ABF 19.9 LN

Today we are diving into what real agency looks like in the parameters of our submission to the Holy Spirit.
In all dimensions, we see that there is a sense of morality.
Jesus revealed his fullness to us as the spirit was given to us through him in his departure from His work on the cross. His intention throughout His ministry to equip us to be renewed from sin through the gift of this spirit because now we have the opportunity to know him.
1 Corinthians 10:23
Paul’s intention here is to drive our conscience to commit everything we do toward the glory of God with agency. Not condemning others because of their weakness, but to bring the fruit of the spirit into the lives of those who are weak.
Galatians 5
Turning away from the fruit of the freedom obtained from obeying the law causes us to fall away from the fruit of the spirit. Paul makes it clear we don’t need “a law”, rather, we are able to obey the whole law by living out the love that is given within submitting to the Spirit. Sinful nature and the Holy Spirit can not coexist together as they are active within an individual’s life.
Galatians 5:22: But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, against these things, there is no law.
How can we do right by those relationships we have a hard time with? Embracing the fruit of the spirit gives us no more reason to worry as we bear the Spirit’s fruit in our everyday lives.
When Jesus healed on the sabbath, people threw a fit out of their die-hard efforts to live by the law, but we ought to feel a moral weight in our agency and the freedom that offers. No we do not use it to satisfy our sinful nature, but to use it to love one another the way that Spirit calls us to; AGAPE…
To find this fruit do we reach within ourselves? NO. God did not structure things that way. He set us up to open ourselves to the channel provided by His Word, His Son, His Counsel, and His guidance. By the closeness of relationship, by being one with Christ, we can cultivate and come alongside Him prayer, no longer bound by our own justifications and boxes we put ourselves in, but rather the correct submission to the Spirit.
Galatians 1: Paul had incredible agency toward persecuting Christ before he was redeemed as Paul, he (Saul) expresses his understanding that he never really knew God before his zeal for God was born on the road to Damascus. We can now identify his real spirit by the awesome fruit he has brought before his brothers and sisters in Christ. This fruit would never be without the working hands of the Holy Spirit completely reshaping him and restoring the path he was on beforehand.
Galatians 2:19-3:1-6, and 4:12
Paul points out the complacency of fully working out their lives as true representatives of the Holy Spirit. He questions their tendency to drop the progress gained after revolutionizing their culture and instead drifting back to their own way of operating, ways of living that completely go against what the Holy Spirit has to offer.
Matthew 7:18-19
In Galatians CH. 6 Paul backs this up by considering the idea of holding up each others burdens and humbling ourselves within our relationships with others, not taking for granted the Gift of the Spirit, but recognizing it is by God’s grace alone we are able to adhere to it. “We are not that important” reminds us that in our agency, we ought to be willing to push the boundaries of our own ability to say what is needed for the benefit and love of others by using ALL of the fruit the Holy Spirit has to offer.
We must do this in a way that leaves no room for the flesh, and no room for sin! Sin no longer reigns in he who lives by the full fruit of the Holy Spirit.