Walk in the Spirit

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Repeated openers: “and then” (6), “and when” (6), “the law” (5), “this is” (5), “that is” (5), “and if” (4)

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1. Conclusion

   It is our desire for you to grow as a result of the resources we provide here.

2. Condition

   Like if I'm being honest, I grew up, I love making New Year's resolutions.

3. Cause

   This year is going to be different from all the rest because this is the year that I'm going to finally get it done. (audience laughing) And every year, every year, at some point, a month in, a weekend, just like the Phillies, I would mess up, and eventually I would quit all my resolutions, and I would get angry and frustrated.

4. Condition ×3

   And if we're honest, sometimes it's why we hate ourselves.

5. Conclusion ×3

   For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death.

6. Condition

   In other words, Paul is saying if dying to sin releases us from the law, then is it the law that's sinful?

7. Contrast ×3

   The law is not sinful, but Paul does point out that there is a connection between the law and between sin.

8. Condition

   If God's way doesn't exist, then we can't choose our way over God's way.

9. Conclusion

   There would be no God's way to choose and thus there could be no sin.

10. Example

    For example, is driving 85 miles an hour a crime? (Laughter) That wasn't phatic. (Laughter) There ain't cops here.

11. Condition ×2

    Hey, if there's no speed limit, right, whether it's a crime or not is completely and what that speed limit says.

12. Contrast ×8

    And when we look into the mirror of the law, that is when we see just how far we have fallen from God's standards. us our sin, but there's something else it does too.

13. Condition

    See if this resonates with you.

14. Premise

    We know that the law of spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

15. Contrast

    For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do.

16. Condition

    And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

17. Contrast ×3

    But I cannot carry it out.

18. Condition

    Notice here Paul is not talking about people who don't care about sin, or don't care if they sin. and want to follow and obey Jesus.

19. Contrast ×6

    But no matter how hard they try, they find it, they keep failing.

20. Cause

    Because I have a sinful nature.

21. Contrast ×5

    Throughout Romans, Paul reminds us that we are slaves to sin, that sin is our master, and when sin is our master, we're going to do what sin wants. obey Jesus, but if sin is our master, at the end of the day, we are going to do what sin wants.

22. Cause ×3

    Jesus didn't choose us because we're good and somehow worthy of Him.

23. Contrast ×4

    Paul says it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

24. Condition ×2

    In fact, on the contrary, if you wrestle with your sin, if you struggle with sin, if you understand Paul, when he says, the good that I want to do, I can't do, and the evil that I don't want to do, I keep on doing, if that's you, if you get that, and you can resonate with that, then you know the Holy Spirit is that working you. to do good.

25. Cause

    It is either because your sanctification is complete or more likely because you died to the Spirit.

26. Condition

    And you're wondering if there's something wrong with you.

27. Contrast ×3

    Because the fact that you're wrestling, the fact that you are so frustrated and angry that you can't seem to get it right, the fact that you desire what is good and yet you find yourself choosing the opposite. is still working in you.

28. Condition ×2

    So if we remain passive, then we allow our sinful nature to reign.

29. Conclusion

    At the very start of this chapter, verse four, Paul writes, but now by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

30. Condition

    If we want to overcome sin, we need to shift our focus from the law to God.

31. Contrast

    But it does show us the boundaries of sin.

32. Condition

    If you remember in the Gospel is Jesus tells us the disciples that he needs to leave, that he needs to go, and he says it's good for them, and they're like, "Why?

33. Cause ×2

    Why would it be good for us that Jesus leaves?" And he says, "Because the only way goes when he send the Holy Spirit." And this is what Jesus says about the Holy Spirit.

34. Condition ×3

    Word around campus was that if you got the ball in the court, you got an A.

35. Contrast ×9

    What you will do instead is actually drive the ball out of the bounce over and over again.

36. Condition ×2

    And if you don't have someone, we're here for you.

37. Contrast

    But it is time that we are honest about our struggle with sin and that we name it.

38. Condition

    If anything is excellent or praise where they think about such things.

39. Cause ×2

    Because if they don't, then a major life shift is needed.

40. Contrast

    And she said, "But you're capable of an A.

41. Cause

    And the only reason you're an A student is because you're lazy." You found an opportunity to get a decent grade by coasting and you took it.

42. Contrast ×3

    And she said, "But Sam, God didn't give you talents to coast.

43. Conclusion

    And that's why the world's most elite athletes still commit themselves to countless hours of practice because they're developing a habit that becomes instinctive in the competition. comes.

44. Contrast

    That we ought not be weary of little things for the love of God who regards not the greatness of the work but the love with which it is performed.

45. Example

    For example, what are the mundane tasks of life that you absolutely hate doing?

46. Cause

    Do it because you love God.

47. Contrast

    And treat each of those tasks as if you are doing it in service to God, not to your family or your kids school or your boss, but doing it for God.

48. Cause

    Because the more we practice walking with the Spirit, sync with the spirit we become.

49. Contrast ×4

    Paul describes the struggle with sin, saying, "There's no longer I myself who do it, "but it is sin living in me." And there's this beautiful parallel with what he writes in Galatians.

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