Walk in the Spirit -- His Faith and His Grace

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

"That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."  (Romans 8: 3-4)

The law has been fulfilled in Jesus' death on the Cross (Colossians 2: 13-15)

We are not called to live by the dead, oldness of the letter, but to live in the Spirit of life:

"But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Romans 7: 6)

We walk in the Spirit as we rest in the faith that we have received from God:

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

"I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." (Galatians 2: 20-21)

At first glance, "walk in the Spirit" seems vague, ethereal, or just plain impractical. When we receive the truth that it is Jesus' own faith which moves us, which prompts us to live out the life which He is living in us (Philippians 2: 12-13).

By His faith, then, we receive the grace to live the life that He wants us to live : to "walk in the Spirit":

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

"By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Romans 5: 1-2)

We access God's grace by faith. We were saved by grace, which we received by faith:

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" (Ephesians 2: 8)

Even this verse signals that the faith we live by is also a gift!