Live with God’s Spirit in You

Bible verse

Galatians 5:16-26

Introduction

Christians must live as free people. Paul now writes more about how to live like this.

Sometimes people live as they want to. Then difficulties happen. Paul writes some of these difficulties in a list. But Christians have God’s Spirit in them. This helps them to do good. The rules cannot help us to do good. Paul writes another list.

So we must let God’s Spirit live in us. We have to work to obey God’s Spirit. It does not just happen. We want God’s Spirit in our lives because we follow Christ.

Questions

Galatians 5:16-20 ~ What difficulties does Paul write in his list? Why do people allow these problems to happen?

Galatians 5:21 ~ What else happens when people do wrong?

Galatians 5:22-23 ~ What good fruit does Paul write in his list?

Galatians 5:22 ~ What causes people to become ‘good fruit’?

Galatians 5:24 ~ Paul uses the same strong word twice. What is this word? Why has Paul chosen to use this word here?

Galatians 5:25 ~ ‘We live by *God’s Spirit. What does Paul say
that this means?

Galatians 5:26 ~ What three things must we not do?

Something to do

Many people think that they are free people. So they do what they want. Talk about what might be the result of this. Talk about any example that you know.

Perhaps you did not want to do something. And perhaps you did it because it was right. This was because God’s Spirit was in you. If possible, talk about when you did this.

Sometimes we still do what we want. We do not listen to God’s Spirit. And then we may be in trouble. Talk about what we might do next.

In Paul’s list, what do you want most in your life? Think about what you might do about this.