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Walking in the Spirit isn’t knowledge of teachings, but doctrine comes alive in the presence of the Holy Spirit.
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Walking in the Spirit is Dealing with Reality
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Walking in the Spirit doesn’t consist of insincere descriptions of imaginary experiences. It consists of real experiences.
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Walking in the Spirit isn’t Fantasy
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Walking in the Spirit isn’t letting our minds run away in fantasy, but it’s genuine experience with God.
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Walking in the Spirit and Revelation
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Walking in the Spirit isn’t endlessly pressing God for more revelation, but God’s revelation flows to us in amazing ways in God’s timing.
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Walking in the Spirit is Not
Walking in the Spirit isn’t attending endless meetings, but the Holy Spirit will lead us to fellowship with our families and with other believers in a balanced way.
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You Can Know Jesus
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To walk in the Spirit, we must interact personally with the Holy Spirit. To receive divine revelation, we must interact personally with Jesus Christ. Christian thinkers need to seek the person of Jesus Christ, to wait in His presence. They need to acknowledge Him. Otherwise, all they have is human religiosity, which is of no spiritual value at all. So if we want to walk in the Spirit, we must keep in step with the Spirit.
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WALKING IN THE SPIRIT
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Walking in the Spirit isn’t a Sunday morning entertainment but a 24-7 ever-deeper immersion in God’s wisdom, righteousness, power, and glory.
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KNOWING ABOUT VERSUS KNOWING
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At Revive US 2016, Francis Chan mentioned there’s a huge difference between knowing about a person and knowing the person. Francis mentioned Michael Jordan. We might know all about Michael Jordan. We might know all his statistics. But if we show up at his door, he probably won’t let us in since he doesn’t know us.
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LOSING CONTACT WITH JESUS
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If the human mind has stopped communing with the Holy Spirit, Christ seems far away and unreal, and divine revelation can eventually degrade to dead form, ritual, theology, theory, and rationalization. The theory can even be correct in every way and yet without divine life. It seems a Christian can even be performing miracles in Jesus’ name without knowing Him.
“Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness.’” ~ Matthew 7:22-23 Berean Study Bible
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CONFLICT
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We experience the conflict between the fleshly mind and the mind of Christ, but we can’t separate the mind of Christ from Christ Himself. So if a Christian isn’t communing with Christ, the revelation goes dead. It’s not that this Christian stops being God’s child, but communication with Christ breaks down, and the Christian’s heart begins to harden against Christ. Then the Christian begins to lean on his or her worldview rather than acknowledging Christ in every situation until, eventually, the fleshly veil obscures the Christian’s vision.
“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: The devils also believe and tremble.” ~ James 2:19 King James Version
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