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i read your post many times, it is strange and incomprehensible.Please read carefully again the post because your answer is inside the post.
God bless you!
i read your post many times, it is strange and incomprehensible.
what are examples of walking in the spirit.
"What are examples of walking in the Spirit?"
This is not just a command it’s a promise. When we walk in the Spirit, the power of sin is broken in our lives.“Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
(Galatians 5:16)
Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).
When you do that, that’s not your flesh that’s the Spirit at work in you.
Patience is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22).
Your old self might lash out, but the Spirit leads you to be slow to anger (James 1:19).
Romans 8:14 says, “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.”
The Spirit nudges us to pray, to intercede, to help someone in need.
Jesus, full of the Spirit, humbled Himself and washed the feet of His disciples (John 13:12–17).
When we walk humbly with others, preferring them above ourselves, it is evidence of walking in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:24 says, “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
This is not a one-time event. It’s daily surrender.
He fulfilled the righteous requirements of the Law perfectly. And now, by His Spirit, He enables us to live out that righteousness not by following a list of rules, but by following His Spirit. That’s why Paul says:“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.”
(Matthew 5:17)
Jesus ended the Law as a system of external commandments by fulfilling it. Now, He writes the Law on our hearts (Hebrews 10:16), and we live it out by walking in His Spirit.“...the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
(Romans 8:4)
Ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand. Stay in the Word. Pray. Keep seeking. God rewards those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).“When He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth.” (John 16:13)
Jesus fulfill the law by being humble. Is this what you're saying Pastor?Dear Brother in Christ,
Thank you for taking the time to read the post multiple times your honesty and hunger to understand are encouraging signs of someone truly seeking truth. I genuinely appreciate your transparency in saying "it is strange and incomprehensible." That’s okay! Sometimes, spiritual truths can initially seem confusing, especially when they challenge our traditions or stretch our understanding (1 Corinthians 2:14).
You also asked a powerful and important question:
Let’s go there together step by step and may the Word of God bring clarity.
What Does “Walking in the Spirit” Mean?
To “walk in the Spirit” simply means to live moment by moment in dependence on the Holy Spirit allowing Him to guide your thoughts, choices, and behaviors. It is the opposite of walking in the flesh, which is following our sinful nature.
Paul writes clearly:
This is not just a command it’s a promise. When we walk in the Spirit, the power of sin is broken in our lives.
Examples of Walking in the Spirit
Here are some everyday examples to help make it practical:
1. Choosing to forgive when you want revenge.
2. Responding with patience when you’re provoked.
3. Being led to pray for someone in your heart without being told.
4. Living in humility instead of pride.
5. Crucifying your fleshly desires.
How Does This Connect to Jesus and the Law?
You mentioned the topic "How did Jesus end the Law without abolishing it?"
That’s key to understanding the role of the Spirit.
Jesus said:
He fulfilled the righteous requirements of the Law perfectly. And now, by His Spirit, He enables us to live out that righteousness not by following a list of rules, but by following His Spirit. That’s why Paul says:
Jesus ended the Law as a system of external commandments by fulfilling it. Now, He writes the Law on our hearts (Hebrews 10:16), and we live it out by walking in His Spirit.
Dear Brother,
Don’t be discouraged if it feels “strange” or “incomprehensible” at first. Even Jesus’ disciples didn’t understand everything right away. But Jesus said:
Ask the Holy Spirit to help you understand. Stay in the Word. Pray. Keep seeking. God rewards those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).
You’re not alone in this walk, we’re all growing, and I’m cheering you on in the Lord.
Let’s walk together not by might, not by power, but by His Spirit! (Zechariah 4:6)
In His grace,
Pastor Waris
Jesus fulfill the law by being humble. Is this what you're saying Pastor?
Psalm 149:4
For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
Psalm 25:9
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
Psalm 147:6
The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.
“For the Lord takes delight in His people; He crowns the humble with victory.” (Psalm 149:4)
“He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way.” (Psalm 25:9)
“The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.” (Psalm 147:6)
The Laws, just like God Himself, remain fixed against all evil and lawlessness
That will never change
God is and remains against all evil and lawlessness, regardless of any claims that He fulfilled anything.Instead, He fulfilled it
I'm not aware of any person becoming sinless because of what Jesus did either.What’s changed is the way we live it out
So then you agree with the eternal lake of fire for all evil and lawless people, right?I also do not buy into any stories that God is merciful to evil and lawlessness either. Quite the contrary. The bodies of all people die precisely because of sin.
God is and remains against all evil and lawlessness, regardless of any claims that He fulfilled anything.
Evil and lawlessness still exist and God in Christ still remains against all those things
Don't know how anyone can say that has been set aside because Jesus fulfilled anything
Perhaps you can justify Jesus now being for and in behalf of evil and lawlessness since He fulfilled the laws?
I'm not aware of any person becoming sinless because of what Jesus did either.
I also do not buy into any stories that God is merciful to evil and lawlessness either. Quite the contrary. The bodies of all people die precisely because of sin.
He didn't end the law, he fulfilled it.How did Jesus end the law without abolishing it?
Dominion is one thing. Eradication claims are just a common form of spiritual blindness or an outright lie. We all know full well and entirely that we think lawless evil thoughts, most often blindsided out of left field, out of nowhere, it hits. These are "reminders" of our truthful condition, no different than Paul getting a messenger of Satan, temptation, in his own flesh. 2 Cor. 12:7, Gal. 4:14But here’s the good news: while perfection awaits us in eternity, Christ’s work on the cross broke sin’s power over us now (Romans 6:14).
Dominion is one thing. Eradication claims are just a common form of spiritual blindness or an outright lie. We all know full well and entirely that we think lawless evil thoughts, most often blindsided out of left field, out of nowhere, it hits. These are "reminders" of our truthful condition, no different than Paul getting a messenger of Satan, temptation, in his own flesh. 2 Cor. 12:7, Gal. 4:14
There is no possible way for the evil that comes from within ALL of us to be legally obedient. It's not in the cards, nor was it ever.
That same evil within causes us to falsely justify ourselves and to condemn other people, the exact same sinners, to burn alive forever.
There is only one honest conclusion derived from the laws and that verdict is GUILTY. Romans 3:19
I think it is wonderful, marvelous, that God's Laws are against lawlessness and evil. Fantastic. I would expect no less. Within the laws are beautiful things, most often unseen, not even written, yet therein, plain as day once seen, 1 Cor. 9:9-10
Even if the conclusions are derogatory to me, personally. There is no use in lying hypocrisy about these matters
The matters I like to bring in view on these things is this:Yes, we still face attacks “out of left field,” as you said, but in Christ we no longer have to be slaves to those impulses.
The matters I like to bring in view on these things is this:
When we "picture" ourselves with the scriptures in mind, and we only heap upon ourselves "the blessings, the blessings" knowing very often and full well that the tempter is also in play in our own minds and hearts, we are trying to squeeze too much past the gatekeeper.
IF you think about it, God cursing the tempter in us is also a blessing.
Even the bad Words of God are technically in our behalves.
Jesus looking at Peter and rebuking Satan was a BLESSING to Peter, just as it would be for any of us. Those same rebukes apply to all of us because it's not just "me" or "you" standing in our own shoes
Satan is going to do what Satan does, regardless of our "attempts" to "do better."
You are right to question this world's religious system, and the doctrines and philosophies promoted therein. Of all the things Jesus could have warned about, Islam, Atheism, Buddhism, satanism, HE didn't mention them in the question posed to Him in Matt. 24 3. He warned them about "Many", who come in His Name, claiming the HE is truly the Christ, that would deceive "many".. Paul warned of the same thing. Men who "transform themselves" as "apostles of Christ."God is and remains against all evil and lawlessness, regardless of any claims that He fulfilled anything.
Evil and lawlessness still exist and God in Christ still remains against all those things
Don't know how anyone can say that has been set aside because Jesus fulfilled anything
Perhaps you can justify Jesus now being for and in behalf of evil and lawlessness since He fulfilled the laws?
I'm not aware of any person becoming sinless because of what Jesus did either.
I also do not buy into any stories that God is merciful to evil and lawlessness either. Quite the contrary. The bodies of all people die precisely because of sin.
You are right to question this world's religious system, and the doctrines and philosophies promoted therein. Of all the things Jesus could have warned about, Islam, Atheism, Buddhism, satanism, HE didn't mention them in the question posed to Him in Matt. 24 3. He warned them about "Many", who come in His Name, claiming the HE is truly the Christ, that would deceive "many".. Paul warned of the same thing. Men who "transform themselves" as "apostles of Christ."
I test only one way. Who is honest about the above and who is not. The number of honest folk is pretty slim pertaining to the above.I am a nobody, but I would share some things I come to understand since "coming out of" this world's religious system, and welcome you to test the spirit of the belief through the Holy Scriptures.
You are right to question this world's religious system, and the doctrines and philosophies promoted therein. Of all the things Jesus could have warned about, Islam, Atheism, Buddhism, satanism, HE didn't mention them in the question posed to Him in Matt. 24 3. He warned them about "Many", who come in His Name, claiming the HE is truly the Christ, that would deceive "many".. Paul warned of the same thing. Men who "transform themselves" as "apostles of Christ."
I am a nobody, but I would share some things I come to understand since "coming out of" this world's religious system, and welcome you to test the spirit of the belief through the Holy Scriptures.
One thing, it is man's tradition to Judge God's Judgments and Laws as worthy or unworthy of our respect. They have come to believe that they are qualified to judge one law as "Moral", and another as not. Was it "moral" for God to tell Adam and Eve that they could eat off these trees, not NOT EAT off those trees? Is it "moral" for God to esteem one day above another? And who are we to declare any part of God's Word "immoral" and therefore unworthy of our respect, or beneath our honor. Certainly those examples of faithful men given us in the Holy Scriptures, made no such Judgments on God or His Instruction in Righteousness. You are right to ponder and question popular religious philosophy regarding this tradition, in my view.
And concerning your statement "I'm not aware of any person becoming sinless because of what Jesus did either".
I look at the Christ's Redemption a little differently. Doesn't the Holy Scriptures teach that through Christ our sins are taken away?
Ps. 103: 11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. 12 As far as the east is from the west, so far "hath he removed our transgressions from us".
Ez. 18: 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
If God removes a Sin, is it not gone? Isn't that the whole point in the first place?
If God promised to "Remove my Sins", like HE did David's, "13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also "hath put away thy sin"; thou shalt not die.", is this not also MY Hope? That because of what Jesus did, I can become sinless?
Remember, it's God's Judgment that counts, in my view anyway.
Gen. 26: 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
"Who God has cleansed, let no man call common".
2 Peter 3: 13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
My 2 cents
Keep up the diligence.
I appreciate your expressions. It shows you've spent your time in the Word.
Some interesting observations that maybe you'll profit from:
Satan transforms into an angel of light. Doesn't mean Satan IS an angel of light. What it does mean is that Satan occupies the same seat as mankind. Look at Satan speaking from Peter's lips and being rebuked by Jesus. Think of Satan entering Judas. What we see in these pictures is Satan and devils in mankind. Just as Jesus said is a fact in Mark 4:15. Satan "follows after" where the Word is sown. Just as sure as night follows day.
Satan is the darkness "in mankind." In 2 Cor. 11 Paul sets up the above for his own personal disclosure of the reality of Mark 4:15 for himself, in 2 Cor. 12:7, showing there is a "messenger of Satan" in his own flesh. We shouldn't be startled at the disclosure or try to explain it away. Paul examples this fact in Gal. 4:14 showing again, "temptation" in his own flesh. Not hard to connect "temptation" to the "tempter."
We also know that Paul had evil present with him whenever he did good. Again, not hard to connect "evil" to the "tempter." Romans 7:21
We also know Paul did evil and had sin, Romans 7:17-20
We also know that we all "have sin," Romans 3:9, and sin is "of the devil." 1 John 3:8
We also know that evil thoughts defile us all. Mark 7:21-23
All of this leads to one very logical conclusion. There is a person and there is a tempter or one of his own with all of us. Unpleasant fact, but a fact nevertheless. IF this ever sinks in to anyone's mind, then how they read the scriptures will change dramatically. They'll no longer read of Adam, Eve, David, any prophet, any character in the entire Bible other than Jesus, and see just a person.
Paul again personalizes this in Romans 9 showing that not all of Israel is Israel. Who is NOT Israel that is within Israel? Obviously that would be the spirit of slumber that God put upon them. Romans 11:8. Not hard to connect "how" this happened and still happens in Mark 4:15
In Romans 9 Paul basically says, to the natural ears, God is merciful to some, but not to others, and then berates those who question this setup (the tempter or his own IN MANKIND.)
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
The same lump, "me," a vessel of honor and a vessel of dishonor.
Is this starting to gel yet? Or do you feel the resistance to this fact coming up to declare these things NOT SO?
It's a real phenomena. And not surprising which way the tree falls most of the time. On the denial side.
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