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Sermon audio from Church of the Living God in Traverse City, MI
We’ve been studying Paul’s second letter to Timothy. In it, he presents a pretty grim picture of what it looks like when people walk in the path of the flesh (which leads to chaos), and we are moving by implication to what it looks like to walk in the Spirit (which leads to peace). One side can have the form of godliness – it can go through the motions and to at least some degree look good on the outside – but the other side has experienced transformative power.
Paul made between two kinds of people and their fruit: those who love self,[1] money,, pleasure and lies, and those who love God, truth, and the path of life that follows repentance and surrender to the lordship of Christ. One side can have the form of godliness – it can go through the motions and to at least some degree look good on the outside – but the other side has experienced transformative power. The Spirit of God and the Path of God give us transformative power to mature in Christ and represent God well as ambassadors.
