- The Life He Gives Us — Rom 8:12-13
- The exhortation
- The explanation
- The practical outworking
- The precise approach
- The realization
- The actualization
- The Leadership He Provides
- It includes all believers
- It is for the purpose of sanctification
- His leadership is constant and continual
- His leadership is effective
- His leadership guarantees progress
- His leadership gives comforting assurance
- Deal with sin
- Mortify — put to death
- Not morbid legalism
- Not monasticism
- Thru the Spirit
- Draw from him
- Count on him
- Consult him
- Stop — abstain!
- I do! — deal immediately at first!
- Biblical response to his Word
- Sons of God are being constantly led by the Spirit of God
- The Leadership of the Holy Spirit
- For all believers
- All sons of God
- Belong to Christ
- Living according to the Spirit
- Not just for some special believers
- No special spiritual attainment
- Fact for all in Christ
- For the Purpose of Sanctification into Holiness
- Paths of righteousness
- To overcome sin
- The process
- Not to escape suffering, trials, dangers, difficulties, pressures
- To Prove Faith — 1 Peter
- His Leadership Is Continual
- Not sporadic
- Not just special occasions
- Covers all of life
- Physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual
- The constant work of God
- The Potter
- His Leadership Is Effective
- A powerful influence — not mere suggestions
- A conquest — triumph over us to bring us to be…
- A powerful control
- Leading an animal - tied
- Leading prisoners, bound, led
- He leads - we walk in response to Him
- His Leadership Guarantees Progress
- The pathway — steep, rough, narrow, difficult
- We are aware conscious — we are walking
- Battle — conflict
- The conflict proves the sonship
- The process proves the relationship
- No Holy Spirit — no conflict
- "Do you care?"
- Great — God lives here
- His leadership guarantees progress!!