Grace 101, week 6, walking in the spirit by Tricia Gunn

Grace 101: Week 6, “Walking in the Spirit”

Week 6, Walking in the Spirit Romans 7:1-6, 18-25 and 8:1-3 Galatians 5:16-17 - Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another. “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” Easier said than done, right? If walking in the Spirit is so important - and it is! - why would God make it so difficult for us? Actually, He didn’t. It’s effortless if we know the secret. Jesus is the one who did the hard part. He came into our realm and took upon Himself our sin and judgement, was crucified, buried , rose again, started a new creation, and joined sinful man to HImself. Now all we have to do is walk in the Spirit. However, most of the time we’re NOT walking in the Spirit because we’re struggling so much with the flesh. What makes it so hard? The mixture of law and grace. You never feel good enough. You never feel like you’re doing enough. You never feel like you’re acceptable to God.... You scream, “I give up!” Flesh and Spirit seem to be in an endless battle. Matthew 11:28-30 - Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is EASY and My burden is light.” This is NOT the experience of most Christians. Most Christians try to walk like Jesus did by DOING what He did. This is nothing more than the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and it is death. Do you remember what it felt like when you were first saved? Totally clean. Totally free... Where did that joy go? The joy was replaced by guilt and condemnation from constantly looking at the sin in the flesh and trying to DO something about it. Most Christians have been told their whole lives that they need to DO something to become righteous, making a mockery of the cross and bringing great confusion to the body of Christ. If you believe that you are supposed to do something to become something that you ALREADY ARE, you will get confused. But when you believe the truth of who you ARE, you are released to rest. Faith in the finished work of Christ releases the fresh wind and water of the Holy Spirit. Think of it this way: Law is a function of demands on the flesh to create an outward appearance of righteousness.

Grace 101: Week 6, “Walking in the Spirit”

Grace is a function of the supply of the life of Jesus from within which reveals a true righteousness. The law is “Thou SHALL NOT commit adultery. Thou SHALLE NOT steal. Thou SHALL NOT bear false witness...” Demand. Demand. Demand. With grace there ARE demands, but whatever that God demands, He supplies by His Spirit within you. The law presumes on MAN’s strength. With the law, nothing comes from the overflow of God’s life inside of us. Law produces 100% effort of the flesh. The law is holy and righteous, but it can’t make you holy and righteous. It is a viciously honest mirror of the flesh of man. You look into the mirror, and if it says, “ugly”, you can’t blame the mirror. The mirror will show a smudge on your face, but it can’t do anything to clean it off. God gave the law to show man’s sin (Romans 3:20). Most of the preaching in the church today is on sin as if that is the biggest problem, and as if sin management is the answer; but sin has no power on its own. 1 Corinthians 15:56 - The strength of sin is the law. If power of sin in the believer’s life is the law, then without the law, sin has no power! Romans 6:14 - For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law [demand] but under grace [supply]. Every day when you start the day, know that God is not demanding anything of you that He hasn’t already fully supplied you for. God is not telling you, “Thou shall love Me with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.” No, He’s the One loving you with all His heart, all His soul, all His mind, and all His strength. He fulfills the greatest commandment for you because no one has ever been able to do it apart from Him. We love because HE first loved us (1 John 4:19). So how does all this work? How do we live in supply and not demand? Why do we find ourselves wanting to do one thing, but doing another? What is the key to living a life where we do nothing of ourselves? It all has to do with knowing who you are married to.

7:1-4 Paul opens up Romans 7 by using the analogy of marriage: are we married to Law or Jesus? Romans 7:1-3 - Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Why is the Holy Spirit explaining about law and grace in terms of marriage? First of all, whether Paul is preaching to Jews or Gentiles, his policy is always to preach to the Jew first, and then the Gentile (Romans 1:16). 73

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The Jews were taught that at the foot of Mount Sinai where the law was given, that God married the nation of Israel to the law. Even today at Jewish weddings there is a thing called a “Chuppah,” a canopy of cloth hung on poles that the bride and groom stand under during the ceremony. The shadow of Mount Sinai was the “Chuppah,” the shelter over God marrying Israel to the law. So the analogy in Romans 7 is taken from this understanding. Israel, the wife, made her marriage vows when she said, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.” (Exodus 24:3) This was the response of the people when Moses came down the mountain with all of God’s laws and judgments. They agreed to the covenant of demand. They married Mr. Law by saying, “I do.” We also were once married to Mr. Law before Mr. Grace came into our lives. There's nothing wrong with Mr. Law. He is faithful to his wife. He doesn’t commit adultery. The only problem with Mr. Law is that he demands and demands and demands from his wife, but he doesn’t lift a finger to help. Instead, he wags his finger in disapproval. Every morning he says, “Make my coffee perfectly.” If it's too hot or too cold or there’s not enough cream or sugar, the wife is condemned. He demands that the eggs must be cooked just right. If he asked for over-easy and the yoke breaks, she is condemned. If the demand of the law is not met, condemnation comes. Following are some characteristics and purposes of Mr. Law: The law was NOT given to make you righteous. The law was NOT given to make you holy. The law was NOT given to give you life. The law was NOT given to save you. The law was NOT given to encourage you. The law was NOT given to strengthen you. The law was NOT given to help you overcome sin. The law WAS given to arouse sin. The law WAS given to condemn you. The law WAS given to show your condition of death in first Adam. The law WAS given to bring awareness of the wrath of God. The law WAS given to keep you conscious of your faults. The law WAS given to make you feel constantly unworthy. And as Colossians 2:14 says, the law was against us, contrary to us, opposed to us, hostile to us. If Mr. Law lives, his wife cannot marry another man. If she marries another man while her husband is alive, she commits adultery. But if her husband is dead, she’s free to marry another one. But the problem with Mr. Law is that he can’t die! He’s eternal because he came from God. Since Mr. Law cannot die, who has to die? Only one person: the wife: YOU! But how can the wife die without dying physically? The next verse tells us: Romans 7:4 - You also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ... WOW! Even your death was supplied by Jesus at the cross! WHY?

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Romans 7:4, cont. - ...that you may be married to another —to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. Now we are married to Jesus who supplies us! Our new husband is forever strong and young and fruitful and rich, and He never stops supplying us. Every morning by His Spirit the resurrected One supplies you with everything you need to meet the demands of the day. And the beautiful thing about it is that you’ll bear fruit without even being conscious of it. This is what the life of grace is all about! It’s not just about being free from the law. You’re delivered from Mr. Law, but now you’re married to Jesus Christ, Mr. Supply. All you do is enjoy Him loving you, and you find that you are making the eggs and the coffee just right. Why? Because He helps you. Then that makes you want to do more for Him. Then He tells you, “No, let Me love you more.” And the more He loves you, the more you able to do. Then He says, “No, let Me love you some more.” And so it goes... No more striving. No more fear. Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. You aren’t married to Jesus to serve and work for Him. That’s not what marriage is about. The Reverend doesn’t say to the bride and groom, “Do you take ___ to be your servant for the rest of your life?” No, he says, “Do you take ____ to love and to cherish all the days of your life?” Ephesians 5:25-27 - Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. What was THE word that sanctified us? What was THE word that cleansed us? What was THE word that presented us before Him as having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing? “JUST AS CHRIST LOVED THE CHURCH AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR HER!” That’s THE word that has cleansed us! Our heavenly Husband joined Himself with us to present us a glorious, beautiful bride! However, just because you are dead to Mr. Law doesn’t mean that HE is dead. His demands can still shout at you, but you don’t have to listen to him!

7:5 Here are the OLD DAYS of being married to Mr. Law: Romans 7:5 - When we were in the flesh... What is being “in the flesh?” Being “in the flesh” means that you were JOINED to the flesh. Your identity was in that flesh. You were whatever that flesh manifested. If you lied, you were a liar, etc. You were “married to the law” because your obedience to the perfection of its standards determined your identity. The law revealed your condition: ...a SINNER, separated from God, and darkened in your understanding. But there was a death to the law. How did this death occur? God Himself through the cross CUT you away from the flesh.

Grace 101: Week 6, “Walking in the Spirit”

Colossians 2:11-13 - In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses... The cross of Jesus Christ CUT AWAY the “old man” from the flesh. When this spiritual circumcision happened, our old man - the one who was a sinner by nature - died, went into the grave with Christ, and a NEW MAN - a completely new creation, a new species - was born. This new creation is joined to the Lord, NOT joined to the flesh as the old man was. 1 Corinthians 6:17 - He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. The righteousness of God Himself was joined to our spirits. We are actually one with God, and through the cross our sins have been removed. John 1:29 - Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. We now are partakers of the divine nature with a new heart and a new spirit within us (2 Peter 1:4; Ezekiel 36:25-26). We have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). All those who believe on Him are translated from the kingdom of this darkness - this earthly realm - into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son. Colossians 1:13-14 - He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. He literally translated us from this earthly realm of darkness into another kingdom of light. We actually went through a “door,” and that door is Jesus. John 10:9 - I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. He closed the door of the law, and no one can open it. He then BECAME the door to heaven itself, and no one can shut it. He became the way to life in the Spirit for all who believe. The door was His very own flesh: Hebrews 10:20 - by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh... The physical body of Jesus was the true veil of which the veil in the temple was but a picture. That shadow of the earthly holy of holies was a picture of heaven. It was a picture of another dimension coming into our dimension. John 14:17 - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells WITH you and will be IN you. When He was rent, the kingdom of heaven would come out through the gift of the Holy Spirit for all who believe. He is the Son of God who lives in heaven and walked on earth. We too live with Him in heavenly places as we walk the earth by the Spirit which was given to us.

Grace 101: Week 6, “Walking in the Spirit”

He closed us off from that old sin nature of the old man and gave us a new nature in Him! The old man is gone, and the new man has come! Romans 8:9 - You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But what happened to sin? Where did it go? If you don't know where it went, then you really don’t believe that He took it away. But if you believe He really took it away, and you really understand where it went, a whole new understanding opens up about this new creation that you are. Romans 8:10 - If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. Here’s where sin is: God left it in the FLESH that He cut away. The power of sin still resides in “our members.” The power of sin still operates in the flesh that we have been separated from. We are born from above, but still walking around in this realm in this body. In a great mystery, we have been separated as far as the east is from the west from our sins, but sin is still in the body of the old man who has ceased to exist. The east and the west NEVER MEET. We - the new person that we are in Christ - never meet the sin in the flesh. That’s why we can never be condemned by it again. We are joined as one spirit with the Lord, but residing in these earthen vessels. 2 Corinthians 4:7 - We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. God left us in these earthen vessels so that His life flowing through us is seen to be of Him and not of us. If it were to be seen as being from us, it would only be fig leaves that bring condemnation on others. He wanted people to look at us and glorify HIM. Why? So that they would be drawn to HIM, not to us. That way they too would be saved! We have no power to save or create. Only God can do that. Our bodies are not evil. They are not corrupt, but they are corruptiBLE. One day when these bodies die, we will be given incorruptible bodies that cannot be corrupted by sin or sickness (1 Corinthians 15:50-54) These bodies can be used as a means to glorify God as the new man who is joined to His Spirit manifests. This body with its members will become a “sieve” for the glory to go forth from the inside out! This body is even transformed physically by the power within us: Romans 8:11 - if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. There is now in us a desire to walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh. We are not “IN the flesh” anymore in the sense that we are joined in identity to it, but we can certainly walk “AFTER the flesh” by living in the demands of the self-effort of the flesh. In a sense, we can still put ourselves “under the law” by listening to the demands of our old husband. When we do this, we are living out of a false identity. Romans 7:5, cont. - ...the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. Sinful passions - the WORKS of the flesh - are aroused by the law. Law puts demands on the flesh to overcome sin. The problem is that the power of sin in the flesh is more powerful than the flesh itself. The 77

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flesh, as strong as it may seem, will never match the power of sin which originates from the devil. But here is the Good News: 1 John 4:4 - He who is IN YOU is greater than he who is in the world. You can’t say, “The devil made me do it,” because you have an infinitely greater power within you than the power of sin. The new creation joined to the Spirit of God, married to Jesus, has the power of God in him. This power has already overcome the power of satan. Our “job” is to be AWARE of the truth and set our minds on it! Romans 8:6 - For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace. The worst thing we can do is set our mind on the flesh. All it does is bear fruit to death. The problem in Romans 7 is not sin, per se. The problem in Romans 7 is SIN WITH THE LAW. When temptation meets the flesh (self-effort), sinful passions are aroused. The more you try to be good by your own self-effort, the more sinful passions are aroused. The way to overcome your thought life is not by focusing on your thought life. It’s like a man in quicksand. The more he tries, the deeper he falls in. So should we just go ahead indulge ourselves? Of course not! We fall back into the arms of the One who was raised from the dead and who will empower us to walk in victory. When you have a problem with lust, for example, and you determine daily to “die to it” by saying to yourself, “I will not lust today, I will not lust, I determine not to lust...”, the moment you see someone of the opposite sex, you lust. Why? Because the more you try to obey the command, the more the sinful passions are aroused. Instead, try resting with Jesus with your mind set on the invisible, being conscious of His love and supply, and bearing fruit of life.

7:6 Romans 7:6 - But now we have been delivered from the law having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. The oldness of the letter demanded outward perfection from something that is corruptible and will never be incorruptible (perfect). The secret to the real you manifesting is by beholding the glory of God in the face of Christ. We know that Jesus isn’t here in flesh and blood for us to look at, so what was Paul saying when he said that we would be transformed into His image from glory to glory by beholding Him? He talking was about something very spiritual - about how inside of us we can rest and we can behold Him in our INNER MAN. 2 Corinthians 4:18 - while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. The invisible realm is the eternal realm. We - the born again we - are eternal. God is eternal. Jesus is eternal. The Holy Spirit is eternal. The word of God is eternal. Paul says to “look” at these things! 78

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We must “see” with the spiritual eyes and the spiritual mind that we were given in the new birth. We are not trying to BE someone. We are beholding to KNOW Someone. And when we know that Someone, we know who we are in Him. When we see Him, we see who WE are in Him. We're not doing to be. We see that we are, and we find ourselves doing. That's what Paul meant when he said we now look at Jesus is if we're looking in the mirror (2 Corinthians 3:18). This might seem weak to you. You might think, “What in the world is THAT going to do?” The flesh is always geared towards right and wrong. Get the 10 steps, and then willpower to pull off the 10 steps, and finally you will reach your goal, not realizing that you're already at the goal. Through the cross and resurrection and by an act of creation your sins have been removed and you have been made complete in Christ. Rest in that FINISHED work! Inside these bodies is the great mystery that religion doesn't get because religion focuses on that what is seen and not that which is unseen. The Spirit must reveal the unseen reality, or we can’t walk in faith. Faith is walking by that which we do not yet see, but we know is true by the Spirit of God. You are a branch on the Vine. He is the Head and you are His body. We are ONE! AS HE IS SO ARE YOU in this world. When He created you in Himself, He put inside of you your spiritual DNA, your destiny, your good works, and now they just merely flow out of your identity in Him. It's a whole different mindset which glorifies God, so that no flesh may glory in His presence. The progressiveness of the Christian life is a PROGRESSIVE MANIFESTATION of what already IS: we have already been made holy. Colossians 1:21-22 - You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. 22 Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. From the outward appearance, it appears that you’re getting more sanctified because you are bearing more fruit, but you have already been set apart and joined to the Lord. Now He lives His life through you. Philippians 2:13 pleasure.

it is GOD WHO WORKS IN YOU both to will and to do for His good

The seed of God is already in you and now you are just bearing fruit from who you are. It’s the visible manifestation of reality of our true identity. Jesus said, John 4:14, NLT - those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” You, believer, are joined to the River of Life Himself! John 7:38 - “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” The Holy Spirit touches your spirit and JOINS to it and it COVERS you from the flesh. You are protected by the presence of God. The waters of His Spirit in you bubble up and flow out! 79

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Here is Romans 7:6 in the Amplified Bible: Romans 7:6, Amplified - But now we are discharged from the Law and have terminated all intercourse with it, having died to what once restrained and held us captive. So now we serve not under [obedience to] the old code of written regulations, but [under obedience to the promptings] of the Spirit in newness [of life]. The most important thing in walking in the Spirit is AWARENESS. You could have $1,000,000 in the bank, but not be aware of it, and it does you no good.

7:18-24 Romans 7:18-20 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. Our intentions may be good, but good intentions don’t cut it. Some modern Bible translations translate the Greek word “sarx” in verse 18 and later in verse 25 as “sinful nature” instead of the “flesh” as if a believer still has a nature that is sinful. There’s nothing within the Greek word “sarx” that implies “sinful” or “nature.” How can we have a nature that is sinful when we are a new creation and partakers of Christ’s divine nature?! (2 Peter 1:4) We have a new nature. The old has passed! 2 Corinthians 5:17 - If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Unfortunately, because of mistranslations of the word “sarx,” many Christians believe that their ongoing battle is with their own sinful nature. So they go from believing that they have a sinful nature to believing they are sinners to believing that it is a natural thing for them to sin. They believe that at their very core they are sinful. If you are a Christian, nothing could be further from the truth! Believers were designed to walk after the Spirit, and we will only find fulfillment in our dependency on Jesus. When we live the life of dependency, we are actually being ourselves. In this permanent, perfect union with Jesus, OUR DESIRES ARE HIS DESIRES. Nothing else will satisfy. At our core, we want what is holy. At our core, we are righteous. Here is the inevitable end to the struggle: Romans 7:21-24 - I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Notice he said “WHO will deliver me?” Not “what.” Jesus is our deliverer!!! Romans 7:25 - Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

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7:25-8:3 So how did Paul got free of this tangled web of sin and the condemnation of the law? He tells us as we move into Romans 8: Romans 7:25-8:1, NASB - So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. 1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. The word “condemnation” is the Greek word “katakrima” that means “judging to be guilty, a sentence to be worthy of punishment.” No condemnation literally means “not a single judging of you worthy of punishment remains.” Even when you fail, there is therefore now no condemnation. We are now empowered to live a victorious life! Romans 8:2, NASB - 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. There are two laws. One is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus that is always on our side. The other is another law, another force, that wars against the members of our bodies. In order to win the battle inside of us, we need to know who is fighting whom. We are not our own enemy! We do not fight ourselves! We overcome the power of sin by believing that it cannot condemn us or control us. Romans 8:3, NASB - For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh. Sin in the flesh has been condemned. It has been subdued, overcome, and deprived it of its power over us! The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is the new “want to’s” on the inside! It’s the royal law of love: we love because He first loved us! (1 John 1:19) We forgive because He first forgave us! (Ephesians 4:32) The motive is different. The cross changed everything! We have the Spirit of God inside of us so now we bear fruit unto God through the promptings of the Spirit (Romans 7:6). Now we live according to heart transformation. Today sin cannot separate us from God because sin has been confined to the flesh which has been forever cut away from who we are. Today NOTHING can separate us from God’s love: Romans 8:31-35; 38-39 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ...For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 81

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Imagine a life of walking effortlessly in the Spirit. Peter and John gave us a wonderful picture of what it could look like for us. They went to pray one day and they ended up healing the lame beggar. Peter said this famous line, Acts 3:6 - “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” Peter knew what he had and he knew how to give it away. The people were amazed at Peter and John. The man who had been lame clung to them as if they were gods, but Peter made it clear that he wasn’t the one who healed the man. It was Jesus who healed the man THROUGH Peter: Acts 3:12, 16 - “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?... 16 And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. Peter had learned how to receive the supply of Jesus’s life inside of him! Peter walked in the manifestation of grace and the empowerment of the Gospel. Peter understood the gift of righteousness and walked after the Spirit as a son of God. That’s grace in action!!!