Lesson 16: God’s Spirit and Our Unredeemed Flesh
Question 4
The Gift of the Holy Spirit
Oh, look at this amazing passage! The law, though it was perfect and holy, was not able to make you and me perfect and holy. This is because in our flesh, we are weak and unable to keep it.
And so, God did something about our problem. God sent His Son to be our sin offering; that is, our sacrifice of atonement. He removed each and every sin from us and put them all on His Son who died to make amends for our wrongdoing.
And the result? All believers receive the Spirit and can begin to live according to the Spirit, not the flesh! This results in “the law being fully met in us.” Hallelujah! What a Savior!
As we live according to the Spirit, He leads us away from a lifestyle of gratifying our flesh and leads us instead to a cross. As we keep our eyes on Jesus’ love for us, His sacrificial death and resurrection, we are enabled to walk by the Spirit and when we do, we don’t gratify the lusts of our flesh. This is marvelous for the Holy Spirit is literally our way out of pornography and sexual impurity.
See, friend, if it were not for the work of the Spirit setting us free from the law of sin and death, we would be forgiven but trapped. We would be loved by the Son but still stuck in sin.
So, God didn’t just give us His Son He also gave us His Spirit who takes us by the hand and leads us away from self-gratification and leads us to the foot of the cross. There we are in awe of the price paid for us, and there we receive our own cross as a blessed gift of God. At the cross, we learn how to fight our own lusts, and as He brings us out of impurity our emotions begin to stabilize.Every time we choose to crucify our lusts over self-gratifying, we are taking up our cross. This is suffering with Christ.
The Work of the Holy Spirit
So, the role of the Holy Spirit is to apply the message of “no condemnation”, and in so doing, He set us free from a lifestyle of gratifying the cravings of our flesh.
In closing, let’s look further at what the Spirit of God does in the life of a believer:
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Romans 8:14-16
Question 4. What does the Spirit of God do for us?
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