1. The Spirit-led Life
Romans 8:12-17

3. Our part in the Spirit’s work
live according to the Spirit
be led by the Spirit

4. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
live according to the flesh: death
live according to the Spirit: life

5. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
no longer obligated to the flesh (v12)
we can put to death the deeds of the body (v13)

6. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
Philippians 2:12–13
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

7. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
Philippians 2:12–13
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

8. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
Philippians 2:12–13
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

9. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
INTIMACY with our Father (v14-15)
as His adopted “sons”
Romans 6:22
But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God...

10. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
INTIMACY with our Father (v14-15)
as His adopted “sons”
crying out to Him as our “Abba”

11. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
INTIMACY with our Father (v14-15)
Mark 14:36
And He was saying, “Abba! Father! All things are possible for You; remove this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You will.”

12. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
1 John 1:5–7
...God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

13. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
INTIMACY with our Father (v14-15)
CONFIDENT HOPE (v16-17)
v16 – the Spirit gives us assurance
v17 – that we are sons and heirs
inheritance = “glory”

15. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
INTIMACY with our Father (v14-15)
CONFIDENT HOPE (v16-17)
v16 – the Spirit gives us assurance
v17 – that we are sons and heirs
inheritance = “glory”
suffering confirms that we are heirs

16. The Spirit-led life What’s it look like?
VICTORY over sin (v12-13)
INTIMACY with our Father (v14-15)
CONFIDENT HOPE (v16-17)

17. The Spirit-led life Application
By the Spirit put to death the deeds of the body
not passive – not “Let go & let God”
continuous activity
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I discipline (“bruise”) my body and make it my slave...

18. The Spirit-led life Application
By the Spirit put to death the deeds of the body through the Spiritual Disciplines
Engagement
Prayer
Study, meditation
Worship
Service
Gratitude
In and of themselves, the disciplines have no virtue, possess no righteousness... The Disciplines place us before God; they do not give us “brownie points”
Richard Foster
Abstinence
Solitude, silence
Fasting
Frugality, giving

19. The Spirit-led life Application
By the Spirit put to death the deeds of the body through the Spiritual Disciplines
Engagement
Prayer
Study, meditation
Worship
Service
Gratitude
Abstinence
Solitude, silence
Fasting
Frugality, giving