Putting Sin to Death: Living by the Spirit

``But did he then have to do a lot of hard work because he was in the family? You bet he did. It was tough for him to change, and he had to work at it. But he was motivated by gratitude for the incredible love he had received. Do you have a lot of hard work to do now that the spirit has adopted you into God's family? Certainly. But not in order to become a son or daughter of the heavenly father. No. You make those changes because you are a son or daughter. And every time you start to revert back to the old addictions to sin, the holy spirit will say to you, no. No. That's not how we act in this family. [01:06:50] (40 seconds)  #FamilyFaithJourney

realizing that I had been steering my life for too long, and it was going in the wrong direction, and I was miserable. And I really needed Jesus to take the wheel wheel, so to speak, right, and allow him to be the leader of my life. Who's in the driver's seat of your life? Who's the decision who's the primary decision maker of your life? For followers of Christ, we say it's the spirit of God. He's the one who gets to make the decisions, and we submit. We are humble, and we allow him to be the leader of our lives. [00:52:07] (33 seconds)  #JesusTakesTheWheel

John Owen talks about this in almost how sin is in a seed form that there's like this you know, the the same way an apple seed can grow into an apple tree, which could eventually grow into an apple orchard, every sin in your life that has has almost a seed form, he says every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could. Every covetous desire would be oppression. Every thought of unbelief would be atheism. So that's what sin wants to do. It's a destructive power. It's a destructive force. [00:44:48] (32 seconds)  #SinIsASeed

Paul is drawing some clear lines for us. He's saying there's there's a situation where you can walk according to the flesh, like the old nature of you, the deep patterns of sin and things like that. You can walk that way. You can live that way. If you live according to the flesh, he says, the consequences are dire. This is the way he puts it. He he said it it is a life or death situation. We're talking spiritual life or death for the most part of this passage, although that we all probably haven't heard stories or know people who their life or death situation, like sin that got out of control in their life, really led to their physical death as well. [00:36:23] (41 seconds)  #FleshIsDeadly