A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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Gal. 5.13 – For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

c. Because of the indwelling Holy Spirit, we are no longer slaves but children of God, Gal. 4.5-7 – to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. [6] And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” [7] So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. 3. Because we are free in Christ, we are liberated from the shackles of self-imposed rules for righteousness: discipline, therefore, is a grateful response of a heart that has been liberated from trying to reestablish its own works righteousness.

a. Only the Spirit can bring us the life of Christ, John 6.63 – It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is of no avail. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

b. Since we live by the Spirit, we ought to walk in his power, Gal. 5.25 – If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.

c. The river of the Spirit of Christ should now be allowed to flow through us, John 7.37-39 – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. [38] Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” [39] Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.