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Without a set of rules or religious practices to govern ourselves or others, how will a believer live a life that is good for them, cooperative with others, and desirable to God?
It’s a good question.
Reason would seem to dictate that we need rules.
“In the United States, it seems like we have laws, rules, and regulations to oversee just about everything.
We don’t always like these rules, since they often mean that someone is telling us what to do, or keeping us from doing what we want.
Yet to live in a civil society, we must have some rules to follow.”
(Judiciallearningcenter.org)
Or as one contributor to Quora.com observed:
If there were no rules, people could easily act only in their own interest without considering how their actions affect others.
These answers would find wide acceptance.
It was a part of the attraction that Judaism held for the Galatians.
It was also something with which Paul disagreed.
A Radical Proposition, Galatians 5:16-18
Define two words:
walk - our walk of life, not a momentary walk.
Think: live
lust - desire
used by itself, I define it as anything I desire that God does not desire for me
used in conjunction, it refers to strong desire for good or bad
Delineate two natures
flesh - our natural, fallen state of life
spirit - our state of life indwelled by Spirit of God
Describe two states
our two natures oppose each other
our two natures frustrate us
decide between two choices
led by the law and our attempts to fulfill it
led by the spirit and fulfill the spirit of God’s law
The works of the flesh, Galatians 5:19-21
The Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:22-23
A Clear Winner, Galatians 5:24-26
Crucify the flesh
Live in the Spirit
Cooperate in the world
One way, we bear fruit.
The other way, we go nuts!
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