The Balanced Walk NY Seminar
Tarrytown, New York
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Session 1 How Do We Walk?
Introduction
We must sit before we walk!
Ephesians 2:3-6 (KJV)
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus
Ephesians 1:3
How Do We Walk?
Walk (peripateo)
Thayer’s definition: “To make one’s way, progress; to make due use of opportunities. Hebrew: to live, to regulate one’s life, to conduct one’s self, to pass one’s life, walk about.”
Walk Worthy (axios)
Ephesians 4:1
Balance doctrine and practice
Walk Uprightly (orthopodeo)
Luke 1:6
Galatians 2:14
Walk Orderly (stoicheo)
Acts 21:24
Romans 4:12
Galatians 5:25
Galatians 6:15, 16
Work Out Your Own Salvation
Philippians 3:14-16
Session 2 Where is the Path?
Colossians 2:6 (KJV)
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.
Prov 4:24-27
The Door
Matthew 7:13, 14
John 10:9, 10
The Wide Place
Psalm 119:145
Psalm 18:36
ESV: You gave me a wide place for my steps.
The Level Place
Psalm 26:12
Psalm 27:11
Psalm 143:10
ESV: Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground!
The Straight Path vs The Crooked Path
Walking in the Light
John 18:12
John 11: 9, 11
John 12: 35, 36
Psalm 119:105
Ephesians 5:8-14
Session 3 How Do We Keep the Unity of the Spirit?
Ephesians 4:1-3 (AMP)
1 I therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, appeal to and beg you to walk (lead a life) worthy of the [divine] calling to which you have been called [with behavior that is a credit to the summons to God’s service,
2 Living as becomes you] with complete lowliness of mind (humility) and meekness (unselfishness, gentleness, mildness), with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another.
3 Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.
Walking in Unity
Unity (Ar: auyutha) – vb:“To turn towards a place or person with an innermost, deep, absolute affection; to symphonize, agree or reconcile.”
Matthew 5:25
Ephesians 2:18
I Corinthians 12:27
Ephesians 4:3
Colossians 3:14
What about judging?
Luke 6:36-38
Matthew 7:1
John 7:24
Other verses that we are to judge:
I Corinthians 6:2-3
Proverbs 3:21
Jeremiah 22:3
Philippians 1:10
Walking in Love
John 8:1-11
Session 4 Walking Together
III John 4 (KJV)
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
Perceiving in your spirit: 5 spiritual senses
Matthew 16:8
Mark 2:8
Mark 5:30
Acts 8:23
By their fruit you will know them
Matthew 7:20
Colossians 1:10, 11
1. Please God with good works (Eph 2:10)
2. Fruitfulness
3. Grow up in the knowledge of God
4. Strengthened with all strength
Walking together
Philippians 1:27
Ephesians 3:6 — one body, one household, one temple
I Thessalonians 2:12, 13
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