Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Galatians 5:25, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
In Galatians 5:24 our relationship with the flesh is established as a fact in Christ Jesus.
Then in the next verse, the application and experience of this fact is revealed by Paul.
To “live in the Spirit” in this verse is equivalent to being “of Christ Jesus” in the preceding verse.
Thus, Christ in the realm of the Spirit is our relationship with the flesh.
But for this fact to become our experience over and over again in our daily life, we need to walk in the Spirit.
The Greek word for “walk” in Galatians 5:25 is a specific military word, rather than the more general word for walk used in other places in the New Testament.
It has the sense of keeping in step with the Spirit.
This could be likened to a group of soldiers marching down the street, keeping in step with the cadence of the drummer.
Their steps are very deliberate and specific.
It is the same when we walk in the Spirit.
Christ is in us, in our mingled spirit.
He has already dealt a blow to the flesh.
Now we must keep in step with Him whenever our flesh rises up to be fulfilled.
This means we take a deliberate and specific step in spirit at the moment our flesh manifests itself.
When we keep in step with the Spirit, the Lord Himself is our relationship with the reacting flesh.
We just say, “Amen, Lord, I love You!” Or call upon Him.
By this we keep in step with the Spirit and execute the crucifixion over our flesh.
Until Tomorrow With A Shepherd’s Love, Pastor Jackson
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Charlene Palmer
Darlene Thaxton
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John Austin
John McClain
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Michael Stanley
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Scott Nix
Terrell Loyd
Tom Witcher
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Lonzo Christin
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Larry Barker
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Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
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