WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:04.719 Welcome to this week's message from the church at Chelsea Westover. 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:10.800 Our core values are vibrant worship, intimate fellowship, fulfilling service, and clear biblical truth. 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:13.359 We pray that this message changes your life. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.559 Let's tune in to today's message and see what God has installed. 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:21.440 Turn with me this morning in your Bibles to Galatians chapter 5. 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:24.800 Galatians chapter 5. 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:34.799 I've been starting to look at and work on the messages on the cross, the words from the cross. 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.960 And I'm telling you, it's going to be an awesome mini-series as well. 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:46.640 And then we're going to probably go either to the book of Ephesians or James. 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:48.880 I'm toying with both. 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:50.079 Verse by verse. 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:51.280 That's kind of what I do. 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:58.159 I do an Old Testament book, then we do a topic, and then we do a New Testament book. 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.359 So it's time for, we went to Jonah. 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.400 We're doing the topic, Christ in you, the hope of glory. 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:08.879 And now we'll be going to the New Testament, either the book of Ephesians or the book of James. 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:16.239 I'm leaning toward James because it's a really how-to Christian walk book. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:20.719 And I think it'll be very enlightening for us. 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:27.200 In Galatians chapter 5, pick up at the verse 16. 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:32.480 And Paul, by the way, if you hear this morning, you need a worship guide. 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:33.519 Would you raise your hand? 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:34.400 Worship guide? 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:35.920 Anyone need a worship guide? 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:36.959 Right here, good. 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:38.480 Any worship guide? 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:43.760 And again, encourage you to take it home. 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:53.359 I really give you about a fourth of all the knowledge and wisdom that God gives me in a week. 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:59.040 I spend at least around 20 hours minimum just studying for this one message. 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:01.280 And I love the book. 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.280 I love to study the book. 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:07.200 And my problem sometimes is I have so much to cover. 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:17.039 But I want you to look at some tremendous insights here in Galatians chapter 5, starting at verse 16. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:23.520 This I say then, walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:26.639 In fact, Paul says, this is what I have to say. 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:38.960 Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature. 00:02:39.199 --> 00:02:40.560 That's what that means. 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.840 See, you and I, you and I have, we're born with a sin nature. 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:47.919 Can I get an amen? 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:56.879 What I mean by that, behold, man, he's David said, Behold, I was formed in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:58.479 Psalm 51, 5. 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:00.879 So you and I are born with a sin nature. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:04.159 You don't have to teach your children how to do wrong. 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:06.479 Hello. 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.919 My wife doesn't have to teach me to do wrong. 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:12.319 Amen, Melvin. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:13.919 I saw that little smirk grin. 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:14.719 Amen. 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.319 But but we have to teach our children to do right. 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:21.199 It's a constant war, really. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:22.479 Battle. 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:23.439 Well, guess what? 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:27.280 When you and I get saved, and we're going to see this, but I'm giving you a kind of an introduction. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:32.240 You and I then receive, in 2 Peter 1, we'll see this, verse chapter 1, verses 1 through 4. 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:34.240 We receive the divine nature. 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:35.840 The spiritual. 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:39.280 Make it simple, we're born with a sin nature. 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:40.960 We call that the old man. 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:47.039 Then we're born, and when we get saved, we get the Holy Spirit takes up residence in us. 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:49.199 Now we have the new man. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:50.879 But guess what? 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:52.960 The old man doesn't go away. 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.120 Now there's some people that believe he does. 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:56.479 Well, I got news for you. 00:03:56.639 --> 00:04:02.639 If he something's wrong because I still struggle with the wrong things to do sometimes. 00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:03.199 Amen. 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:05.840 I still still struggle with that old man. 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:09.199 He is alive and well. 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.719 He does not get eradicated until we go to be with Jesus. 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:13.919 Amen. 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:18.879 So in fact, this is what he says, because look at verse 17. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.959 For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh. 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:34.879 And these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that you would. 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:45.360 In other words, for the desire of the flesh fights against the spirit, and the desire of the spirit fights against the flesh. 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:50.399 And this variance tends to hinder you from doing what you want to do. 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:58.000 In other words, there's such a battle, and if we don't learn to have victory in this battle, we'll never accomplish what God wants us to accomplish. 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:05.839 In fact, what we will do, we'll wander in the wilderness just like the Hebrew children did. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.000 We've got to learn to have victory over the flesh. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:09.199 Can I get an amen? 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.480 We all fight the flesh every day. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:19.279 I fought the flesh this morning and not wanting to eat that whole strawberry cake my wife made. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:23.519 Because I really like strawberry cake. 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:25.360 But it wasn't for me. 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:27.759 I understand that, but it's in my reach. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:35.279 You know, that's like telling a kid you give him a candy bar and you put it right there in front of him where he can reach it, and you say, But you can't have it. 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:36.079 Don't do that. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:38.720 Just put it up in the cabinet where they can't see it. 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:40.319 Hello, amen. 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:42.319 Help me, help me, help me. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:47.519 But anyway, we see this battle going on. 00:05:47.839 --> 00:05:54.000 And in fact, it's a walk in the spirit that's the key to overcoming. 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:54.879 Look at what he says. 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:59.360 I say then, walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 00:05:59.439 --> 00:06:07.680 Now, if we were to take our thesaurus and track down the words that are somehow connected to walking, let me tell you what we'd find. 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:08.800 And I did. 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:14.079 We'd find the word wobble, we'd find the word stagger. 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:17.040 We would find the word run. 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:20.959 And then we would find the word even fall. 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.240 So I got to thinking about that. 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:27.360 Paul didn't say wobble in the spirit. 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:31.519 Paul did not say stagger in the spirit. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.439 He didn't even say run in the spirit. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.959 Paul said walk in the spirit. 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:38.720 Walk in the spirit. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:48.000 Yet, how many Christians are characterized by wobbling, staggering, even falling instead of walking in the spirit? 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:54.560 Oh, a large percentage of Christians don't understand what I'm preaching this morning. 00:06:54.720 --> 00:06:58.160 They don't understand that the Christian life is not a marathon. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.160 I mean, it's not a hundred-yard dash. 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:01.360 It's a marathon. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.759 It's a walk, it's not a run. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:08.959 Hey, it's not a struggle or a stumbling or falling. 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.839 Yes, we do, and we have to get back up, and we do. 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:17.279 But if we learn to walk in the spirit, we will not stagger as much. 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:21.759 We sure won't wobble as much, and we sure won't fall as much. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:26.000 Because after you start staggering and wobbling, guess what the next step is? 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:26.959 Falling. 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:32.319 And Satan's a master at getting us to do that. 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:37.360 Often we get the impression that the Christian life is a matter of determination. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:38.879 I'm just going to determine. 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:40.319 I'm going to do it. 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.000 And I used to be, that used to be one of my favorite words. 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:45.199 Determine. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:51.199 But in reality, it's not an issue of determination, it is an issue of dependence. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:52.560 Amen. 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:56.879 You and I depending on the Holy Spirit of God. 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.040 I used to say, been guilty of preaching. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:00.879 You just got to try harder. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:07.839 It's not an issue of trying harder, it's an issue of trusting God. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:08.560 Amen. 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:17.199 Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, lean not on thy own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your path. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:20.319 So the issue is not trying, it's trusting. 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:23.279 It's not determining, it's depending. 00:08:23.519 --> 00:08:29.360 And between trying and trusting and depending, the key is the word of God. 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:45.840 If I understand anything about Paul's theology, and if I understand anything about the Word of God and the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it is total dependence upon the Holy Spirit himself. 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:46.720 Total. 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:48.080 Nothing else. 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:52.559 So with that said, it's very important that we understand walking in the Spirit. 00:08:52.639 --> 00:09:05.919 Now I want to demonstrate in this message there are major reasons why if we try to live the Christian life through our human energy and strength, we will continuously stagger, wobble, and ultimately fall. 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:11.840 Success in the Christian life is not a matter of determination, but dependence. 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.960 It's not a matter of trying, but trusting. 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:16.320 Can I get an amen? 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:21.440 With that said, we will examine three key reasons. 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:26.399 Learning to walk in the spirit is mandatory for us as Christians. 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:27.039 Three reasons. 00:09:27.120 --> 00:09:28.480 Number one, let's look at it. 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:30.639 The demands of the Christian life. 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:48.000 You know, I had a pastor one day, he was telling me, sharing with me, about a lady he was preaching on walking in the spirit, and you're going to see these issues that I'm about to cover, and you'll see why it's so difficult to walk in the spirit in a minute. 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:52.879 But anyway, he went through this list that I'm gonna we're gonna show you with the scriptures there. 00:09:53.039 --> 00:09:55.919 And at the end of the list, she came in the invitation. 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:56.960 And you know what? 00:09:57.039 --> 00:10:02.399 She brought her Bible, she gave the, she handed the Bible toward the pastor and said, Here, you can have my Bible back. 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.879 There's no way I can do this. 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:06.960 He said, Hallelujah, sister. 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:09.360 You've right where you need to be. 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:14.559 There is no, hey, you no longer can do this. 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:20.399 Now you're ready to allow the Holy Spirit to come in and take control of your life. 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.840 Because listen to what this pastor had been preaching on. 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.879 What we are called to do as Christians is impossible, humanly speaking. 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:30.080 It really is. 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:35.840 The demands of the Christian life require a supernatural support system. 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:37.840 Let me say that again. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:45.039 Hey, the demands of the Christian, hey, require a supernatural support system. 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:46.879 It has to. 00:10:48.799 --> 00:11:01.120 If you're gonna walk in the joy of the Lord all day, every day, and sometimes you can't do it all the time, but the majority of the time, you can't do it on your own because you, hey, you're gonna, I get upset. 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:06.480 If I was, if I'm living in the flesh, I get upset for I pull out of Chelsea Park. 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:16.320 I'm telling you what, I'm gonna ask the sheriff's department if I can go out there and stand in that medium and teach people how to what side they're supposed to get on. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:20.240 It's just anybody, everybody. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:22.639 They just get in the middle, no place to turn. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:32.799 You can't, it's like I said, did they not have to do a driving test when they got the license to the far right, to the far right, that's the far right. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:35.200 But I would get in the flesh. 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:37.679 I almost got hit twice this week. 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.840 I'm trying to come to turn into the thing, and I look up and they're like race cars. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:43.200 Phew, phew, phew, phew. 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:44.000 I just stopped. 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.200 I said, Bless God, I'm I'm gonna, Lord, you're gonna be proud of me. 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.840 I'm just gonna sit here until everybody leaves NIEs on. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:55.919 Because I've been preaching on this Holy Spirit, and I knew I couldn't get in the flesh. 00:11:56.159 --> 00:11:59.679 But in the flesh, I ought to beh, meh, can't you drive? 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.759 Don't you know where you're supposed to go? 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:07.200 No, they don't. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.519 It's obvious. 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.759 But we it requires a supernatural support system. 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:15.120 Look at the following verses. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:15.679 Here we go. 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.200 Look at Ephesians 2.10. 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:23.519 For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.879 The first thing we are, we're to walk in good works. 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:29.039 We're to walk in good works. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:31.120 The workmanship there is a great word. 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:32.559 It's it's poyama. 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:33.519 Poyama. 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:34.799 And you know what it means? 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.360 We are his design. 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:38.879 Did you realize that? 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:41.360 That's what that word means when he says workmanship. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:42.240 Poyama. 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:45.120 It means that we are his design. 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:51.919 He has made us, watch this, what we are for his purpose. 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.320 He's made you what you are for his purpose. 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.480 That's workmanship. 00:12:58.639 --> 00:12:59.919 You are a workmanship. 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:00.879 Say this with me. 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:02.639 I am a workmanship. 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:06.799 Now say this: I am a workmanship of God. 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:10.480 Woo! Man, you're somebody. 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.919 Hey, and by the way, God doesn't make any junk. 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:15.360 Amen. 00:13:15.600 --> 00:13:18.000 You're fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.480 Marvelous are his works. 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:22.960 Psalms 139, 14. 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:23.840 Amen. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.120 You're somebody. 00:13:25.279 --> 00:13:30.480 So don't you let Satan belittle you and discourage you and downtrod you. 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:35.440 You just get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say, Woo-hoo! I'm God's workmanship. 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:39.679 Take, hey, hit the road, Satan, and don't come back no more, no more. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:41.039 Amen. 00:13:42.720 --> 00:13:44.320 Hit the road, boy. 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:46.720 And then notice the second thing. 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:51.440 Then we're called, look at Romans 13, 13, to walk properly. 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:58.159 The Hebrew word there means to walk in in order and decently. 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:00.720 We are to walk honestly. 00:14:00.879 --> 00:14:02.159 That's what he means. 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:14.320 Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in, hey, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in lewdness, which is perversion and lust, not in strife and envy. 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:16.320 Wow. 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:17.759 Wow. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:18.960 Look at the third thing. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:20.399 2 Corinthians 5.7. 00:14:21.039 --> 00:14:23.759 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:26.799 Now he says we're to walk by faith. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:31.279 Then the Bible tells us in Ephesians 5.2, we're to walk in love. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:32.799 Look at what it says. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:36.480 And walk in love as Christ also loved us and give it himself for us. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:40.799 An offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling aroma. 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.840 Now the two key words there is an offering and a sacrifice. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:52.480 Just as Christ offered and sacrificed himself, we are to offer and sacrifice ourselves to the Lord for his work. 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:56.799 And in order to carry that work out, we have to walk in the spirit. 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:05.840 You can't love like you're supposed to love unconditionally if you're not walking in the spirit because we're selfish and self-centered. 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:07.759 And guess what? 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:08.960 Here's the natures. 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:10.879 Remember the two natures, old nature and union. 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.759 Old nature says, I want what I want when I want it, how I want it, and don't care what you want. 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:16.960 Hello? 00:15:17.519 --> 00:15:18.799 That's the old nature. 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:20.559 That's that's you were born that way. 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:21.440 You were born in sin. 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.200 That's the way you are until you get saved. 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:27.840 But once you get saved, now the new nature comes in, the new man, and the new man says, uh-uh-uh. 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:30.240 It's not what you want, it's what God wants for you. 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:38.960 And what God wants for you is to put other people before you, and you say, Whoa! I don't know if I signed up for this. 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:42.240 You mean I don't get anything I want? 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:45.679 If God wants you to, you do. 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:49.360 But it's not up to you, it's up to him once you become a Christian. 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.320 But see, we do his business. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:57.679 And then we say, God, if if you know, if we get in trouble, then we want God to come in and help us. 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.240 I've often wondered why he would even do that. 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:01.519 Thank God he does. 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.799 But here I am, minding my own business, not wanting him. 00:16:04.960 --> 00:16:07.039 He's already, hey, check my spirit. 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:10.960 I've grieved him, I've quenched him, he's already convicted me, and I still keep doing it. 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.399 And then when I hey hit a crisis, I holler out, ah, help. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:20.240 I've often wondered, if I was God, I'd say, I'm not gonna help you. 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:22.399 You made your bed and I lay in it. 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:25.519 You didn't listen to me. 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:27.360 That's the way we taught our children. 00:16:27.679 --> 00:16:30.240 How many times do you chill you don't do this, don't they do it? 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.720 And I say, I told you, I told you, I told you. 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:34.960 You didn't listen, you didn't listen. 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:36.879 If you listen to me, this wouldn't have happened. 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.720 How many times did I hear that from my grandparents? 00:16:41.039 --> 00:16:43.039 Danny, boy, you don't listen. 00:16:43.679 --> 00:16:46.799 I'm wondering, aren't you glad God's a gracious God? 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:50.320 Because I'm thinking my God's up there saying, Danny, you didn't listen. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:52.480 And then I need him to bail me out. 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:54.480 Now that's unconditional love. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:56.799 They bail you out when they ought not to bail you out. 00:16:56.960 --> 00:16:58.080 That's called grace. 00:16:58.480 --> 00:16:59.840 Can I get an amen? 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:02.320 That's called grace, folks. 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:04.160 Unmerited favor. 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:07.519 I know what you're thinking. 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:08.799 I'm glad preacher's not God. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:09.359 I'm not you. 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.039 Well, you better be glad I'm not. 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:14.799 Same way, that's right. 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:16.400 I'm glad you're not either. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:24.559 So, hey, then he says in Ephesians 5, 5, uh verse 8, walk as children of light. 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:27.920 Colossians 1, 10, walk worthy of the Lord. 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.160 You know what that I I looked that phrase up. 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:35.440 That means please him in every way to his full satisfaction. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:41.680 Whoa! I had never really done a word study on worthy, the phrase worthy unto the Lord. 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:48.559 It means that I please him not to my satisfaction, but to his full satisfaction. 00:17:48.880 --> 00:17:50.079 Big difference. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.680 Amen. 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:53.759 Big difference. 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:56.319 Everything. 00:17:57.200 --> 00:17:58.720 Full satisfaction. 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:00.559 Now, that got me convicted. 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.480 I'm going to just be straight honest with you. 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:10.240 Because I know every day of my life I don't do to his full satisfaction what I ought to do. 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:16.480 Most of the time I try to do about half-heartedly, or at least 50%, another 50% what I want to do. 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.039 Hello! Can I get an O me with me? 00:18:20.640 --> 00:18:21.759 Paul said the same thing? 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.119 Yeah, he did. 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:25.440 So listen to what he says. 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:30.240 He says, to his full satisfaction, bringing joy to our heart. 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:31.759 Now let me say this. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:37.279 Until we understand walking in the spirit is bringing full satisfaction to God. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:40.000 When we understand that, that gets us excited. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.039 But the reward is peace and joy. 00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:50.160 So if you're not, if you don't have peace and joy, it's because we're not walking in the spirit. 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:52.079 We're staggering. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:53.279 We're wobbling. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:54.880 Maybe we've fallen. 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:57.599 That's it. 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:59.440 So we see how important it is. 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:14.079 And then he says, hey, hey, and then on top of all that, all that, as if all the above were not demanding enough, the New Testament tops it all off by saying, 1 John 2, 6, just be like Jesus. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.200 Look at what he says. 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:17.119 Walk as Jesus walked. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:18.240 Hello. 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:22.319 Walk as Jesus walked. 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.519 He who says he abides in him ought himself to walk just as he walked. 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:31.920 Now, at this point you kind of say, there's no way I can do that. 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.759 You kind of feel like resigning. 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.519 I didn't sign up for this. 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:37.279 Well, yes, you did. 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:43.759 But God knew it'd be impossible without a supernatural intervention through the person of the Holy Spirit of God. 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:44.559 He knew that. 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:47.119 That's why he said, I will not leave you comfortless. 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:48.960 He knew you couldn't do it. 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:50.880 He knew you couldn't do it. 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:52.880 So he says, I'm going to send you a person. 00:19:52.960 --> 00:20:00.480 I'm going to send you the third person of the Trinity called the Holy Spirit of God, and He will lead you, He will guide you. 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:02.319 Walk. 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:05.519 By the way, if that's not enough, listen to this. 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.920 Then in John 13, 34 it says, Love one another as I've loved you. 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:18.480 If that verse, if husbands and wives walked in the Spirit, we'd never have a divorce. 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:21.599 We'd never have a divorce. 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:32.720 Because when he says, New commandment I give it unto you that you love one another as I love you, that you also love one another, it wouldn't matter what the situation was. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:40.240 You, through the power of the person of the Holy Spirit of God, would be able to sit down and work it out with your mate if they're both Christians. 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.960 Now, if they're not Christians, then you got a problem. 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:45.119 You're gonna have a war. 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:55.119 That's why it's so important to not let the lust of the flesh get you married and let the spirit of God get you married. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:56.559 Can I get an amen? 00:20:57.519 --> 00:20:58.720 Big difference. 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.920 Oh, but Pastor Danny, I just love him. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.200 How long have you known him? 00:21:03.599 --> 00:21:04.400 A month. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:07.599 Or here's another. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:08.799 Oh, Pastor Danny. 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:11.039 Oh, I'm so excited. 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.279 God used me to change him. 00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:15.039 Got a Greek word for that. 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:21.119 Night! What happens? 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:22.799 He changes you. 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:27.599 What happens that Satan and Satan's got all this planned, you're gonna see that. 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.720 Then Satan gets you to start wobbling and staggering. 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:36.079 Next thing you know, you fall, next thing you know, you're you're back living like you were before you got saved. 00:21:37.200 --> 00:21:37.839 Hello. 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:41.599 That's the way it is. 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:44.960 Bring every thought into captivity. 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:46.720 2 Corinthians 10 5. 00:21:46.880 --> 00:21:49.039 Whoa! Every thought. 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:54.319 Every thought, not some, every thought, under the authority of Christ. 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:56.960 Every thought surrendered to Christ. 00:21:57.200 --> 00:21:59.839 Then giving Ephesians 5 20, giving thanks for everything. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:00.400 Thing. 00:22:00.720 --> 00:22:04.559 1 Peter 2 9, giving praise to God in all things. 00:22:04.799 --> 00:22:08.799 1 Thessalonians 5, 16 and 17, rejoicing always. 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:10.720 Do not stop praying in everything. 00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:11.359 Give thanks. 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:12.319 Praying always. 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:17.759 Woo! I would say it needs a supernatural intervention for us to be able to do that daily. 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:20.319 That's a big task. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:29.599 Now, if I was to ask every one of us, right, I could stop right here and say, if we're not doing this well to be at daughter, every one of us bit daughter. 00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:31.440 If we're honest with ourselves. 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:32.880 Every one of us. 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:42.559 So it would be easy for us just to give up, throw in the towel in light of all those kind of expectations. 00:22:43.039 --> 00:22:47.039 The demands of the Christian life are incredibly overwhelming. 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:52.799 And it'd been a while since I just listed all the word, the verses with walk, walk, walk. 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:54.160 That's why I gave them to you. 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:57.599 It's an unbelievable challenge, folks. 00:22:58.880 --> 00:23:00.000 It's unbelievable. 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:04.079 We can't do it apart from the Holy Spirit of God, which brings me to the second point. 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.920 We see the demands of the Christian life. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:10.480 Now look at the second thing: the determination of our enemy. 00:23:11.440 --> 00:23:16.799 Our enemy is determined that he's not going to let us walk in the light. 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:22.480 He is determined that he's not going to let us walk in the spirit. 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:30.240 Not only do the demands of the Christian life require a different kind of lifestyle. 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.480 Let me just say right here. 00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:35.519 If you got saved, then there's not a difference in you. 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:36.880 You did not get saved. 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:40.079 You had an emotional experience, and that was it. 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:45.680 You did not receive, listen, the new nature, the new man. 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.119 You still have the old man. 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:51.680 Now, you can get emotionally aroused, but let me tell you, salvation takes three things. 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:56.160 Not only does it take knowledge, emotions, it takes you giving your will. 00:23:56.880 --> 00:23:58.880 Not my will, but what? 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:01.200 Thy will be done. 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:04.640 So we see right here. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:10.160 We are called to do as Christians is impossible, but the demands are so strong. 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.880 But right here we see we must reckon with the determination of our enemy. 00:24:14.960 --> 00:24:16.240