Pastor Lowell teaches on Galatians 5: 25 "Walk in the Spirit" on 5/4/2025 for our Sunday service.

Galatians 5:25 If we live in the spirit, let us then walk in the spirit.

Paul continue his teaching on the positional life of the Christian to the practical walk of the Christian.

Moving from the internal transformation to external actions and behavior.

Vs 24 is the positional to the practical not waking in darkness and avoiding the flesh.

Vs 25 is the positional to the practical and walking in the light and walking in the Spirit.

Paul points out the positional act of sanctification of living in the Spirit and the practical sanctification of walking in the Spirit.

Pastor Lowell teaches on Galatians 5:24 "The Flesh is Crucified" on 4/30/2025 for our Wednesday service.

Galatians 5: 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Paul has been introducing the fundamental struggle that every Christian has between their walking in the flesh and walking is the Spirit. This is the battle of whose passions and desires will rule in my life. My flesh's desires or the desires of the Holy Spirit. Paul is revealing the victory in the Christians identification in Christ Jesus and the positional of sanctification of the crucified flesh and the practical sanctification of the crucifixion of the flesh's passions and desires.

Pastor Lowell Nelson teaches on Romans 2:17-3:4 "God's Judgement, the Law and Righteousness Upheld" on 4/30/2025 for our Monday Upper Room Bible Study.

Romans 2

God's Judgment and the Law

17 Indeed you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and make your boast in God, 18 and know His will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 21 You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal? 22 You who say, "Do not commit adultery," do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who make your boast in the law, do you dishonor God through breaking the law? 24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," as it is written.

25 For circumcision is indeed profitable if you keep the law; but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. 26 Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And will not the physically uncircumcised, if he fulfills the law, judge you who, even with your written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

Romans 3

God's Righteousness Upheld

1 What advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? 2 Much in every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without effect?

4 Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:

Pastor Lowell teaches on Galatians 5: 22-23 "The Fruit of the Spirit" on 4/27/2025 for our Sunday service.

Galatians 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 [a]gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

After Paul had listed the works of the flesh , he now shares the fruit (the work) of the Holy Spirit in contrast and evidence.

Pastor Lowell teaches on Galatians 5: 19-21 "The warnings of the works of the flesh" on 4/23/2025 for our Wednesday service.

Galatians 5: 19-21

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Paul is warning the believers in Galatia about the dangers of walking in the flesh. Paul lists the visible indicators of a life ruled by the flesh. The sinful human nature. He warns them if this is a practiced lifestyle.

Pastor Lowell Nelson teaches about Romans 2:1-16 "God's Judgment and the Law" on 4/21/2025 for our Monday Upper Room Bible Study.

Romans 2

God's Righteous Judgment

1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. 3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

6 who "will render to each one according to his deeds": 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness - indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God.

God's Judgment and the Law

12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

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Pastor Lowell teaches about Galatians 5:18 “Declaring and Demonstrating Life” on 4/20/2025 as we celebrate the Risen Christ for our Sunday service. He is not here! He is Risen!

Galatians 5:18 If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Just as the resurrection of Jesus as spoken by the angel was a “Declaration of Life” at the empty tomb that was a “Demonstration of Life”, so walking in the spirit is a declaration and demonstration of the power of the resurrected life that is promised in scripture.

Pastor Lowell Nelson teaches on 1 Peter 1: 24 "Why the Cross?" on 4/18/2025 for our Good Friday service.

1 Peter 2: 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed.

The cross is the theme of Good Friday. The cross is the central symbol of Christianity - Not because of it's shape, but because of Who hung on it, why and what He accomplished on that Cross. So the question we are asking today is simple but eternal: "Why the Cross?"

The Cross is not just a symbol in theology - The Cross in the invitation of the Gospel.