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You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth. Galatians 5:17 http://www.dailybiblestudy.org
17 For [gar] the flesh [sarx] lusteth [epithumeo] against [kata] the Spirit [pneuma], and [de] the Spirit [pneuma] against [kata] the flesh [sarx]: and [de] these [tauta] are contrary [antikeimai] the one to the other [allelon]: so that [hina] ye cannot [hina me] do [poieo] the things [tauta] that [hos] [an] ye would [thelo]. KJV-Interlinear
17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. NASB
These are the only two environments in which you can live your life. There is no third alternative. Most folks do not know the difference. The activity of the flesh and the activity of the spirit are in opposition to each other. The flesh, representing the carnal aspect of your life. The spirit, representing the aspects of your life that are performed while in fellowship, herein referred to as, in the spirit. The two events that separate them are sin and confession. For it is from that activity in our daily life, that we usually oscillate back and forth between the two. Unfortunately most folks do not confess and thus live their entire or greater portion of their life, out of fellowship and under the influence of the sin nature. Sooner or later life inundates a person and almost by accident they confess in the form of a poor-me prayer to God, but that is usually a type of knee jerk reaction to a situation and not a pattern of life that they should be following. Occasional confession gets you into fellowship and thus under the power of the holy Spirit, but typically that lasts only as long as the time to the next sin, which could be but minutes or even hours away. And then you are out of fellowship again. And make a note, that confession, while a very important component of the spiritual life, is not the spiritual life. It is merely a door through which you must go, in order to live inside of the spiritual life, which we call, being in fellowship. Once inside the fellowship sphere, or as Paul describes it here, once under the spirit, then you must pursue your spiritual life as it is supposed to be pursued, namely pursue a daily study, learn, and grow up in your spiritual life. This can only be accomplished while living in fellowship. No spiritual growth occurs while you are out of fellowship and in the carnal fleshy state. And this is where this verse is so important. Each side of life is in conflict with the other. You cannot live both simultaneously. The spiritual side benefits and completes you, while the carnal side destroys you and prevents your completion. At some point in your life you must decide whether you want something better, or just want to waste your life away with nothing to show for your life when it is all said and done. It is easy to do nothing, but then you get nothing when you do nothing. And it is also easy to float back and forth from sin to the spiritual, but that only ends up compromising your spiritual life and you lose. The most common failure that people experience is their failure due to their trying to define their own form of spirituality rather than following Gods. Again it is easier to do nothing, not study, not learn, not grow up, than it is to follow a regimented daily habit of study. A five minute daily study habit is pretty burdensome, ya know!!! And people fool themselves into thinking that they can get along just fine without a daily study, or they believe that whatever they are doing now is good enough. Remember too, that disregard for Gods mandates is also a form of sin, which is the arrogance of thinking that you do not need to comply with Gods mandates, or that you can comply in your own way. Another failure form, is rebelling against the role that God has defined for you in trying to be something that you are obviously not. Sins are not limited to just criminal acts or social misbehavior, they also include disobedience or irresponsibility toward Gods expectations. That disobedience is generally tied up in the arrogance of believing that you are somehow exempt.
Now is the time to post a prayer. End Of Lesson Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth. |
