True Freedom

How to live Truly Free:

Let the Holy Spirit guide your life 

1.Do not follow your sarx (v19-21. Message Paraphrase)

“It is obvious what kind of life develops out of trying to get your own way all the time: repetitive, loveless, cheap sex; a stinking accumulation of mental and emotional garbage; frenzied and joyless grabs for happiness; trinket gods; magic-show religion; paranoid loneliness; cutthroat competition; all-consuming-yet-never-satisfied wants; a brutal temper; an impotence to love or be loved; divided homes and divided lives; small-minded and lopsided pursuits; the vicious habit of depersonalizing everyone into a rival; uncontrolled and uncontrollable addictions; ugly parodies of community. I could go on.”

“Anyone who lives that sort of life will not inherit the kingdom of God” v21b

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“The main work of life is to come out of ourselves, out of the little dark prison we're all born in”

- “Spiritual direction”, C.S. Lewis letters

2.Walk in the Spirit v.22

22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,23gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!”

- As we are filled with the Spirit, the lies are pushed out and the truth sinks down into our lives.

- The result is freedom

3.Feed your soul, Starve your Sarx

- Fasting

- Confession