Life in the Spirit - Journey Church

1. Life in the Spirit

3. ROMANS 8:4 (NIV)
In order that the righteous
requirement of the law might be fully
met in us, who do not live according
to the (flesh) sinful nature but
according to the Spirit.

4. ROMANS 8:5-6 (NIV)
Those who live according to the flesh
have their minds set on what the flesh
desires; but those who live in accordance
with the Spirit have their minds set on
what the Spirit desires. The mind
governed by the flesh is death, but the
mind governed by the Spirit is life and
peace.

5. ROMANS 8:7-8 (NIV)
The mind governed by the flesh is hostile
to God; it does not submit to God’s law,
nor can it do so. Those who are in the
realm of the flesh cannot please God.

6. ROMANS 8:9-10 (NIV)
You, however, are controlled not by the
sinful nature but by the Spirit, if indeed
the Spirit of God lives in you. And if
anyone does not have the Spirit of
Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if
Christ is in you, then even though your
body is subject to death because of sin,
the Spirit gives life because of

7. ROMANS 8:11 (NIV)
And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
from the dead is living in you, he who
raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies because of his
Spirit who lives in you.

8. 1. THE SPIRIT WANTS TO BRING:
A NEW MINDSET WHICH
LEADS TO LIFE AND PEACE
ROMANS 8:6– The mind governed by the
flesh is death, but the mind governed by
the Spirit is life and peace.

9. 1 JOHN 2:15-17 (ESV)
Do not love the world or the things in the
world. If anyone loves the world, the love
of the Father is not in him. For all that is
in the world—the desires of the flesh
and the desires of the eyes and pride of
life—is not from the Father but is from
the world. And the world is passing away
along with its desires, but whoever does

10. ROMANS 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this
world, but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind. Then you will be
able to test and approve what God’s will
is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

11. “I think everybody should get rich and
famous and do everything they ever
dreamed of so they can see that it's not
the answer.”
Jim Carrey
“I've been eating long enough, man.
My stomach should be full.”
Eminem

12. ECCLESIASTES 12:13 (NIV)
Now all has been heard; here is the
conclusion of the matter: Fear God and
keep his commandments, for this is the
duty of all mankind.

13. “God can't give us peace and happiness
apart from Himself because there is no
such thing.”
C.S. Lewis

14. Self-will vs. God’s will
Self-glory vs. God’s glory
Self-gratification vs. God gratification
Self-righteousness vs. God my
righteousness
Self-sufficiency vs. God’s sufficiency
J.D. Greear

15. 2. THE SPIRIT WANTS TO BRING:
ASSURANCE
ROMANS 8:9– You, however, are
controlled not by the sinful nature but by
the spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.
And if anyone does not have the Spirit of
Christ, they do not belong to Christ.

16. EPHESIANS 1:13-14 (NIV)
And you also were included in
Christ when you heard the message of
truth, the gospel of your salvation. When
you believed, you were marked in him
with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who
is a deposit guaranteeing our
inheritance until the redemption of those
who are God’s possession—to the praise

17. 1 JOHN 5:11-13 (NIV)
And this is the testimony: God has given
us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever
does not have the Son of God does not
have life. I write these things to you who
believe in the name of the Son of God so
that you may know that you have eternal
life.

18. 3. THE SPIRIT WANTS TO BRING:
CHANGE IN YOUR AFFECTIONS

19. 4. THE SPIRIT WANTS TO BRING:
POWER TO SAY NO
ROMANS 8:11– And if the Spirit of him who
raised Jesus from the dead is living in you,
he who raised Christ from the dead will also
give life to your mortal bodies because
of his Spirit who lives in you.

20. ROMANS 8:12-13 (NIV)
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have
an obligation—but it is not to the flesh,
to live according to it. For if you live
according to the flesh, you will die; but if
by the Spirit you put to death the
misdeeds of the body, you will live.

21. GALATIANS 2:20 (NIV)
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no
longer I who live, but Christ lives in
me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I
live by faith in the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me

22. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:31b (ESV)
….I die every day.

23. “Be killing sin or sin will be killing you.”
John Owen
“the only attitude to adopt
towards the flesh is to kill it.”
John Stott

24. GALATIANS 5:16 (NIV)
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will
not gratify the desires of the flesh.

25. 1 SAMUEL 5:1-2 (NIV)
After the Philistines had captured the ark
of God, they took it from Ebenezer to
Ashdod. Then they carried the ark into
Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon.

26. 1 SAMUEL 5:3-4 (NIV)
When the people of Ashdod rose early the
next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face
on the ground before the ark of the Lord!
They took Dagon and put him back in his
place. But the following morning when they
rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on
the ground before the ark of the Lord! His
head and hands had been broken off and
were lying on the threshold; only his body

27. “Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much
of your time, so much of your talents and
money, and so much of your work. I want
YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to
torment or frustrate the natural man or
woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures
will do. I don’t want to only prune a
branch here and a branch there; rather I
want the whole tree out!

28. Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of
your desires, all of your wants and wishes
and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me,
give yourself to me and I will make of you
a new self---in my image. Give me yourself
and in exchange I will give you Myself. My
will, shall become your will. My heart, shall
become your heart.”