CHECKING YOUR SPIRIT GAUGE (3 OF 3)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Galatians 5:16-26
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Checking Your Spirit Gauge (3 of 3)
Series: Connecting With Christ
Jeff Strite
Galatians 5:16-26
Two good old boys bought a couple of horses during the summer. But when winter came, they found it cost too much to board them. So they turned the horses loose in a pasture where there was plenty to eat.
One said to the other: "How will we tell yours from mine when we pick them up?"
"Oh that's easy," replied the second. "We'll cut the mane off my horse and the tail off yours."
By spring tho', the mane and tail had grown back to normal length.
"Now what are we going to do?" asked the first.
"Why don't you just take the black horse?" said the second man, "and I'll take the white one."
APPLY: Now that's silly. Nobody would overlook anything THAT obvious. But there are Christians that do it all the time. And, one of the most unfortunate topics some Christians tend to overlook is the importance and value of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Jesus taught that He was going to send us a powerful force - His Holy Spirit.
We were promised this Spirit if we repented and were baptized in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins(Acts 2:38).
According to Ephesians 1:13-14 the Holy Spirit is the mark of our salvation.
And Rom 8:9 tells us that without that Holy Spirit within us, we wouldn't belong to Jesus.
If the Holy Spirit is that critical to our lives - why would we overlook it?
I. One of the reasons is that some Christians just take the Spirit for granted. These Christians are a little like the woman who told her friend that she had gotten in her car one day, started it up and saw the "Check engine" light blinking on and off on the dash. She told her friend, that she looked under the hood, but she didn't know what the problem was - the engine was still there.
In Galatians, Paul tells us that you can't take your connection with God's Spirit for granted. Paul gave a warning to the Galatians: "So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the d ...
Series: Connecting With Christ
Jeff Strite
Galatians 5:16-26
Two good old boys bought a couple of horses during the summer. But when winter came, they found it cost too much to board them. So they turned the horses loose in a pasture where there was plenty to eat.
One said to the other: "How will we tell yours from mine when we pick them up?"
"Oh that's easy," replied the second. "We'll cut the mane off my horse and the tail off yours."
By spring tho', the mane and tail had grown back to normal length.
"Now what are we going to do?" asked the first.
"Why don't you just take the black horse?" said the second man, "and I'll take the white one."
APPLY: Now that's silly. Nobody would overlook anything THAT obvious. But there are Christians that do it all the time. And, one of the most unfortunate topics some Christians tend to overlook is the importance and value of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Jesus taught that He was going to send us a powerful force - His Holy Spirit.
We were promised this Spirit if we repented and were baptized in the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins(Acts 2:38).
According to Ephesians 1:13-14 the Holy Spirit is the mark of our salvation.
And Rom 8:9 tells us that without that Holy Spirit within us, we wouldn't belong to Jesus.
If the Holy Spirit is that critical to our lives - why would we overlook it?
I. One of the reasons is that some Christians just take the Spirit for granted. These Christians are a little like the woman who told her friend that she had gotten in her car one day, started it up and saw the "Check engine" light blinking on and off on the dash. She told her friend, that she looked under the hood, but she didn't know what the problem was - the engine was still there.
In Galatians, Paul tells us that you can't take your connection with God's Spirit for granted. Paul gave a warning to the Galatians: "So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the d ...
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