Living in the Spirit: Love, Unity, and Growth

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I argued that from the text in 1 John 2:9 where he says it's new because the light is already shining in the world, and therefore the idea is that the kingdom has come and the glory has come and God is at work in the world and you now are part of that newness of God's sweep in the world. [00:01:19]

Love by the power that flows through the connection with divine, let's call him this time the Holy Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh for the desires of the flesh are against the spirit the desires of the spirit are against the flesh for these are opposed to each other. [00:02:53]

Where I'm going in this devotion is through Galatians 5 and establishing this connectedness that we have with Jesus and with the spirit so that all of our loving is not ours but his through us. Where I'm going with that is over to First Corinthians 3 where the issue is envy and strife and jealousy based on choosing favorite leaders. [00:04:00]

The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control against such things there is no law and those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the spirit, let us also walk by the spirit. [00:05:32]

Do not be deceived God is Not mocked for whatever one sows that will he reap for the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from his flesh but the one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life. So what is sow to the spirit like you got a bag of seeds what's that what are the seeds? [00:07:28]

My best shot is to say that the Holy Spirit has attitudes and behaviors that he means for us to be alive in and be fruitful in and he plows that Furrow and we should throw the seeds in there we shouldn't throw them over there we should throw our the seeds of our life the seeds of our attention. [00:09:19]

I Brothers could not address you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh as infants in Christ why what's the problem I fed you with milk not solid food for you were not yet ready for it and even now you're not ready for you're all still of the flesh for while there is jealousy and strife among you. [00:13:40]

What then is Apollos what is Paul servants through whom you believed as the Lord assigned to each so what's the argument there you're boasting you're lining up behind slaves that's the word servants and if you have been one to Christ through them or received any blessing through them it is because the Lord sovereignly chose. [00:15:49]

According to the grace of God given to me like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation and someone else is building upon it so I looked at the candidate at this point and I said I've built here and you will build you you build well okay however that's not the main point here I laid a foundation. [00:18:31]

Each one's work will become manifest for the day will disclose it because it will be revealed by fire and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done if the work that one has built on the foundation survives he'll receive a reward if anyone's work is burned up he's talking about how you build on the foundation. [00:19:26]

So let no one boast in men so he's still there he's still handling Paul cus APS this is the issue in the first three chapters of Corinth divisions um Circ iring around teachers that are threatening through jealousy and envy and strife to destroy the church and now he's given his final argument why you shouldn't boast in men. [00:27:44]

Most of our grumbling most of our complaining most of our jealousies envies and strife are owing to the fact that we don't believe what we have we don't believe how rich we are how stunning it is to be saved what it means to be a child of the Living God not an employee not a slave but an heir. [00:30:02]

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