Walking in the Spirit, Part 10

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Walking in the Spirit, Part 10

October 24, 1979 • Pastor Star R. Scott

"Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be" (Romans 8:7). Now, that's a powerful sentence. The word "enmity" is the exact opposite of agape. We find out that the carnal mind, under the dictates of the flesh, under the man of sin, is at total enmity with God. It's a hatred of the things of God. First Corinthians says that the carnal mind can't receive the things of God because they're what? Spiritually discerned. You can only understand them with a mind that's being directed by the Spirit. Remember, the mind is neutral. Okay? The mind is really neutral. You have the carnal mind and you have the spiritual mind; right? So the mind is neutral and it'll go whichever way it's influenced by the strongest force. If we're, then, moving in the area of carnal activities, it's a very simple thing to remedy. All you have to do is draw back and make a quality decision to spend more time in spiritual matters than you do in carnal matters. That's all. We seem to think that it takes some kind of great formula that has to be established and it's going to take at least twenty-five years of dedication and repentance and prayer and fasting, when all it takes is a quality decision to say, "Wait a minute. I'm not going this way anymore." The spirit-man is alive. He's down there ready for you to go that direction anytime; amen? He's there speaking out and saying, "Let's go. This is the way we're supposed to go." You have to allow that spiritual man to be heard clearly in the mind, the quality decision made in your heart, the bringing of the mind into subjection, the feeding of the inner man with the Word of God and, then, you are going to stand incorruptible. This is what we want to deal with a little bit tonight.

Romans, Chapter 12, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies…" Okay now, that's important here because we're talking about the carnal mind. The body, the flesh, is trying to put itself in control over your mind, your will factor, "…that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice." It's not going to do God any good dead; amen? You have to yield your members as instruments unto righteousness. It's not going to do God any good laying on slab somewhere. So, we're not to kill the body; we're to present it as a living sacrifice, a sacrifice given up to be controlled by the Spirit, the renewed Spirt, under the auspices of the Holy Spirit. "Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your [spiritual] service. And be not conformed to this [world's system] but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Now, what is the perfect will of God? Okay...

Walking in the Spirit, Part 1

July 18, 1979 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's begin reading in Galatians 5:13: "For, brethren, you've been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh; but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of another. This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would. But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law." Okay, then look over here at verse 24, same chapter. "And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." Father, we come, and we ask you tonight that You would open Your Word before us. That the reality of who we are in Christ would rise up fresh before us and that it would rise up big on the inside of us and that we would see ourselves tonight, Lord, as You see us. That we would see ourselves tonight, Lord, as You created us and Father, we ask as this revelation becomes real, that we would walk in the power of it and that Your glory would be seen in us. And Father, we'll give You all the glory for it in Jesus name, amen. Praise God...

Walking in the Spirit, Part 2

August 8, 1979 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's turn to the book of John, and continue our study on living in the Spirit. We spent a couple of weeks of introduction primarily showing you the sin in man. Man is a spirit; he has a soul; he lives in a body. We hit very briefly on some of the aspects of living in the flesh. We have touched briefly on some of the areas of spirit, and what we will do now that we have introduced the fact that man is a trinity, is to take each of these areas in detail and share from the Word of God how you are created, and how you are supposed to function spiritually, so that you can live victoriously every day of your life. How many of you would like to live without ever sinning again in your life? Would you? It's possible; it's been provided for us through the redemptive work of Jesus, and we are capable of walking sinless as we saturate ourselves with the Word of God. This is what we want to discuss. Turn to John's Gospel, the fourth chapter. We will start this evening dealing with the spiritman, something we must understand before we can realize the magnitude of the new birth. So we will start the study right from the beginning: understanding what it means to be truly born again. How many of you have been born again? Okay. We will find out something in our study tonight. How many of you have been bornagain for 30 years? Okay, we have a few. Has anybody here been bornagain for 35 years? Okay, we have got a couple there (you are going to tell on yourselves in a bit, ladies). Forty years? That got them; they probably have been, but they are not going to admit it. Thirty-five was the maximum. Thirtyfive years after being born again, these ladies are just beginning to find out what the new birth is really about. Would you say that's so, Maxine, after all of these years of knowing that you were born again, that you were going to heaven? Father is beginning to reveal to people like this what it means to be a spiritual being and how to live through your spirit victoriously, bringing your soul and your body into perfect discipline. You might have been saved for 35 years, 50 years, or 70 years, without knowing what it means to be born again. That's where we will start; so turn to John's Gospel, Chapter 4, verse 24, and let's pick it up right here: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him," those who will commune with Him, "must worship Him in spirit and in truth." Okay, now; here is something that is very simple, and yet we must realize this: God is (what?) Spirit. God is a Spirit. How are you going to worship Him? In spirit...

Walking in the Spirit, Part 3

August 15, 1979 • Pastor Star R. Scott

Let's turn to the Gospel of John this evening. John's Gospel. We want to use the Scripture that we opened with last week. As long as we're dealing in the area of studying the spirit of man, that man is, in fact, a spirit, that he has a soul, he's living inside a body, we're going to be using this particular verse of Scripture. And in John's Gospel, the fourth chapter, verse 24, the Scripture says this, "God is a spirit." God is a spirit. Now, man was created in the image of God; wasn't he? And God is a spirit. So, man was created in His very image, he was created a human being. He was created a spirit being that had a soul and abides inside a physical body. God is a spirit, and those "that worship Him must worship Him"-how? "In spirit and in truth." Okay, so, let's say it together. "God is a spirit: they that worship Him, must worship Him in spirit and in truth." There's only one way, then, that we're going to worship God. How is it? "In spirit and in truth." There is no other way. You can't worship God out of your mind. You can't worship God with your body. You must worship God from the spiritual being that you are, and the only way to effectively worship God is for the Word of God to find its place in your spirit, and the Word of God will come forth through your spirit and bring worship to God. It's the only way that it can be done. It can't be done intellectually. It can't be done any way in the fleshly realm. Those that worship God "must worship Him in spirit and in truth." Now, that does away with the thinking that the way to tell whether God is in this place or not is whether you get goosebumps. Amen? Goosebumps don't have anything to do with worshiping God. Amen! It does away with the idea that you have to have great oratorical dissertations/sermons that come forth and tickle the ears of men, because you can't worship God in the soulical realm. You can't worship God from your mind...