The flesh and Spirit are contrary. The flesh and Spirit are contrary to one another.  In Gal 5:16-17, Paul was not just talking about the flesh.  Eph 5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.  Our flesh needs...

The Flesh and Spirit How many would like to not fulfill the lust of the flesh?  To not fulfill the lust of the flesh, we need to examine and follow what Paul wrote in Gal 5:16-26 about the flesh and Spirit. The lust of the flesh.  It’s there; it’s always...

In Rom 8:1-14, how is it that we can walk after the Spirit?  A person who is not saved or who is walking after the flesh wouldn’t even understand how to walk after the Spirit.  But when you’re saved you can understand because you are now no longer just a...

Victory over sin is a moment by moment and day by day thing.  You don’t wake up one day and suddenly find that you have no more trouble with sin in your life.  Your trouble with sin stems from one of two problems: 1. You are unsaved and therefore incapable of...

In Gal 5:16 Paul told us to walk in the Spirit.  Let’s see what this entails. When you are saved, the Spirit is in you This is a fairly simple lesson when you think about it.  When you were saved, you went through a spiritual circumcision that separated your flesh...

According to Jn 5:24, Jesus Christ said of every saved person, he “hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation.”  That is a tremendous promise.  You see, before a person is saved, he is “condemned already,” [Jn 3:18].  According to Jn 3:36, he “shall not see life; but the...

How are we supposed to walk after we get saved?  The Bible shows you how to walk. Walk in truth, 3 Jn 4.  How to walk in relation to the Bible.  John remarked about Gaius, “The truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth”, 3 Jn...

Living Two Lives After believing on Jesus, you’re tempted to live both your old life in the world and your new life in Christ.  However, just live one life.  You should die to your old life and start living eternal life.  Many Christians try living two lives.  They try living...

Walk in Love, Light, and Wisdom In Ephesians 5, as Christians, we see three things to walk in.  We are to walk in love, Eph 5:2, in light, Eph 5:8, and in wisdom, Eph 5:15.  We can do this because we are saved and now have eternal life.  They were...

Before we were saved, we were dead in trespasses and sins. According to Rom 5:12, death came as a result of Adam’s transgression against Gen 2:17.  When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, everything about them was affected by death.  And so,...