-Share your name with the class and tell us if you stop and ask for directions or do you follow your internal compass when you are lost.
-Have you ever been on a difficult journey, either the weather was awful or the travel was difficult and you thought that you would never get home again, what did you do?
-Have you ever been through a rough time in your journey with Jesus, when the walk became difficult and frustrating, what did you do?
-Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? How do you know that the Spirit lives within you?
-How often do you face the temptation to slip back into a sinful condition? Let’s read Galatians 5:16 together. (These might be good words to underline and memorize).
-What is the result of living by the Spirit?
-Someone look up Romans 7:14-25; in your own words, what is Paul saying in these verses? How does the fact that Paul struggled with sin encourage you as you struggle with sin?
-Is anyone bold enough to share a time when they felt their sinful nature was in conflict with God’s Spirit? How did the Holy Spirit help you overcome the desires of your sinful nature?
-Doesn’t Galatians 5:19-21 sound a lot like the evening news? What recent news story displays one or more of these sinful acts mentioned in these verses?
-Which is worse; having someone famous display their sinful nature or having the media glamorize it?
-How do you think our children and youth are impacted by a celebrity who openly displays a sinful nature? What does it do to their perspective on sin?
-What can the average Christian do to counteract the negative influence our society shows our young people?
-Paul lists 15 acts of the sinful nature; how do they correspond with the Ten Commandments? Which Commandment do each of them come under?
-Which of these 15 give you the most difficult time? What steps do you take to avoid the temptation of this sin?
-What are the nine fruits of the Spirit mentioned in 5:22-26? How evident is this list of fruit in your life? Which fruit do you believe is the most evident? Which fruit is the least evident? What are you willing to do to change that?
-What was Paul trying to show to the legalists by writing about the fruits of the Spirit?
-Have you ever met a self-made man or woman, someone who believes that their self-effort with no help from the Spirit has led them to their successful life? How can living by the Spirit help you to avoid such conceit in your own life?
-Do oil and water mix? If we were to describe our sinful nature and Christlike living as oil and water, would most people understand what we were saying?
-We have spent a lot of time talking about following, walking with the Spirit. In your own words, what does it mean for you to keep in step or to walk with the Spirit?
-Think about this; if you were to rank how in step with the Spirit your daily walk is, on a scale of one to ten where would you find yourself? What do you need to do to be more in step with God daily?
-Who can summarize, in one sentence, the biblical truth learned from this lesson today?
-Let’s pray about living this biblical truth this week.