Walking in the Spirit Part 2--Why Is It Critical to Walk in the Spirit?

By David Hobbs
Gal. 5:16 [NKJV]--Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Part 1 dealt with one of the key reasons we need to learn to walk in the Spirit: because “that’s the only way we’re going to defeat the devil and turn the kingdoms of this world into the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.” It won’t be “by our own good ideas! Not by human effort! Not by organizational skills and charismatic giftings. It will only be by the power of God working through millions of Christians as they walk ‘in the Spirit!’” (Pardon me for quoting myself, but I was on a roll!)
The second reason we need to learn to walk in the Spirit is in the Scripture above—walking in the Spirit is the only way to effectively deal with our sin nature. When I am in the Spirit, sin has no attraction to me, hence no hold over me. As long as I can stay in the Spirit, I am free from sin. When we are walking in the Spirit, it is as if we were transported to the heavenly realms out of the earthly ones. Therefore things of the earth lose their glamour and appeal. Just like the song lyrics say, “And the things on earth will grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.”
Sin is a lie anyway. You never really get what it promises. It’s always some sort of “bait and switch” routine orchestrated by the devil’s helpers to get us to fall. But when we’re in the Spirit, we can see through the schemes and sin looks incredibly tawdry and cheap.
Therefore, since the Bible says it and my own experience has confirmed it, why do pastors spend so much time preaching Christian morality? Shouldn’t we rather be teaching our people how to walk in the Spirit? That will deal with the sin problem better than multitudinous sermons on morality. Yet I’ve never heard that preached in all the churches I have visited coast-to-coast. But I have heard sermon after sermon on morality: "you should be a better person;" "you should be more thankful," "you should not get angry," "you should not steal from your employer or cheat on your spouse." It’s like the Old Testament all over again where the Law of Moses was preached in every Synagogue service for a thousand and a half years [Acts 15:21—“For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath”]. To what effect? All the law did was show us our sin, every week show us what we couldn’t do [Rom. 3:20—“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin”].
Here's some more of what the Bible has to say about the law and the Spirit.

Heb. 7:19--for the law made nothing perfect…
Rom. 8:3-4-- For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Gal. 5:18--But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

So I ask again, Why is Christian morality preached over and over, while living in the Spirit, being led of the Spirit, and walking in the Spirit are rarely mentioned from our pulpits; let alone is instruction given on how to do it?