Introduction to series:the life of the natural or carnal man contrasted with the one who walks after the Spirit

How we were meant to live if our lives are governed by the Spirit. The carnal life traits discussed and contrasted with the fruits of the Spirit.

The way the fall affected our walk with God. Why our spirits have died.

The way in which the Holy Spirit brings salvation to us by renewing our spirits and making us alive again.

Carnality defined.Are we still a Christian if we continue to go on sinning? The marks of a carnal Christian.

Body soul spirit illustrated.Holy Spirit brings deliverance when we are willing to give up everything and all sin.

Pastor's personal testimony as to deliverance from self and fullness of the Holy Spirit.

"Marks of the carnal, soulish life. The danger of living by feelings rather than in the faith of what God did for us in Jesus' death."

Traits of the soulish life.Importance of keeping alive to the Spirit's leadings or our lives become dead.

How the Holy Spirit leads us into victory-our part and His.Illustrations of how we lose our close walk with Jesus. Believe and obey to walk in victory!

The traits of the self life or soulish life clearly defined.What is needed to be delivered from them

The soulish Christian depends on the world for excitement and security rather than on God-how this is manifested in daily walk.

"When most of us decide to live after the life of The Spirit, and learn the difference between sin and personality traits, find ourselves trying to bring that life to others by our own powers. However, only God can bring that"

Further discussions on the traits of the soulish life as contrasted with one who walks after the Spirit.The dangers of acting by human impulse.

Review of what the Christian life should be-Jesus is all and the needemphasized to be identified with Him in His death through surrender of our wills to Him.

Brief review followed by questions. Resisting God's will is the key to whether or not we know God's love and experience His fulness.

The need for God to bring us to breaking experiences and the results in our lives-discussion of carnality.

God's use of the Cross in our lives to deliver us from carnality.

How the Holy Spirit works in our spirit -the need to be filled with the spirit.

Introduction to the Spirit-filled life and walking after the Spirit-the key is spending time with God.

We are seated in the heavenlies and it is ours by faith. We have been crucified with Christ. Traits of self-life come because we are living a lie.#

The spiritual person is one who does not depend on the world or people for happiness-they live from the inside out. It's only made real by the miracle of Jesus' death.

We are seated in the heavenlies and it is ours by faith. We have been crucified with Christ. Traits of self-life come because we are living a lie.

Practical issues discussed on how the Holy Spirit leads us in prayer

The greatest need for God's work to be accomplished is for us to pray continually.

Talks on the mind in regards to lazy passive Christians.

The way Satan deceives Christians into being useless-warfare is God's work not ours and is only accomplished in a surrendered life.

The way in which the Holy Spirit takes back ground in others lives from Satan's dominion as we allow Him to use us.

"The difference between being led by the Spirit or walking by our own human intuition-the need for the Baptism of the Spirit to know God's will for personal guidance i.e. jobs,marriage etc."

Exhortation to live above circumstances and look to the Spirit for guidance.How God uses adversity in our lives.We need to submit to God rather than run from the situation.

Review with questions and answers.

The importance of living a fully surrendered life in order to allow the Spirit to guide us-we find problems when we run to others for guidance rather than looking to God for Guidance.

We can't commune with God unless we are re-born.Many illustrations and examples of ones who look to books for knowledge rather than God.

Entire sermon devoted to New Birth.Examples used from Pastor's wife on what true repentance is.The necessity of being real with God and not running from conviction of sin.How to break through to God.

"Further talks on the new birth and its importance to commune with Godin prayer.Examples from C.S.Lewis ""Surprised By Joy"".Why are spirits are dead and how to make them alive to God"

Only Jesus can make us alive to God in our spirits.We're too busy to take time to get to know God.The reason we can't get through to God is because we're not born again.

"Carnality in our lives prevents us from enjoying communion with God. He is a jealous God and when we look to others or things for happiness, we can't know God."

How God speaks through our consciences.If we obey we experience continual cleansing.If we are born again God dels with us on in-expedient things.Society has no sense of right of wrong.

"Spiritual life defined-Power and victory over sin because of Jesus' death.Traits of Christian life,new birth.How the Spirit leads us by guiding our spirits."

The life of the carnal Christian contrasted with the Spirit-filled person-traits of both types.

"Our consciences become clean as we repent,forsake sin and submit our will to God.Through obedience we realize the complete work of Jesus on the Cross.We only see God's wrath because we won't obey"

The importance of maintaining a clean conscience and living above sin Faith rises when our hearts and consciences are right before God. Effectual prayer only comes this way.

Further talks on the need to live a pure life free from sin.Faith can only rise when our conscience and hearts are right before God.We only minister death unless our lives are right.

Characteristics of one who walks after the spirit. The life of the flesh and spirit contrasted.

Seeking happiness from things and people in the world rather than God.Our completeness should come from God alone.Illustrations used from body soul spirit diagrams.

Brief review.Traits of carnal life defined.Looking to people for happiness.Chief mark is the desire to control things even are own sacrifice.Carnality loves religion.Deliverance through the cross.

How God wants to minister to other people through our spirits.This is only accomplished if we are living in victory and not preoccupied with ourselves.

Jesus' spirit cannot overflow to others if we are not living in victory over sin. The need to press on and see that we are crucified and raised with Christ.

"Ways in which our bodies,minds and emotions block our spirits. Unhealthy bodies are a doorway for Satan as well as undisciplined minds. How we grieve the Spirit."

We become dead and boring people when we are independent from God. We need to stay alive to God and let His Spirit live in us and be our joy and happiness rather than looking to people and things for these

The Holy Spirit uses us if we are victorious to minister to other people. He gives us His Burdens if we are not preoccupied with ourselves

Pastor sharing what God showed him while away from the body about the recent events with the backlash from the sermons whereby he was accused of anti-semitism.

Review of the way the Holy Spirit works in one who is surrendered.

The importantce of having a soft broken spirit that is fresh towards God and lives guided by His Spirit rather than living by precepts and rules learned from books and other people.

Only Jesus' life can bring life to others.We ignore the Holy Spirit and try to conform ourselves to God's image by our own power. We become our real selves only by the Holy Spirit living in us.

We can only find our real selves through the Holy Spirit.He alone can bring New Birth etc.We are overdeveloped in head knowledge. We try to become spiritual by our own power.

Necessity of obedience and surrender-The Spirit brings stability and certainity and guides us-contrasted with the shallowness of present-day Christianity.No spiritual work accomplished without it.

Are we willing to spend our lives abroad? The need to live the vIctorious life as we are witnesses to others wherever we are put.

Description and need for New Birth.Baptism of the Spirit is needed to prevent us from falling into carnality.Questions and answers.Only by surrender and faith can it be made real in us.

"The boring unspiritual,selfish life contrasted with the traits of one who is born of God."

The need for dying to ourselves and experiencing the fulness of the Spirit.Pressing on through and coming to a deep repentance and a willingness to give all to God.

Brief Review.True emotions come from what our spirits express as we are living a life of fellowship with God.Wordly emotions come from being dominated by outside circumstances.God remade our personalities.

Affections are the main playground of Satan in people.Our affections only come into balance when we love God fully.Love is willing not only emotion.Only God can love us completely.

"The purpose of marriage-God's will,not love! True love defined-the affections and emotions,how they were meant to work.How should one approach marriage and finding a partner."

Affections and emotions defined.The basis of marriage-God's will not love. True love defined-it only comes from a pure heart and clear conscience as were fully surrendered to Jesus.Consecration of affect's

God withdraws feelings in order to force us to rely on Him.He wants us to exercise our wills to what He shows us in our spirits.This only can be if our wills our consecrated to Him.This is true peace.

"We tend to look inside if we don't feel the presence of God or joy. Faith looks at God and not comfort-Self looks at the gifts and feelings that sometimes come.Examples from C.S.Lewis ""Surprised By Joy""."

"Our desires and affections need to be consecrated to God. Satan uses our natural desires for food,self-preservation,sex to tempt us. The Holy Spirit shows us how to die to these through the cross applied."

Lessons from 18th cent. England and Wesleys revival as well as 20th cent. moral decline in US. The importance of seeking and finding a clean heart or not going on with God.

"We need to use our mind to work out the things that God shows us. The dangers of passivity.Bringing our mind under control with our wills-we have the new,redeemed mind of Christ-rejecting wandering thought"

"Traits of a passive mind.We let Satan puts thoughts in our minds.Wandering thoughts,sleeplessness,weird dreams come from not bringing our minds under God's control.Illustrations from business."

"We need to ask the Holy Spirit to show us where we've yielded ground to Satan if there are symptoms of passivity. The basis of a renewed mind is we are crucified,destroyed and remade in Jesus-Faith in this"

Traits of the passive mind defined-practical help on deliverance-taking ground back from Satan. Looking to the Holy Spirit and exercising our wills while holding on to scripture.

"Marks of the passive mind-Exercising our minds through guidance of the Holy Spirit. Love God with heart,soul,mind-an active pursuit. The importance of consistent quiet time."

Talks on how God wants us to use our minds.The Holy Spirit directs us how to use our minds by willing.

Further talks on how God guides us through our spirits to use our minds and will ourselves to obey our consciences no matter how we feel emotionally or physically.

We are governed by lazy attitudes and habits.We can will ourselves to obey God regardless of feelings and emotions. Real faith is a willing ourseves to follow God.

The importance of being filled with the Spirit and willing to allow God to change our personality. We have been raised with habits that are dependent on the world rather than God for significance.

God wants our security and happiness to come from Him rather than the world.Real security comes when we know God loves us and has everything planned.

Having faith that we are dead in Jesus and submitting our wills to depend on God rather than people and the world. We are to look to the Holy Spirit rather than our own human wisdom.

Review. We are crucified and raised with Christ. Our faith in this fact is foremost rather than soulish willing.We align our wills with what the Holy Spirit shows us-not power of positive thinking.

What are the reasons our wills won't submit to God?

Description of the problem of our dual natures and how we are to be delivered from it. A very thorough and convincing argument.

Classic definition of the full Christian life and complete victory.

Revival and the victorious life. The difference between carnal and spiritual Christians. Moody's search for fulness of the Spirit.

Born again people do not sin! Clean up your outward life by stop sinning. Practical examples of what sin is. We need a clean heart.

An exhortation to seek perfect rest and fulness of the Spirit. Experiences of others quoted. The differences between the New Birth and fullness of the Spirit.

How to be delivered from the self life by faith in Christ. Traits of the self life described.

What prevents us from being delivered from our sinful nature? A matter of the will- The H.S. points out where we are unwilling.

We can't overcome our evil nature-only the H.S. can reveal where we are unwilling to give up our own ways of trying to live the Christian life.

The importance of seeing the nature of sin in our lives and the desire to be rid of it and filled with the Spirit

Traits of the self life and how to be delivered-faith!! Faith comes through consecration.

What prevents us from entering into fullness? More than repentance needed-full consecration! Exhortation to full surrender.

Sanctification defined-A death to the old nature. God changes us and gives us a new heart and spirit. Traits of the old nature examined.

The breaking point in our lives where God allows things and people to drive us full surrender.

Mainly the work of the Spirit after we're sanctified. He keeps showing us things-Sanctification is only the beginning.

"When we give our lives fully to God the Holy Spirit changes us and we become like Jesus-joyful.trusting,at ease,and this change affects others."

The Spirit is not Lord unless He is Lord of all. The reason we don't experience Him is because we still tolerate sin in our lives. He is gentle like a dove and won't come in.

Traits of the self-life.