Jesus said to love one another. If you’re a Christian, are you finding that it’s impossible to love one another? If so, you need to hear this!
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Sermons on Galatians (Page 2)
In this teaching, we continue to look at some of what the Bible says regarding issues of single Christian living, and how serving the Lord can be great marriage preparation. This teaching covers: Serving the Lord without distractions, Celebrating your singleness and serving as a Christian instead of complaining, Serving can help keep you accountable with sexual temptations, Serving keeps you busy and out of trouble, Serving is the path of a disciple, Serving teaches you faithfulness, Serving teaches you how to love one another, Serving trains Christians for their eternal marriage to Jesus Christ.
In the last part of the mini series on “The Flesh vs The Spirit” we learned that the Holy Spirit wants to bring spiritual fruit in a believer’s life. He comes and makes His home with you and desires to fellowship with you. Paul lists 9 different characteristics that the Holy Spirit will bring about in a born again Christian’s life. We find that the first fruit on the list is “love” which is essential for all believers to understand before attempting to pray about having the other fruits come forth in their walk with the Lord. If we have no understanding of the love of God, how will we get to know the other 8 fruits listed in Galatians 5:22-23?
We learn in Galatians 5 that we need to walk in the Spirit but most Christians cannot describe it. We find that born again Christians need to first have faith and believe that the Holy Spirit dwells in them. We need to understand that we are owned by God and He lives within us to help and guide us. Paul tells us “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires” (Galatians 5:24). The Holy Spirit is going to continue to take the spiritual nails and hammer to crucify our flesh as we walk with the Lord, and no Christian will escape Him unless they choose the road of disobedience and rebellion.
Paul teaches us that no one can add or take away from the grace of God. We as Christians need to understand that our flesh is at war with the Holy Spirit who dwells in us as born again Christians. We tend to try to lean on our flesh to walk with the Lord, which is legalism, but Paul tells us that we are free in Christ and need to live free for the Lord and not for our fleshly desires. Paul gives us a list in Galatians 5:19-21