Definition of the Christian Life: The Christian life is a life lived daily under the direction and by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, moment by moment, forgiven completely by the blood of Jesus.

The Spirit of God is living within us, the same Spirit who hovered over the waters of creation is now moving in our hearts to bring about holiness, to bring about God's purposes, to bring about His changes that He wants.

The promise of the Holy Spirit has been abiding now for 20 Centuries. Everyone who hears the gospel and believes, receives the gift of the Holy Spirit. This is the Holy Spirit theology.

We cannot live the Christian life without the power of the Holy Spirit. All we can do is sin, live an unholy life, die and end up in hell.

The Holy Spirit is the connection between the branch and the vine. By the Spirit, we stay abiding in Jesus. Apart from the Spirit we can do nothing. That's the Spirit-Filled Life.

The Spirit-Filled Christian Life involves distinct patterns of Bible study, prayer, Church Body involvement, witnessing, giving, etcetera.

However, these things are written on our hearts by the Spirit. They’re lived out in our lives by the Spirit and not in some legalistic way as though we’re slaves in chains or we're somehow on probation, needing to secure a permanent place in the family. That’s not how it works!

Everything God commands us, He empowers us to do by His Spirit. We’re not on your own. That's the essence of sanctification by the Spirit and not by law.

There are two extremes when it comes to sanctification. We do everything vs we do nothing. These are extremes.

If we try to do everything as we’ve already covered, that's legalism. We're on your own, here's the law, do it or die; that's legalism.

But what if we do nothing? There’s a strong history of sanctification taught in this pattern. It's been going on a long time and has many different names.

Paul is saying that if we want to do win the eternal prize, we've got to go into strict training, we need to be an athlete, a warrior and we need to fight.

We’re being led to a Spiritual battle that we must fight, but we already have the victory in Christ if we’ll just fight the good fight.