If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. This message was given on April 6, 2014 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info visit:www.newcitychurch.ca.

1. Keeping In Step with the Spirit
!
~ Galatians 5:16-25 ~

2. Peter Pan: The Boy Who Refused to Grow Up

3. “Grow in the grace and
knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.”
~ The Apostle Peter
in 2 Peter 3:18

4. How do we
GROW
spiritually? ?

5. “The Christian way is different: harder, and
easier. Christ says, “Give me all! I don’t
want so much of your time, so much of
your talents and money, and so much of
your work. I want you. I have not come to
torment your natural self, but to kill it. No
half measures are any good….

6. Hand over the whole natural self, all the
desires you think innocent as well as
the ones you think wicked—the whole
outfit. I will give you a new self instead.
In fact, I will give you myself.
“ ~ CS Lewis
Mere Christianity

7. Keeping in Step with the Spirit
to Live the Kind of Life
Jesus Died to Give Us

8. Keeping In Step with the Spirit
!
~ Galatians 5:16-25 ~

9. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and
Galatians 5:16
you will not gratify the desires of
the flesh….

10. “…who walk not
according to the
flesh but according
to the Spirit.”
~ The Apostle Paul in
Romans 8:4

11. “…walk in a manner
worthy of the Lord,
fully pleasing to him,
bearing fruit in
every good work and
increasing in the
knowledge of God.”
~ The Apostle Paul in
Colossians 1:10

12. For the desires of the flesh are
Galatians 5:17
against the desires of the Spirit,
and the desires of the Spirit are
against the flesh, for these are
opposed to each other, to keep you
from doing the things you want to
do…

13. But if you are led by the Spirit, you
Galatians 5:18
are not under the law….

14. “…just as Christ
was raised from
the dead by the
glory of the
Father, we too
might walk in
newness of life.” ~ The Apostle Paul
in Romans 6:4

15. Now the works of the flesh are
Galatians 5:19-21
evident: sexual immorality, impurity,
sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity,
strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries,
dissensions, divisions, envy, drunken-
ness, orgies, and things like these.

16. I warn you, as I warned you before,
Galatians 5:19-21
that those who do such things will
not inherit the kingdom of God….

17. But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
Galatians 5:22-23
joy, peace, patience, kindness, good-
ness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-
control; against such things there is
no law….

18. And those who belong to Christ
Galatians 5:24
Jesus have crucified the flesh with
with its passions and desires….

19. ~ The Apostle Paul in
Romans 6:11
“Consider yourself
dead to sin and
alive to God
in Christ Jesus.”

20. If we live by the Spirit, let us also
Galatians 5:25
keep in step with the Spirit.

21. “Mortification”

22. “Mortification”
&
“Vivification”

23. If we live by the Spirit,
let us also
keep in step with the Spirit.
Main Idea

24. Root yourself deeply
in the Gospel.
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25. ~ The Apostle Paul in
Colossians 2:6-7
“Therefore, as you received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so
walk in him, rooted and
built up in him and
established in the faith, just
as you were taught,
abounding in thanksgiving.”

27. “Spiritual growth is not
about moving on from
where we began—the
gospel. It’s about
growing deeper in
the gospel. Or rather,
getting the gospel
deeper into us.”

28. “The gospel does not
command us to do anything
in order to obtain life, but
bids us live by that which
another has done; and the
knowledge of its life-giving
truth is not labour but rest—
rest of soul—rest which is
the root of all true labour…;
~ Horatius Bonar
1808-1889

29. “…for in receiving Christ we
do not work in order to rest,
but we rest in order to work.
In believing, we cease to
work for pardon, in order
that we may work from it…; ~ Horatius Bonar
1808-1889

30. “…and what incentive to
work, as well as joy in
working, can be greater
than an ascertained and
realized forgiveness?”
~ Horatius Bonar
1808-1889

31. Cultivate the
fruit of the Spirit
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32. “Pursue righteousness,
godliness, faith, love,
steadfastness,
gentleness.”
~ The Apostle Paul
in 1 Timothy 6:11

33. “So flee youthful
passions and pursue
righteousness, faith,
love, and peace, along
with those who call on
the Lord from a pure
heart.”
~ The Apostle Paul in
2 Timothy 2:22

34. Bishop JC Ryle
1816-1900
When I speak of growth
in grace I only mean
increase in the degree,
size, strength, vigor and
power of the graces
which the Holy Spirit
plants in a believer’s
heart….

35. Bishop JC Ryle
1816-1900
When I speak of a man
growing in grace, I mean
simply this—that his sense
of sin is becoming deeper,
his faith stronger, his hope
brighter, his love more
extensive, his spiritual-
mindedness more marked.

36. Bishop JC Ryle
1816-1900
He feels more of the
power of godliness in his
own heart. He manifests
more of it in his life. He is
going on from strength to
strength, from faith to
faith, and from grace to
grace.

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