The Problem of Me: Week 4

July 31, 2022

Notes

The Problem of Me: Week 4
Me vs. Me
Galatians 5:16-25

• It’s impossible to solve a problem if you don’t know what’s causing the problem..

• RULES - You should have. You didn’t. You’ll pay.

• Love one another the way I have loved you.

• The bad news is you’re going to spend your life frustrated -- because a relationship with Jesus doesn’t work well trying to live out the “rules.”

• Religion informs us what to do. It doesn’t enable us to do it.

  • Romans 6:14

• Sin is not your master anymore.

• John 15:5

  • You learn to have a relationship with me like a branch with a vine. What does the branch do? Nothing but stay connected to the vine.

• Galatians 5:16-19

• Galatians 5:22

  • Fruit is produced in and through us, not by us.

• Galatians 5:24-25

• Following Jesus is about keeping in step with Jesus, instead of following the law. It’s about a relationship, not rules.

• Accept your new identity.

• Pursue this new relationship.

• I’m not responding anymore with -- “I did it again.”

• Now, I’m responding with -- “I got out of step.”