Sunday Morning sermon August 16, 2015 at the Heritage Addition church of Christ located in Booneville, AR.

1. Led by the Spirit
Lesson Text:
Galatians 5:16-26
Heritage Addition church of Christ
by Jim Bradshaw
Sunday Morning, August 16, 2015

2. Ever played follow the leader

3. Nothing
Miraculous

4. 1Co 13:8-13 NKJV Love never fails. But whether there are
prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they
will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
(9) For we know in part and we prophesy in part. (10) But
when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in
part will be done away. (11) When I was a child, I spoke as
a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when
I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) For now
we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know
in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (13)
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest
of these is love.
Nothing Miraculous

5. Nothing
Miraculous
According to Acts 8, post resurrection you need an apostle!!!

6. Works of the flesh are Well-Known
and Plain to see
They are still well-known, but they
are not reviled today
1. Fornication – unlawful sexual union of any kind. It is more
specific than sexual immorality. Adultery is fornication
involving at least one who is married to another.
2. Uncleanness – impure, immoral, corrupt, lust driven.
3. Lewdness – (KJV Lasciviousness) Looseness, irregular
indulgence of animal desires, wantonness, lustfulness.
Also, Licentiousness which is excessive indulgence of
liberty, lewdness given to the unlawful indugence of lust.
(Today we use the terms that something is “sexy” or “hot.”)

7. Works of the flesh are Well-Known
and Plain to see
They are still well-known, but they
are not reviled today
4. Idolatry – (eidōlolatreia) lit. to worship what you know by
seeing; can be excessive attachment or veneration for
anything that borders on adoration.
5. Sorcery – (pharmakeia) our English word Pharmacy. The
use of drugs for spells, poisoning, altering mind for
deception in sorcery. (Taking drugs to alter the mind is a
work of the flesh!)
6. Hatred – (ESV enmity) A deep seated hatred, opposite of
love, it is the quality of being an enemy.

8. Works of the flesh are Well-Known
and Plain to see
They are still well-known, but they
are not reviled today
7. Contentions – (ESV strife) It is the expression of enmity.
8. Jealousies – (zēlos) (KJV emulations) Here it is in a
negative sense meaning a zealous jealousy. It is a desire to
have what another has.
9. Outbursts of wrath – an anger that boils over.
10.Selfish ambitions – (eritheia) (KJV strife, ESV rivalries,
ASV factions, NASB disputes) The root of the word means
seeking to win followers. It denotes an electioneering or
making secret plots or schemes for office or part making
arising from selfish ambition.

9. Works of the flesh are Well-Known
and Plain to see
They are still well-known, but they
are not reviled today
11.Dissensions – (KJV seditions) literally standing apart,
division, wanting to be separate.
12.Heresies – (hairesis) ASV parties, ESV divisions; A body
of men following their own tenants (sects – Pharisees,
Sadducess etc.) By definition all denominations are
heresies.
13.Envy – displeasure at the prospering of others. Unlike
jealousy a desire to deprive another of what he has.

10. Works of the flesh are Well-Known
and Plain to see
They are still well-known, but they
are not reviled today
14.Murders – Omitted here from what is considered the best
manuscripts, but definitely a work of the flesh, Rev. 21:8
15.Drunkenness – intoxication.
16.Revelries – carousing; likely a consequence of
drunkenness.

11. Consequence for Practicing the
Works of the Flesh
Gal 5:19-21 NKJV Now the works of the flesh are evident,
which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, (20)
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of
wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, (21) envy,
murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell
you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those
who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23

12. 1Co 6:9-11 NKJV Do you not know that the unrighteous
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
homosexuals, nor sodomites, (10) nor thieves, nor covetous,
nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
kingdom of God. (11) And such were some of you. But you
were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified
in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
But We have GOOD
NEWS!!!

13. We Must Walk According to the Spirit
to be led by the Spirit
Walk – (peripateō) lit. to walk about. It is to conduct one’s self.
Joh 16:13 NKJV However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has
come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak
on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak;
and He will tell you things to come.
Eph. 6:17 …sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God
Joh 17:17 NKJV Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is
truth.

14. We Must Walk According to the Spirit
to be led by the Spirit
When we are led by the Spirit we do not
fulfill the lust of the Flesh
Fulfill – to carry out into full operation.
Jas 1:15 NKJV Then, when desire has conceived, it gives
birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
Gal. 5:17: The flesh continually (PAI) desires or lusts against
or contrary to the Spirit.

15. We Must Walk According to the Spirit
to be led by the Spirit
When we are led by the Spirit, we are not under the Law
Being under the Law we are cursed, Gal. 3:10.
Gal 5:5 NKJV For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the
hope of righteousness by faith.
Gal 3:13 NKJV Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the
law, having become a curse for us (for it is written,
"CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE"),

16. We must live by the
Gal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23)
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
1. Love – (agapē) a selfless love. God’s love to man, John
3:16.
2. Joy – The emotion caused by the expectation of good.
3. Peace – The contrast to outbursts of wrath.
4. Longsuffering – lit. long to temper or patient.
5. Kindness – (KJV gentleness) good hearted basically
moral goodness.

17. We must live by the
Gal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23)
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
6. Goodness – uprightness of heart and life (good in
character).
7. Faithfulness – the character of one who can be relied
upon.

18. We must live by the
Gal 5:22-23 NKJV But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23)
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
8. Gentleness – Better meekness, strength under control,
humble, submissive to Divine will.
9. Self-control – the virtue of one who masters his desires
and passions, especially his sensual appetites.

19. Those who are Christ’s
Gal 5:24 NKJV And those who are Christ's have crucified
the flesh with its passions and desires.
Gal 2:20 KJV I am crucified (RPI) with Christ: nevertheless
I live (PAI); yet not I, but Christ liveth (PAI) in me: and the
life which I now live (PAI) in the flesh I live by the faith of
the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

20. Those who are Christ’s
Col 2:11-13 NKJV In Him you were also circumcised with
the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body
of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, (12)
buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised
with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised
Him from the dead. (13) And you, being dead in your
trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made
alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,

21. Don’t Fall
Gal 5:26 NKJV Let us not become conceited, provoking
one another, envying one another.
1Co 10:12 NKJV Therefore let him who thinks he stands
take heed lest he fall.