People of the Spirit.

QT:
Galatians 3 - Galatians 5

[Galatians 4: 8 -11]
⁸Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. ⁹But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? ¹⁰You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! ¹¹I fear for you, that somehow I have wasted my efforts on you.

[Galatians 5 : 16 - 17]
¹⁶So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. ¹⁷For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

[Galatians 5 : 22 - 23]
²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

God spoke to me in [Galatians 4:8-11] regarding my numerous backsliding incidents. I really ought to smack myself hard. We should be peope who live by God's Principles and not of the world's. We ought to live by the spirit. When we are so soaked and filled with the holy spirit, the fruit of the spirit just overflows as a manifestation of God's power. Let us be people of the Spirit, not deterred by the World, people around us who seem to be influential or simply anything/anyone that draws our attention away from the Messiah.