Book of Galatians - Ch. 5, Vs. 17-Ch. 6, Vs. 1 (09/17/2000)

All right, it's time that we begin Our lesson today is in the book of Galatians the fifth chapter and we begin at the 17th verse

All right Let me read to you God's Word for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and These are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would do

The flesh and the spirit the carnal and The spiritual the word lust bill.

What's the word lust mean? All right to seek after in an elm unhealthy fashion

You'll notice the little word do that you cannot do the things that you would a very important word

It's pale It means this It means to make or do

To cause to commit to transgress transgress the law

To work or to yield and most important It is a single act.

So with that knowledge now These are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot

Do a single act of the things that you would

You remember Paul had said in Romans that that that I would do

Find myself not doing it and that that I do not want to do then. That's what

I do The word do there is the same word as do here.

I pointed out because we're going to find a different word in just a moment The flesh lusteth against the spirit

Clarence how often does it do that? Constantly all of the time

Diane is there any way that you can think of that? You can stop the flesh from lusting against the spirit

But the flesh lusting against the spirit No, the question listen to the question all of you.

Is there any way that you can stop? the flesh from lusting against the spirit

No Well, that's true, but the flesh is still there still working against the spirit no matter whether we're dead or alive

That's the work of the flesh. It will always do that if it did not

Then we could teach that when you become a Christian you have no problems But we do have problems

The flesh is in a dead position That's right That's right

That's the only way that you yourself the real you Can operate in the spirit?

But I want you to know for sure that that doesn't stop the flesh from antagonizing you

After you die, where you're going, that conflict is over So Diane's point, if you're dead, physically dead, then the sperm and the flesh and the spirit will be over at that point

Physically dead, and if she said physical I didn't hear No, I saw it.

I don't have to be born well

Literally die, that's true But even the flesh would then if it could but you've disappeared

Right So just fix it in your mind. You will always have a battle forever

While you're in this life, I'll add that that'll make it more palatable

So the flesh lusteth against the spirit as a normal operation of the flesh

So that you cannot do and we found out that the word is paeo and it means you cannot do a single solitary sin

Or you cannot do a single solitary thing I'll say Because the flesh is always there, but it's it's single act 18 but if you be led of the spirit, you are not under the law.

You're under the Spirit of Christ If you be led since you are led since you now are

A born -again Christian you are well born -again Christians redundant, isn't it?

If you're a Christian you're born again So if you are if you know that you are born again

Then you are led by the Spirit now Greg sometimes we don't always follow the

Spirit This is always in our mind that we're talking about We're not under the law

Is there any possible way that a spirit filled person?

Can revert to the law? David You cannot anymore operate under the law in Romans.

He says the Let sin never again have dominion of you.

It cannot be But the flesh is still there and still battling

Now the works of the flesh and he spells these out

We're not going to go into each one unless someone has a question The works of the flesh are manifest

Greg what's manifest me? To be made known either audibly or physically

Audibly or by sight or by touch some way It is made known the works of the flesh now

Which are these? adultery And I must stop here and give you an explanation of adultery

It is simply giving the love that belongs to one to another adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness idolatry witchcraft

Hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies envying murderers

Drunkenness revelings and such Anyone have a question over those

Well good. Let me ask you a question Joy, what does the word variance mean?

variance All right,

Greg, how else could we Explain it All right an argument

Let there be no arguments. There can be discussion. There can be difference of opinion, but no arguments

And he says and such like anything else that would fit into that category

Of which I tell you before or I've told you before as I have also told you in time past so Paul Subscribed to the theory that a teacher

Must tell people what he's going to tell them then he must tell them then he must tell them what but he told them and Then later go over it all again

So he says I've told you before and I'm telling you again That they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God Now, here's the other do we have to do's a doo -doo

So that you cannot do the things which you would verse 17 Verse 21 they that which they

That they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. What's the difference in these two words do?

Right in the Greek. It's a different word Unfortunately, it's not that way in English Pray so the other was

Poor a oh, this is pray soul it means a

Performed repeated habitual action it's important that you understand this because there are some wonderful people in the world that think that if you sin you've lost your salvation and They consider sin as the action

Not the mental state So and I've had them discuss that with me.

It's too bad. I never could explain it to them Those that do such things habitually

Now Greg, what does habitual mean? All right

Can you expound upon that any all right

Right Remember this when you think of the word habitual we get another word in our

English language that comes from the very same root as habitual and It's breathing

Do you have to think to breathe? If you're normal We just breathe don't we

Well, that's what habitual means. You don't have to plan it. You don't have to think about it it's just a natural nature of the brute and It is that kind of a person that will not inherit the kingdom of God Now David, what does inherit mean?

When when can you inherit? All right

All right, who died that we might inherit Jesus himself

So our inheritance will come about after we die. We have it now spiritually

But we'll have it for real After we're dead So you shall not inherit the kingdom of God there is absolutely no way

That a habitual evil person can appear in heaven think what it would be like for that person

Dennis if a unsaved person Suddenly popped up in the kingdom of God in eternity.

What would he feel? What would he be like? Be miserable

If a potential Christian popped up in hell, what would he be like so that'll never happen

It's not in man's realm to guide that it's God himself His people shall be saved

Or as we say today will be There'll be no potential

Christians in hell and David that's not in our hands We cannot persuade somebody or convict somebody or save somebody it is of God only

Now does that relieve us of the responsibility David of praying for people

No In fact that enhances it As long as you understand my prayer is not what's going to save him

But he might not be saved unless you prayed and all of that's in God's realm verse 22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love Greg, what's fruit? All right

We think of fruit as being something good, right? The fruit of the

Spirit is love joy Peace long suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance

Against such there is no law Now are these things?

Physical or mental Spiritual mentally spiritual

So is the other side Right Who who was it

What kind of car

That's absolutely right I Know you did fine.

I'm just trying to torment you trying to throw you off track So the breathing of the joy peace long suffering everything is that an instantaneous growth

David I'm gonna learn to call your name first and then the question

It comes gradually For all of us We don't know how until we practice we know what but we don't know how and practice along with prayer is only thing that will

Cause it to grow to enlarge Of course the desire and everything joy

I sure It's it's

It's It's even written in a progressive style Now this will come as we desire and at the right time and we will be tested

We'll have opportunities We have to be aware of opportunities

Too long I lived in my own world even after I was saved and I first How can

I do this? Not how should I do this? But what can

I do? That's wrong and They that are

Christ's have crucified the flesh with the

Affections and lusts They that are Christ have crucified the flesh

Greg they that are Christ's are who? Us so us has crucified meaning what but we didn't did we

We Were placed into him at his death on the cross Romans 6 3

So we died in him We died to what? to the flesh

The flesh the sin the law did not die. We died to it if we live

In the spirit So, let us also walk in the spirit and the word for walk is interesting as You watch a baby

It sleeps Then it begins to wiggle then it begins to crawl

Then it begins to pull up Then it tries to take a step doesn't it may fall

But it gets up and it tries to take a step until it can take two steps

Until the little baby then pretty soon is walking what then comes the

Then comes the running then comes the plane then comes the

What did he say No It's not scary, it's just unknown

All right So let us walk You cannot take a baby and cause it to run a hundred yard dash and compete with adults.

Can you? You shouldn't you can't They first had to learn to crawl and walk and then run

The very exact same way with our spiritual walk

When we were saved how much of the Bible did we really understand none, all we knew was that Something happened to me and I feel different But then as we study as We mature as we grow spiritually

Now the physical age makes absolutely no difference you can be a baby at 90 years old and That's where we run into trouble because lots of times we look at an adult

That has just been saved as though they ought to know everything because they're old enough to know everything

No, it's not like that We just found out that we have patience and long -suffering and love and so forth

So each of us are learning how to walk Now some can walk upright

Some can even run Some are very adept at a race

But not everybody There is no one exactly the same as any one of you or one of us

Everyone's at a different level in their development of walk So let us also walk the little word let bookkeeping term

We can do it How do I know we can do it

How do you know you can do it Dennis But how do you know that that's right

Not only that the word tells us so it said it right there let us walk in the spirit

Not according to the spirit Well, what's the difference Greg between according to and in?

Well, I'll ask your backup Sam Bill That's good

According to is that you have a pattern and you're trying to follow it in means you're inside of that And it is being opened up for you from the inside All of Christian growth is inside internal not outside not external.

It's internal Yes Right You're Reading my mind.

That's exactly where we were headed the things that we just read about both pro and con the good and the bad are

Are not instructions that you are to follow It is something internal That causes you to do that good or bad

You understand You understand Greg Well, it could be certainly

You It's difficult to have only one

I Would dare say you cannot have only one if you have love then you certainly have peace

If you have peace you have joy If you have joy, that means you have love and peace

That's right That's right and at different levels, but That's right

And it must be like that or we'd all just be robots doing exactly the same thing

Well, it's not that It's Yes Yes, and I just had a wonderful thought

I Want you at your own leisure to develop a talk on Seed and fruit

And nothing else just the ramifications of the seed that from it comes the fruit and Then compare it to the

Christian if you desire, but just the seed and everything that takes place and the fruit that is produced and That the fruit is on the branch, but the branch didn't produce it and so forth

Just if it's a year from now, that's fine That is if I'm still here

Will you do that? All right Verse 26

Let us here's the word let again Let us and us is who

Greg Us Let us not be desirous of vain glory

David the word desirous means what? All right

Let us Not be desirous of vain glory

Now verge, what do you think the word vain means here? Okay, Diane, would you agree with that?

Joy how can a person seek vain glory? All right

Okay So we're to not do that We're not to manipulate people

To where we get what we want The world is full of that especially politics manipulating people

Provoking one another envying one another let us not be desirous to do any of this to provoke someone

Then it's what's it mean to provoke All right

It can also mean to stir up to cause to excite to encourage and Then the object of it can be good or bad

But we're not to provoke someone to anger only to good

Now we have a few minutes, is there any questions over the fifth chapter or today's lesson?

All right, turn to chapter six last chapter in the book When we're through with the sixth chapter, we will start 1st

Corinthians So I would like for you this week To begin to study the first chapter of 1st

Corinthians I Don't try to study all of the chapter, you know about how far we get but really study it don't just read it study it

Now the sixth chapter brethren So right away Clarence.

We know he's speaking to who as Greg would say to us

Brethren if a man Be overtaken in a fault Ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of anger

Malice What? meekness Considering thyself lest Thou also be tempted

Bill are any of us Excused from being ever being tempted

Okay, then we're none. None of us None of us have been vaccinated against temptation

Is we're all susceptible to being tempted If a man be overtaken in a fault

The Greek word for fault is transgression Transgression Transgression and sins, let's be sure we understand the difference

Transgression Joy would be what? Well, what's stealing?

well transgression How many of you have ever seen a sign no trespassing?

Do not enter Do you know you shouldn't? Transgression means you do it even though, you know, you shouldn't

Now a sin David explained to us how the two differ

All right, but there was instructions written someplace That's right.

And that someplace is the Bible All right So if a man be overtaken in a transgression

Such as falling back into legal bondage. This was the thing that Paul dwelt on almost exclusively that Because it was so prevalent in that day having the

Jews just having come out of the age of the law they were

Noticeably wanting to return to it People don't like to make decisions, do they?

very very few people Like to make decisions They would rather someone else made the decision and then if it doesn't work out, it's not their fault

Well, the law was somewhat like that The law told you what you could do and what you could not do

The Grace the gospel age puts it directly upon you upon each one of us.

We have to decide so It says such as returning to legal bondage

Here he gives warning to those who have not fallen Notice he says ye which are spiritual by saying that He means that the one that was overtaken at that moment was not spiritual

Doesn't mean he is not born again. It means that for a moment he sinned and Yes No, no this referring to Christian, right

It's it's talking to Christians not not somebody outside of the church so we see now that for the moment this man this brethren is

Has fallen into sin of some type it's very obvious What was that I Thought somebody had a gun

I I have an amplifier on my ears Says to restore this person restore

Greg restore Put them back in the store

All right The Greek is used of A dislocated limb.

Did you ever have a shoulder or leg or a joint out of? Out of what

Socket anybody Our preacher has

It was his head Now If you have a dislocated limb

If and you're the person with the limb, how would you want it to be restored?

What do you say

Virge all right, but we would want it to be done gently would would not

It doesn't mean it always is sometimes. It's necessary to jerk it, but not always

And quickly so The Greek that is used here is the same that is used for Restoring a dislocated limb

If you if we think in that realm Then it would have to be with tenderness

We should treat a fallen member of the church in restoring him to a better state with tenderness with love with compassion with meekness

But not with just letting him go He'd be deformed the rest of his life he could not function as he should so we are to restore people but in love

You cannot you must not confront someone and say boy you did wrong

We're gonna make you right now My father did that a few times

And he said you didn't do right and I'm gonna see that you do But when we're talking about a church member

Russell it has to be with compassion and with tenderness, but do it

Doesn't mean we should just let it go or it's the first attempt doesn't work then forget it

We are to restore. That's a permanent state Well, this is far we're going to get

Anything someone would like to add What what?

Yes, I cannot place it Seems to me like Peter or Paul one used the term

What'd you say David What will we do without computers

Well look that up and Report next week and we'll go back to verse 1 next week anything

Well, it is good to be back You don't You don't know how