Lesson Summary:

Believers can choose to walk by the Spirit and bear His fruit.

Focus Passage: Galatians 5:16-25.

Outline and Lesson Goal

Lesson Introduction

Principles and Applications

I. The Fight: The Spirit vs. The Sinful Nature (Galatians 5:16-18)

Principle: Believers can always choose to Walk by the Spirit in their battle against sin.
Application: How does your life show that you are choosing to walk by the Spirit each day?
Scripture Reference

¹³and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
¹⁴For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Romans 6:13-14

II. The Fruits of the Sinful Nature (Galatians 5:19-21)

Principle: Believers will not make a habit of producing the fruits of the flesh.
Application: What fruits of the flesh (sinful nature) are evident in your life? What needs to change?
Scripture Reference

⁴Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
⁵You know that He appeared in order to take away sins; and in Him there is no sin.
⁶No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him.
I John 3:4-6

III. The Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-25)

Principle: Believers have the habit of exhibiting the Fruit of the Spirit.
Application: How can you live out your freedom in acts of love today?
Scripture Reference

⁵For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
⁶For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace,
Romans 8:5-6