Gal 5:13-18 "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against 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. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law."
"God in redemption finds us all more or less disintegrated personalities. Disintegration and loss of rational control are aspects of our sinful fallen state. Trying to play God to ourselves, we are largely out of control of ourselves and out of touch with ourselves, or at least with the great deal of ourselves, including most of what is central to our real selves. But God's gracious purpose is to bring us into reconciled relationship with himself, through Christ, and through the outworking of that relationship to reintegrate us and make us whole beings again.
The relationship itself is restored once for all through what Luther called the "wonderful exchange" whereby Christ was made sin for us and we in consequence are made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) Justified and adopted into God's family through faith in Christ, Christians are immediately and eternally secure: nothing can sever them from the love of the Father and the Son. (Romans 8:32-39) But the work of recreating us as psychophysical beings on whom Christ's image is stamped... is not the work of a moment. Rather it is a lifelong process of growth and transformation." J. I. Packer
Keep in Step with the Spirit p. 222,223 Fleming H. Revell Company 1984
Gal 5:19-25 "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."
"God in redemption finds us all more or less disintegrated personalities. Disintegration and loss of rational control are aspects of our sinful fallen state. Trying to play God to ourselves, we are largely out of control of ourselves and out of touch with ourselves, or at least with the great deal of ourselves, including most of what is central to our real selves. But God's gracious purpose is to bring us into reconciled relationship with himself, through Christ, and through the outworking of that relationship to reintegrate us and make us whole beings again.
The relationship itself is restored once for all through what Luther called the "wonderful exchange" whereby Christ was made sin for us and we in consequence are made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) Justified and adopted into God's family through faith in Christ, Christians are immediately and eternally secure: nothing can sever them from the love of the Father and the Son. (Romans 8:32-39) But the work of recreating us as psychophysical beings on whom Christ's image is stamped... is not the work of a moment. Rather it is a lifelong process of growth and transformation." J. I. Packer
Keep in Step with the Spirit p. 222,223 Fleming H. Revell Company 1984
Gal 5:19-25 "Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."
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