But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh - "The word walk is from peripateo which means literally 'to walk about,' but when used in a connection like this, refers to the act of conducting one's self, or ordering one's manner of life or behavior. The word lust is from epithumia which refers to a strong desire, impulse, or passion, the context indicating whether it is a good or an evil one. The word flesh refers here to the totally depraved nature of the person, the power of which is broken when the believer is saved. Therefore, the lusts of the flesh refer to the evil desires, impulses, and passions that are constantly arising from the evil nature as smoke rises from a chimney. The evil nature is not eradicated. Its power over the believer is broken, and the believer need not obey it. But it is there, constantly attempting to control the believer as it did before salvation wrought its work in his being. The word fulfill is from teleo which here means 'to bring to fulfillment in action.' The verb is future, and is preceded by two negatives. Two negatives in Greek do not, as in English, make a position assertion. They strengthen the negation. We have here an emphatic promissory future. It does not express a command, but gives a strong assurance that if the believer depends upon the Spirit to give him both the desire and the power to do the will of God, he will not bring to fulfillment in action, the evil impulses of the fallen nature, but will be able to resist and conquer them." (Wuest)
"How many people have tried in vain to overcome fleshly desires by other methods! They have repented in tears and promised never to fall again. They have made new resolutions. They have tried to exert more will-power. They have become very religious. They have spent more time praying and going to church. They have put themselves under the law. They have subjected themselves to deprivation and pain. How many methods have been tried! Man must have the Spirit of God within him in order to live a godly life ... You have the Spirit within you. When you believed in Christ, the Spirit came to dwell in you. Now let Him lead; let Him be the master in your life. Walk in the Spirit. Be all wrapped up in the things of the Spirit, of the Word of God, of prayer, and of the throne of grace. Give time to the study of the Word and prayer and you will find that the old nature will be overcome. It is only in the measure that we walk in the Spirit, that we shall not fulfill the desires of the flesh. I would like to call your attention to the word 'walk,' and emphasize it. Paul said, 'WALK in the Spirit.' Having the Spirit is not enough. There are many believers who have the Spirit dwelling within, yet they are worldly and carnal in their behavior. There is no final, complete victory over sin in this life. Just because the Spirit has taken up His residence in the believer does not mean that the believer will automatically overcome all sin. We must walk in the Spirit; we must seek His help step by step, for we are not sinless yet!" (Stam)
these are opposed to each other - "...has the idea of suppression ... There is a reciprocity on the part of the flesh and Spirit. Each reciprocates the antagonism which the one holds for the other. The translation is as follows: 'For the flesh constantly has a strong desire to suppress the Spirit, and the Spirit constantly has a strong desire to suppress the flesh. And these are entrenched in an attitude of mutual opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you desire to do.' When the flesh presses hard upon the believer with its evil behests, the Holy Spirit is there to oppose the flesh and give the believer victory over it, in order that the believer will not obey the flesh, and thus sin. When the Holy Spirit places a course of conduct upon the heart of the believer, the flesh opposes the Spirit in an effort to prevent the believer from obeying the Spirit. The purpose of each is to prevent the believer from doing what the other moves him to do. The choice lies with the saint. He must develop the habit of keeping his eyes fixed on the lord Jesus and his trust in the Holy Spirit." (Wuest)
to keep you from doing the things you want to do - "I can almost hear someone say, 'That does not sound like victory to me; that sounds like defeat. It sounds like the believer cannot do what he wants to do to please God. He will constantly fail and fall into sin.' This last phrase, 'Ye cannot do the things that ye would' is not meant to show our weakness or our helplessness. It does not offer excuse for sin, as though we could say, 'I could not help it.' There are Christian people who constantly argue for the weakness of the flesh. They never seem to argue for the power of the Spirit within them. I say that this phrase, 'Ye cannot do the things that ye would,' is not given to show how weak we are, but how depraved we are by nature. Thank God, Christ died for our sins and He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. We stand before Him perfect, 'accepted in the Beloved One,' and 'complete in Christ.' 'Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?' (Rom 8:33). That is our standing in Christ. But as to our experience in ourselves, we are still inherently sinful, as bad as we ever were. We can never relax and say that sin is gone and that we will never be troubled again with temptation to sin. This is what the apostle meant when he said, 'These are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.' You cannot take a vacation from sin and say that you have no problem with it any more. The old nature, and our adversary the Devil will see to that. So Galatians 5:17 is just simply saying that the Spirit of God and the old nature within us are constantly at enmity with each other, so that we cannot do what we would like to do. We must be constantly on our toes, constantly alert against temptation. This is a simple statement of facts. If any many would deny it, let him ask himself, 'Have I found complete personal victory over myself?' Let him ask himself, 'Do I have no more trouble with temptation?' Of course he does. Therefore we all must 'walk in the Spirit.' Paul did not say, 'If you have the Spirit within you' — But 'If you walk in the Spirit.'" (Stam)
if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law - "The Galatian Christians had up to the time of the Judaizers' entry into their churches, lived their Christian lives in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, in accordance with the teaching of the apostle Paul. The power of the sinful nature had been broken, the divine nature had been implanted, and the Spirit had entered their hearts to take up His permanent residence. The conflict spoken of in verse 17 had been going on in them, and the result had been that they were living victorious lives over sin (Gal 4:19). But now a new factor had entered, the law, and with it, their dependence upon self effort to obey that law. The Galatians were still trying to live Christian lives, but they were going about it in the wrong way, with the result that they were failing. The entrance of these new factors meant that the Spirit had no opportunity to minister to their spiritual lives. The mechanical set-up of spiritual machinery which God had installed, had become ineffective by reason of the monkey-wrench of self-dependence which the Galatians had thrown into it. Paul here presents to them a third way of life, distinct from that of a person under law, and also from that of a person who, because he is not under the restraining influences of law anymore, thinks that that leaves him without restraint of any kind, and thus yields to the impulses of the evil nature. That third way is not a middle road between these two, but a highway above them. It is a highway of freedom from statues and from the sinful nature, a highway which is a faith way, a dependence upon the Spirit ... Again, the law finds nothing to condemn in the life of the person who is led by the Spirit, for that person checks every wrong desire which is brought to him by the evil nature, and so he fulfills the law. This is the blessed moral freedom of the person who is led by the Spirit. He is in such a condition of moral and spiritual life that the law has no power to censure, condemn, nor punish him. This is the true moral freedom from the law to which Paul refers (Rom 8:1-4)." (Wuest)
"Romans 6:14 is closely parallel. The believer is assured that the lordship of sin over him is no longer of necessity, inasmuch as he is no longer under the law, which demands obedience, but which cannot supply the power without which obedience is not possible. On the contrary, he is under grace, where inherent weakness is met by sufficient and instantly available strength, Ephesians 3:16." (Vine)
the works of the flesh are evident - "Paul's purpose in enumerating the various manifestations of the evil nature, is to enforce the exhortation of verse 13 to the effect that Galatian Christians are not to use their liberty from the law as a base of operations from which to cater to the flesh, but instead, are to rule their lives by divine love. Such a catalogue of sins would act as a repellent and thus cause them to turn away from sin ... As the repulsiveness of the works of the flesh would deter the Galatians from yielding to the evil nature, so the attractiveness of the fruit of the Spirit would influence them to yield themselves to the Spirit." (Wuest)
there is no law - "As the believer takes account of things true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, the worthy things and the pleasing things, he is taking account of Christ, for the things that were to be seen in Paul were the things that Paul had seen in Christ; see Philippians 4:8, 9 and cp. 1 Corinthians 11:1. The ideal Christian life is an extension of the life of the Lord Jesus; the things that in the days of His flesh He manifested in His own way among men, He manifests now by the power of His Spirit in the lives of His people." (Vine)
"Notice, please, that over against the works of the flesh we have the fruit of the Spirit. Do you see, beloved, that it is not by struggling and trying that we overcome sin? That is just putting ourselves under another kind of bondage. Men who have not taken Christ as personal Savior have certainly proved that they break their best resolves. The fruit of the Spirit cannot be works. If only we would be more occupied with the things of the Spirit! What does it mean to walk in the Spirit? The Word of God was written by the Spirit. Get more interested in it. It is in the Spirit and through the Spirit that we approach God in prayer. Spend more time in prayer. That is what it is to walk in the Spirit, and to be led by the Spirit. It does not mean that you hear voices or have strange compunctions or hunches. It means to spend more time in the Word of God and prayer, and in that measure, beloved, you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. If you will be like a tree taking in the sunshine and rain that God graciously gives, you will bear the precious fruit of the Spirit. Do not struggle to try to overcome the old nature, but become occupied more and more with the things of God. That is the secret." (Stam)
those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires - "Christians crucified the evil nature with its affections and lusts, in the sense that when they put their faith in the Lord Jesus as Savior, they received the actual benefits of their identification with Christ in His death on the Cross, which benefits were only potential at the time He was crucified. The Christian's identification with Christ in His death, resulted in the breaking of the power of the sinful nature over the life. This victory over sin which the Lord Jesus procured for us at the Cross, is made actual and operative in our lives as we yield to the Holy Spirit and trust Him for that victory." (Wuest)
let us also keep in step with the Spirit - "The word Spirit is dative of reference. The word if is the conditional particle of a fulfilled condition. That is, 'in view of the fact' or 'seeing that' we live with reference to the Spirit. The Galatians were living with reference to the Spirit in the sense that the new divine life resident in their beings, was supplied by the Spirit. Now, Paul says, 'in view of the fact that you Galatians have a new life principle operating in your beings, then walk by the Spirit.' The word walk is from stoicheo which means 'to walk in a straight line, to conduct one's self (rightly).' Thus, the exhortation is to the Galatians who have divine life resident in their beings, to conduct themselves under the guidance, impulses, and energy of that life. The responsibility of the saint is to desire to live a Christ-like life, to depend upon the Holy Spirit for the power to live that life, and to step out on faith and live that life. This fulfilled, will bring all the infinite resources of grace to the aid of the saint, and put in operation all the activities of the Spirit in his behalf." (Wuest)
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. - "...means 'having a conceit of possessing a rightful claim to honor.' It speaks of that state of mind which is contrasted to the state of mind which seeks God's glory. There were two classes of Christians in the Galatian churches. One class thought that they had attained to freedom in the absolute sense, freedom from any restraint whatsoever. These were in danger of turning liberty into license. This class took pride in their fancied liberty from all restraint. The other class was composed of the more scrupulous and timid brethren. The former class would be tempted to dare the latter group to do things which the law forbids, insinuating that they were afraid to do them. The former class thus would be guilty of vain glory, empty pride, provoking the latter group to do things which it did not think right. On the other hand, the latter group would be tempted to regard the spurious liberty of the former class as something to be desired, and thus would envy them their liberty, wishing that they felt the same way about their freedom. It is like the case of the strong Christian and the weak one who has scruples. Romans 14:1-15:3 and 1 Corinthians 8 deal with this subject. The strong Christian should bear the infirmities of the weak, Paul said. This would be the cure for the situation in the Galatian churches." (Wuest)
"In the latter part of Galatians the Apostle Paul concluded his great argument for Christian liberty, that is, the liberty of believers in Christ. Only believers in Christ have true liberty. The unsaved are in bondage to their own sinful natures and to the Devil, who the Scriptures say leads them captive at his will (2 Tim 2:26). Their bondage might take on different forms. They may indulge in gross sin, depraved drunkenness, and debauchery. Or their bondage may take the form of proud self-righteousness, which can be ever worse. In any case, the unsaved are in bondage. They have nothing with which to overcome either their own sinful natures or the Devil, the adversary of their souls. I do not mean to say for a moment that believers never sin or fall; they do, of course, but the point is that they need not. God has given us the Holy Spirit with whom we may overcome every single temptation. He dwells within us and is always ready to help. No longer in bondage to the law, to self, or to the Devil. We are truly free!" (Stam)
walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh - "The word walk is from peripateo which means literally 'to walk about,' but when used in a connection like this, refers to the act of conducting one's self, or ordering one's manner of life or behavior. The word lust is from epithumia which refers to a strong desire, impulse, or passion, the context indicating whether it is a good or an evil one. The word flesh refers here to the totally depraved nature of the person, the power of which is broken when the believer is saved. Therefore, the lusts of the flesh refer to the evil desires, impulses, and passions that are constantly arising from the evil nature as smoke rises from a chimney. The evil nature is not eradicated. Its power over the believer is broken, and the believer need not obey it. But it is there, constantly attempting to control the believer as it did before salvation wrought its work in his being. The word fulfill is from teleo which here means 'to bring to fulfillment in action.' The verb is future, and is preceded by two negatives. Two negatives in Greek do not, as in English, make a position assertion. They strengthen the negation. We have here an emphatic promissory future. It does not express a command, but gives a strong assurance that if the believer depends upon the Spirit to give him both the desire and the power to do the will of God, he will not bring to fulfillment in action, the evil impulses of the fallen nature, but will be able to resist and conquer them." (Wuest)
"How many people have tried in vain to overcome fleshly desires by other methods! They have repented in tears and promised never to fall again. They have made new resolutions. They have tried to exert more will-power. They have become very religious. They have spent more time praying and going to church. They have put themselves under the law. They have subjected themselves to deprivation and pain. How many methods have been tried! Man must have the Spirit of God within him in order to live a godly life ... You have the Spirit within you. When you believed in Christ, the Spirit came to dwell in you. Now let Him lead; let Him be the master in your life. Walk in the Spirit. Be all wrapped up in the things of the Spirit, of the Word of God, of prayer, and of the throne of grace. Give time to the study of the Word and prayer and you will find that the old nature will be overcome. It is only in the measure that we walk in the Spirit, that we shall not fulfill the desires of the flesh. I would like to call your attention to the word 'walk,' and emphasize it. Paul said, 'WALK in the Spirit.' Having the Spirit is not enough. There are many believers who have the Spirit dwelling within, yet they are worldly and carnal in their behavior. There is no final, complete victory over sin in this life. Just because the Spirit has taken up His residence in the believer does not mean that the believer will automatically overcome all sin. We must walk in the Spirit; we must seek His help step by step, for we are not sinless yet!" (Stam)
these are opposed to each other - "...has the idea of suppression ... There is a reciprocity on the part of the flesh and Spirit. Each reciprocates the antagonism which the one holds for the other. The translation is as follows: 'For the flesh constantly has a strong desire to suppress the Spirit, and the Spirit constantly has a strong desire to suppress the flesh. And these are entrenched in an attitude of mutual opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you desire to do.' When the flesh presses hard upon the believer with its evil behests, the Holy Spirit is there to oppose the flesh and give the believer victory over it, in order that the believer will not obey the flesh, and thus sin. When the Holy Spirit places a course of conduct upon the heart of the believer, the flesh opposes the Spirit in an effort to prevent the believer from obeying the Spirit. The purpose of each is to prevent the believer from doing what the other moves him to do. The choice lies with the saint. He must develop the habit of keeping his eyes fixed on the lord Jesus and his trust in the Holy Spirit." (Wuest)
to keep you from doing the things you want to do - "I can almost hear someone say, 'That does not sound like victory to me; that sounds like defeat. It sounds like the believer cannot do what he wants to do to please God. He will constantly fail and fall into sin.' This last phrase, 'Ye cannot do the things that ye would' is not meant to show our weakness or our helplessness. It does not offer excuse for sin, as though we could say, 'I could not help it.' There are Christian people who constantly argue for the weakness of the flesh. They never seem to argue for the power of the Spirit within them. I say that this phrase, 'Ye cannot do the things that ye would,' is not given to show how weak we are, but how depraved we are by nature. Thank God, Christ died for our sins and He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. We stand before Him perfect, 'accepted in the Beloved One,' and 'complete in Christ.' 'Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?' (Rom 8:33). That is our standing in Christ. But as to our experience in ourselves, we are still inherently sinful, as bad as we ever were. We can never relax and say that sin is gone and that we will never be troubled again with temptation to sin. This is what the apostle meant when he said, 'These are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.' You cannot take a vacation from sin and say that you have no problem with it any more. The old nature, and our adversary the Devil will see to that. So Galatians 5:17 is just simply saying that the Spirit of God and the old nature within us are constantly at enmity with each other, so that we cannot do what we would like to do. We must be constantly on our toes, constantly alert against temptation. This is a simple statement of facts. If any many would deny it, let him ask himself, 'Have I found complete personal victory over myself?' Let him ask himself, 'Do I have no more trouble with temptation?' Of course he does. Therefore we all must 'walk in the Spirit.' Paul did not say, 'If you have the Spirit within you' — But 'If you walk in the Spirit.'" (Stam)
if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law - "The Galatian Christians had up to the time of the Judaizers' entry into their churches, lived their Christian lives in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, in accordance with the teaching of the apostle Paul. The power of the sinful nature had been broken, the divine nature had been implanted, and the Spirit had entered their hearts to take up His permanent residence. The conflict spoken of in verse 17 had been going on in them, and the result had been that they were living victorious lives over sin (Gal 4:19). But now a new factor had entered, the law, and with it, their dependence upon self effort to obey that law. The Galatians were still trying to live Christian lives, but they were going about it in the wrong way, with the result that they were failing. The entrance of these new factors meant that the Spirit had no opportunity to minister to their spiritual lives. The mechanical set-up of spiritual machinery which God had installed, had become ineffective by reason of the monkey-wrench of self-dependence which the Galatians had thrown into it. Paul here presents to them a third way of life, distinct from that of a person under law, and also from that of a person who, because he is not under the restraining influences of law anymore, thinks that that leaves him without restraint of any kind, and thus yields to the impulses of the evil nature. That third way is not a middle road between these two, but a highway above them. It is a highway of freedom from statues and from the sinful nature, a highway which is a faith way, a dependence upon the Spirit ... Again, the law finds nothing to condemn in the life of the person who is led by the Spirit, for that person checks every wrong desire which is brought to him by the evil nature, and so he fulfills the law. This is the blessed moral freedom of the person who is led by the Spirit. He is in such a condition of moral and spiritual life that the law has no power to censure, condemn, nor punish him. This is the true moral freedom from the law to which Paul refers (Rom 8:1-4)." (Wuest)
"Romans 6:14 is closely parallel. The believer is assured that the lordship of sin over him is no longer of necessity, inasmuch as he is no longer under the law, which demands obedience, but which cannot supply the power without which obedience is not possible. On the contrary, he is under grace, where inherent weakness is met by sufficient and instantly available strength, Ephesians 3:16." (Vine)
the works of the flesh are evident - "Paul's purpose in enumerating the various manifestations of the evil nature, is to enforce the exhortation of verse 13 to the effect that Galatian Christians are not to use their liberty from the law as a base of operations from which to cater to the flesh, but instead, are to rule their lives by divine love. Such a catalogue of sins would act as a repellent and thus cause them to turn away from sin ... As the repulsiveness of the works of the flesh would deter the Galatians from yielding to the evil nature, so the attractiveness of the fruit of the Spirit would influence them to yield themselves to the Spirit." (Wuest)
there is no law - "As the believer takes account of things true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, and of good report, the worthy things and the pleasing things, he is taking account of Christ, for the things that were to be seen in Paul were the things that Paul had seen in Christ; see Philippians 4:8, 9 and cp. 1 Corinthians 11:1. The ideal Christian life is an extension of the life of the Lord Jesus; the things that in the days of His flesh He manifested in His own way among men, He manifests now by the power of His Spirit in the lives of His people." (Vine)
"Notice, please, that over against the works of the flesh we have the fruit of the Spirit. Do you see, beloved, that it is not by struggling and trying that we overcome sin? That is just putting ourselves under another kind of bondage. Men who have not taken Christ as personal Savior have certainly proved that they break their best resolves. The fruit of the Spirit cannot be works. If only we would be more occupied with the things of the Spirit! What does it mean to walk in the Spirit? The Word of God was written by the Spirit. Get more interested in it. It is in the Spirit and through the Spirit that we approach God in prayer. Spend more time in prayer. That is what it is to walk in the Spirit, and to be led by the Spirit. It does not mean that you hear voices or have strange compunctions or hunches. It means to spend more time in the Word of God and prayer, and in that measure, beloved, you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. If you will be like a tree taking in the sunshine and rain that God graciously gives, you will bear the precious fruit of the Spirit. Do not struggle to try to overcome the old nature, but become occupied more and more with the things of God. That is the secret." (Stam)
those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires - "Christians crucified the evil nature with its affections and lusts, in the sense that when they put their faith in the Lord Jesus as Savior, they received the actual benefits of their identification with Christ in His death on the Cross, which benefits were only potential at the time He was crucified. The Christian's identification with Christ in His death, resulted in the breaking of the power of the sinful nature over the life. This victory over sin which the Lord Jesus procured for us at the Cross, is made actual and operative in our lives as we yield to the Holy Spirit and trust Him for that victory." (Wuest)
let us also keep in step with the Spirit - "The word Spirit is dative of reference. The word if is the conditional particle of a fulfilled condition. That is, 'in view of the fact' or 'seeing that' we live with reference to the Spirit. The Galatians were living with reference to the Spirit in the sense that the new divine life resident in their beings, was supplied by the Spirit. Now, Paul says, 'in view of the fact that you Galatians have a new life principle operating in your beings, then walk by the Spirit.' The word walk is from stoicheo which means 'to walk in a straight line, to conduct one's self (rightly).' Thus, the exhortation is to the Galatians who have divine life resident in their beings, to conduct themselves under the guidance, impulses, and energy of that life. The responsibility of the saint is to desire to live a Christ-like life, to depend upon the Holy Spirit for the power to live that life, and to step out on faith and live that life. This fulfilled, will bring all the infinite resources of grace to the aid of the saint, and put in operation all the activities of the Spirit in his behalf." (Wuest)
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. - "...means 'having a conceit of possessing a rightful claim to honor.' It speaks of that state of mind which is contrasted to the state of mind which seeks God's glory. There were two classes of Christians in the Galatian churches. One class thought that they had attained to freedom in the absolute sense, freedom from any restraint whatsoever. These were in danger of turning liberty into license. This class took pride in their fancied liberty from all restraint. The other class was composed of the more scrupulous and timid brethren. The former class would be tempted to dare the latter group to do things which the law forbids, insinuating that they were afraid to do them. The former class thus would be guilty of vain glory, empty pride, provoking the latter group to do things which it did not think right. On the other hand, the latter group would be tempted to regard the spurious liberty of the former class as something to be desired, and thus would envy them their liberty, wishing that they felt the same way about their freedom. It is like the case of the strong Christian and the weak one who has scruples. Romans 14:1-15:3 and 1 Corinthians 8 deal with this subject. The strong Christian should bear the infirmities of the weak, Paul said. This would be the cure for the situation in the Galatian churches." (Wuest)
"In the latter part of Galatians the Apostle Paul concluded his great argument for Christian liberty, that is, the liberty of believers in Christ. Only believers in Christ have true liberty. The unsaved are in bondage to their own sinful natures and to the Devil, who the Scriptures say leads them captive at his will (2 Tim 2:26). Their bondage might take on different forms. They may indulge in gross sin, depraved drunkenness, and debauchery. Or their bondage may take the form of proud self-righteousness, which can be ever worse. In any case, the unsaved are in bondage. They have nothing with which to overcome either their own sinful natures or the Devil, the adversary of their souls. I do not mean to say for a moment that believers never sin or fall; they do, of course, but the point is that they need not. God has given us the Holy Spirit with whom we may overcome every single temptation. He dwells within us and is always ready to help. No longer in bondage to the law, to self, or to the Devil. We are truly free!" (Stam)
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