Living By God's 'Real' Input in Our Lives (TMF:1685)

Friday, August 27, 2021
Peace to Live By: Living By God's 'Real' Input in Our Lives (TMF:1685) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul said in Galatians 5:16-18: “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 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. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law” (ESV). This passage from Galatians confirms for us that in this section today in Romans chapter 7, that Paul is talking about his current condition as a Christian, and not his previous condition before his conversion experience, or for the Jew living under the Jewish Law—which in this case would have been the same thing with Paul. Paul’s point in both Romans chapter 7 and Galatians chapter 5 is that we are to choose not to walk by the flesh, to walk by our sin-natures, to live following a Christian life without God’s ‘real’ input, but instead we are to choose to be led by the Spirit.