May 8, 2019
Disciple Up # 107
Starting Well
By Louie Marsh, 5-8-2019
The Ones You Always Hear:
- Read your Bible (Please get a good modern translation. Like the ESV, NIV, etc.)
- Go to a good church
- Get involved in a small group
- Do a daily devotional
General Principle: Rely on the Holy Spirit for your strength, etc. NOT yourself – your flesh.
This is one key to me, you need to make a deep, strong, life-long commitment to Christ, His Word and to rely on the Spirit NOT the flesh!
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. Galatians 5:16
The New Reality – You’re in a war, Spirit against your old nature.
17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Galatians 5:17-18
15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Romans 7:15 (ESV)
Some Examples of what your old nature leads you to do.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21
Examples of the kind of person the Spirit will make you to be.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
Closing thought on how this all works out.
24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Galatians 5:24-26 (ESV)
Other Thoughts:
- Learn how to study the Bible
- Get involved in a Ministry you learn best by doing.
- Strive always to be humble and have a teachable spirit.