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1. Life. Walking in the Spirit implies living in the Spirit. There must be a principle of spiritual life, before there Can be any spiritual motions and exercises. And living in the Spirit implies walking in the Spirit. What is a man's walk? It is his whole life, his whole conduct, outward and inward — all he thinks, feels, desires, speaks, does, suffers. To walk in the Spirit is to have the Holy Ghost originating, directing, controlling, and governing all these.

2. Progress. A walk is a progress, it has an end in view, and it is a going towards that end, more or less steadily — more or less rapidly.

(1) The man who walks in the Spirit has the same end in view which his Master had; he looks for the joy which is set before us, the glory which is to be revealed.

(2) He has a guide — Christ, whom the Spirit reveals to him, that he may follow in the footsteps of Him who is our example in all things.

(3) He has a rule or map of the way — the Word of God, which the Spirit opens up and makes plain to his soul.

(4) He has a motive or gracious spring urging him on — love.

3. The benefit. The old nature is checked, kept down, and not permitted to ripen its bitter fruit. Its nature and tendencies are unchanged, unchangeable, but it is checked and restrained at every point. But the new nature is cultivated, and so it bears its peaceable fruits. The man who walks in the Spirit has less outward stir and bustle than others, but he has more success, for he works in God, and God works in and with him. But why this long, tedious, fluctuating conflict between flesh "and spirit? It is to show the evil and deceitfulness of sin, to humble, to make watchful, to make us dependent, and make us long for heaven.

(John Milne.)

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KJV: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

WEB: If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.