Walk Instep With The Spirit

(Galatians 5:15-26)…..¹⁵ But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! ¹⁶ I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. ¹⁷ 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. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, ²¹ envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. ²⁴ And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections & lusts. Now, that which the believer has crucified is the “old man” and the “body of sin.” As a result we are freed from sin, the dominion of sin (Romans 6:6–14) (7:1–4). This does not mean we can never sin again, but that we do not live in sin (1 John 1:7, 9; 3:9). At our baptism we became dead to the Law by the body of Christ (Romans 7:4; Galatians 3:25–27). Justified by faith we are to bring fruit forth unto God (7:4b; Romans 6:4). While we were under the Law the affections and lusts worked through the Law to bring forth death All that the Law produces is sin and condemnation. The believer who walks in the Spirit produces the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). 

1. We walk in step with the Spirit. We follow the teaching and instruction given by the Spirit in His word (Romans 8:1–11). 
2. We are new creatures; we are crucified to the world and the world to us; the life that we live in the flesh we live by the faith of the Son of God (Galatians 6:14–16; 2:20). 
3. This being the case, Paul warns the Galatians to not be embroiled in wrangling which he has already listed as among the works of the flesh which prevents one from entering into the eternal Kingdom (Galatians 5:20–21, 26).