OVERCOMING THE FLESH

Being holy
loving
kind
patient
...
this are not new rules / it is not about meeting a obligation

they have meaning only insofar as they manifest the new life that is found in Christ
they are descriptions of what real life looks like / they are not about how to get life

THE ONLY WAY TO GET LIFE IS TO ACCEPT BY FAITH THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS.


Paul described the new life of a believer
lived out of fullness rather than emptiness Gal 5,16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.


The fruit of the spirit is manifested in our lives as we cease trying to produce it on our own and yield to the Spirit's loving influence in our lives.

NOW how does the Spirit produce the fruit in us.
By confronting the 4 aspects of the flesh.

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The Spirit of truth Confronts Deception

Satan lies to us:
GOD IS NOT GOOD
WE MISS OUT, BECAUSE OF GOD
WE ARE NOT PEOPLE WHOCAN POSSESSA FULLNESS OF LIFE BY BEING WHOLLY DEPENDENT UPON GOD.


THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED TO SPIRIT OF THRUTH
John 14,17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

John 15,26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—he will testify about me.

John 16,13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.”

1. Cor 12,3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

2. Cor 3,3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

8 will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?

16 But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

The word truth in greek means: NOT COVERED. / interesting ...

The Spirit of truth confronts the deception of the flesh by uncovering before our eyes and hearts
the truth about
God
&
the truth about
us.

He does it by pointing us to the person JESUS

Everything the Holy Spirit does in restoring our lives is directly or indirectly related to his central work of POINTING US TO JESUS CHRIST.

Helpful is:
look at each aspect of the truth in Christ
that the Spirit revelas,
namely,
the truth of God and the truth of our identity in Christ.