Sermon Notes

To Walk in the Spirit Means: Emancipation!

August 9, 2009 – Pastor Dave Scherrer

Romans 8:5-8 (NAS)

Romans 8:9-11 (NAS)

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Notes:

Walking in the spirit means knowing what is different about me

The old me: Lived according to the flesh and set my mind on the flesh

The new me: Is not primarily flesh because I have the Spirit of God in me

Therefore I . . .

Don't look back

Set my mind on things above

Col. 3:1-4

2 Cor. 10:3-6

Romans 12:1-2

Keep in mind my hope

1 Cor. 15:50-56 – Free at last: This body will rise!