 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:55,720 He's always walking on our minds, 784 00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:57,520 always walking on our faculties. 785 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,960 He's always walking, walking, walking, walking 786 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:02,320 will help us to know that there's no time, 787 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:03,840 there's no point in time where we're powerless. 788 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,920 There's no point in time where we lack what, 789 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:07,200 what to do, where to go. 790 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,200 We're not trying, we don't come and then we say, 791 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,640 I don't know what God, I don't know what, what I'm to do. 792 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,520 I'm not, you, you, you, you, you can't say that 793 00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:19,160 because you know that, that at every point in time, 794 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,440 God will not leave you at every point in time. 795 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,120 God gives you what you need. 796 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,440 God makes sure that you're walking in his will 797 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:26,640 and according to his will. 798 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,640 Philippians 2 verse 13, it says, 799 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,520 for it is God who walks in you. 800 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,080 Notice he says, it is God who walks in you. 801 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:37,120 How does he walk in us? 802 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,080 He walks in us by his spirit, 803 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,800 both to will and to do of his good pleasure. 804 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,640 It is God that walks in us to will and to do. 805 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:47,440 And we know that he had done that as a wish. 806 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,320 That is basically how we come into it. 807 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:50,440 And he continues to do that. 808 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,680 He doesn't go on sabbatical. 809 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,120 He doesn't go on sabbatical. 810 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,320 The word, the word they walk is in the jail. 811 00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:00,400 It's, it's a constant, it's actively walking in us, 812 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:01,760 energizing us to do this. 813 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:03,400 We learn to do two of his pleasure. 814 00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:04,240 Praise God. 815 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:05,720 We're not, we don't come and then we say, 816 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:08,200 we're powerless in the face of, of, of challenges 817 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,360 or we're powerless in the face of situation. 818 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:11,720 We know what to do. 819 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:13,840 We know how to do the things that we need to do 820 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,400 because we remember we see, 821 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,120 being in Christ means that every other thing is gone. 822 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:19,800 Everything without God, it's gone out of the way. 823 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,840 We have a new nature. 824 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:21,760 We're born of the spirit. 825 00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:23,520 We're born of God. 826 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,040 We sing it that as a church. 827 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,640 And we want to sing more. 828 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:27,920 We're singing these things, 829 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,960 reminding ourselves, affirming ourselves of our reality, 830 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,920 affirming ourselves to be in dwell in, 831 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,240 in dwelling presence of the spirit within us. 832 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:37,440 And note that the dwelling presence of the spirit 833 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,120 in us produces a character and a nature consistent 834 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,360 with the identity that we have in Christ. 835 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:43,920 I will keep saying that and keep saying that 836 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:45,360 until the sing sin, you know, 837 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,360 that our new identity is tied to his presence in us. 838 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:51,720 It's not tied to anything else. 839 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:53,360 It's tied to his presence in us. 840 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:56,160 If we, if we, if we lose sight of that, 841 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:57,240 we lose sight of everything, 842 00:40:57,240 --> 00:41:00,080 which is what brought us to this place in the first place. 843 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,000 Praise God. 844 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,160 And that is what will lead us to the, 845 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,800 the Galatians five verses 22 and 23. 846 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,400 We're going to spend a bit of time to look at 847 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,440 before we close. 848 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,240 We in the Galatians five to 22 and 23 says, 849 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:16,680 but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, 850 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,720 long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 851 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,320 gentleness, self-control. 852 00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,360 Against such, there is no law. 853 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,720 Against such, there is no law. 854 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:29,960 And I want us to see that in Galatians, right? 855 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,760 And that's in Galatians 18. 856 00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,880 In that 18, in that Galatians five is 18. 857 00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,920 What he says is that we are, we are led by the spirit 858 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:38,920 and we're not under the law. 859 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,000 So what he says, but if you are led by the spirit 860 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:40,840 and you're not under the law, 861 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,080 I read it from the NLT says, 862 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,040 but when you are directed by the spirit, 863 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,320 you're not under obligation to the law. 864 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,600 It says the law of Moses. 865 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,080 So understand that, as I said earlier, 866 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,040 there's a walk in the spirit and there's a, 867 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,400 because your walk in the spirit means that he's the one 868 00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:57,640 that word led there. 869 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,640 We see that same word in Romans eight verse 14. 870 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,160 We see that same, that word led, it's a go. 871 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:06,640 And it means that we're carried. 872 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:11,040 It means that there's the leading, the carrying, 873 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,120 the movement is not, we are empowered to move. 874 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:15,880 We're not motionless, we're not static, 875 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,520 we're not confused, praise God, 876 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,800 because we, the spirit of God is very much a strong 877 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:23,320 and a solid resource. 878 00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:26,840 And out of that spirit, certainly we see the things 879 00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,480 that comes that flows forth. 880 00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:29,880 This is bought this fruit. 881 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,120 And please, when you, when we are reading, 882 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,000 you want to look at single and plural. 883 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,360 Sometimes you might not pay attention to it, 884 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,800 but when you keep reading, you'll see it. 885 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,640 It says, but the fruit of the spirit is love. 886 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,280 It did not say the fruits of the spirit. 887 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,200 It says the fruit of the spirit. 888 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:48,440 And I want you to pay attention because that is very critical 889 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,320 to what is being said here. 890 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:51,600 It says the fruit of the spirit. 891 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,360 And know that if you are looking at the fruit 892 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:59,360 and then you're, they say fruit, you should see one. 893 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:02,160 You should not start going, the fruit of the spirit is love, 894 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:06,720 is, and you know, that means that what you are thinking 895 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:08,760 it is, is not what it is. 896 00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:10,400 Because if you're thinking, if you're, 897 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,960 if you were to read this properly in English, 898 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,960 you will say the fruits of the spirit is, 899 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,960 and then you now start going. 900 00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:21,960 But since this word here is not in original English, 901 00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:26,320 so we have to go to the word in it, 902 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,280 the word that is used in the Greek. 903 00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:30,880 And the word there is carpos. 904 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,920 And I, anytime I say this word, it just makes me laugh 905 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,160 because it's like carpos. 906 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:39,760 And carpos is also a fruit, it's melon, watermelon. 907 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,080 The watermelon. 908 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:46,080 So it's carpos, that's K-A-R-Car and pos, K-A-R-P-O-S. 909 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,840 K-A-R-P-O-M, K-A-R-P-O-S. 910 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,160 And that's the word. 911 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:55,240 And it means to, it is to produce. 912 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:58,880 And it's, it signifies both character and outcome. 913 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,360 And we look at certain, we'll look at other places where, 914 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:07,360 and know that this fruit now is not a result of self effort. 915 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:09,520 And I'll keep saying it. 916 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,040 This is not a result of self effort, 917 00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,480 but is the Holy Spirit walking in us and walking through us. 918 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,880 It's a result of the Holy Spirit walking in us 919 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:18,720 and walking through us. 920 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,200 We're not the ones, the same way when we say at salvation, 921 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,880 we, it is not our, we were not the ones 922 00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:24,120 that save ourselves by ourselves. 923 00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,280 It's what Christ has done that brings us in. 924 00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,400 And anything that's manifested in our throughout life 925 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,520 is a product of what Christ has done. 926 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,000 It's a product of what Christ has done. 927 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,000 So I want us to look at certain places in scripture, 928 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,200 mostly the New Testament, where the word fruit is used. 929 00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:47,120 And we'll see that all of them doesn't necessarily mean 930 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,240 the same thing. 931 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:49,400 Because when we think of fruit, 932 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,720 we think of the fruit that you, 933 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,760 well, there's certain places where it used 934 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,320 as the physical fruit from a tree 935 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,680 or physical fruit from a vine or whatever. 936 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,160 That's certain places. 937 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,080 And I'll read through the scripture 938 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:05,680 and we'll see also there are certain places 939 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:07,920 where it makes reference to action. 940 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,920 So one, there are places where the ways that fruit 941 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,280 will be described or we'll see fruit used in the Bible. 942 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,240 One is a place, is a physical fruit from a tree, 943 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:19,880 physical fruit from a tree. 944 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:23,120 And two, we can see it as action, deeds, 945 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:24,960 or results of an action. 946 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,280 And you can see the rewards or the consequences of that. 947 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,920 And then the last one, it will be used for descendants, 948 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:34,280 descendants or child or children. 949 00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,280 You can use descendants, child or children. 950 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,840 So you can see it in mainly, mainly those three formats. 951 00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,080 And a lot of it will be in the second, 952 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:44,000 a lot of it in the second. 953 00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,600 So I'm just giving us these three. 954 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,440 So we can look at it. 955 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,920 So we'll look at Mark, Mark 11, Mark 11, 14. 956 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:56,880 And we'll see it used as a physical fruit from a tree, 957 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,280 physical fruit from a tree. 958 00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:03,280 And this is Jesus, this is Jesus speaking to, 959 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:08,360 Mark 11 verse 14, this is Jesus speaking to the tree. 960 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,160 In response, Jesus said to it, 961 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:16,160 let no one eat fruit from you ever again. 962 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:18,800 And his disciples heard it. 963 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,560 So this is Jesus speaking to a tree, 964 00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:25,080 but we knew the background story is that he went to look for, 965 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:30,080 he saw the fig tree was levy 966 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,320 and then he went to look for fruit from it. 967 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:34,600 And then he said this thing. 968 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,280 So this is where he's used. 969 00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,280 Like I said, it means that we see it as that, 970 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,160 that you're looking for a real or a physical fruit. 971 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:47,680 And then also in Luke 13, 6 to 9, 972 00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,480 we see Jesus speaking of a parable of a barren fig. 973 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:54,920 He is making reference to that as the fruit is so, 974 00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,040 from the fig tree itself. 975 00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,280 And you can, I want you to write this down. 976 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,320 Luke 13, 6 to 9, we'll not read it. 977 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,920 We know the parable and we know that what we make, 978 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,600 what we made reference to is the fig itself in the parable. 979 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:14,600 And then I want you to contrast it with Isaiah 5, 1 to 7. 980 00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,880 And in your own personal study or your own personal reading, 981 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,520 just contrast it and see, 982 00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,040 is the song of the vineyard in Isaiah, 983 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:27,040 Isaiah 5, 1 to 7, in contrast to the Luke 13, 6 to 9. 984 00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:30,200 Then I want us to move to the action deeds 985 00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,000 and the result of an action. 986 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,400 Action deeds and result of an action. 987 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,040 I would say the result of an action 988 00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:37,680 can be rewards or consequences. 989 00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,040 So it can be good, which is the reward 990 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,120 and it can be consequences, 991 00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,760 which can be negative in a sense. 992 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:46,000 So I want us to look at Matthew. 993 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,040 Matthew 7, 16 to 20. 994 00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,880 Matthew 7, 16 to 20. 995 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,840 Matthew 7, 16 to 20. 996 00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,080 Yeah, Matthew 7, 16 to 20. 997 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,920 And I want us to read this says, 998 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,480 you will know them by their fruits. 999 00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,280 See, you will know them by their fruits. 1000 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:07,280 Do men get figs from torn bushes or figs from tisils? 1001 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:10,560 Question mark. 1002 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,600 Even so, every good tree bears good fruits, 1003 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,400 but every bad tree bears bad fruits. 1004 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,080 So if you look at the first bit, 1005 00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,640 it says you will know them by their fruits. 1006 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,120 So we know that this is speaking of results of act, 1007 00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,480 like somebody's, like when somebody acts, 1008 00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:27,800 you can trace to it. 1009 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,320 And then it now goes further to say every good tree 1010 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,160 bears bad fruits. 1011 00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:32,800 And know that that second verse 17 1012 00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:34,920 will be speaking of the tree 1013 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,960 and the fruit from the tree, physical fruit from the tree, 1014 00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:40,080 but know that it's making reference to individuals 1015 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,840 that you can tell by the action. 1016 00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:42,880 So we say the good fruits. 1017 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,840 And remember all of these things 1018 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:46,600 are contrasting to things. 1019 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,400 Something that is good and something that is bad. 1020 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,800 And then also let's look at Romans 1 verse 13. 1021 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,320 And Apostle Paul is speaking, 1022 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,840 and I want you to look at the context 1023 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,680 and see how it's used. 1024 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,760 I know that all these words here for fruits 1025 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,120 is the same capos. 1026 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:08,320 So 1 verse 13, it says, 1027 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:13,240 now I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, 1028 00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:18,240 that I often plan to come, what was in that until now, 1029 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:23,120 that I may have some fruit among you also, 1030 00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:27,000 just as among the other Gentiles. 1031 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,760 Know that it says some fruit. 1032 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,840 In the NLT, it says spiritual fruit. 1033 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,200 NLT uses the word spiritual fruit. 1034 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,320 Know that the fruit here will be meaning the reward 1035 00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,080 or results of him preaching the gospel, praise God, 1036 00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:46,080 will be the reward or the result of him preaching the gospel. 1037 00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,200 So this is some, 1038 00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,680 and because I know that it's not physical fruit, 1039 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,320 it is spiritual fruit, 1040 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,040 like the reward of what seeds on here, 1041 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:57,600 gotten a reward. 1042 00:49:57,600 --> 00:50:00,040 So I want us to look at Philippians now. 1043 00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:03,640 We'll see, Philippians 1, we'll see two verses there. 1044 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,480 Philippians 1 verse 11 and 22. 1045 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,960 Philippians 1 verse 11 and 22. 1046 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,640 Philippians 1 verse 11 and 22. 1047 00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:16,400 So 11 says, being filled with the fruits, 1048 00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:21,400 and please look at, it says fruits of righteousness, 1049 00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:26,200 which are by, it says fruits, and then we see one, 1050 00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:27,560 it says fruits of righteousness, 1051 00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,160 which are by Christ to the glory of God 1052 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,280 and the praise of God. 1053 00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:33,920 We can see that there are instances 1054 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:35,800 where you can have the one word, 1055 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:39,080 because even when we looked at a good tree, 1056 00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:43,240 having or bearing good fruit, it's a good tree. 1057 00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:48,240 Know that on a tree, you have many fruits of the same kind. 1058 00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:51,040 On a tree, you can have many fruits of the same kind. 1059 00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,320 So if it says a good tree, 1060 00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:57,120 and then it says just one fruit, good fruit, 1061 00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,080 it says a good fruit, it does not say good fruits. 1062 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,160 So it means that the words can go, 1063 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,520 you can have that because it's explaining, 1064 00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:06,960 it's explaining that, okay, 1065 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,680 something that is good will produce this. 1066 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:14,680 Then we say, we saw in the Philippians 1 verse 11, 1067 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,200 where it says being filled with the fruits of righteousness, 1068 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,680 and then 22, I want us to look at 22. 1069 00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:25,800 22 now is where we'll see that use of the, 1070 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:27,000 we'll see flesh now. 1071 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:32,000 It says, what I leave on in the flesh, 1072 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:37,000 this will mean fruit for my label, 1073 00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:42,160 yet what I shall choose, I cannot tell. 1074 00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:44,600 Yet what I shall choose, I cannot tell. 1075 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:45,840 Remember what it says, it says, 1076 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,920 he now, this is still a possible speaking, 1077 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:52,440 he says, I leave on in the flesh. 1078 00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:53,280 I leave on the flesh. 1079 00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,840 But if you look at it from the, 1080 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:56,920 on the different translation, 1081 00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,960 if you look at from the NLTU, 1082 00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:04,720 see that he, the NLT uses, in 22, 1083 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:08,240 it says, but I leave and I do more fruitful work. 1084 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:10,040 I don't really know which one's better. 1085 00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,160 If you look at even the 11, 1086 00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,240 let me show you the 11, 1087 00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:16,520 it says, now fruit of your salvation, 1088 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,640 righteous character produced by spirit of honor. 1089 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,800 So let's go, going back to the 22, 1090 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,080 you know that if it says, I leave in the flesh, 1091 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:25,680 it means the physical body. 1092 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,800 It's not when it says, leave in the flesh, 1093 00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:32,440 it doesn't mean leave simple nature or the old nature. 1094 00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,760 So it says, this will mean fruit for my labor. 1095 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,280 This will mean that, oh, there'll be, 1096 00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,080 there's a result, there's a reward. 1097 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,680 There's a reward for every labor. 1098 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:43,360 There's a reward, so as I said, 1099 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,920 there's a reward for every labor. 1100 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,840 So on this one now, you know that it's very much 1101 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,840 not talking about the physical fruit, 1102 00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,760 it's talking about the reward of his labor. 1103 00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:56,240 And let's look at Romans again, 1104 00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:01,240 Romans 22, Romans 6, 22, sorry, Romans 6, 22 and 23. 1105 00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,960 It says, but having been set free from sin 1106 00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:11,600 and having become slaves to God, 1107 00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:14,680 you have your fruit to holiness. 1108 00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:16,480 It says, your fruit to holiness 1109 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,040 and the end everlasting life, 1110 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,400 and the end everlasting life. 1111 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:21,760 For the widows of sin is dead, 1112 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,720 for the gift of God is eternal life in Christ, 1113 00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:26,640 Jesus our Lord. 1114 00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:30,640 And if you look at it here, it says, 1115 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:33,040 you have your fruit, the righteousness. 1116 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,960 So it means that the fruit will refer to what happens 1117 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,520 to a man when he's no longer on the scene, 1118 00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,560 no longer a servant to sin. 1119 00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,760 So this will be making reference to a man 1120 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,880 now that is in Christ, a man that is in Christ. 1121 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,560 And notice what it says, it says, 1122 00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,880 oh, the widows of sin is dead, but the gift of God, 1123 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,760 remember when we talked about the gift of God, 1124 00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,680 gift of God is eternal life, a translation will say, 1125 00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:58,600 everlasting life, and then we see that, 1126 00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:01,080 it says to the end, because we have the fruit 1127 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,560 to righteousness and the end is the same everlasting life. 1128 00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,520 So everlasting life, eternal life, 1129 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,520 still making reference to the same thing. 1130 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,040 So it means that if word fruit here will be making reference 1131 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:17,040 to a man that is in Christ, a man that is in the spirit 1132 00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:21,040 or a man that has his work and has the spirit of God in them. 1133 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,200 So I want us to look at the Ephesians, Ephesians 2, 1134 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:26,400 says we'll see the same thing in Ephesians 1135 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,640 and we'll look at it in New King James, 1136 00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:32,440 Ephesians 5 is eight and nine, Ephesians 5 is eight and nine. 1137 00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:34,600 I want us to look at Ephesians 5, eight and nine. 1138 00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:38,800 It says, you were once darkness, 1139 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,840 but now you are light in the Lord. 1140 00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,480 Notice the work, say, walk as children of light, 1141 00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,640 means that the way, manner, character, 1142 00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:48,640 all of those things will be consistent with 1143 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,320 our new reality and identity. 1144 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:54,200 Say, for the fruit of the spirit is in all goodness, 1145 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,440 righteousness and truth. 1146 00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,760 If you look at that in New King James, 1147 00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,120 you will notice that there's on the spirit there, 1148 00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,560 you will see the, I think you depend on 1149 00:55:03,560 --> 00:55:06,800 which you have with you. 1150 00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,520 You will see that there's, you'll see it marked there. 1151 00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,400 If you look at it on your, on your, 1152 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,200 on your, the subscript, you will see NU. 1153 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,680 We say it's the Nestle, Allen Greek New Translation, 1154 00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:21,600 we have discussed that in the Nestle, Allen Greek New 1155 00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,440 Translation and the United Bible says, 1156 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,400 and you see light there. 1157 00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,920 In that you see light, in that you see light. 1158 00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,120 So it means that it will be the spirit of, 1159 00:55:32,120 --> 00:55:34,400 the fruit of the spirit of light, 1160 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,080 the fruit of the spirit of light. 1161 00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,080 From the NLT you see this is, 1162 00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,120 for once we were full of darkness, 1163 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,480 but now you have light from the Lord. 1164 00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,880 Say, so leave as people of light, 1165 00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,160 leave as people of light. 1166 00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,920 See for this light, and like the verse nine says, 1167 00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:59,400 for this light within you produces only what is good 1168 00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,680 and right and true, praise God. 1169 00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:04,440 For this light in you produces only what is good 1170 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,200 and right and true. 1171 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,600 So the last one we should be looking at before we close 1172 00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:12,280 is in Acts 2.30, which is the one that has to do 1173 00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,880 with descendants, Acts 2.30. 1174 00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:18,120 And it says, therefore, being a prophet 1175 00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:22,200 and knowing that God has sworn with an oath to him, 1176 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,560 that that of the fruit of his body, 1177 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,720 so uses the word fruit of his body, 1178 00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:30,760 according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ 1179 00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,640 to sit on his throne. 1180 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,240 So the fruit there will mean descendants. 1181 00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:36,880 If you look at it from NLT, you see that is descendant. 1182 00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:41,880 And you see on that instance in Luke 1, verses 24, 42, sorry, 1183 00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,080 where we see Elizabeth speaking to Mary. 1184 00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,600 And she says, blessed are you amongst women 1185 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,760 and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 1186 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:52,480 And we know that the fruit of the womb there 1187 00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:54,720 will be making reference to the child. 1188 00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:56,440 We're making reference to a child. 1189 00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,040 So as I said, you can have it as the fruit from a tree. 1190 00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,840 You can have it as action deeds or the results of an action, 1191 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,360 which can be the reward or the consequences. 1192 00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,120 And then lastly, you can have it as a descendant, 1193 00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:11,560 descendant or child or children. 1194 00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,960 And all of this is to the end, I will understand that 1195 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:17,960 what we have in Christ or what we have by the spirit 1196 00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,800 or what we have with the spirit residing in us is from God. 1197 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:26,440 And that expression of manifestation is through us, 1198 00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:30,560 is produced by his person in us. 1199 00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:33,400 And as a result of the identity we have in Christ, 1200 00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,920 it's not our walkings that makes it work. 1201 00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:39,360 What we are to do is as the words, 1202 00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:43,120 we are to make manifest that which resides in us. 1203 00:57:43,120 --> 00:57:46,040 And he says, living by the spirit and note that we said, 1204 00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,680 renewing our minds ensures that we are able to walk 1205 00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,840 in the fullness of what we have received. 1206 00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:54,400 Renewing our mind ensures that we walk in the fullness 1207 00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:55,440 of what we have received. 1208 00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:58,440 Galatians 5 verses 24 to 25 says, 1209 00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:03,440 and those who are Christ have crucified the flesh. 1210 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,800 You know that when we say crucified the flesh here, 1211 00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,600 it's speaking of the old nature. 1212 00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,080 Within, we say with its passions and desires, 1213 00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,000 looks like it's passionate desires. 1214 00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:18,560 If we live in the spirit, let us walk in the spirit. 1215 00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,160 It says, if we live in the spirit, 1216 00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:21,200 let us walk in the spirit. 1217 00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,400 And I like the way NLT puts it, it says, 1218 00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,400 those who belong to Christ have new passion and desires 1219 00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,480 of their sinful nature to the cross 1220 00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,720 and crucified them therefore. 1221 00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:36,120 25 now says, since we are living by the spirit, 1222 00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:37,080 I love the way it says, 1223 00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:38,680 since we are living by the spirit, 1224 00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:40,400 because we are living by the spirit, 1225 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,440 let us follow the laws leading in every part of our lives. 1226 00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,160 Let us follow the laws leading in every part of our life. 1227 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,040 So living in the spirit is, 1228 00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,680 what it ensures that we do is that we go through a process 1229 00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:58,000 of allowing our minds be renewed by the spirit of God. 1230 00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,240 Meaning that there's a transformation that takes place, 1231 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:01,680 our minds are renewed, 1232 00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:05,080 and as we daily walk in that knowledge and identity 1233 00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:07,200 that we have of our reality in Christ, 1234 00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,040 we think very differently, we walk very differently. 1235 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,920 And the fruits find the expression through our characters 1236 00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:14,280 that renew our mind, 1237 00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,080 is anchored on what we have received. 1238 00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:17,960 And this manifestation happens, 1239 00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,440 and we're allowing the fruits that we have received 1240 00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:21,920 to be displayed in our true life. 1241 00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,280 So it means that as believers, 1242 00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,920 we're not praying or we're not looking, 1243 00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:31,920 we're not saying, oh, I want love to be made, 1244 00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:34,240 I want more love to be manifest. 1245 00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:38,160 That would be, you not knowing that you have 1246 00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:41,440 the full expression of God's divine love already. 1247 00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:46,120 What you should seek to do is to make it manifest. 1248 00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:48,440 What to seek to do is to see it from God's word. 1249 00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,080 Anybody that's doing anything otherwise 1250 00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,040 is because they have a knowledge problem, 1251 00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:54,400 is because we don't know, 1252 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:56,480 or we refuse to act on the word of God, 1253 00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:57,480 what the word of God says. 1254 00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,600 And the word of God is coming to us to help us to see, 1255 01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:05,600 and to know that we have everything that we need for life, 1256 01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:07,040 we need for life, 1257 01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:08,960 or everything that we need for life and for goodness, 1258 01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:10,520 we have all of those things, 1259 01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:12,240 because we have gotten it as salvation, 1260 01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:14,920 and we are meant to walk in it. 1261 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:16,720 We're not receiving more joy, 1262 01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:17,920 we're not receiving more peace, 1263 01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:19,040 we're not receiving more. 1264 01:00:19,040 --> 01:00:21,880 All of those things are already residing in us. 1265 01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:23,880 We are making them manifest. 1266 01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,520 So in closing, I just want us to just declare this word, 1267 01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:29,040 because I belong to Jesus. 1268 01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:32,520 Because I belong to Jesus, I live by the Spirit. 1269 01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,320 I live by the Spirit. 1270 01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,640 I'm empowered to follow the Spirit's leading in all things. 1271 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,320 I'm empowered to follow the Spirit's leading in all things. 1272 01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:43,360 I say yes to his promptings. 1273 01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,160 I say yes to his promptings. 1274 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,640 I know, and I see, 1275 01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:51,680 I know, and I see every of God's resources, 1276 01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:55,160 or abilities manifest through my life. 1277 01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,280 I know, and I see every of God's abilities, 1278 01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,960 and resources manifest in and through my life. 1279 01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:04,400 My mind is continually transformed by the word, 1280 01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:05,760 and I grow spiritually. 1281 01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,560 My mind is continually transformed by the word, 1282 01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:09,680 and I grow spiritually. 1283 01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:13,320 God's ability is manifested in and through my life. 1284 01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:16,240 God's resources is manifested in and through my life 1285 01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,760 in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. 1286 01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:20,360 Amen and amen. 1287 01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,520 Thank you for listening to today's sermon. 1288 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,520 Your journey matters to us. 1289 01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:30,880 Let's keep walking together. 1290 01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,400 Visit our website for more resources, 1291 01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:37,040 and follow us on social media to stay updated. 1292 01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:41,120 Feel free to check the show notes for additional insights. 1293 01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:45,120 If today's message was a blessing, share it with a friend. 1294 01:01:45,120 --> 01:02:01,120 Until next time, be blessed.