"Hey, boy, get your act together." This is not an exercise in theatrics. And what he's trying to say to the guy is you better do what I ask you, you owe me one. You owe a debt to God and to Christ and to the Holy Spirit. John 14:16 . That is a statement of fact. It needs no engine by which to work. And many a cook scarcely licks his fingers when he hath dressed for others the most costly meal." He's saying I want to be gentle like Christ is gentle. It's totally contradictory for brethren who are in the Spirit, after the Spirit, minding the things of the Spirit, walking in the Spirit to be going out and thinking they owe something to the flesh. For example, in Acts chapter 6, you know, when they were going to choose out men who could serve, who were men of high reputation spiritually, the text said they were to look for men full of faith and the Holy Spirit. As Christians, you see, we're like the children of Israel were. Information will harden you into carnality if it is not applied. It simply means you get under the control of the Holy Spirit so that He fills your life. Now this is not something that's just isolated to the text of the New Testament. I mean, it's silly enough to say, "Well, you know, I'm not a murderer, but I just enjoy acting like one.” Or, "I'm not a homosexual, but I just like to act like one." . You need to deal with sin drastically. In verse 22, it says that He breathed on them and invited them to "receive the Holy Spirit." If we're going to know victory over the flesh, if we're going to know the killing of sin in our lives, it's going to be in the power of the Holy Spirit. That's alright. And there's something else you might need to know that will help you. You know what I found? You might want to underline that in your Bible. And when Paul calls me brother, I feel better. The spiritual person has the Spirit of God. The bent of life is toward the things of the Spirit. And as you saturate your soul and your heart and your mind with the truth of God, it begins to flesh out in a Spirit-controlled behavior. “We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us … Spiritual means "of the Spirit" — from the Spirit or involving the Spirit. These fallen, natural cravings are described as the "lusts of the flesh" in Galatians. And someday He will change our outside, says verse 11. So, the whole idea of that Philippians 3 is that Paul has a tremendous passion to know God and to fellowship with Christ and to know all the power that's available to him. We ought to know this. Great, great chapter. He gives you revelation and understanding of the scriptures, and the wisdom to apply them in … } So, it is because the Spirit frees us from the law of sin and death, because the Spirit enables us to keep God's righteous law and because the Spirit transforms our nature that we no longer are under condemnation. It's much like Galatians 6:8, "He that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." "Take heed to yourselves lest you live in those sins which you preach against in others and lest you be guilty of that which you daily condemn. therefore, brethren, because of the mercies of God." So, when you came to Christ and you were forgiven of your sin, it didn't end your responsibility, just started it. To be filled with the Spirit, basically, simply means to have habitual permeation of your life by the Holy Spirit. I take the Word of God very seriously. We have a debt. Other people feel better being immoral. Now this is another axiom. Therefore. Dear God, please let your Holy Spirit rule me so that I can prevail in all situations. This has been important and needful for us. We owe nothing to the flesh and sin. It will affect every relationship. The Holy Spirit empowers Christians as they bear witness to the gospel. We will never be condemned. You've got to know that. I'm not just concerned about the big gross sins that make the newspapers. Number one, how's your zeal for God? And then verse 3, "For though we walk in the flesh,” in other words, in the sense that we're in the world, though we have to be a part of that, "we do not war after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds." You do not grow by information, you grow by application. So, the power, the people, the privilege; now come to "D" in our little outline, the pattern for victory. When you receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit you, and you’re already filled cup are immersed into the vast ocean of the Holy Spirit. Will you preach His laws and willfully break them? How are you doing? And they're really no different. In other words, there's a whole aura of life where you're communing with the living God, out of His Word, in meditation and prayer. return false; And the way you appropriate the available power is to be filled with the Spirit. Romans 5:5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. And fifth: If you're going to be able to follow the pattern of victory, you must cultivate obedience. if (f.elements["np" + i] && f.elements["np" + i].required && f.elements["np" + i].value == "") { Now I want to show you the people of victory, the people of victory, just to touch base with every part of this text. "Not by might nor by power (on a human level,) but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." Yes, there's a sense in which I dwell within a house of flesh. That's a marvelous thought. They are the product of regeneration. It says: "Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit." Sin comes to us, tempts us through the body. The Pharisees were much older than Jesus; they were also religious scholars. The old Puritans used to say, "If you don't kill sin it will kill you." If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." The New Testament, by the way, is filled with them, filled with them. Here are just 10 of the supernatural ways the Holy Spirit wants to empower you today: 1. Spiritual can refer to negative spiritual influences (Ephesians 6:12), but in the context of believers and used positively, it points us in the direction of the Holy Spirit. And that again, the wonderful work of the Spirit. Jesus said, “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). That's Matthew 5:29 and 30; Mark 9. And sometimes you get kind of angry about it. The Holy Spirit has equipped me long before this point to pursue the work ahead. Jesus operated with Holy Spirit to defeat his foes when he was on earth fulfilling his ministry. You know where it comes? You understand that? Now have you noticed how hard it is? And instead of that, he didn't kill the king, he didn't kill the animals, he brought them back. In other words, it will affect every relationship. God never asks us to do what we can't do, that would be futile. You've got to be busy killing sin. You must cultivate obedience. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. And sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Now in the Bible you talk about growing in grace. . Now, beloved, let me just say it one other simple way, bringing all that together. And the rate goes up the older you get. That's why we have so long and so diligently and so hard advocated the priority of the study of God's precious truth. It's there. GDPR is the new European privacy regulation, which will replace the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK and the equivalent legislation across the EU Member States. Therefore, the Holy Spirit through the word of God equips you for every good work. Humanness can't overcome humanness. And I want to make that point very strongly because I want you to know that as a Christian, as one who possesses the Spirit of God, you have within you the power to overcome sin. I just don't want to be bold. Acts 1:8 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And it’s the Holy Spirit that enables that relationship and empowers us for mission. You have a choice. "And the fellowship of His suffering." "For if you live after the flesh, you shall die. If sin be evil, why do you live in it? Now I want you to follow 2 Corinthians chapter 10, very, very, very important passage. And that happens to Christians. And so, we bless the Spirit for the marvelous work which He does in our lives. It's there functioning, it's there doing its thing so that when you want to do good you can't do it. I mean, it's as if the whole sweep of the thing, all the privileges, this is the privilege of victory. And understand this, it's a law. I don't fight that war in the flesh because the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Oh, this is such an important understanding in Scripture. And we remember that every Christian possesses the Spirit because that's what we learned in verse 9, didn't we? I love that. Have you met those people? We can't be like Saul, you remember, when he was told to wipe out everybody, kill everybody, don't leave anybody left. Now let us look at the second reason that God will be giving the gift of the Holy Spirit. Now, I want to talk about the privilege of victory. Let your Spirit subdue every situation for me so that I can live peacefully and happily to glorify your Holy Name. power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you." And as a result of that, we are in tremendous debt to Him. I don't want to act like I was already perfect, I want to apprehend that for which I have been apprehended. We've been made to do them. 1 John 4:4 - Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. When the Spirit of God is at work in … By the way, the word "power" in the Bible is dunamis, from which we get our word "dynamite." Flesh can't gain the victory over flesh. We were indeed guilty and the Savior delivered a pardon and said there will be no condemnation, for I have already died in the behalf of this criminal. And if you notice the passage, you will notice that following that statement is a list of results: speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, giving thanks, submitting. Back in verse 5 it says, "They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” So, we're after the Spirit. Let Him give me the wisdom and strength to prevail over trials and temptations. When the Spirit of God is at work in your life, then you will appraise things the way God does. It's a fact that we are doing it. They're woofing on us, folks. But you can get angry about that. You say, "Why, John? It is our job to plant the seeds but God harvests them. But, when the Spirit comes in, all of that changes. Let's look at the other side, the pattern. You can look at salvation from the side of God and His sovereignty, or the side of man and his behavior. You can't say, "Well, I just can't overcome, I just can't." You're not even a Christian so why would you want to act like that? It is powerful in a believer. Let your Holy Spirit empower me to live victoriously on earth. You owe me one, Philemon. The Spirit frees us from sin and death. I'll give you a little test, see how you're doing. It is an exhortation that if we're killing the flesh at all, we should be killing the flesh over all. Get a good understanding of what you're like. 12 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over … You're going to find that that fleshes itself out in your good and godly and holy behavior. "Now I Paul," he says, "myself, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence," that is in my person when I'm with you, "am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you." All scripture provided is in the NKJV. The rest of the world will never be able to overcome their human corruption. And it's an old book; in fact it was written in 1656. Chapter 2, "If there is therefore any consolation in Christ, if therefore any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit," and there's some more privileges, "if any tender mercies, if any compassions, then you fulfill my joy that you be like minded.". Psalm 119:136, he said this, he said: "Rivers of waters run down my eyes because they keep not Thy law." And it just comes down the line till finally, as I read yesterday, 18 adolescents kill themselves every day in our country. Romans 8:26-27 – "And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. Yes, he will have lapses. Mighty, powerful weapons that God has given us; and of course, the obvious implication there is that the weapons come by the power of the Holy Spirit. So, Paul is making a powerful point. And I don't know if we even understand that. He's saying, look, I'm no superhuman. Verse 12 says, "Therefore, brethren, we are debtors." And what it meant was they were dominated by that one thing. And then as you go to God in prayer, it becomes a source of your strength because you go, it says in Hebrews, and you find help in time of need and you go to the Lord and you say, "Lord, I'm having a struggle with this thing." You see, this is a great truth. Now go back to Romans 8, one final point. Or are you one of those like the Jews in Malachi's day who say, “what a weariness it is.". And so many of us never search out the poison in our lives. It's a word of love, it's a word of affection, it's a word of warmth, it's a word of sympathy. It's been republished many, many times. But you know, as you look at your life and you can see that God has given you victory and you have seen the decreasing frequency of those sins. I mean, how...you... all these things you get out of the Bible. And if that news doesn't thrill your soul, then you're cold and you've lost the warm and thankful heart of praise. You can say to yourself, "Boy, I want to be careful how I react here. Recognize that it's there. There must be a saturation of the life so that like a computer, whenever your buttons are pressed, your involuntary responses are godly. All rights reserved. But when someone becomes a Christian through putting their faith in Jesus, the Holy Spirit enters that person and begins to lovingly convict them of sin. They want to feel better, so they feel better by being moral. Only God has the capability to fill our life with song. And when He asks us to kill sin, He says in verse 13, through the Spirit. It is a very practical exhortation. A life empowered by the invisible Holy Spirit is evidenced by His visible fruit (Gal. It is that complex of sinful desires and motives and affections and principles and purposes. And the people of victory are the brethren. Can you take it or leave it when it comes to worship? Holy Spirit empowers you for good works The Holy Spirit empowered Jesus to do good works, He was anointed and He went about doing good – Acts 10:38. You know nothing to the flesh. You've been made a new creation. It doesn't exclude our mind and our feelings, that's all a part of it. Wherever the Holy Spirit is there's power. We learned that back in chapter 7, didn't we? And back to Romans 7 again. He finds a power within him that holds him back and it's summed up at the end of verse 25. You see the individual who habitually, present tense, lives under the dominion of the evil sin nature is unsaved and spiritually dead. Tremendous, "For if you live after the flesh you shall die." Holiness Comes from the Holy Spirit. First of all, we are not to live after the flesh. But he goes all the way down, he says: "Oh, I'm so glad that I'm found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, but that which is the faith...through the faith of Christ," and so forth. Pretty basic stuff. It's not a reckoning of death. Ephesians 2:10. And he says this on one page, and he speaks to those who are pastors. That's the idea. Verse 18, Paul says, "I know that in me," that is in my flesh, "dwells no good thing. And so, as I say over and over again, in Scripture there's a strong message regarding the power of the Spirit. You have chapter 1, great privilege, marvelous privilege. For example, in verse 18 you have the wives. It's one thing to control your voluntary responses, right? That isn't true. For the Spirit [] teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. And so, we become pleasing to God. What does he mean by that? So, you're not a debtor to live after the flesh. After Julius Caesar was murdered, Antonius brought forth his coat, which was all bloody and cut from all the knives that had plunged into his body, and he laid that coat before the people and he said, “Look, here you have the emperor's coat thus bloody and torn." And again, in the gospel record in Luke chapter 1, it says in verse 35, the announcement came to Mary, "The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee." And we must be about this business. Answer: In John 16:8, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit: “When [the Spirit] comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment” (ESV).In this verse, we see a three-fold ministry the Spirit will perform in relation to the unsaved world. He was set on God. And that is so incomprehensible and so marvelous a truth that the apostle Paul does not just leave us with that truth, but he marches us through the eighth chapter of Romans, which tells us why that truth is indeed a truth. Only the brethren know the rising above the corruption of the flesh. Your flesh? And that is again illustrated, turn with me — one more passage comes to mind — Galatians 5 and you notice verse 17, "The flesh lusts against the Spirit, the Spirit against the flesh. If you belong to Christ, kill off that stuff, he says. Is it your highest joy? You know what Haggai the prophet said in chapter 1 a couple of times? In other words, the Holy Spirit was sent to remind us about Christ and empower us to live in light of the gospel. I mean, you could beat the stuff in the head to death, you think, and it will pop right up again. Now, let's follow the plan for victory. So when you remember that sin killed the Lord Jesus Christ, would you remember to avenge against sin and kill sin that killed the Savior? He is saying, yes I believe I'm saved by grace but I also know that everything in my being wants to pursue that with all my heart. 1 Corinthians 2:10 - But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. You knock off some of the big sins, you know. He says you owe nothing to the flesh, nothing at all. The best way I found to illustrate it is the word plro, used for "filling" here, is used very often in the gospels to talk about different kinds of reactions and attitude. He's already dead. When the Holy Spirit was moving and working in marvelous ways in the eighth chapter of Acts, Simon Magus came along and what he saw was power and he wanted to buy that power, power being synonymous with the ministry of the Spirit of God, power to speak the message of God and power to overcome the flesh. We're in debt, my friend. We will never be punished for our sin. But verse 16 says that a person is sanctified by the Holy Spirit, not just by the preaching of the gospel. Yes, I'm in this human body. He says since you have put off the old man; the old man was our former life. No other argument is as convincing as the experience of victory over sin. Whatever controls your mind is going to control your behavior. He says I do not walk after the flesh. Anything that empowers us TO BE better than we can be in our own strength should be … And as I got into it, it took me all the way back through the whole epistle. 27 But you have received the Holy Spirit, [] and he lives within you, so you don’t need anyone to teach you what is true. But he knows that's the bent of his life and there are times when he's interrupted in that pursuit by his flesh. You not only take it in, you meditate on it. They said they're all giants and we're grasshoppers. Don't kid yourself; the battle will go on as long as you live. It means you meditate. And with the Spirit of God came the power of God, mighty enough to pull down strongholds, to tear down every high thing that exalts itself against God and to bring you into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Oh, I grant you, there will be lapses of bad behavior, won't there? It's slow. You know what that means? It's so wonderful, you know, to be aware of the fact as Christians that we possess the Spirit of God. You will never in this world get out of Romans chapter 7 but you can know victory. Did you understand that? I read the Bible and I don't get it either. If you want to get real practical, if you want to live a Spirit-filled life, don't look for some ecstatic experience; simply get your life under the control of the Word of God. And what I owe Him is not to live after the flesh that He delivered me out of but after the Spirit into whom He placed me. So don't let anybody drop any big spiritual secrets on you and tell you they've arrived because they haven't. We also saw that the Spirit sanctifies us. Then he says, "His power now unto him is able to do exceeding abundantly." Now, just to make a little mental note somewhere along in there, your theological file, the Spirit is almost synonymous with power. First is be aware of the sin in your life; second, have a heart fixed on God. He's going to spend himself pursuing the things of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit will lead and empower us in a development to learn obedience to the Word of God in our sufferings, and be led to perfection, just as Jesus was. And he was trying to get Philemon to take back Onesimus, this wayward slave that had now become a Christian. It's a battle. This is why the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is so important for believers! Now you spend the rest of your life trying to kill off sin. No matter how righteous you are, no matter how long you've been a Christian, you're going to see some sin spurting its way through the righteous cracks: anger, bitter words, unkind thoughts, criticism, thinking you're better than someone else, self-conceit, lack of understanding, impatience, weak prayers, unfaithful in the study of the Word of God, unfaithful in coming to join with the people of God to worship, a heart that doesn't know worship. Humanness cannot defeat humanness. Only He is the one who can save us and redeem us. In other words, there's almost an equation there: Power, the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit, power. And to live after the flesh is to be ruled by that complex, to be guided by that complex. So, these two verses then become a demonstration to us of the call of God upon us to practically get about the business of killing sin in our lives. Now notice it says that you must kill the deeds of the body. The Spirit empowers us for victory over the flesh. And you find the same thing in Ephesians. In Romans 15:19, "Through mighty signs and wonders by the power of the Spirit of God." I find no ability to overcome sin. Once the enemies realized they wouldn’t confront Jesus’s wisdom, they became quiet and let the water find its course. "God forbid.” Shall we sin that grace may abound? Number one: Recognize the presence of sin in your flesh. You remember when Paul wrote a letter to Philemon? Only He is the one who can save us and redeem us. 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