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Yielding To The Spirit

1) The passage distinguishes between two categories of people - children of light who are believers and should watch and be sober, and children of night who are unbelievers and sleep. 2) Believers should be filled with and influenced by God's spirit, demonstrated by fruits of the spirit, rather than works of the flesh while under the influence of things like wine. 3) Jesus offers a new "wine", the spirit, that believers who are indwelt by the spirit can be filled with to express spiritual things rather than fleshly things.

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Yielding To The Spirit

1) The passage distinguishes between two categories of people - children of light who are believers and should watch and be sober, and children of night who are unbelievers and sleep. 2) Believers should be filled with and influenced by God's spirit, demonstrated by fruits of the spirit, rather than works of the flesh while under the influence of things like wine. 3) Jesus offers a new "wine", the spirit, that believers who are indwelt by the spirit can be filled with to express spiritual things rather than fleshly things.

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Thursday 7th October 2021

Topic: Yield to the Spirit


Text: 1 Thessalonians 5: 5-7
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the
night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch
and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken
are drunken in the night.

It is important to understand the two different categories of people that Paul is talking
about here. The children of the light are the children of the day, they are the ones who
are supposed to watch and be sober, they are believers while The children of the night
are those of the darkness, they are the ones that sleep in the night, they are
Unbelievers. In Ephesians 5 Paul says the same thing that the believer is now light in
the lord while the unbeliever is in darkness.

This distinction is important because there are certain activities that ought to
characterize those who are of the day or of the light and those who are of the night or
of the darkness.
This is why he says in [Eph 5: 18-19] Paul instructs the church saying “do not be
drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit”

Been drunk speaks of subjecting oneself to be influenced, so, whatever influence a


man subjects hmself to will determine how he will act and behave. A man who is
drunk with wine is someone who has had too much, who is filled with it and he is
under its influence.

Therefore the activities of the night, the darkness, those that sleep and those refer to
the works of the flesh while the activities of the day, of the light and those that watch
refer to the fruits of the spirit, the christian conduct of the believer.

In the new testament, Jesus explains the spirit as a wine, a different kind of wine. The
k ind of wine that God gives in the resurrection to everyone who believes. [Matt
26:27-29]
A man has to first be indwelt by the spirit to be filled with the spirit. He cannot
express what he does not have. The believing man is possessed with the spirit of God
and thus can always give expression to the things of the spirit.

Therefore, we are instructed to be drunk with the new wine of God’s spirit, to be filled
with the spirit and demonstrate the activities of a man who is under the influence of
God’s spirit [Ephesians 5:19-20]and not in the flesh, because he is of the day, not of
the night. He is of the light, not of the darkness and thus must act as such.
CONFESSION: I yield myself to the influence of the holy spirit indwelling me. I
give full expression to all that the spirit of God impresses upon my heart today.

You can download the teaching “Drunk with the Spirit” from our website
www.tehng.org for more understanding.

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