Who Is Leading Your Life?
gtcotr/ws052803 {Continued}
Key Scripture: Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
4 Key Concepts - (For the purposes of this study - non exhaustive)
* Pneuma -- Spirit (Tonight, May 28, 2003)
* Psuche -- Soul (Wednesday Evening, May 7, 2003)
* Sarx -- Flesh (Wednesday Evening, April 30, 2003)
* Soma -- Body
Text: Galatians 5
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
I. The Carnal Man
Sarkikos
The Flesh Man
A. Lust
B. Fear
C. Darkness (darkness is the absence/vacation of light)
Note: The power of sin is in the secret.
* John 3:19ff
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
II. The Natural Man
Psuchikos
The Soul Man
* 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
A. The Makeup Of The Soul
1. The Mind
2. The Will
3. The Emotions
III. The Spiritual Man
Pneumatikos
The Spirit Man
Ephesians 3:16 The Inner Man
1 Peter 3:4 The Hidden Man of the Heart
* 1 Corinthians 3:1 brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, (Pneumatikos), but as unto carnal, (Sarkikos), even as unto babes in Christ.
* Galatians 6:1 ¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, (Pneumatikos), restore such an one in the spirit, (Pneuma), of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
A. Light
* John 1:4 In Him was life and the life was the light of men.
* John 3:19-21
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
B. Life
* Genesis 2:7 Breath of Life
* John 3:16 Everlasting Life
* John 6:48 The Bread of Life
* John 14:6 I Am The Life
* Romans 8:2 The Spirit of Life
C. Love
* 1 John 4:7-8 God is Love
7 ¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
IV. Conclusion - How Can We Be Led Of The Spirit?
We decide, by an act of our will, who controls our life and future:
The Old Carnal Nature
Motivated by lust, fear and darkness
The Intellectual Imaginations & Emotional Mandates
Moved only by what you think, want or feel at that moment
The Spiritual Connection To God
Mobilized & Empowered by Light, Life & Love
* Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
