Opposition Factor

Intro: *Gal 5:16-17  Process for Overcoming

1. Oil & Water Don’t Mix
   1. Matt 6:24 Two masters…hat one vs. love and serve the other
   2. James 4:4-8a World/God (Sneak peak into point #III: “Resist” one
      1. Submit and draw near = I (God) will draw near to you)
   3. James 3:9-12
      II Cor 6: 14-18 Righteousness vs. Lawlessness, Light vs. Darkness
2. No Middle Ground
   1. Luke 11: 14-23 With or against
      24-26 Can’t just clean…must clean and fill
      Note: Christ’s working = sins forgiven spirit given
      John 15:4-5 “Apart from me you can do nothing”
      Phil 4:13 “Can do all things through Christ”
   2. Matt 12:33-37 Make the tree good or bad, the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. What frut do you product? What fills your heart?
   3. Rev: 3:15-16 Hot or Cold
   4. Rom 8:1-17
3. Opposition Factor
   1. “By what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved” II Peter 2:19b
   2. Rom 12:21 (vs 17-20) Overcome with good takes practice Heb 5:13-14)
   3. Rom 12:1-2 Conformed or transformed
   4. Gal 5:16-26 Walk by the Spirit and…

Extras:

Rom 6:1-23 Dead to sin, alive to God. Instruments or righteousness

Eph 5:6-16 Walk as children of light

[Note: Matt 5:14-16 “Let LIGHT shine”…not under a peck measure. Eph 4:30 Don’t quench the Spirit]

Rom 13:10-14 Lay aside dark…put on light

II Tim 2:21-22 Flee and pursue

4. Conclusion – Examples of Application
   1. Eph 4:29 wholesome speech to overcome slander
   2. Phil 4:4 rejoice/thankful to overcome bitterness/anger