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Galatians 5:16

Pastor Rick Jackson [inspired by the late Sumner Wemp]

"My word, WHAT A PROMISE. He did not say you won’t have any desires of the flesh but you won’t fulfill them! One of the GREATEST NEEDS in the church today is for ALL OF US to learn how, and, to walk, in the Spirit." - Sumner Wemp

I. OUR PURPOSE - WALK WITH GOD [GN. 5:21-24; 6:9]

1. It is a Walk of Fellowship [1 Jn. 1:1-7]

2. It is a Walk of Failure [1 Jn. 1:8-10]

3. It is a Walk of Faithfulness [1 Jn. 1:9; 2:1-6]

II. OUR PATTERN - WALK AFTER CHRIST [1 Jn. 2:6]

1 Peter 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

1. Walk in Love [Eph. 5:1-2]

2. Walk in Light [Eph. 5:8-14, 1 Jn. 1:7]

3. Walk in the Lord [Eph. 5:8, 14-20]

III. OUR POWER - WALK IN THE SPIRIT [Eph. 5:18]

Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

"Too many try to "run the race" without learning to "walk in the Spirit" first. The Christian life is a walk, not one giant step... You don't have to live a roller coaster life, up one minute and down the next. A child takes one step, but he hasn't learned to walk. He is going to stumble scores of time before he stays on his feet and even then, he will stumble from time to time. So, it is with the Christian walk. The Spirit-filled Christian will keep going and growing, up and up, with much smaller bumps along the way." - Sumner Wemp

Remember "PAY"

1. "P"- "Present your body as a living sacrifice" [Rom. 12:1, 2]

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

2. "A"- "Ask," for "if we ask anything according to His will, we have it" [1 Jn. 5:14, 15]

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

3. "Y"- "Yield your members unto God." [Rom. 6:13]

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Consciously, continuously and constantly do this all through the day and you will see the "fruit of the Spirit" growing in your life! [Gal. 5:22-26]