Living By the Spirit 8

Broadcast 4119

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Galatians 5:17-18 (NET) For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Because Dave now understood that he was walking in the flesh and not living in a manner that pleased the Lord, he tried to remedy this problem. He became more conscious of rules and regulations that he believed would help him stay within the will of God. But this was not working because he was assuming that his right standing with God was based on his performance. He found freedom when he realized that his right standing with God was because of Christ Jesus and his faith in Him. He was now accepted as a child of God in God's family through God's grace. Walking in the Holiness of God was now a consequence of this reality not a the other way round. This understanding was his breakthrough in walking in the Spirit. He no longer struggled to walk in His divine nature.

The laws of God stem from the nature of God. The laws of God given by Moses were an attempt to cause sinful man to walk in the nature of God. The problem, however, was that sinful man did not have the capacity to walk in the divine nature without a change of heart. The law ended up revealing our pitiful state of hopelessness in attaining the righteousness of God by our own strength.

Through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus, we are brought into the new covenant. In the new covenant, God gives us a new heart and a new spirit where He pre-encodes His law and His nature (see Ezekiel 36:26 and Hebrews 8:8-13). The regenerated spirit that God gives us in the new covenant has the capacity to walk in the divine nature and truly please God.

Go into today thanking God for counting you worthy to be a partaker of His grace. His grace is the reason why you can be a partaker of the new covenant and walk in the divine nature. Bringing sons into His nature and glory had always been God's goal for making man.

—Abraham Damilola Arigi

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