LIVING IN THE SPIRIT

Galatians 3:3 (KJV)
“Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
Being will never be a manifestation of doing; doing is a manifestation of being. If it is not in us to do, we simply cannot. Our spirit is made alive in Christ by the Holy Spirit; therefore, the righteousness of God is when our doing is a result of who we become in Christ Jesus.
Consequently, being responsible to the Spirit is greater responsibility than that of the flesh. The flesh is sinful in nature; the Spirit (“S” Holy Spirit) is supernatural and is righteous in nature. The Spirit in our text is not the spiritual realm of things or us being spiritual; it is a person, the Holy Ghost. We begin in Him, move, breathe, and have our being in Him. Outside of Him it is all us.
“But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things” (1 John 2:20). Being in the Spirit can never be a work of the flesh. Flesh motivating our doing and the Spirit working it in us are two different things. The person behind the doing makes all the difference. When the Holy Ghost comes upon us we receive power to be. When His person is involved all we need to know is available.
Paul being filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes on Barjesus (Acts 13). When the Holy Ghost is involved our spirit is able to do the supernatural.
Yeppers, the person behind the action makes all the difference. The sons of Sceva was stripped naked by demons simply because the person behind their action was them and not the Holy Ghost (Acts 19). If the Holy Ghost is not the person behind our righteousness it is simply flesh hogging out on itself.
We have got to be graveyard dead to ourselves to be alive in Christ Jesus. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain” (Galatians 2:20-2).
Living in the Spirit is living in a person – the Holy Ghost – this is the spirit of Christ in us. “You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him” (Romans 8:9 ESV).