“LED BY THE SPIRIT?”

Romans 8:12-15

Heirs with Christ

[12] So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. [13] For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the SPIRIT you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. [14] For all who are “LED BY THE SPIRIT” of GOD are sons of GOD. [15] For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the SPIRIT of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “ABBA! FATHER!””

There have been more than a few times that I have heard “It’s not them, it’s the puppet masters that control them”!  Well just who are the puppet masters and why do they want someone else gaining glory for what they have accomplished?  How are the puppet masters unwittingly controlling people?  

Satan is the antithesis of TRUTH!  JESUS says of “the enemy” in John 8:44 “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”  Since he “deceives” without impunity, he “lies” about everything because (according to JESUS) it is his own character!  Spewing “lies” is not only his preferred method of operating, it is the only way he knows how to act!  

How does someone determine who is guiding their life, basically being a puppet master?  JESUS says in Matthew 12:30 and Luke 11:23 that whoever is NOT with ME , they are against ME!  JESUS also says in John 14:27 “Peace I leave with you; MY PEACE I GIVE TO YOU. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”  When we are “LED BY THE SPIRIT” we have a PEACE that guides us in the path we should go.  Being led by the liar will undoubtedly bring turmoil and strife into your midst. But being “LED BY THE SPIRIT” cannot help but bring MY PEACE!!!