 We have any father we come to under the name of Jesus we thank you for this day we thank you for the beautiful class we're about to have. Now we pray that we'll open our mind and heart and listen to every word that pastor teaches us so that we will know how amazing are your works and how you have created us and what we have to do on this life Jesus so that we can shine brighter for you Lord I pray for all my classmates that I pray that they will all come at time and we'll have a good wife connection throughout the sessions and every single words will be a blessing to us so that we can be a blessing to others be with us and guide us that everything we do be done for your glory in Jesus name amen amen amen thank you yeah we'll get started um so uh last week we mainly looked at the scriptural basis of why we claim that we can have a good total victory you know in Jesus um and we looked at that the victory that we have is mainly based on the finished work of the cross and the second thing that we saw is that because of the finished work of the cross we have a certain identity in Christ and out of that identity we now operate as victors and conquerors so we looked at those two aspects and then we just had a very brief introduction to know how because we are because of our new identity in Jesus and because of the finished work of the cross how we can actually start using this to live a victorious life and we just had a small introduction to using the word of God in overcoming so we just looked at one structure last week first Peter 2 versus 2 and 3 where we looked at how new bonds they crave for milk that that desire is a very deep desire that they have because now they have understood that when they whenever they have the milk uh you know it takes away that feeling of hunger the feeling of emptiness and so they begin to cry for it they begin to crave for it and um we too are asked uh to you know abide in the word of God in that way crave for it in that way why because um uh we we saw in first um John that these um the these believers yeah first John 2 14 in first John 2 14 the young men who are being addressed in first John 2 14 they are people who are able to overcome uh Satan uh how by allowing the word to abide in them and so we looked at the connection we saw how if we to have a deep craving for the word of God then we would spend time um you know meditating on the word of God then the word of God would be able to richly abide in us and because the word is abiding in us uh uh you know it would come out of us whenever a situation requires it so we saw all of this in the very very brief introduction that we had last week so now just to look further uh into this whole concept of how the word of God can be used uh you know in our living a victorious overcoming life so um the first point just to you know continue upon the first point where we uh we said point number one is feeding your inner person with the word and in that context we were looking at all of these verses uh so just to look at look further into that um it it says uh you know in first Peter 2 2 2 3 uh like newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation now that you have tasted that the Lord is good so the reason that the believers are being asked to absorb the word of God to consume the word of God is so that they can grow up in their salvation um now if we if we are thinking of salvation just as the salvation experience where Jesus Christ has now you know um forgiven us and we have been regenerated into a new creation by the Holy Spirit if we are thinking just in terms of that then it will not make sense what does it mean by growing up in your salvation here it's talking more about how you grow into uh you know the fruits of salvation uh your life starts uh demonstrating the fact that you are saved uh the the actions that you do the choices that you make all of that starts reflecting uh this salvation experience of yours so we grow up in salvation in the sense we now start becoming more and more like Christ we start uh going undergoing that sanctification process where we start getting more and more because that word sanctify literally means to set apart right so now we start getting more and more set apart for Jesus um no longer are we focused on the on the material things or on sinful things but we start uh setting ourselves apart for God and for his purposes more and more so we grow up in our salvation in that sense and uh that happens only when we choose to crave you know deeply desire the spiritual milk so for for babies it would be you know the natural human uh human milk but then over here for us it would be the word of God which becomes our spiritual milk uh so we see that uh you know just you know if you were to observe new believers when they first come to the Lord when they first have their salvation experience they're everything is so new and everything is so exciting and there's such a deep gratitude to God for what he has done and there's such a longing to please him uh and you know generally that term uh that the term first love is used you know for new believers who are still uh you know full of the newness of what has happened to them the wonder of what has happened to them and so um in the beginning days you know they are so excited about each scripture that God is giving every every every time something new is revealed to them from the Bible they get so excited about it and uh you know they they say oh God is talking to me personally and uh so yeah the it's a very uh lovely experience and God wants us to continue to grow in that he doesn't want us to lose our passion he doesn't want us to become complacent uh which is what sometimes happens um you know if we don't continue to meditate on God's word the problem with this century uh the problem especially with our current you know um the the current kind of world that we are living in you know with all the media and all of that um it's kind of discourages believers from truly meditating upon God's word uh because the young believer when they first get saved you know they they are told that they need to you know grow in God's word uh and because that is what will give them strength and so they sit down daily they open their Bibles they they wait for God to speak uh you know they and so they begin to discipline themselves but then um they're still new at it right they're still learning and so they may not always hear God very clearly they have not yet learned how to you know spend time in his presence and so they may not be able to uh get instant revelations and also uh there there are many things which they have not yet learned about um the Bible so there are passages which they will not even understand because uh no one has really uh explained to them uh you know in what sense that that that passage needs to be understood what is the background for it there are so many things that they don't understand and so then what happens is they start going to YouTube you know YouTube becomes their Bible you have a whole bunch of sermons over there ready made sermons on any topic under the sun all you need to do is type out the topic that you want and you will get a whole bunch of sermons on that and then you just got to sit back and listen and so someone else is now telling you um you know what you should believe someone else is now telling you what the meaning of the verses are and you are not receiving anything directly for yourself from your teacher from your guide because that's what the Holy Spirit is supposed to be right he is supposed to be our teacher he's supposed to be our guide he's the one uh who is supposed to be leading us in our new Christian walk but now what is happening some YouTube preacher somewhere has decided that you know he's going to preach on this particular topic and he's going to you know bring out these particular aspects of that topic now are those particular aspects of that topic relevant for this new believer you know it may or may not be very applicable to his life situations on the other hand if like the people of old who never had never even heard of YouTube if they literally had to sit on their own you know in God's presence and wait upon him patiently learn to hear from him if they went through that process then there's a kind of deep bonding that happens you know with with the Lord and that is not happening in our you know in our present day there are so many believers who would rather spend their quiet time you know watching some YouTube sermon rather than sitting down with the Bible and just allowing God to speak out of the out of the scriptures so this is a very you know dangerous step it's going to lead to a whole bunch of Christians who have no clue how to hear from God it's not a it's it's a very seriously dangerous thing because we would end up with people who are underfed you see they are receiving good teaching from from the sermons and that is good but God is not able to impart to them things which they require for their life situations for what's going to happen to them in the you know in next week because God's God is preparing you know have you noticed this again and again when we are spending our quiet time with him he brings scriptures to us and he he you know puts thoughts on in our mind and then one week later you find yourself in a situation where those things become so relevant I mean this has happened to me again and again it's the it's God preparing you beforehand for what is you know ahead and I'm like oh wow you know the scriptures that I was reading last week these are so applicable now for my current situation so this is that's the way the Holy Spirit the father who knows what you will be facing the father who knows what you would be requiring he provides he feeds he you know supplies you with all the right things that you would require for your for your you know personal spiritual walk but then if you are not connected with him if you on the other hand you know I'm just going to a bunch of YouTube sermons and relying on them for nourishment they are nourishing sermons are good but are you receiving what you need for your immediate situations and so you cannot allow sermons to become a substitute you know for you sitting there personally and meditating on God's word if you look at David you know King David he had no access to YouTube sermons and in fact he did not even have access to all these books you know we which are written now we have this wonderful you know books which in which we have so many things explained for us he didn't have any of those things all he had with him you know are the the scriptures themselves so he would sit and meditate upon those scriptures and this is what you know David says in Psalm 119 11 to 16 and I would like us to really you know focus on these words even as we are reading them Psalm 119 11 to 16 and I wanted to think about how David was meditating on scripture why he was meditating on scripture you know based on what he's saying over here in these verses about you know meditating on scripture and learning from it receiving from it what is he saying about you know the importance of meditating on scripture in these verses and if we can also think about how Jesus would have gone through the same process you know whatever is mentioned over here in Psalm 119 11 to 16 so think about David writing down these words and also think about Jesus practicing these words in his life and you know then we will you know touch upon a few more things with regard to this so if someone could read out for us Psalm 119 verses 11 to 16 please Psalm chapter 119 verse 11 to 16 I have heard in your word in my heart that I might not sin against you praise be to you O Lord teach me your decrees with the lips with my lips I recount all the laws that comes from your mouth I rejoice in the following your stature as one rejoices in great riches I meditate on your percepts and consider your ways I delight in your decrees I will not neglect your word okay so here we see David saying I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you you know no one is told beforehand okay at so and so time tomorrow you will be facing temptation temptation comes when it comes you know so we should have already hidden the word of God in our hearts and then when that time of temptation comes then we are able to immediately act upon the word which we have hidden in our hearts and you know so which is what we see Jesus doing right when he went into the wilderness he had already spent years hiding the word of God in his heart I know and it says in verse 12 it says praise be to you Lord teach me your decrees so over the years you know God had been teaching his decrees to David he taught his decrees to Jesus because Jesus took the effort to you know spend time in God's presence so therefore they went through you know a regular discipline of spending time in God's presence where God was teaching them his decrees and they were beginning to hide all of that in their hearts and so when the time came it says in verse 13 with my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth so when the time came for them to open their mouth and you know say all the things which God has been putting inside them they were able to instantly do that Jesus Christ when he was attacked when when there was temptation which came upon him he was able to open his mouth and recount what you know had been hidden in his heart because he had spent time considering God's face see that's that's what it says in verse 15 it says I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways so David Jesus and all of these other people who valued God's word they would sit over there they would consider what is being said in God's word they would try to understand why God was saying what he was saying how can this be applied to our present life situations is what they would have sat over there and considered so they would have thought out these things and so you know when Satan comes along and says you know why don't you worship me Jesus has already been thinking about all of these things what is worship who should be worshiped why why what is the purpose of worship why I know why are we humans called to worship he's already considered all the things that you know on that topic so when the temptation came he knew what to respond he knew what to say because he's already had has spent time meditating upon the precepts of God and considered his ways and so it says in verse 16 you know David says I delight in your decrease I will not neglect your word you know just to take one sample of the you know of these temptations that we are talking about the temptations of Jesus if we can you know just go to Matthew chapter four versus five to seven we will just you know look at one one particular temptation Matthew chapter four versus five to seven if someone could read out Matthew chapter four was five to seven then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple if you are the Son of God he said throw yourself down for it is written he will command his angels concerning you and they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your food against the stone Jesus answered him it is also written do not put the Lord your God to the test okay so over here the devil takes him you know maybe it was through a vision maybe not physically you know but he Jesus kind of sees himself standing over there the pinnacle of the temple and the devil is saying you know prove prove that you are the Son of God if you really are the Son of God angels will immediately come and you know they will they will protect you they will not see to it that you are hurt so you know prove prove that you are actually the Son of God by doing this you know so and he uses a quotation from Psalm 91 so it's basically Satan taking Psalm 91 you know applying a certain context to that kind of perverted context to that and saying you know now you know practice Psalm 91 in this wrong manner you know so is what Satan is tempting so Psalm 91 is what Satan uses Jesus who is familiar with the scriptures would have immediately recognized that's you know the the devil is using Psalm 91 and his response his response is taken from Deuteronomy 6 16 which is talking about a rebellion which the Israelites you know in did when they were in a place called Massa now what is the connection between these two things you know just think about it Psalm 91 the context of Psalm 91 if you were to look at that particular passage which Satan used and the verses surrounding that if you were to look at that context of Psalm 91 and you if you were to go to Deuteronomy 6 16 and look at the context of the verses you know written over there you would see that actually there is no immediate direct connection so why did Jesus use this particular verse you know to to to fight Satan and we see that this verse that Jesus used was so effective that Satan had nothing more to say you know he had to just move on to the next temptation he could not fight back why was this particular verse so effective in dealing with the temptation which which Satan had you know brought using Psalm 91 in the wrong context so you see for every temptation there is a particular way to approach it the right way to you know combat the situation and because Jesus was in tune with you know with his father because he was familiar with scriptures the Lord gave him the correct words to speak and in this particular context even though we cannot see a very direct connection between Psalm 91 and Deuteronomy 6 16 this was the correct weapon to use this was the right sword of the spirit to use on this particular occasion you know so which is why some believers you know they kind of try to draw a distinction between logos and reema both the word logos and the word reema basically mean words speech you know talk so those are those are the that's the basic meaning of both logos and reema so some people that they you know they say reema is basically God telling you the word for that particular occasion something that will be effective for you on in that particular situation which you are facing you know so so for every situation that we face you know every challenge that we face there are specific scriptures which would be most effective for that particular situation and if we already have the word of God hidden in our hearts then the Holy Spirit will bring to our remembrance the correct scripture something that will be most relevant for our particular challenge now if that cannot happen right if somebody who is just has just been you know relying at random on you know youtube sermons because the Holy Spirit kind of teaches us trains us you know on a daily basis over a period of many months preparing us for the things which are going to come along and so it's a it's a kind of very organized training that we go through you know God knows what to teach when what a wisdom to impart when I mean especially me you know who has this kind of teaching role that I am in right now I have really noticed when I'm you know spending time in God's presence when I'm you know studying the scripture he brings things to me that are so helpful for me two weeks down the line I have noticed this again and again it's like he he of course knows the future he knows what I will be requiring when and beforehand he gives me those things which I will need in my hands and so when the time comes I'm ready I already have the things which I require the things that he has revealed to me the things that he has explained to me I already have those things in my hand and now it becomes easy for me to you know go ahead and you know do whatever you know is required of me so God is a God who prepares and so we need to actually learn to sit down in this presence and meditate on scripture and learn to hear from him directly and so here you know in John chapter 12 verse 49 you know Jesus says I did not speak on my own but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken in the same way you know David also says in Psalm 119 verse 13 he says with my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth you see whatever you have taught me whatever you have you know imparted into my heart those are the things which I am now opening my mouth and recounting so it is so important to learn at the feet of the Holy Spirit we cannot just keep relying on other books we can't just keep relying on other sermons those are good but those are just the side you know those are just an extra they are not the main method of study for a believer the main method of study for a believer should be at the feet of the Holy Spirit where he directly speaks to you shows you what scriptures to you know focus upon he shows you he opens up certain things and explains those things to you because those are going to be relevant for you in your spiritual walk so that is when the word of God becomes a sword an effective sword which you can use so in the process of doing this we start becoming familiar with the voice of the Holy Spirit you know very few people actually hear the audible voice of God but we all with experience begin to recognize his voice our master's voice in the way he speaks it's it's maybe different for different people but we just kind of begin to to recognize his voice and so that familiarity does not happen for people who are you know depending probably on youtube sermons or just you know depending on books they are not familiar with this voice because we have been you know training ourselves spending time in his presence every day we start getting familiar with the way he talks with the way he communicates so you know when someone asks how do I you know differentiate my thoughts from God's thoughts it happens over time we learn it slowly as we are spending time in his presence every day we start hearing his voice and we recognize that oh this is him saying that this is the way I should understand the scripture and all these thoughts in my head you know about how the scripture can you know be twisted to suit my situation no no that's wrong so very slowly we believers learn this we start becoming familiar with him which is why you have a lot of Christians desperately going around to pastors and leaders and saying what should I do should I take up this job should I move to this new city how on earth will that pastor know whether you're supposed to move to another city or not that's something between you and your God your Lord will will tell you what you know how in which direction your life should go he's the one who knows that so you should be in a position to hear the Lord for yourself you know rather than desperately going to someone else so it is so important for us to spend time in his presence feeding our inner person with his word because in the process we also learn how to hear from him and we start becoming very familiar with his voice which goes a long way you know in fighting temptation because when that when the temptation comes and it is so strong if you are not familiar with the Lord's voice you will not even hear it on the other hand if you are familiar with his voice if you have hidden his scriptures in your heart in that time of challenge that scripture will just come out of your little little little little it will kind of you know jump up into your mind and you'll say yes this is what I need for this situation and you hold on to that in faith and it makes a great difference you know so by the by the word of your testimony you overcome the evil one so it is so vital for us to feed our inner person with God's word and also learn how to hear from him the other thing that regarding using the word of God you know to overcome and live in victory that would be speaking out the word you know which we kind of saw now already Ephesians 6 17 where it says yeah take up the sword of the spirit which is the word of God so basically taking up the sword of the spirit involves two basic simple things first of course is that we choose to believe what the word of God is saying rather than what rather than the temptation which Satan is bringing rather than the lies that he wants us to believe we choose to believe what God's word is saying and the second thing of course is that we don't just believe in thought we actually believe in action we act out what God's word is saying and show that yes see I'm acting out what God's word is saying because I believe what he is saying you know so I'm not going to give in to what you are saying Satan I will not give in to your temptation but rather I'm going to believe and practice what God's word says so the sword of the spirit it's not a very complicated weapon to use all we have to do is believe what the scripture is saying and we need to practice what his word is saying so rather than given to the temptation we choose to stand on God's word the third one the third way that we would use the word you know in living an overcoming life is of course by renewing our minds because as we start meditating more on scripture our thinking gets aligned with God's thinking and so when we when we do that then we discover that what God's will is for us you know that which is what we see in Romans 12 2 where it says be transformed by the renewing of your mind because you know it says in the next sentence it says be transformed by the renewing of your mind then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good pleasing and perfect will so as you choose to renew your mind you start getting transformed you start thinking the way God thinks and you start living according to his will and as you start living according to his will you discover that his will is actually very good pleasing perfect that your life is going in the way it's meant to and then you realize oh my you know now that I have tasted of the Lord it you know the Lord is really good so then once you get the taste of the Lord then you will crave more for him so you see it's like a cycle you start off by choosing to spend time on a scripture as you do that your thinking starts changing you start thinking like him the more you start thinking like him the more you will start living your life in alignment with his will doing what he wants rather than what your flesh wants or what Satan is tempting you to do so even as you start living more in line with his will you discover at a practical level that the things that he's been telling you to do are so good and pleasing and perfect and your life is moving in the right direction and once you taste this and you discover that the Lord is indeed good you will begin to crave more so it's like a cycle that you go through again and again as a believer so we come back again to that first scripture you know which we started off where we say that like newborn babies we are craving for the pure spiritual milk why because we have now tasted and seen to the Lord is good so yeah I think that should be enough you know regarding how to use the word of God so the scriptures are mentioned of course in your notes the explanation as such is not given but you have the all the verses over there in your notes coming to the next chapter you know in your notes that would be walking in the spirit so we will spend some time reflecting upon this whole idea of walking in the spirit now of course we are very familiar with this idea but we'll try to touch upon maybe things which we generally you know don't think much about so you know rather than dwelling on just the familiar points we'll also try to go a little beyond and see what we can you know what extra we can learn and how walking in the spirit can really lead to an overcoming life so maybe we can begin by you know reading out that very familiar verse about walking you know you know by the spirit that would be Galatians 5 16 if someone could you know read out Galatians 5 16 Galatians chapter 5 verse 16 so I say live by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature yeah so we have the sinful nature asking us to do certain things and we have the spirit of God asking us to do certain things and so we choose not to walk according to what the flesh is saying but we choose to walk according to the spirit toward the spirit of God is saying so walking by the spirit is something that simple where we make a choice to respond toward the Holy Spirit is saying rather than respond toward the flesh is saying so for instance you know if I'm having an argument with someone and then that person says something that makes me very angry but immediately I sense in my spirit that the Holy Spirit is telling me no not to retaliate not to speak any harsh words so rather than following my flesh which is crying out and screaming and you know and saying you know you know hit back retaliate you know make that person pay for what they are what they are saying to you so rather than give in to the desires of the flesh I choose in that moment to respond to the to the firm gentle voice of God saying no no do not do that so in that moment I choose to walk by the spirit rather than give in to the desire of the flesh and of course it's not something that I can do on my own that is why it says walk by the spirit by the power of the spirit by the enabling of the spirit so in that moment even as he tells me no he also gives me the power to actually hold back and not open my mouth and lash out so not only does he give me the instruction he also gives me the enabling power to act upon that instruction so that is basically walking by the spirit where he enables you to walk in a way that pleases him so and and all of this happens in a matter of seconds you see I mean that conversation going on it has developed into an argument you are presenting your viewpoint the other person is presenting their viewpoint it's all very heated and in the midst of that suddenly this person starts being abusive the words coming out of their mouth are really not right are not correct and in that moment the Holy Spirit you know is saying to you no hold back do not retaliate in the same way do not say the words that know which you would want to you want to say and so in that moment even as you decide yes lord I would rather honor you you begin to walk by the spirit the spirit enables you to exercise self-control because that is a fruit you know that that's part of the fruit that's part of his nature so that part of his nature he imparts to you in that moment why because you are abiding in him and you are familiar with his voice you can hear him and you immediately choose to respond so you know in that moment you are able to make the right choice not because you are very strong but by the spirit by his strength by his enabling and so it is a supernatural walk it's not something that we could ever do on our own but we are able to you know obey and keep his instructions because he imparts to us the power that we need in that moment to do the right thing which is why it says in Galatians 525 since we live by the spirit you know by his enabling since we live by the spirit let us keep in step with the spirit so when would you be able to enjoy this you know an anointing and empowerment and equipping by the Holy Spirit only when you are actually you know walking in step with him if you're doing your own thing and you know going off in your own direction you will never actually get to walk by the spirit by his power by his enabling because you you're doing your own thing you need to stay side by side with him for him to be able to impart that power to you so it's so essential so in a way you could actually say that this term you know keeping in step with the spirit it's basically abiding you know in the wine they're just basically two ways of saying the same thing because I mean how does the you know tree produce fruit the branches I mean you know you know in a kind of metaphorical sense each day the branch decides okay I'm going to stay connected to this trunk so as long as the branch every day decides I stay connected to the trunk and not only not only just stay connected I'm going to keep the connection strong between me and the trunk so every day the branch decides that as long as the branch keeps deciding that on a daily basis it bears the fruit it doesn't have to worry about oh will I be able to bear fruit today oh my goodness is the fruit going to come out today no it's just part of the natural process because it is maintaining its connection it's keeping the connection strong automatically when the time comes the fruit will just come it's the same you know in the middle of that heated discussion if I have really stayed connected with the spirit I am walking in step with him I am trying to live in a way that pleases and honors him I am spending time in his presence learning from his word so automatically the connection is deep the connection is good and so because I am walking in this way you know in step with him when that in that heat of that moment when that discussion is going on and that person starts getting abusive I will automatically not you know open my mouth and say anything I will be able to exercise self-control in that moment simply because that's the fruit coming out of my life why because I'm connected so we don't have we don't we don't struggle to produce the fruit of the spirit that is something that the Lord produces in us he gives us the self-control we would need in this particular situation he is the one who provides us you know with that love and that peace and that gentleness and all of that he produces in us from our side what is our responsibility that we stay in step that we stay connected that we continue to abide so if we are doing that when the time comes you know we will hear his voice we will hear his you know a gentle word of instruction saying no do this and we will be able to because we are well connected so that's basically what it's saying over here it says in Galatians 525 since we live by the spirit let us keep in step with the spirit so that you know it's possible so that the Holy Spirit can continue to do for you all that is required and we see Romans 8 3 to 9 saying the same thing you know it just says it in in a larger number of words but it's almost the same thing that is being said if someone can read out Romans chapter 8 verses 3 to 9 please Romans chapter 8 verses 3 to 9 for what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be an offering and so he condemned sin and sinful man in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the spirit those who live according to the sinful nature have their mind set on what their nature desires but those who live in accordance with the spirit have their mind set on what the spirit desires the mind of sinful man is dead but the mind controlled by the spirit is life and peace the sinful mind is hostile to God it does not submit to God's law nor can it do so those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God you have aware oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so in these verses we see I know we the first portion we've already developed upon we talked about it in the last class you know we are the law told us what we should do but it could not make us do that why because we were being controlled by the sinful nature and so what did what did God do He sent our representative Jesus Christ to be to know to be our perfect representative so he was able to keep the entire law did not break a single portion of it and so he was able to condemn sin in the flesh he was able to declare and say sin you have no control over me because I have not broken a single law of God and so because he was able to fulfill the law all of us who come under his covering we too are now removed from under the control of the law and you know we are under his covering and protection for such people what does he do it says the righteous requirement of the law is fully met in us you know God enables his righteous requirements to be fulfilled in us so you know we are taking that example that we had of that heated discussion that was going on where the other person starts to get abusive so you just respond in your heart to the to the urging of the Holy Spirit and you choose not to retaliate even as you have made that choice God is the one who gives you the enabling power to not open your mouth he is the one who enables you to stay calm in that situation he is the one who helps you to stay you know think in the in the right manner regarding what is going on over there he starts doing all of that all the righteous requirements of the law start being fulfilled in you in that moment it's not something that you can do on your own all you do is you just stay connected to him and he does those things in you and then when you come out of that situation you know people will say my how could you just taste you know stay still and just stand over there and listen to that and then you would say no I mean it's nothing that I did God did that in me from my side what I have done is I've stayed connected with him I've stayed in step with him on a daily basis so that when the when moments like this come he can just take over and do for me what I cannot do for myself so this is what our representative Jesus Christ does for us so why is he able to do this for us that's what it says in Romans 8 4 it says in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us who do not live according to the flesh but according to the spirit so those of us who have made this choice to walk in step with the spirit we are living according to the spirit for such people Jesus Christ is able to fulfill the righteous requirements you know of the law so he does it for us because we are choosing to walk in step with him and when we do that it says in verse 6 in Romans 8 6 it says that such people have life and they have peace so those who are you know allowing themselves to be controlled by the flesh it just only leads to death it leads to destruction but those of us who are living in this other way we are being we are walking in step with the Holy Spirit and like it says over here our mind is governed by the spirit we are choosing to respond to the spirit on a moment by moment basis rather than responding to the flesh so our mind is being governed and controlled by the Holy Spirit we are submitting to him and for such people it says there is life and there is peace as for the other for the other set of people who are being governed by their flesh you know rather than by the spirit it says those people will never be able to please God they will never be able to act in a way that you know honors him so so it is very important to to keep in step with the spirit keep the connection strong keep the connection very very clear so that in the in times of trial and temptation the right thing will come out because if the connection is strong the fruit of the spirit is just literally you know there in you present in you and in the right moment when the you know when the situation is tense the the fruit of the spirit just comes out on the other hand if our mind is being governed by the flesh we are walking in step with the flesh then what comes out you know we see all the terrible things that come out that would be mentioned in your Galatians chapter five list because it gives a list of all the fruit of the flesh and it gives you a list of the fruit of the spirit so depending on what you're walking in step with depending on what your mind is governed and controlled by either by the flesh or by the spirit depending on that that kind of fruit would come out you know so so the next thing in your notes is basically you know how do we live this I mean on how to actually walk in the spirit on a day-to-day basis and there are some you know practical points given and the first practical point on how to actually walk in the spirit on a day-to-day basis is to stay filled a person who's like you know half empty three fourths empty will not be able to live this spirit kind of a life yeah it's so important to stay filled with the Holy Spirit because the more filled you are with the Holy Spirit the more he will be able to operate in your life he will be able to you know enable you to respond in the right manner to those challenges to those temptations so the first very practical point is to stay filled with the Holy Spirit you know if one of us could read out Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18 Ephesians 5 18 please Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18 do not get drunk on wine which leads to democracy instead be filled with the spirit okay so there's a contrast being drawn over here between between drunkenness and between being filled with the spirit so there are many parallels that we see between these two things you know for instance a person who is you know what drunk they are filled with wine so if they are filled with wine it makes them see the whole world in a different manner you know when they are sober when they are not drunk they see life in a particular way but once the drink takes over it completely changes their perspective you know you have they use the term happy drunk right there are some who are happy drunks when they are once they are drunk they are like you know very happy everything looks really good to them everything looks so rosy and wonderful they feel like singing they feel like dancing so those are your happy drunks and then you have your violent drunks when they get drunk everything looks like no deep dark red there's this rage this anger they lash out so the wine makes them see things completely differently everything looks different so if you're a happy drunk and you're filled with wine you would find everything so rosy you know you would probably climb up on a table and start dancing on the other hand if you're a violent drunk once you're filled with that wine everything you know is something which causes anger which triggers rage inside you and you lash out so it changes your perspective of the way you see things in the same way when you are filled with the Holy Spirit your entire perspective changes everything looks so different because now you are seeing through the eyes of the Holy Spirit and everything looks so different so it is so important what you are filled with it literally affects the way you look at every single thing it totally changes your very perspective so you know it's so important in choosing to be filled with the Spirit because when we when we are filled with the Spirit it at a very fundamental level it affects the way we see everything itself that itself changes so we will look further you know into this we'll come back from our break at 11 and log in so at 11 you know we'll just kind of dwell a little further on this whole concept you know of the contrast between being drunk with wine and being filled with the Spirit so yeah at 11 o'clock thank you