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Being Spiritually Transformed

Month 9| week 2: PREPARE

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WELCOME!

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Do You?

Let’s Play!

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Digging deeper

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how would it have helped you to be able to use motions or actions, rather than just words?

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What does living in the spirit look like?

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Living a Spirit-empowered life means that we live a life of faith trusting that the Spirit will guide us to the truth in all things. It will help us be sensitive to the needs of others, to serve other people well and to care as God would. When you live by the Spirit, you recognize that you don’t need to be anxious or worried about your circumstances because your life rests upon God’s solid foundation.

The first Christians lived a Spirit empowered life with the Holy Spirit as a guide or advocate in their life. The Spirit guided them to live lives in community with one another, sharing their possessions, caring for one another, seeking the welfare of others over their own, and making sure that both their actions and words exemplified those of Jesus. Similarly, the Holy Spirit guides us to live out the truths of Jesus in our lives today.

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Do we see this type of community in our society today?

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The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)

As we hear these verses, we realize how accurate they are even today. We are too familiar with the devastation and brokenness of others and ourselves living as members of the “kingdom of me.” Racism, violence, isolation, hopelessness, and hatred are just the visible parts of a life lived for ourselves. Most of us agree that this way of life leads to death.

But Jesus offers us a way to experience God’s Kingdom, not just when this life is over but every day. Let’s read what the Apostle Paul describes in Galatians 5:23-26 about the evidence of this right-side-up Kingdom.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Galatians 5:23-26

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. (Galatians 5:23-26)

When our life is transformed by living under God’s rule, we begin to live in a new way. Instead of doing whatever we want, we allow the Holy Spirit’s work in our life to guide us to the truths of Scripture. These truths are found throughout the Bible. A simple way we can begin living as God desires is to exemplify the characteristics that are found in Galatians 5:23-26. These characteristics of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control will allow us to live in such a way that others will see Jesus working through our words and actions.

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So what…

How does the Spirit lead us into a life that reflects God’s Kingdom rather than the ways of the world?

Tool time

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Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

Romans 12:1

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How would you respond?

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How would you respond?

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How would you respond?

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Key idea

Living a Spirit-led life will grow our faith as we are internally transformed.

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Gospel tool

How can God use us and our stories to share His good news?

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who can i invite this week?

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Let’s pray

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Thanks

See you next time!