Don’t forget when you’re done taking notes to click the “email” button at the bottom to save your message notes and email them to yourself!
Introduction:
Food, self-image, money, lust, substances, social media, procrastination, worry, laziness, and the list goes on! We all struggle with temptation that is competing to pull us away from worshipping God. However, there is a way to resist temptation. It is not a sin to be tempted, but how you handle temptation sets the course for your true worship of God. God wants you to resist and win over temptation. He has provided ways for you to escape it.
“Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him. 13No one undergoing a trial should say, ‘I am being tempted by God,’ since God is not tempted by evil, and he himself doesn’t tempt anyone. 14But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire. 15Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death. 16Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.” —James 1:12-16
“No temptation has come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful; he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to bear it.” —1 Corinthians 10:13
Text: Galatians 5:16-26 (New Testament, CSB)
Today’s Takeaway: The Holy Spirit help us live like Jesus
“‘And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,” —Luke 4:1 (KJV)
RESIST WEEK #3: Resisting Temptation through the Holy Spirit
I. WALKING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT GUARANTEES
(5:16)
A. The
“Jesus replied, ‘Truly I tell you, unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.’ 4’How can anyone be born when he is old?’ Nicodemus asked him. ‘Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?’ 5Jesus answered, ‘Truly I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again. 8The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” —John 3:3-8
“Don’t you yourselves know that you are God’s temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?” —1 Corinthians 3:16
“And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit:” —Ephesians 5:18
B. The
“You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.” —1 John 4:4
II. WALKING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT PRODUCES
(5:17-23)
A. The
The Christian has two natures that are at odds with one another. They are the old nature (
Old Nature #1: Loves
New Nature #1: Loves
Old Nature #2:
New Nature #2:
Old Nature #3: Desires
New Nature #3: Desires
Old Nature #4:
New Nature #4:
“I only want to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so foolish? After beginning by the Spirit, are you now finishing by the flesh?” —Galatians 3:2-3
Don’t trade the mission for the moments!
B. The
The
“Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous never changes.” —Proverbs 13:15
The
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” —John 10:10 (KJV)
III. WALKING IN THE HOLY SPIRIT REQUIRES
(5:24-26)
A. The conscious
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?” —Luke 11:13
B. The complete
“And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by him for the day of redemption.” —Ephesians 4:30
C. The continual
“Quench not the Spirit.” —1 Thessalonians 5:19 (KJV)
CONCLUSION: Will you walk in the Holy Spirit and resist temptation?
“…the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds.” —2 Corinthians 10:4
DEEP DIVE QUESTIONS:
- Read 1 John 4:4. How does this verse provide comfort and encouragement to the followers of Jesus Christ?
- Review the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23. Contrast this list with the characteristics of our current culture.
- How can we live out the fruit of the Spirit this week?
- How do we grieve the Holy Spirit? How do we tap into the power of the Holy Spirit?