 Right, why don't we take a moment just to pray together and then we will start Can I request? Somebody to please Pray with us this morning, and let's get started Who wants to pray I'm making you it is in prayer, please Yes, pastor morning. Thank you Father God we come to your throne of grace thanking you for all your goodness your faithfulness father your promises that we stand upon father for your word That enriches us day after day father. We just want to say thank you about father Thank you for all your mercies. Thank you for keeping us alive showing us this new day for every breath that we take father We may glorify and praise you father and thank you lot father for leading us to live a life of holiness father And as we are diving deep into the word father May this word enrich us father and maybe walk according to dine calling father According to dine word father lead us by the power of your Holy Spirit Help us to receive the word in its fullness father be blessed and as we walk in it father We may glorify you in everything that we do in word action and deep father He once again, thank you for pastor. We thank you for leading him to be such beautiful truths Timeless truths father and as we are learning may be glorify you in everything father lead us to complete control father We give you glory honor and praise and ask the blessings upon everyone who is part of this fellowship father We give you glory honor and praise and ask this prayer in the precious matchless and most magnificent name of Jesus our lord and savior Amen Amen Thank you. Amen Right. Good morning Everyone once again. Welcome so We we um on Monday. We started talking about Too important Means that God has given to us to practically overcome The pull of the flesh the world and the devil First we said is we must use the word of God Now we didn't spend too much time on that because Most of us are familiar But you know how to take the word of God how to meditate in the word how to speak the word how to go to the bible In our time of need Most of us understand how to do that That you find the scriptures That speak to your need you meditate in it you speak it use the the word of God as a sword So we mentioned it And the second Means that God has given to us is What the bible talks about as walking in the spirit And that's what we are spending time on Because we want to understand what it means to walk in the spirit. How does it How do we do it practically and how can we know if we are walking in the spirit? So we're spending a little bit more time on it um We read two passages, uh one is from roman's the eighth chapter the other one was from galatians five What I'd like us to do is just to read those passages again And then we will read the third passage, which is ephesians five Let's read these three passages put them side by side because all these three passages are Have been written by the apostle paul for us and they are speaking to us about Walking in the spirit or you know, we may we may use different terms. We may talk about living the spirit for life or being filled with the spirit or Living in the spirit, you know, people may use different terms and it's all biblical terms But these three passages are parallel passages. They're talking about the same thing and so we'll read them all and then Together we want to draw an understanding of What does it mean to walk in the spirit? How can I do it practically and how can I tell? If I am walking in the spirit or I'm not walking in the spirit, okay, so let's do that I'm going to go ahead and share the pdf Which we've been using Let's see here. Yeah Walking in the spirit. Uh, let's just read those passages one more time just to you know, refresh our memory when somebody could read roman's eight one through 14 if you could read that quickly for us roman's eight one through 14, please Pastor, can I read? Yes, please Roman see it Verses one to 14 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in christ Because through christ the law of spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death For what the lord was law was powerless to do because it was weakened by flesh God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be sin To be a sin offering And so he condemned sin in the flesh 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 Those who live according to the flesh Have a mindset On what the flesh desires, but those who live In the accordance with the spirit have their mindset on what the spirit desires The mind governed by the flesh is death But the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace The mind governed by the flesh is Hostile to god It does not submit to god's law not can it do so Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please god You however Are not in the realm of the flesh but in the realm of the spirit if Indeed in a spirit of god lives in you and if anyone does not have the spirit of christ They do not belong to christ, but the christ in you That even through even though you your body is subject to that death Because of sin the spirit gives life because of righteousness And if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead is living in you He who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies Because of his spirit who lives in you Therefore brothers and sisters we have an obligation But it is not to the flesh to live according to it For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but If by the spirit you put to death The misdeeds of the body you will live For those who are led by spirit of god are the children of god Thank you Galatians chapter 5 Galatians 5 16 to 26 please Galatians 5 6 and 26 somebody can read for us quickly Galatians 5 16 to 26 I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh For the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh And these are contrary to one another So that you do not do the things that you wish But if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law Now the works of the flesh are evident which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lividness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies Outbursts of wrath Selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries And the like of which I tell you beforehand Just as I also told you in the time past that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of god But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control Against such there is no law And those who are Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit Let us not become conceited, provoking one another and weeing one another Thank you And the last passage visions 5 17 to 21 visions 5 17 to 21, please somebody Ephesians 5, 17 to 21 Therefore do not be unwise but understand what the will of the lord is And do not be drunk with wine in which is Eucepation but be filled with the spirit speaking to one another in psalm and hymns and spiritual songs Singing and making melody in your heart to the lord Giving thanks always for all things to god the father in the name of our lord jesus christ Submitting to one another in the fear of the lord Amen So it's really um wonderful If we look at these three passages, you know in detail in detail Um, there's a lot lot that we could Uh draw out of this in roman zay Paul and and we mentioned some of this last class on monday. He's drawing a contrast And remember he's talking to believers. So we're not we're not contrasting A believer and an unbeliever. No, we are contrasting Two believers two people who are who are in christ but They're living differently Right, so he's writing to believers. He's writing to those who are in christ And what does he say? He says, you know A believer could be living in accordance to the spirit or he could be living accordance to the flesh Um our believers living according to the flesh He is He has set his uh, uh, you know, he's is carnally minded or his mind His thinking it's all governed by Uh the passions and the desires of the flesh His thought process his pattern of thinking his way of thinking A believer who's living according to the spirit is spiritually minded that means His mind is thought his thought patterns is thinking his passions his emotions Are influenced or governed by the holy spirit and it's set on spiritual things So he says if you're if a believer is carnally minded Uh, it's going to result in death If a believer is spiritually minded it's going to bring him life and peace. So, you know, here's a big difference True believers one can enjoy life and peace another one is like, you know going through Uh, he's getting into worse and worse things Yeah, because he's living according to the flesh Then he says if if we are carnally minded we cannot please god right, so uh If we are spiritually minded then of course we are pleasing god And then what happens is as we are spiritually minded living according to the spirit what what what actually happens is It's just the body is dead. That means The fleshly ungodly desires of the body is put to death But spiritually we're alive We have the life of the spirit and uh, you know, we we uh, we have everything that comes from god righteousness And then he says, you know, truly this is verse 12 Romans 8 Truly as believers we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh But the life we are called to live is to live in the spirit To walk according to the spirit to be spiritually minded and then He makes this you know the summation of it in verse 13. He says, you know, look as a believer he's telling us If you live according to the flesh you will die But if you buy the spirit You put to death the deeds of your body you will live So Romans 8 13 is a key worse by the spirit I put to death The deeds of my body Right, so there's a key here. How do we overcome the flesh? By the spirit I put to death the deeds of my body and The same thing is Is given to us in Galatians 5 And I'm looking at Galatians 5 Where the apostle Paul is telling us, you know, we know there's a There's a conflict the spirit Differs from the flesh, you know the flesh And flesh is going after what we he mentions the books of the flesh and then he gives us a list of things that The works of flesh or the flesh wants to do these things And he says and the like meaning There's there are a lot of other things that are like this Which the flesh wants to do and the flesh is in conflict with the spirit That is uh, that is our spirit that's governed by the holy spirit So the holy spirit, of course, is going to lead us in things that are holy Things that are of love joy peace kindness speakness goodness temperance faith those kinds of things the works of christ And so there's a clash here, right? There's a clash But he says as believers We are led by the spirit We live in the spirit We walk in the spirit and he says if you walk in the spirit Galatians 5 and we're 16 If you walk in the spirit you know what You you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh The flesh has its pull But if you walk in the spirit, you're going to be overcoming the flesh And eventually verse 24 of Galatians 5 he says Those who are christs and as you belong to jesus, what will happen? You will crucify the flesh with its affections and desires So the flesh has its affections and desires ungodly affections But if you keep walking in the spirit, what are we doing? We were crucified. We'll put it to death Right and this is the life of the believer It is they live this life where The ungodly desires the flesh are pulled down They're crucified. They're put to death. They're brought to an end how by the spirit And if you Galatians 5 24 Those who are christs Have crucified the flesh With its affections and desires So we are living in the spirit We are walking in the spirit and this is the end result The flesh is crucified And the fruit of the spirit is what is seen in our lives People see the fruit of the spirit Then in Ephesians 5 He tells us you know he says And this is an interesting Parallel He says, you know don't be drunk with wine, but be filled with the spirit So, okay, here's some He's doing it. He's giving us a comparison or a contrast, but it's also very meaningful So he's saying like a person is drunk intoxicated But don't be like that, but be filled with the spirit or you could say to be filled with the spirit is And I'm just using our language to be intoxicated by the spirit But in a good sense, right? now In the natural when somebody's intoxicated with with wine or whatever alcoholic thing They lose control but not so with the holy spirit We are still in control, but All of ourselves are under his influence. It's governed by him So his influence is on us So to be supposed to be filled with the spirit And to be filled with the spirit means All of me is continuously under the influence of the spirit And that's what it means to walk in the spirit to walk in the spirit means to walk filled with the spirit To walk intoxicated with the spirit To walk under the influence and governed and led and directed by the holy spirit and my life flows from him And as we walk in the spirit Or walk filled with the spirit What happens the flesh is crucified The flesh is crucified and we are actually living that spirit filled life All right, so let's break it down and try to break it down on these notes What does it mean to walk in the spirit? It means We walk yielded to and I'm just I just try to use synonymous terms here. So at least something will come through right To walk yielded to walk under the influence to walk in submission To walk under the direction And by the empowering of the holy spirit. So that's what it means here. We are walking under the influence of the holy spirit So the illustration here of course is the contrast of a person who's Under the under intoxication versus somebody who is spirit influence spirit governed and spirit guided so How do we do this practically? Right. So one is to stay filled Stay filled now Stay filled you can just understand it simply stay full of Full of him right so And again, please forgive me for using This might be a very crude thing example, but you know, it's like a person who's Drinking He drinks a little bit. He doesn't get intoxicated He's you know, he to get drunk Ephesians 518 to be drunk drunk He's got to get full of something That he's got to drink that alcohol above a certain level so to speak So you can think about that in a draw a parallel. It's a crude parallel, but If you just have a little bit of the holy spirit, you're still not filled. We're not still under his influence But when we are filled that means all of me the my cup is full of him My cup is full of him So to be filled with the holy spirit is me bringing myself fully under his influence Right and it is as simple as a prayer Just a holy spirit fill me Holy spirit come fill me holy spirit I bring all of me In submission to you simple prayer right because Getting filled with the spirit is one is it's an act of your will You are making yourself Fully in submission to him Right, so many people don't understand this they think oh being filled stay filled means I As you know, I make a lot of noise and you know Clap my hands and speak in tongues and I mean, it's good to pray in tongues I'm not saying that and you know, I believe in spending many hours and praying in tongues and I do that but what I'm saying is To be filled literally means my cup is full of him It's not my cup is half of him and half of the world. That's not being filled with the spirit Being filled with spirit is my cup. That's my life is full of him But how do I make my cup full of him? Well, it's as simple as saying to the holy spirit Holy spirit fill me how all of me everything of me Right, it starts with that simple prayer And if I find That I have strayed from that place of being filled with the spirit Maybe you know, one of the works of flesh have taken an upper hand. Maybe I became jealous or became You know contentious or as gave places some selfish ambition or Something like I just a lot. I'm sorry. I bring myself Lord. Fill me. I bring myself back in this place So I recognize that a work of the flesh says I've given room to a work of the flesh I repent of it And I bring myself back To being under his influence to being full of him Right, it's as simple as that. But I will live like that. We live constantly filled with the spirit Right there How do we walk? So we're talking about how do we walk in the spirit practically, right? We're talking about that. How do we walk in it? So first is stay filled. That means I keep my cup full of him Which is a simple as saying holy spirit fill me. I bring myself under your influence fully And if I find myself straying from that place I repent of that and bring myself back Secondly, stay spiritually minded Right, so to walk according to the spirit we saw in Romans 8 We need to be spiritually minded So those who live according to the spirit, what do they do? What do they do? They set their minds On the things of the spirit So if I have to live according to the spirit, my mind must be set on the things of the spirit So that's the second thing I must do My mind, my thoughts, my emotions, my attitudes, my desires, my passions Must be on things of the spirit Things that are pleasing to the holy spirit Things that are approved by the holy spirit Things that are, you know, under the governance of the holy spirit I must set my mind, my thoughts on it And it's very interesting to look at this particular phrase From other versions Passion translation puts it like this Those who are motivated by the flesh Only pursue what benefits themselves But those who live by the impulses of the holy spirit Are motivated to pursue spiritual realities So to live according to the spirit They put it as to live by the impulses of the holy spirit And as the holy spirit is, you know, giving you the triggers The fires, firing the impulse And you are motivated to pursue spiritual realities Or some other versions Everyone who is ruled by the spirit Holy spirit thinks about spiritual things Those who live following the spirit are thinking about what the spirit wants them to do Good news, Babel says Those who live as a spirit tells them to have their minds controlled by the spirit And the version Chaya was reading I don't know what it was, but it says I think it said something like They're governed by the spirit The mind is governed by the spirit Pretty interesting So just to show us that If you want to walk according to the spirit You have to let your mind also be influenced by the holy spirit That means what you think What you set your affections on Your passions on Your attitudes, your emotions They're all under the influence of the holy spirit So the moment an ungodly and clean part comes in So let's think about this Going throughout the day As you're going through the day The moment something A thought comes A motivation comes An idea comes A passion or an affection In our mind, it started up That is not of God That is not You know, according to the purpose, will and pleasure of the holy spirit You shut it down Say, no I'm not going to pursue that That thought is not acceptable It has no place in my mind Right? Then you and I must understand That your mind is yours God has given you full control of the mind See, the devil tells us Give up control of the mind And that this is where, you know Of practicing certain forms of meditation is dangerous Where they tell you You just let your mind go No, no, no, don't let your mind go Keep your mind in control Don't let your mind go You keep your mind in control You are, you must be in charge of your mind Because if we let our mind go The devil is very happy to take it Right? So we must God gave us our mind That means our thoughts, our emotions And we must be in control of that So if a thought comes Any motive or anything That's not pleasing to God You take control because To live according to the spirit I must be My mind must also be spirit controlled Right? So first I must be full of the Holy Spirit My cup must be full of the Holy Spirit Second I must, my mind must be spirit controlled My thoughts, my ideas My, they must be holy And must let the Holy Spirit control And the third is this Ask the Holy Spirit for help See, there will always be times When you feel angry Or, you know, the work of the flesh The work of the flesh is waiting to jump out of the flesh Right? So we saw Galatians 5 The flesh less against the spirit And the spirit is opposite to the flesh So, yeah, we have the flesh We have the body And there are bodily desires Fleshly desires Sometimes the soulish desires There are times it feels like that That evil head wants to, you know, stick out again Yeah, feeling reirritated Wrong desires, wrong things, temptation All those kinds of things Jealousy and pride and whatever All those wrong things Works of the flesh But at that moment Ask the Holy Spirit for help Holy Spirit, I feel like this Please help me Remember, both in Romans 8, 13 And in Galatians 5, 24 Saying the same thing Romans 8, 13 If you buy the spirit Put to death The deeds of your body You will live Galatians 5, 24 Those who are Christ Have crucified the flesh With its affections and desires How do we do it? Buy the spirit So you say Holy Spirit, please help me I'm feeling this You know, whatever that emotion I'm feeling Holy Spirit, help me In Romans 8, 26 That same chapter, Romans 8 And he skipped down those few verses You know, Paul kind of takes a little detour In his writing He talks about, you know, the The decay and the corruption that's in the world And then he comes back to Romans 8, 26 And he says In verse 26 Continuing with his original thought He says The Spirit helps us In our weaknesses For we do not know how to pray for as we ought But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us With groanings, which cannot be uttered So the Spirit helps us In our weaknesses And the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses So when you feel weak, when you feel The Holy Spirit is there to help you And the word help in the Greek simply means To take a hold of together with us Against Right So what does it mean to help? It doesn't mean he does it for us No It means he does it with us So many people don't understand it, right? They think Holy Spirit will do it for you Holy Spirit will not do it for you He'll do it with you That's what it means to help The Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses That means my will is involved And his empowering comes in to accompany my will He helps us in our weaknesses How does he help us? It says, for we don't know what to pray for So, you know, you feel helpless You don't know God, I just don't know how to pray I mean, maybe I feel angry Maybe I feel upset Maybe whatever that weakness may be Maybe you don't know how to pray What am I to pray for? Do I bind the devil? Do I lose the devil? Do I cast him out? Do I? What am I supposed to do? We don't know what to do Well, the Holy Spirit helps us In our weaknesses That means he takes a hold together with us In our weakness, how? Through prayer Because he makes intercession for us Now, sometimes when we read that word For us, we, in our minds, we think He's praying separately No, what was the subject when it began? He helps us He takes a hold of together with us Therefore, the solution is also something That's executed with us He makes intercession for us by praying with us With groanings, it cannot be uttered Because that's the whole meaning of that word help Right So many people think, oh, Holy Spirit's praying for me He's not praying for you independently He's praying with you He's praying for you by praying with you And that's the process By which he helps us overcome our weaknesses Right So he's a Holy Spirit Please help me And then you go and pray Pray Now, you say, how much should I pray for? You see, there may be some things Just one line of prayer is more than enough To receive that empowering and overcome But there are times and there are things That you and I may contend with That requires hours of prayer Right So there's no, there is no, you know Or you pray for five minutes or pray for 30 minutes It's not like that It's you pray Till you know you have overcome Through the empowering of the Holy Spirit And for some matters You may have to pray over a period of time But you pray Ask the Holy Spirit for help Till you overcome Till you come You know, and praying in the Spirit is so powerful Because when you're praying in the Holy Spirit He gives you the revelation He gives you the wisdom how to overcome Because sometimes It takes some wisdom to overcome a situation You know For example, and I may have shared this with you This happened some years back, you know We had We had a And like this, you know, there are just so many, so many examples I could think we could share with you But just giving you just practical things, right? So we had a Some years back We had a years back, I think So years, it's not a long time ago But I'm talking about 2020 2020 Yeah I think it was 2020 So that particular year, you know We had an open house That means people from the church Anybody could make any comment Ask any question about the church And also open house And then somebody had put a comment And so You know, so we let them post questions All of that online And Saturday was the day we had scheduled the time That people would connect And I would respond to whatever questions and all that And so on Friday That is the day before I had told somebody to just collate all the questions And if there are questions that are similar You just put them together So we can answer them together And all of that And so I think it was And I may have missed this exact sequence By a day or two But it happened something like this I think It may have been a Thursday or a Friday When I looked at the fully collated list of questions That came from people And there was one Comment that was really harsh Very harsh And it hurt me when I read it You know, this person Whoever had put that question and that comment So they could put a question They could put that comment To anything that the church was doing And it was so hurtful You know, and Immediately, you know My immediate reaction was anger And hurt And how could this You know, and it was totally anonymous But kind of I had a sense of who would have put it Because sometimes you know the people in the congregation And you kind of have an idea of Who's saying what who thinks In which way Although it was anonymous And so I was very And they were comparing our church With another church in the city Which I don't like to do at all You know, I don't like comparing Churches and So this person was comparing what ABC was doing With another church in the city And it really hurt You know But now we have committed ourselves to Answering these questions And responding to these comments And it's like on Saturday It's this online open house meeting But I was feeling hurt You know, I was like How could somebody talk like this You know, and make these kinds of comments And you know, it's very hurtful So I just I went and prayed Because what was my normal Initial reaction Anger Hurt Wanting to, okay, let me show this Let me, you know You know, just say what I want to say Give them a piece of mind So to speak kind of thing I felt that So then I was, okay I know this feeling is not godly I know this is not This feeling of, you know, hurt and anger and all It's not the wig from the spirit And I cannot let myself be in that place I need to get out of that place But I am feeling it Because I read the comments, I read the things All the other questions were, you know, fine You know, very sincere questions But this was very hurtful So I just left my computer And I went and prayed And I spent And I forget the exact number of hours But I prayed for a long time Because I felt so hurt And I was praying, God This is what somebody said And I think I know who it is But it doesn't matter This is how it is I'm feeling like this, God It's very hurtful And you know what we've been doing And you know the work we've been doing And all of that Yeah, I was talking to God And in that time of just praying And the Holy Spirit Because I know I cannot let myself be in that Fleshly situation Where I am feeling hurt and angry And I want to kind of retaliate almost I cannot be in that emotional situation I need to bring my mind My emotions under the governance of the Holy Spirit Only then I can walk in the Spirit So I was praying God, this is how I'm feeling How do I handle this? And so this is why we pray in tongues Because when you pray in tongues The Holy Spirit is empowering your Spirit to pray And during that time He's going to give you wisdom To overcome the situation He's not only going to help you overcome your weakness He's going to give you wisdom To overcome the situation That is that's causing you to feel like this So two things happened First is the Holy Spirit Helped me by saying Beking the minded Beking the minded That means instead of addressing this question From your feeling of hurt and anger and retaliation Address it from God I want your kingdom to come This is about your kingdom It's not about APC and some other church It's about the kingdom So I'm going to speak from that perspective If another church is better than us Of course there are many churches better than us Praise God for it If another church has different strategies than us Praise God for it Beking the minded And that I would say that instruction from the Holy Spirit Helped to release all the fleshly hurtful feelings Secondly The Holy Spirit gave me an idea How to respond to that question Just show him the data Just show him the data Now the person who asked the question I knew was from an IT You know, IT, IT enabled services back around So of course they need to understand data And so the second was wisdom Just show him the data Because of course when you're looking from outside You don't know all the data And we don't, you know, we don't talk about numbers In our church services Very hard We don't, very rarely Because even the service is meant for preaching And ministering the word of God And not bragging about numbers And so people don't know the real numbers So, and so then out of the lack of knowledge or information Obviously they would make all kinds of conclusions And wrong conclusions and wrong assumptions So second was just show him the data So, you know, I spent a lot of time praying I got these two things I made myself clean That means I came out of that place of anger Being hurt, retaliation Retaliation came into this place of This is about the kingdom It's not about me It's not about comparing churches Not about, you know, who's doing what It's about God's kingdom And I'm just going to show the data I'll let the data speak So quickly, you know, I just had very little time to prepare But I just went and got all the data So we have an analytics software That runs behind our websites So we know exactly what's happening We know how many downloads People, which country, who's coming We have the IP addresses of everybody, whatever So we have all the data So I just quickly put the data to get this in the thing So next And I in his purposely told, you know I was hosting the thing I said, you know, put his question first Let's start with that Rather than giving, let's address that first So we opened the meeting Welcome to everybody He said, okay, this is the first thing And you could get a sense of People were shocked that This kind of a comment and a question would be raised But then I had already prepared myself in prayer And I'd already got the data So I just said, this is the reality These are the numbers This is what, you know, is happening And that's it That was it Just put everything to rest So I'm just saying There's this one example I liked it, they're just numerous And as you walk with God We will all face these situations Where the flesh rises up We feel angry or irritated Whatever for various situations And we need to ask the Holy Spirit for help And how does he help us? He helps us pray So go and pray Sometimes a simple line of prayer is enough Sometimes you pray for two minutes It's enough Sometimes you may pray You may need to pray a little longer Until you know you have overcome And he gives you wisdom to know how to deal with the situation And lastly, you know, we speak the word of God Right, so declare what the word says This is important Because the declaration of the word Is also the sword of the Spirit That means the Holy Spirit comes in on the scene When you are declaring the word Okay, I think that story took too much time Anyway, okay, I'll have to finish this next week All right, let me pause here We just have five more minutes Let's take some questions here Okay, yeah, I didn't cover everything that we wanted to cover But practically, how do you walk in the Spirit? We said first, stay filled with the Spirit Keep your cup open Two, be spiritually minded Keep your mind governed by the Holy Spirit Three, ask the Holy Spirit for help And ask him And fourthly, speak the word of God Just say the word of God Because when you speak the word, the Holy Spirit comes on the scene Right, because it's the sword of the Spirit Hearing the Holy Spirit gets involved So that's how we practically walk Practically, we walk in the Spirit That means we walk under the influence of the Holy Spirit Any questions? Okay, I see your comments, Chai I see your comments, Louis Any questions on this? Okay, so what we need to do next is Understand how I can tell if I'm walking in the Spirit What are the signs? How can I tell? And that's important So we will pick that up on Monday To show us, you know We know how to walk in the Spirit But what would be the evidence of me walking in the Spirit? What are the signs of a Spirit filled life? That's the right there in Ephesians 5 The passage we read So we're just going to go through it We'll itemize it So it'll be clear for us Okay, our time is up And I don't want to delay you from your next class So may I request somebody to please pray And then we'll dismiss after we pray May I request somebody to please pray? Master, can I pray? Please go ahead, Lysio Our Heavenly Father, once again We are most grateful and thankful to you For this opportunity to live once again We thank you for the opportunity to sit Under your feet once more To be taught and to be inspired by this Word Father, we pray, the Lord, as we strive to live a life of holiness As we strive to live a life of purity As we strive to sanctify ourselves daily By your Word and by your Spirit We pray that the Holy Spirit, who is our Helper Continue to help us in this journey in the name of Jesus We live in an evil world And if your spirits do not come to help us Lord, you will be overcome by the evil in this Word We pray that may we not be overcome by But we be overcomeers of the Word In the mighty name of Jesus Whenever we come faced with temptation Whenever we come faced with trials Whenever we come faced with a flesh trying to overcome us May our spirit and our strength be renewed in you, O God That you live a life of victory in Jesus' mighty name We thank you and we bless you for the life of Pastor Ashes And we continue to pray that Lord preserve him And sustain him That he will continue to impact even the damnation after us We thank you in Jesus' mighty name, we pray Amen Amen Amen God bless you all Have a good rest of the day Enjoy your other classes We'll see you soon, bye now Thank you, Pastor Thank you, everyone Thank you, everyone God bless Thank you, Pastor