Sanctification by the Spirit Alone -
Walking in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-26)

(Class Notes)

• The Spirit vs. the Flesh (Galatians 5:16-17)
  • The believer is given the PROMISE - "WALK in the SPIRIT, and ye shall NOT FULFILL the LUST of the FLESH" (Galatians 5:16):
    • The FLESH is a reference to the "SIN that dwelleth IN ME ... that is IN MY FLESH" (Romans 7:17-18) and so there is the NEED of DELIVERANCE, i.e. DELIVERANCE FROM "the BODY of this DEATH" (Romans 7:24)
    • It is "THROUGH the SPIRIT" that the BELIEVER WAITS for "the HOPE of RIGHTEOUSNESS by FAITH" (Galatians 5:5)
    • CHRIST is the BELIEVER'S "HOPE of RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Galatians 5:5 cf. Romans 5:17,21) and it is "THROUGH the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:5) that CHRIST INDWELLS the BELIEVER (Romans 8:9-10)
    • It is "THROUGH the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:5) that the BELIEVER is able to "QUICKEN (MAKE ALIVE)" the "MORTAL (DEATH)" BODY (Romans 8:11) and, thus, "MORTIFY (PUT TO DEATH) the DEEDS of the BODY" (Romans 8:13)
  • The REASON for the BELIEVER'S CONFIDENCE in GOD'S PROMISE (Galatians 5:16) is that the SPIRIT'S DESIRES (being CONTRARY TO the FLESH'S DESIRES) will SUPPRESS the FLESH'S DESIRES (Galatians 5:17):
    • To "WALK in the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:16) is to FIRST KNOW what it means to be "BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST" (Romans 6:3) and to THEN TRUST that IDENTIFICATION WITH CHRIST" (Romans 6:11)
    • To be "BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST"(Romans 6:3) means to be IDENTIFIED WITH the DEATH, BURIAL, and RESURRECTION OF CHRIST (Romans 6:4-5 cf. Colossians 2:11-12):
      • Thus, POSITIONALLY - the BELIEVER (the "OLD MAN") has been "CRUCIFIED" WITH CHRIST (Romans 6:6) and, therefore, "FREED FROM SIN" (Romans 6:7)
      • CONSEQUENTLY, WHAT is TRUE OF CHRIST is ALSO TRUE OF the BELIEVER (Romans 6:8-10) - therefore, "LIKEWISE RECKON (COUNT) ye also ... to be DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD THROUGH ... CHRIST" (Romans 6:11)
    • Thus, "WALKING" (Galatians 5:16) means TRUSTING (Galatians 5:5 cf. Romans 6:11), so that the SPIRIT is the ONE WHO IS FIGHTING AND WINNING (Galatians 5:17 cf. Romans 6:12) and, thus, ENABLING the BELIEVER to "YIELD ... UNTO GOD, as ALIVE FROM THE DEAD, and ... MEMBERS as INSTRUMENTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO GOD" (Romans 6:13)

• The Spirit vs. the Law (Galatians 5:18)
  • Just as the BELIEVER is FREE FROM SIN AS a MASTER (Galatians 5:16-17 cf. Romans 6:10-12), so also is the BELIEVER FREE FROM the LAW AS a HUSBAND (Galatians 5:18 cf. Romans 7:2-4):
    • The BELIEVER'S RELATIONSHIP TO the LAW is LIKENED TO the WIFE'S RELATIONSHIP TO a DEAD HUSBAND (Romans 7:2-3):
      • The BELIEVER has "become DEAD TO the LAW" (Romans 7:4 cf. Galatians 2:19) BY the CRUCIFIED "BODY OF CHRIST" (Romans 7:4 cf. Romans 8:3; I Peter 2:24), which was "RAISED FROM THE DEAD" (Romans 7:4 cf. Romans 8:11)
    • UNDER the LAW - "SIN REIGNED UNTO DEATH" (Romans 5:20-21 cf. Romans 7:5,9,11) Romans 7:8,11)
    • "UNDER GRACE" (Romans 6:14) - "MIGHT ... REIGN ... RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO ETERNAL LIFE by Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 5:21) - "through the Spirit" (Romans 8:13)
    • The LAW was "NOT MADE FOR a RIGHTEOUS man, BUT FOR the LAWLESS and DISOBEDIENT" (I Timothy 1:9):
      • FOR "the LAW is HOLY, and the COMMANDMENT HOLY, and JUST, and GOOD" (Romans 7:12)
      • "BUT SIN ... that it MIGHT APPEAR SIN ... BY the COMMANDMENT MIGHT BECOME EXCEEDING SINFUL" (Romans 7:13 cf. Romans 3:20; Romans 7:7-8)
    • BUT "UNDER GRACE" (Romans 6:14) - "CHRIST JESUS ... IS MADE" (I Corinthians 1:30) UNTO the BELIEVER:
      • "WISDOM" (I Corinthians 1:30 cf. I Corinthians 1:18,24)
      • "RIGHTEOUSNESS" (I Corinthians 1:30 cf. II Corinthians 5:21)
      • "SANCTIFICATION" (I Corinthians 1:30 cf. II Thessalonians 2:13-14)
      • "REDEMPTION" (I Corinthians 1:30 cf. Romans 3:24-26)
    • Thus, "IF ye be LED OF the SPIRIT, ye are NOT UNDER the LAW" (Galatians 5:18 cf. Romans 8:14-16):
      • "FOR the LAW of the SPIRIT (that) of LIFE in CHRIST JESUS hath MADE me FREE FROM the LAW of SIN and DEATH" (Romans 8:2)

• The Works of the Flesh (Galatians 5:19-21)
  • "The WORKS of the FLESH" (Galatians 5:19-21) stand in contrast to the "The FRUIT of the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:22-23):
    • "The WORKS of the FLESH" (Galatians 5:19-21) issue forth from a "REPROBATE MIND" (Romans 1:28-31)
    • "The WORKS of the FLESH" (Galatians 5:19-21) are the expression of a VAIN MIND that is "ALIENATED FROM the LIFE of GOD" (Ephesians 4:17-19) and, thus, "DEAD in TRESPASSES and SINS" (Ephesians 2:1-3)
    • "The WORKS of the FLESH" (Galatians 5:19-21) are the ONLY WORKS POSSIBLE FOR the UNBELIEVER who God sees "IN THE FLESH" as OPPOSED TO the BELIEVER who God sees "IN THE SPIRIT" (Romans 8:8-9 cf. Ephesians 1:13-14)
  • Paul's REPEATED DECLARATION that "they which do such things shall NOT INHERIT the KINGDOM of GOD" (Galatians 5:21 cf. I Corinthians 6:9-10) is NOT in reference to the BELIEVER living UNDER "the DISPENSATION of the GRACE of GOD" (Ephesians 3:2):
    • "UNDER GRACE" (Romans 6:14) - GOD SEES the BELIEVER as WASHED FROM the FILTHINESS of the FLESH BY the SPIRIT of GOD (I Corinthians 6:11)
    • UNDER "the DISPENSATION of the GRACE of GOD" (Ephesians 3:2):
      • The BELIEVER is "SEALED WITH that HOLY SPIRIT of PROMISE ... UNTIL the REDEMPTION of the PURCHASED POSSESSION" (Ephesians 1:13-14), i.e. UNTIL "... the REDEMPTION of OUR BODY" (Romans 8:22-23)
    • UNDER "the DISPENSATION of the GRACE of GOD" (Ephesians 3:2):
      • The BELIEVER CAN "GRIEVE ... the HOLY SPIRIT", BUT REMAINS "SEALED BY the HOLY SPIRIT UNTIL the DAY of REDEMPTION" (Ephesians 4:30), i.e. "UNTIL the DAY of JESUS CHRIST" (Philippians 1:6)
      • At the DAY of "HIS GLORIOUS APPEARING" (Titus 2:13 cf. Philippians 3:20) - He "shall CHANGE OUR LOWLY BODY, that it may be FASHIONED LIKE UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY" (Philippians 3:21)
  • Paul's REPEATED DECLARATION that "they which do such things shall NOT INHERIT the KINGDOM of GOD" (Galatians 5:21 cf. I Corinthians 6:9-10) is in reference to those living in "the DAY of WRATH and REVELATION of the RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT of GOD" (Romans 2:5 cf. Ephesians 5:6; Colossians 3:6):
    • Those who "shall NOT INHERIT the KINGDOM of GOD" (Galatians 5:21 cf. I Corinthians 6:9-10) are those who do NOT have "ANY INHERITANCE in the KINGDOM of CHRIST and of GOD" (Ephesians 5:5 cf. Revelation 11:15), i.e. in CHRIST'S MILLENNIAL KINGDOM (Revelation 20:4,6)
    • TO ENTER THAT KINGDOM (Revelation 20:4,6) - it will be REQUIRED of the TRIBULATION BELIEVER (Revelation 1:9) to "ENDURE TO THE END" (Matthew 24:13-14) of the "GREAT TRIBULATION" (Matthew 24:21-22 cf. Daniel 12:1), i.e. ENDURING "the TRIAL of YOUR FAITH ... RECEIVING the END of YOUR FAITH, even the SALVATION of YOUR SOULS" (I Peter 1:7-9)

• The Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)
  • LAW vs. GRACE:
    • WHAT the LAW DEMANDED (Matthew 22:36-40 cf. Deuteronomy 6:5; Leviticus 19:18) OF the FLESH (Romans 8:3) - GRACE PROVIDES (Romans 6:14) BY the SPIRIT (Romans 8:4)
    • Note the TOUCHPOINTS BETWEEN the SPIRIT'S FRUIT AND the KINGDOM BEATITUDES:
      • JOY (Galatians 5:22 cp. Matthew 5:12)
      • PEACE (Galatians 5:22 cp. Matthew 5:9)
      • LONGSUFFERING (Galatians 5:22 cp. Matthew 5:10-11)
      • MEEKNESS (Galatians 5:23 cp. Matthew 5:5)
    • GRACE IMPARTS "the SPIRIT of ADOPTION" (Romans 8:15), i.e. it BESTOWS the SPIRIT of SONSHIP (Galatians 4:6):
      • For "... AGAINST SUCH there is NO LAW" (Galatians 5:23)
  • The SPIRIT and the MIND:
    • The FRUIT of the SPIRIT (Galatians 5:22-23) is ASSOCIATED WITH the MIND of the BELIEVER (Romans 8:5-6):
      • The BELIEVER is EXHORTED to be "RENEWED in the SPIRIT of YOUR MIND" (Ephesians 4:23)
      • BELIEVERS are EXHORTED to "STAND FAST in ONE SPIRIT, with ONE MIND striving TOGETHER for the FAITH of the GOSPEL" (Philippians 1:27)
    • The BELIEVER'S WARFARE is NOT PHYSICAL (II Corinthians 10:3), BUT SPIRITUAL and it pertains to the THOUGHT PATTERNS of the MIND (II Corinthians 10:4-5):
      • SPIRITUAL ARMOR is REQUIRED for waging battle AGAINST SPIRITUAL ADVERSARIES (Ephesians 6:10-18)
    • The SPIRITUAL MIND (I Corinthians 2:15-16) and the NATURAL MIND (I Corinthians 2:14) have OPPOSITE WORLD VIEWS (II Corinthians 4:8-9):
      • The SPIRITUAL MIND is HEAVENLY MINDED and NOT EARTHLY MINDED (Philippians 3:17-21 cf. II Corinthians 4:16-18; Ephesians 1:3; Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 3:1-2)
      • "For we WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT" (II Corinthians 5:7)
      • The BELIEVER'S MIND is KEY TO having FELLOWSHIP WITH "the GOD OF PEACE" (Philippians 4:8), which REQUIRES --> PAULINE TEACHING (Philippians 4:9), i.e. "GRACE" TEACHING (Titus 2:11-13 cf. Acts 20:24,32; Ephesians 3:2)

• Living in the Spirit vs. Walking in the Spirit (Galatians 5:24-26)
  • Those who belong to Christ "HAVE CRUCIFIED the FLESH with the PASSIONS and LUSTS" (Galatians 5:24):
    • POSITIONALLY, the BELIEVER by HAVING BEEN "BAPTIZED INTO" CHRIST'S DEATH (Romans 6:3), is NOW "CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST" (Galatians 2:20)
    • POSITIONALLY, this means that GOD ALSO SEES the BELIEVER as "CRUCIFIED UNTO ... THE WORLD" (Galatians 6:14) - NO LONGER ENSLAVED TO IT (Ephesians 2:1-3), BUT DELIVERED FROM IT (Ephesians 2:4-5)
  • Therefore, "IF we LIVE IN the SPIRIT" THEN "let us ALSO WALK IN the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:25):
    • The BELIEVER'S LIFE is IN CHRIST (Romans 8:2; Colossians 3:4) - Who INDWELLS the BELIEVER "IN SPIRIT" (Ephesians 2:22) BY HIS SPIRIT (Romans 8:9-10)
    • The BELIEVER'S OUTWARD WALK SHOULD REFLECT the BELIEVER'S HIDDEN LIFE (Galatians 5:25 cf. Colossians 3:3)
    • Just as PHYSICAL LIGHT is SEEN BY the PHYSICAL EYE (Luke 11:34), so also is CHRIST'S LIFE SEEN BY the SPIRITUAL EYE (John 1:4; John 3:19-21; II Corinthians 4:3-4,6)
    • "WALK IN the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:16) vs. "WALK IN the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:25):
      • "WALK" (Galatians 5:16), i.e. "WALK" about (Greek, "PERIPATEO"), in reference to the FREEDOM FROM the MIND OF the FLESH (Galatians 5:16-17 cf. Romans 8:5-6) and MANIFESTED BY "the FRUIT OF the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:22-23)
      • "WALK" (Galatians 5:25), i.e. "WALK" orderly (Greek, "STOICHEO"), in reference to the FOCUSED POWER OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION LIFE (Philippians 3:10-14 cf. Ephesians 5:14-17) and MANIFESTED BY "the FRUIT OF the LIGHT" (Ephesians 5:8-9):
        • ATTITUDES - in "ALL GOODNESS" (Ephesians 5:8-9), i.e. "the FRUIT OF the SPIRIT" (Galatians 5:22-23)
        • DEEDS - in "ALL ... RIGHTEOUSNESS" (Ephesians 5:8-9), i.e. "the NEW MAN ... CREATED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS and TRUE HOLINESS" (Ephesians 4:24) as OPPOSED TO "the BEHAVIOR OF the OLD MAN ... CORRUPT ACCORDING TO the DECEITFUL LUSTS" (Ephesians 4:22)
        • WORDS - in "ALL TRUTH" (Ephesians 5:8-9), i.e. "SPEAKING the TRUTH IN LOVE" (Ephesians 4:15)
  • The LIFE OF CHRIST - "NOT DESIROUS OF VAINGLORY" and NOT "ENVYING ONE ANOTHER" (Galatians 5:26 cf. Philippians 2:3):
    • The LIFE OF CHRIST is REFLECTIVE OF - "the MIND OF CHRIST" (Philippians 2:4-5), i.e. "the GRACE OF ... CHRIST" (II Corinthians 8:9)

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