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If we live in the Spirit let us walk in the Spirit.
We die to the strong desires of the flesh. What do we do then, we walk in love, loving others as ourselves. This does not mean we tolerate evil. For evil will hurt the innocent. We in love put away the evil. So that the evil doers not spread. Let the church body wake up to this truth. Jesus did not tolerate evil, he cast it out.
Galatians 5:16-18, 22, 24-25 KJV
[16] This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. [17] For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. [18] But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
[24] And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. [25] If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
You’re hitting the heart of what Paul is driving at in Galatians 5—there’s no middle ground. The moment a believer is born again by the Spirit, the old fleshly cravings don’t just get quiet; they’re nailed to the cross with Christ (v. 24). From that point on, our daily choice is simple but brutal: either we keep stepping in line with the Spirit, or we’ll end up carrying out the desires of the flesh, because those two are always at war every single day (v. 17).
Walking in the Spirit isn’t mystical vagueness; it’s practical, moment-by-moment obedience that produces very concrete fruit—starting with love. But notice the order: love is first, not tolerance. Biblical love isn’t spineless niceness that lets evil run wild. Jesus loved people too much to let demons keep tormenting them, so He drove them out. He loved the temple too much to let it stay a den of thieves, so He flipped tables. Love protects the innocent, confronts the oppressor, and refuses to call evil “good” just to keep the peace.
That’s why the same Paul who tells us to “walk in love” (Eph 5:2) also tells us to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Eph 5:11) and to “mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine… and avoid them” (Rom 16:17). Love and church discipline aren’t opposites; they’re two sides of the same coin.
So yes—let the church wake up. We don’t fight evil by compromising with it or pretending it isn’t there. We fight it the way Jesus did: in the power of the Holy Spirit, with truth spoken in love, and when necessary, with the rod of correction that actually protects the flock (Matt 18:15-17; 1 Cor 5; Titus 3:10).
If we’re truly dead to the flesh and alive to God, then our love will look a lot less like modern tolerance and a lot more like the fierce, protective, purifying love of Christ Himself.
Keep walking in the Spirit, brother. The flesh is loud, but the Spirit is stronger.
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