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Fruit of the Spirit overview
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Logan overview the Fruit of the Spirit
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Introduction and Topic Overview
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Well, hello, I'm Logan Howard. um I am a teacher at Trinity Christian Academy, and i have been asked by Derek Marsh via his wife, Mrs. Christy Marsh, to go through the fruit of the spirit with you this evening.
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And I will do my best to color code things and work through things. um I do also know that this will be done in a different language. And so I will try to speak at more of a slower pace so that if there's any translations or even if they need to slow down the video, that can be done too.
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So here is where
Understanding Galatians 5
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we're at. We are talking about the fruits of the Spirit. We are in Galatians chapter 5. five So that's, I'm scrolling up here to show you that we're in Galatians chapter 5, verse 13 through 26. Specifically, we're going to focus on verse 22.
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But the reason that I've added the rest of this is because we're we see in this section a comparison.
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Comparison between two things. So let's get into it. So in Galatians, let's start back up here, Galatians 5, 13 through 26, and we will read through this.
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It says, "...for you were called to freedom, brothers." Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
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For the whole law is fulfilled in one word. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
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But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh.
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For these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things that you want to do. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Desires of Flesh vs. Spirit
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Now the works of the flesh are evident, Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these.
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I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. And that leads us into our section that Paul is writing here and that I've been asked to go over.
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It leads into the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such, there is no such law.
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There is no law. So, we see the with its passions and desires if we live by the spirit let us also keep in step with the spirit let us not become conceited provoking one another envying one another so here we see the contrast If you look up here in verse 19, I'm going to try and draw a line under this, it says that the works of the flesh are evident.
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Okay? Works of the flesh are evident. So we see this contrast even earlier when we see that he says this walk by the Spirit
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So I'm underlining spirit and I'm also going to underline flesh. So we see spirit versus flesh.
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Now, in English, we capitalize things that are people. And so this capital spirit is the Holy Spirit, the one that lives inside of us.
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And that's where we get here, down here, the spirit, right? So we see the spirit is warring against the flesh. So the flesh is our sin nature.
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the things that we choose to do wrong. um And we see them down here when we focus on this word, the flesh, the works of the flesh are evident.
Inheriting the Kingdom and Fruit of the Spirit
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We see all of these things, immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger. All of these are things that are sins and are works of the flesh.
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They are the things that we're trying to avoid. And so Paul is telling us to walk by the Spirit, to walk by The spirit, because when the desires of the flesh right here, it says the flesh are against the spirit and the diet desires of the spirit are against the flesh. So they are contrary things.
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And we could get into, if we wanted to, defining all of these sins and works of the flesh. However, for sake of um knowing that we all know what sin is to the most part, and we can i can I can go in depth in a future time, but um this is sin.
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All of these things are sin. Things that are wrong that the flesh, this word flesh right here, is doing. um And they're all wrong. They're things that go against even our consciences and what um we know within us is right and wrong.
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And so we know these are wrong. These are works of the flesh.
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And he warns us that when we work in the flesh, when we live in the flesh, when we don't have the Holy Spirit inside of us, that we are not going to inherit the kingdom of God.
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That is not going to happen for us. Which, we all want to inherit the kingdom of God. We all want to be in heaven with God one day. So, we have to avoid the works of the flesh.
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Avoid living in the flesh. And so, here's what he's going to tell us to counteract that. He wants us to have the fruit.
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So, this word fruit here.
Metaphorical Fruit and Biblical References
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Fruit of the Spirit. Now, you might say, um Logan, as i as I said, my name's Logan.
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um You might say, Logan, fruit. Spirit is a person, right? He is the part of the Trinity, part of the Godhead.
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Fruit doesn't, like, people don't make fruit, right? That doesn't seem to happen. um And you'd be right. there are However, there are verses that Jesus points to, and he even speaks about, I'm thinking of matthew fifteen um Matthew 7, verse 15, that talks about false prophets and false teachers and how...
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um They have fruit. We can tell them by their fruit. We can know if somebody is good or bad depending on the fruit that they have. and So I want to take you to a couple verses here. So I'm going to scroll down here and so we can point out how fruit is...
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evident in people, but it's not fruit like we would think of as something we eat, but instead of as something that is what we do, the outflow of our lives.
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um So let's look at Psalms 1, 1 through 3. That's where we're going to be next. So if you're following along. You can turn in your Bible there if you guys won't need to pause or slow the video. You totally can. um But here we are in Psalms 1, 1 through 3.
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And it says this, blessed is the man who walks not in the council of the wicked nor stands in the way of the sinners nor sits in the seat of the scoffers but his delight is in the law of the lord and on his law he meditates day and night he is like a tree planted by the streams of water that yields in its, hey, there's that word again, fruit in its season.
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And its leaf does not wither. And in all that he does, he pros prospers. Excuse me. So in all that he does, he prospers.
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We all want to be prosperous, right? We all want to succeed and do well. um And in all things, whether it's competition or whether it's just life, we want to have a good life.
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And so what this person is, blessed means somebody who is um taken care of or um well loved by God Who doesn't walk with the wicked.
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So people who are wicked or evil, he does not spend time with. He doesn't listen to their counsel. He doesn't stand where so sinners are walking. So he's not putting himself out there to fall for sin.
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He doesn't sit in the seat of the scoffers. Meaning he doesn't sit with those people who are making fun and criticizing people. But, let's transition, right? So this is the things he doesn't do.
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We transition to the things he does do. He delights in the law of the Lord. His joy is found in the way in the Lord, right? And on his law, he meditates day and night.
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So day and night, he's thinking about God's word.
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He is like a tree. So this is a imagery. um This is something that is like a picture oh So when we think of trees, this is the type of person he is, a really strong tree.
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He is planted by streams of water. So he's in a good place, right? If we're planted out in the desert in the middle of nowhere, um that's he's not going to get much water and the tree's not going to grow unless it's... maybe a cactus or some other type of tree that doesn't need much water. But trees, lush growing trees, need water.
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So he's planted by the streams and he yields forth fruit. And again, this fruit that we're talking about here is our actions, our things we do, our outflowing of our life.
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So he yields fruit, he yields good things, good fruit in its season, and his leaf does not wither.
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Meaning he doesn't doesn't fade away, right? And all he does prospers. This is the type of man that we want to be.
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We want to be somebody who's blessed. We want somebody but want to be somebody who follows in the law of the Lord,
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who meditates on God's word. And we want to be like a tree that gives fruit.
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So back up to our verse, right? We've got the fruit of the spirit. I want to take you to one more verse here um that has to do with this fruit.
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Okay, so I'm going to take you down. So follow me as I scroll
Abiding in Christ and Bearing Fruit
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here. We're to go to John 15, verse 5. So John 15, verse 5. Hopefully you can see that on the screen.
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um But we're in John 15, verse 5.
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And in John 15, verse 5, this is the section of Jesus teaching how he is the vine.
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and how he is the one who we are to be connected to, meaning we're supposed to put our faith, our life, and our trust in Christ. So he says that the red wording, as you can see, is different than this one up here,
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is talking or showing a difference that Jesus is speaking. So whenever you see red, Jesus is speaking. He says, I am the vine.
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So pretty simple. Christ is the vine. We are the branches.
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Whoever Abides. Abides means to. Stays with. Spends time with. Lives in. um Interacts with.
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It's the idea of dwelling. Like living in a house. We abide in our houses. Whoever abides in me. And I in him.
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It is he.
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that bears much fruit.
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So here we have Jesus again saying that we bear fruit. And he gives us a contrast here as well that says, for apart from me,
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we can't do anything.
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So what that means is, back up here about prospering, right? Apart from Christ, we don't prosper. We might prosper for a time here on earth, but truly prospering, truly being able to build for the kingdom of heaven?
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No. that's not That's something we can't do apart from Christ. So here's another imagery of Jesus saying that he is like a vine. We are branches.
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We are part of the vine. And whoever abides in me, meaning Christ,
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and Christ in him, he bears much fruit.
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So this idea of fruit then does connect to the spirit. So the fruit connects to the spirit.
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And that moves us on.
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as we're talking about it, to the Spirit. These two words are connected. This phrase, fruit of the Spirit, means they are connected. So, the Spirit, how does the Spirit then
Receiving the Holy Spirit
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provide fruit? Because we've seen that a man and his life ah can be fruitful in that um it rev provides fruit. We've also seen how That Jesus is the vine and the branches and that when we abide in him, we will bear much fruit, meaning we will bear much good fruit, good deeds, good things in our lives.
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What are the fruits? right We've now gotten and idea of this And we're going to continue on to figure out what these fruits are. You can see them. I've color coded them all up there.
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But we're going to get into this word spirit. And so I want to take you to a couple verses to deal with spirit. And we're going to see it pop up more as we go through. So this spirit, let's think about what is the spirit that we're talking about.
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um So I'm going to take you here to Luke 11 verse 13. verse thirteen And it says, again, Jesus speaking here, it's in red.
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If you then, who are evil,
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translate here as who are sinners. i mean, we we have sin. We're apart from Christ. We are And
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Um, we, we can't save ourselves. We can't get to heaven by ourselves. So we who are evil sinners know how to give good gifts to your children.
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So think about your family and how we give good things to our family. Um, We might bring them food. We might bring them um
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clothing. We might give them shoes. We give them good gifts.
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And so if we give good gifts to our children, how much more, so again, increase, right? How much more will our heavenly father, so this is God, our heavenly father, give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?
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So a couple of cool things in this verse, right? He's giving a compare and contrast, right? We, who are evil, meaning we're sinners, know how to give gifts and give good gifts to people, right?
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How much more will will God give the Holy Spirit if we just ask him? This means that the Holy Spirit comes from Heavenly Father.
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Again, pointing back to the Trinity, meaning God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are Three parts, one God.
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So they're all together, and the Holy... and God the Father wants to give the Spirit to us, to those who believe. um And all we have to do is ask for Him.
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We just have to ask for the Holy Spirit to come upon us. We believe in Jesus, and we ask Him for... We ask God. we ask Him.
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Him being Heavenly Father...
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who ask him, Heavenly Father, to give the Holy Spirit.
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That's an exciting verse. So the Holy Spirit is a gift from God. Okay? So as we're talking about this, the Spirit, right? It's a gift from God. He lives within us.
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um And he comes, he came after Christ's death and death. We're going to see that here in this next verse, right? Acts 2.4, that's where we're going next.
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We're going see how the Holy Spirit came upon those who believed in Christ. um So in Acts 2, I probably should have added verse 3, but I wasn't thinking. so um But it's talking about the disciples. They're all together.
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And it says that they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
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So, all filled with the Holy Spirit. um This means that the Holy Spirit comes upon believers. And it came upon all of them. It wasn't like um wasn't like somebody got left out.
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It wasn't like... You know, one person didn't get it. Everybody got the Holy Spirit in the upper room. So they're all filled with the Holy Spirit.
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And they then, as they've been given the Holy Spirit, they began to speak in other tongues. So this other tongues means that they spoke in different languages.
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So it would be like me starting to speak French or Spanish or um
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any other language you know that we have in our world. It would just be able to speak the language that you guys are hearing in a translation without having to have a translator.
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And I don't speak. I don't speak any other language other than English. That's what this Holy Spirit coming upon them that had them speak in other tongues.
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And it came from the Holy Spirit as the Holy Spirit gave them utterances, meaning the Holy Spirit taught them and showed them and had them speak the other languages.
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So the power to be able to speak other languages, to do all that stuff comes from the Holy Spirit. um It doesn't come from just us. Like, yes, we can learn unto other languages, but this specific instance was...
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a miraculous event where people who had not studied another language were able to speak it. So this is the Holy spirit coming upon them. So there's some cool things, but for us today, right? We don't have an upper room situation where, um,
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The Spirit just comes you know upon us all at one time. um He comes upon us as we accept Christ as our Savior, as we put our faith and trust in Christ.
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His Spirit, who had convicted us of the need to know Christ, then comes upon us and starts to convict us of other things, maybe our need to change, our need to grow, our need to to look more like Christ. And so...
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As we look at this, we see that the Holy Spirit comes upon those who believe in him. So if we are believers, if we truly know Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, um and we follow his ways, the Holy Spirit will be living inside of us.
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So we've seen now fruit of the Spirit.
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We now then get into what are the things of the fruit of the Spirit? So what is this? What are the things that flow out of having a Holy Spirit living inside of us?
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First thing here, we see this word is love.
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Love is our first word. So my question then to all of you as you're sitting there watching this is what is love?
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um I know here in America, we think of love as um as feelings. As
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not necessarily the actions or things we do, but just the thoughts we have, maybe. That love is doing the...
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only doing the
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things that are easy or make other people's lives easier. But love here is that we have a deep care for people. um That we, honestly, when you think about love, it's it's hard to explain because if we could, it's one of those things that when we truly love people, it's hard for us to put into words how to how that love works.
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hum But we're going to look at a couple verses here for love. Love is this idea that we are deep care and compassion for other people.
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We are called to love others and we're called to love God. So our deep love and care for God and others. are deeply important.
Love and Its Attributes
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And so one of the things that the fruit of the Spirit starts to provide in our lives is love.
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We start to love people. We start to love God more. So let's look at a couple verses on this. So I'm going to scroll down here and we're going to get to this, which is Romans 12, 9 through 18. So I'm going to read through this. There's a lot of stuff that's very similar to what we've been talking about and we'll...
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and we'll add more thoughts as well. So it's sort of a parallel passage to what we want to be doing, right? We want to be in the Spirit, and some of these things will point that out as well as we read through this passage.
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So let's look at Romans 12, 9 through 18 here. Let love... let love There's our love, right? Be genuine.
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That means it's not fake, right? So our care for people, our deep concern for them, our care for them is genuine. It's real.
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Abhor. That means kind of like shock or anger. or hatred of evil. So whatever is bad, we abhor it.
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We're not only terrified of it, but we're also hated. We hold fast to what is good.
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We love one another with a brotherly affection.
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So and let's stop here for a second, right? So we're going to love one another. That means us, right? Those of us who are human beings, we're going to love each other. And it's going to be with brotherly affection, um kind of like um like our brothers.
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And I don't know where each of you are coming from who are listening this to this, what your relationship is with your brother. But if you have a good relationship with your brother, I want you to think of that.
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um Maybe a sibling. um We love them like we do our family. It's probably the closest and best way to describe this. We love them like they're family.
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even if they're not part of our family. We love them like they're one of our our friends, one of our um one of our tribe. We love them like they're family.
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um He says then, with our brotherly affection, it's kind of a competition here. Outdo one another in showing honor, meaning outdo one another as you love them.
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As you show your brotherly affection and you honor them, meaning putting them higher than yourself,
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like make it a competition. It says, do not be slothful in zeal, but be fervent in spirit. Serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope. Be patient in tribulation. Be constant in prayer. Now you can see I've highlighted this in a different color, and that's because it ties to joy, which we're going to talk about shortly.
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So we then contribute to the needs of the saints, meaning we need to provide for the needs of people. This is one way we show love.
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Another right here being constant in prayer. When we pray, when we come to God and we ask him for our fellow believers and those who are not fellow believers, We're supposed to be constantly doing that. We're be constantly going to God.
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And we need to contribute to the needs of the saints. um Meaning, whatever people need, we can provide and we can provide, we do it. And we seek to show hospitality.
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Meaning, we take care of people. We invite them to our houses. We have them over for meals. We Love them. We meet with them.
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one Next, he wants us to bless those persecute you.
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Persecution. Persecution means anything where somebody mistreats us for our faith in God.
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Mistreatment here in um the States is not that we would end up being killed or wounded or beaten by people. But in Kenya um and really around the globe and for all of history, Christians have died um for their faith.
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For believing in Jesus, they have been persecuted in Africa and Egypt. ah The Middle East, in China, um there are places around the world today that you might die for your faith.
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And so what he's saying here is, bless those who persecute you.
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Bless, he doubled this down, right? Bless and do not curse them, right? Our natural reaction as humans, when someone mistreats us or beats us up or hurts us or injures us, um is to curse those people.
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To say, wow, you know what? They're terrible people. And we say mean things about him. We call him names. that's now what That's not what Paul is telling us to do here.
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He's telling us to bless those who persecute us and not to curse them.
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He then says rejoice with those who rejoice and weep with those who weep. So when people are happy, we have a good time with them, right? We rejoice. So when people have um new babies or get married, we rejoice.
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And we're like, yes, it's awesome, right?
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And we also weep with those who weep. When people are mourning losses, people have died, we are sad with them.
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He then says, live in harmony with one another. Live in harmony means rhythm, understanding um that it isn't full of strife or arguments that we are peaceful with them.
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He then says, don't be haughty. Don't think you're better than other people. Um... It's easy, especially when we call ourselves religious and we um believe in God to try and make ourselves look better than other people and compare ourselves to others.
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Paul says don't do that. Don't be haughty. Associate means spend time with the lowly. Spend time with people who are less fortunate than you.
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Serve them. He then says, never be wise in your own eyes, in your own sight, right? That means don't don't try to be wise in your own eyes, meaning, oh, patting yourself on the back, making yourself look better than than we are. He then says, repay no one. And he means no one, evil for evil.
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So if someone does something evil to you, do not do it back to them. This is not eye for an eye. He says, don't give evil back to anybody.
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Give thought.
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So, don't repay evil for evil, but think about doing what is honorable
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in the sight of all.
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So don't repay evil for evil. If people do things wrong to you, don't treat them poorly. But think about having to be honorable in the sight of all. And if possible,
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so far as it depends on you, meaning what you can do, live peaceably with all.
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So if it's possible, try to live at peace with people. Peace is another one of those words that will show up later.
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So that was a longer section, but Romans 12, 9 through 18 focus on this love and how we actually love people. all right um We hate what is evil. We abhor it.
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We hold fast to what is good. The good things in life, we hold fast to them. We love one another as their family. We outdo one another by showing honor.
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Make it a competition to honor other people. We're not to be slothful, meaning we're not to be lazy. We're to be fervent, meaning passionate, in serving the Lord.
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Then we rejoice in hope, we're being patient, and we're being constant in prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints. um So all of this stuff that we are to be doing as Christians and how we show love to others.
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And that leads us down here to 1 Corinthians 13, 4. This our next verse in the love section. All right. And it says, this is the love chapter. So if you're ever really struggling with a loving people, go to 1 Corinthians 13, 4.
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um And specifically, 1 Corinthians 13, the whole chapter will tell you how to love people and what love looks like. And it's... it's a A big standard to measure up to.
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Love is patient.
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How many of us like to be patient?
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I know I don't. I am not a patient person. i ah Without Christ, I would be a very impatient person. But with Christ, I still struggle with waiting.
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right But love is patient. It means we we wait. um We wait for people. We wait for God to work in their hearts. We wait because we love.
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um If we're looking for our family members to come to know Christ, we patiently wait for them to know Christ. So love is patient. It's also kind. It's
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Love does not envy or boast. Love does not say, you know, does not become jealous.
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Jealousy is not love.
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We don't envy or boast about love. And it's not arrogant. It isn't just an a haughty attitude. Love is patient and kind. If we're really going to love people, we need to be patient and we need to be kind to them.
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And not to be envious or boastful or arrogant.
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Alright, moving right along. So we have looked at one. We're going to go back up to the top here. We're going to look at um our next word, right? The fruit of the Spirit is love. Next, I'm going circle this here. Joy.
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Joy is our next word. fruit of the Spirit has love, which means that we care for others. Joy now is that it's similar to happiness, but it's different in that it is lasting.
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So happiness, we get happy when something good happens to us, right? When we get blessed, we get a good meal, we eat well, we get an opportunity to do something or go somewhere.
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That's joy, or that is that's our happiness, right? Joy is this lasting thing that comes from the Holy Spirit um that helps us to be able to look at life in a different way, that we look at life as if, as through the lens of all the great things that Christ has done for us.
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So let's look down here then to joy. So our previous verse, right, we looked at rejoice in hope. So our joy is in our hope of being with Christ in heaven one day.
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We can have joy because we know how the story ends. Christ wins and we're with him forever. Great basis for joy. It also, that joy helps us to be patient in tribulation, meaning when attacks come our way, people mistreat us, we can rejoice because of our hope. We know where we're going.
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They can kill our bodies. but they can't take away the fact that we know Christ is our Savior.
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So we can be patient in tribulation. It also shows here rejoicing. Rejoicing and joy are synonyms, and we see rejoice here.
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We rejoice with those who rejoice. When people are joyful and they are singing and they're happy and i'm excited, we rejoice with them. And like we said, we weep with those who weep.
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So down here, this is our next verse. Let's go back to John 15, 11. fifteen eleven
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Red letters. Jesus is speaking. These things I have spoken to you. I recommend looking previously in John 15. There's some good stuff in there. We...
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We did look at something right up here. We looked at John 15, 5, which was the vine. So that section plays into what Jesus is about to tell us here in John 15, 11.
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fifteen eleven So that's six verses ahead. So he has told us about the vine. He told us these things that his joy may be in us.
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Joy comes from Christ. It is our joy is is rooted in Christ, meaning every our joy, our happiness, our excitement, our passion is rooted and comes from Christ because he wants our joy to be full.
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So it's a fruit of the Spirit, meaning it comes from this the Holy Spirit, when he comes upon us and comes within us, he starts to make us more joyful people. That joy is rooted fully in Christ because our joy comes from him.
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We have hope because of Jesus.
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So that's John 15, verse 11. All right, we're going to come back down when we so find our next word here. um It is a lot of scrolling, but it's just the way it works.
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So next word here is peace.
Peace Through the Holy Spirit
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Peace. It's hard not to to use or to think of any other kind of peace than world peace, right?
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For us, world peace would be The idea that everybody is just not at war, right?
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Peace and war are opposites. So war is this idea of attacks, battles, strife. Peace is the opposite where we have… um agreement and conversation and um trades and um good feelings towards one another.
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We have peace with each other. um Peace for us who have been sinners, who have been enemies of God. um is a new concept to us when we accept Christ as our Savior.
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We didn't have peace before. And so that's why this peace comes from the Spirit living within us. If we don't have the Spirit, if we're not living in the Spirit, we don't have peace in our lives.
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So let's scroll down here. Let's get to some peace ah verses. um And so we're going look at John 14, 26 through 27. This is Jesus talking about, as we've seen here, the helper, the Holy Spirit. We've talked about the Holy Spirit already. um Whom the Father will send in my name.
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He will teach us all things. So the Spirit teaches us. He teaches us what is true, what is good, what is beautiful, what is right.
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he He teaches us inside of us. So as we listen to people speak, as we listen to God's word being taught, as we read God's word, the helper, the Holy Spirit, teaches us.
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And he brings to remembrance all the things I have said to you.
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So this is important here because a lot of times we don't have our Bibles with us. And i have been able to see on many occasions where I have remembered verses that I have been taught a long time ago,
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and Christ brings them back to my memory. So um it's a really cool thing to have the Holy Spirit to remind us of verses that are important when we need to share them with others.
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And he says this, right, that the Holy Spirit's going to come and he's going to teach us all these things and that the Holy Spirit is going to bring in here verse 27. He's going to bring us peace.
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I leave with you.
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When we have the Holy Spirit, we are right with God because we have accepted the free gift of Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection. And now we can have peace with with God.
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We can have peace with God and we can have peace with others. So peace he leaves with us and my peace I give to you. So the peace that Jesus had gives to us. And it's not like the world, right?
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A lot of times in the world, peace is just a mirage. It's not necessarily that they're all on the same page now. It's more that they're just like, well, I guess we have to get along for a little bit.
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But I'm always looking sideways at you, and I'll get you back for what you've done. That's how the world treats peace. We...
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have peace with the Father. So we don't need, our hearts don't need to be troubled by things in the world or things going around. We don't need to be afraid or worried or fearful.
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We don't need to be afraid, it says here, because we have peace, peace with God. Just like the joy we have and the hope of what he's done for us, we can have peace knowing that we are right before God, that God has um has saved us and we are no longer stuck in our sins. We're no longer headed for hell. We are headed for heaven because of what Christ did for us.
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So we have now made it through scrolling back up to patience. So the big three, we've made it through love, joy, peace. We've now moved on to good friend.
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Patience. I'm going to undo that and I'll just restart it. There we go. So we've got patience. All right. Patience or long suffering.
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Um, Again, not things that we necessarily love as believers or just as humans. um America, I can't say that I don't know Kenya well enough to know um how fast of a life you guys live. But here in America, we are not patient people. um We...
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we rush around and we're always hurrying. And so, um, the speed of life here is very fast. Uh, and when we go to other countries, um, it kind of throws us off because people don't like people take breaks. We don't take breaks. Um, not because we think we're better than other people, but, um, we're just not patient.
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We don't like waiting for stuff to happen. Um, and that's something that we, we struggle with here in the States. So patience is this idea of waiting. It's, um,
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It's, like I said, long-suffering, meaning we suffer for a long time. Not an easy thing to do.
Patience and Suffering
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um And we've seen this word before. i've I've highlighted it before as we've gone through. We've seen patience, right? We talked about how love is patient, meaning it waits for things. And so now we're going to see here in 1 Timothy 16...
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um And this is, again, Paul speaking to his dear, dear um apprentice, Timothy. And he says, but I received mercy.
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Christ gave Paul mercy. And he says, for this reason, that in me, as foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience.
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So Christ was merciful. He gave Paul a chance to come to know Christ as his Savior so that Christ could display patience
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and he could be an example to those who are but to believe in Christ, not Paul, believe in Christ for eternal life.
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So Paul is our example of patience. Paul has a whole laundry list of things that happened to him. He was shipwrecked. He was beaten multiple times. um He was stoned, ah like stones were thrown at him. um Like Paul just took a beating um in his life and suffered a lot for Christ.
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And he points out this, that he did this, the mercy that Christ had, the mercy that Christ gave him to know him as his savior. Let Christ show patience in Paul's life so that other people would see Paul's patience and believe.
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How cool is that? So Paul was a very patient person. He waited a long time for things and had a lot of things that he would ask God for that he didn't get. um and he suffered a lot. And all of that was his patience.
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And the reason we can have this patience, right? It comes from the Holy Spirit. The reason we can have this is because, again, back on that hope of Jesus Christ, we know how this ends. We are with Christ forever.
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So if we're with Christ for forever and ever in eternity, we can patiently take suffering because it's not forever. Christ is. He then, in the second letter to Timothy, says, Preach the word.
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Meaning go out and preach. Tell about Jesus to other people. Be ready in season. That means, hey, a bunch of people are interested in knowing Jesus.
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Yeah, let's preach to them. and out of season That means when people don't want to know about Christ, still preach it.
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It talks about reprove, um about this ah reproving and rebuking and exhorting, meaning correct them.
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when they need it, encourage them when they need it, show them when they need it, and exhort them, encourage, right? Exhort is encourage, with complete patience.
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That means all your patience and teaching. This is a verse for a school teacher like myself.
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We preach the word. We be ready in season, out season. We encourage, we rebuke, um we correct when we need to with patience and teaching.
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So we got to do it patiently. We can't just do it. Why aren't you getting this? We do it very patiently.
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So we've now seen patience as a fruit of the spirit. so we are working our way through. We're on our way to getting all the way done here.
Kindness, Justice, and Humility
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All right. Now on to kindness is our next one.
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We've got four left after kindness. So we see kindness here. Kindness is this idea of... Treating people well, um being nice to them, um showing them the love of Jesus, giving them good gifts, um doing what they need for giving this the things that they need. So if they need a hug, give them a hug.
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if you If they need a handshake, we give them a handshake. We give them um whatever it is they need, we provide it. It's kindness. So let me take you to a couple more verses. I'll slowly get us down here. We're going to be on Micah 6.8.
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um And so he, this is Micah is speaking about God here. God has told you what is good.
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um God shows us what's the good things to do, right? To love, to be, um love, joy, patience, gentleness, self-control, all of these, right? So he's told us what is good and what does the Lord require of us?
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So what does God ask us to do? To do justice.
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That means to do what's right. That means to hold other people accountable. But we need to be partaking in justice.
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Justice needs done. And to love kindness. To love being kind to other people. Love being good to other people. To walk humbly with God.
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we don't walk arrogantly as if we're better than other people. We walk humbly low with God.
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That's what Micah 6.8 says is what kindness is, is to love it. We need to love kindness.
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I can see, even as we're going here, they're building off of each other. They are connecting. Love is connecting to kindness. Um... And they continue to do that as we as we go through this.
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Colossians 3, 12 through 13 is my next passage to take you to. And this says, put on then. um Put on, put off principles are huge in the New Testament. It's kind of like putting your clothes on. Here's what you should wear.
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Here's what you shouldn't wear. That's the kind of idea that Paul is going for here. So put on. Here's what I want you unique to put on. Here's what I want you to add to your life.
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The things you should be doing, not the things you know the things you should be doing. right As God's chosen people, that means that God calls us through his Holy Spirit. right um When we came to know Christ as our Savior, he called us.
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He said, you need to know me as your Lord and Savior, that I'm the way to heaven. As God's chosen one, holy and beloved.
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That means that we're no longer considered a sinner. We are loved and we are right standing before him. We are to put on compassionate hearts, meaning we're supposed to be considerate of others, compassion. When other people are struggling, we do everything we can to be kind to them and love them.
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That's where the kindness then comes in. Humility, we saw that previous verse up there, meekness. And look, there's patience again.
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Bearing with one another. Bearing with means that we, again, suffer long with them. So this is patience. This is the idea of...
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I don't know. Sometimes we get exhausted or tired of people. you know I have some friends who I get tired of that they aren't you know living for the Lord like they should be, but we're supposed to bear with them. So even though we might get a little annoyed that they're not doing what they're supposed to supposed to go, all right, well, let me be patient and let me keep praying for them.
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Bearing with one another. And if anyone has a complaint against another, so that means if anybody's like mad at one another, forgive them. right?
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So if people have issues with each other, give each other. get ah like Get past it. don't Don't let the complaint become bigger than it needs to be.
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Forgive. As the Lord, oh boy. As Christ forgave us our sins, we should, we must, not only should, must forgive.
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Have to. Can't get away without it.
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All right. Now we've seen kindness. Again, like I said,
Goodness and God's Word
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we've got four more. We are working through this as best we can. And hopefully it has been a blessing to you so far. I am i am blessed to have gotten to share this this ah this chat with you.
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um It's been good. So I've loved it. All right, moving on here. We've got goodness. um Things that are good, right? Goodness is the idea that there are things in our lives that are God-given that are are good things. People that God has given into our life are good things. um And goodness is this idea of we show good things to others, meaning we give them good good stuff. So like if, ah think about food, right? If we give somebody a really good-looking apple or a good-looking fruit, um that is is good.
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People need fruit and they need food to live. um It's showing good to people, showing um showing the the best of what we have. So goodness.
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It's not evil. It's not bad. It's it's approved. It looks good. It tastes good. It's it's something that is appreciated. So goodness.
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Going back down here, we're going to see some goodness. We're going to go to Philemon. Philemon is a book that is written by Paul to a a slave owner, um, who Paul has interacted with one of his slaves who's ran away. And Paul has a conversation with, with Philemon about, Hey, he's a believer and forgive him. Um, and if he's owed you anything or cost you any money, let me pay you, pay him back. It's a, it's a really cool story of, um,
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Paul's love and consideration not only for Philemon, but also for Onesimus, the slave or servant who ran away. um So here Paul, and here's what he's saying to Philemon. He says, but i preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion, but of your own accord.
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So basically what Paul is saying is here is i um i did not I didn't do anything to fix the situation with Onesimus because I wanted your goodness to come of your own accord.
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I didn't want it to just come because I told you to. um So goodness is just this doing right by somebody. And we see Paul saying, hey, I want your goodness to be of your own choice.
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And we also see goodness here in Hebrews 6, 5. And i should have probably done verse 4, but we're here. So it says, and I have tasted the goodness of the word of God.
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So this tells us here that good, the word of God is good. the goodness, the things that are in God's word that tell us how to live and what to do, that is where this goodness can be defined it defined and found. um And the powers of this age to come.
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So we've tasted of the goodness of the word and the powers of the age to come. And what he's talking about with age to come is not that there is a not like...
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2025 or a year in our existence. He's talking about the age to come is this, what's coming, our millennial kingdom with Christ, our eternity with God.
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So he's talking about how he's tasted the goodness of God's word and what's going to come. what What is going to come down the line, being with Christ forever.
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So he is excited about the goodness. So the word of God is good. And we can see here through this how goodness is something that is right, is something that is done to others, and has some synonyms with some of the other stuff we talked about, like love. um Goodness is the action and out of our heart attitude of love.
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So goodness is the next one. We have three left here. So we pull up here now to faithfulness. um Hebrews chapter 11 talks very heavily about faithfulness and there's the hall of faith that is there, which is all these people who did things because they believed that God would come through or that Christ would come through with it. So faithfulness is...
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Quite a a big topic throughout the Bible. um we Really, the the biggest faithful person is God, and he's faithful to us to um to keep us alive, to keep us breathing, to keep us together. his His faithfulness shines through.
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So, faithfulness.
Faithfulness, Justice, and Mercy
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um That's going to take us, again, another long scroll, but hopefully this is an opportunity for translations to catch up a little bit.
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So here we go to Psalms 71 verse 22. That's my next passage of Scripture. As you can see, I'm just working through verses through the Bible to point out and show where these um these fruits are defined.
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So Psalm 71 verse 22, I will praise you with the harp. So um this is the psalmist is saying, hey, I'm going to play some music for you.
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Because you are faithful. Like I said, God, right? He's talking about, oh, my God, and my Lord, my Savior. His faithfulness, God is his faithfulness.
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God's faithfulness is what he's singing about. And he will sing praises with the lyre, another instrument. Oh, holy one of Israel.
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So this God is not just any God. He's the one who is of Israel, the holy God. He will sing praises because this God, the holy one of Israel, is faithful.
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So God's faithfulness to us and the fact that he sent his one and only son to die for us and give us an opportunity to be with him forever, that is faithfulness.
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And that's why it comes through the Holy Spirit is we can be faithful because of what? The Holy Spirit living in us, which is a part of the Trinity, which is a part of God. So his faithfulness to be able to follow God and follow him well comes from the Spirit, comes from God himself.
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Here we see a group of people in Matthew 23, 23 that Jesus is calling out for not being faithful. Whoa.
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Like, watch out. Whoa to you, scribes and Pharisees. So these would have been the rulers of Israel at the time. calls them hypocrites.
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We got to a couple weeks ago at school describe what a hypocrite is, which is somebody who says one thing and does another, right? Maybe they say in front of a bunch of other people, everybody should read the Bible.
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But then They never read their Bible, and they don't intend to read their Bible, but they think everyone else should. That's a hypocrite.
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Telling somebody to do something without you doing it is a hypocrite.
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For you tithe, you mint, and you dill, and cumin. Basically, these are all... um He says that they're tithing all of these, like...
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um
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herbs or um like spices or seasonings. Like they give away all these like little tiny things, now stuff that we would make our food taste better.
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um You're giving away all these tiny little things and you neglect Neglect gives the idea that they forget that they've give up.
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Don't worry about they neglect the weightier, heavier, more important things, more important matters. Matters is another way for things of the law.
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So they were really worried about these really small stuff like mint, dill, and cumin, and they are not worried about justice.
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So they aren't worried about what's doing right. for people So if somebody murders somebody, they don't really care about taking care of that. They're more worried about their mint.
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And their mercy.
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They are not worried about being um about being merciful for people. They are much more worried about being um making sure their dill is correct.
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And they really don't care about their faithfulness.
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So this group, scribes and Pharisees, do not have the Holy Spirit within them because they they're not faithful. They're not faithful to Christ. They're not following him. Jesus says, then, you ought to have done these.
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These you ought to have done. You should have been justice, merciful, and faithful
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without neglecting this up here.
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Basically says, do all of them. Make sure you're tithing, but also make sure that your justice, mercy, and faithfulness is there.
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So that has been faithfulness. We've seen God is the one that is ultimately faithful. That's how he powers our faithfulness, that we can be faithful because of what Christ has done in our lives.
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um And that is an outflow of the Holy Spirit. When we are faithful and we follow him, um It is only because of the spirit that is working inside. Leads us to gentleness.
Gentleness in Faith
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Gentleness is the idea of not being overly aggressive or loud or um in your face, but calm.
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um It has a soft touch, a caring touch. It's it's loving. Being gentle as is genuinely a loving thing.
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Again, we can see how some of those some of these things are just completely tying themselves together. So here's for gentleness. Okay.
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And we also see the word kind. We've seen patient. We've seen these before. The Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome. So if somebody is going to be a Lord's servant, meaning you're going to be a pastor, um we cannot be quarrelsome.
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Meaning we can't just sit around and argue with each other about silly things. We don't want to just start arguments just to start arguments.
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Someone who is to be a servant or a pastor or a teacher needs to be kind to everyone. Ouch. Even people you don't like, we need to be kind to them.
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We need to be able to teach, meaning we need to have the ability to actually, we have to actually know it to be able to teach it. ah We need to patiently endure evil.
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So when bad things happen to us, we we need to be patient and wait for the Lord to take care of it and not try to put it in our own hands. We correct our opponents with gentleness.
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We're going have opponents. We're going people who will call us out, who will be even cuss us out. They'll use but vow foul language to say what we are as Christians. We correct them, meaning when we see that they have a wrong way of thinking, we correct them with gentleness.
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Instead of berating people and you know getting nasty and unkind to them, we go, we gently say, that's wrong.
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If somebody says to us, Jesus isn't God, we say to them gently, he is God. And here's how I know.
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And you can take them through the scriptures. And the reason we do this gentleness is that God may grant them repentance. God, the Holy Spirit might work in them and they might repent.
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And then they know the truth.
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So we treat them well because God might save them. How awesome that would be, right? We also see, so we saw in 2 Timothy 2, 24 through 25, version of gentleness. We saw kind, we saw patient of how to be a servant of the Lord, somebody who is a pastor or a teacher.
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We then see here in 1 Peter 3, 15, But in your hearts, honor Christ the Lord as holy. So in our hearts, we make Christ to be holy, meaning perfect, most importance in our life.
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We always are prepared to defend anyone, to make a defense to anyone. So that means we are ready to defend our faith.
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for christ So if somebody comes to us and says, why do you believe in Jesus? We are prepared to defend it.
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Anyone who asks us for a reason, the hope. Hope is we're going to heaven one day. We're going to be with Jesus forever because of what Christ did for us. That's the hope.
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And we need to be ready to defend that hope. When people ask for us, why why do you believe this way? And we're not supposed to do it with, like again, nastiness and unkindness and um vileness, but we're supposed to do it gently and respectfully.
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Gently and respectfully to when people come at us and say,
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You know, you shouldn't hope in Jesus. He's not going to save you. We can say, no no, Jesus will save us. And here's how I know, because he died on this cross for me. He died cross and he promises that anyone who believes in him will be saved.
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We need to be ready to make a defense, but we need to do it gently. And that gentleness comes from god All right, not much left now.
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We are coming to the end of our conversation. So here's our next scrolling back up
The Role of Self-Control
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to the top. Our last keyword is self-control.
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um this is our last fruit that we're going to go over, self-control. Self-control is this idea that you are in control.
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um Not necessarily that you know or can do everything, but that you are in control of your reactions and your um your things that you're doing.
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um It's not something that somebody who is living in the flesh does. They are out of control. They don't have self-control. That's why they do, as we scroll up a little bit here, that's why they do all of this immorality and impurity and idolatry and sorcery is because they can't control what they're doing.
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They are choosing sin because sin is all they know. When we have the Holy Spirit in our hearts, we now have the choice. We are now have our self-control. The Spirit is now in control.
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and can give us helps us to decide whether we choose to do right and wrong. So we have this self-control, and we need to practice it and work on it and grow it. um So here are our last few verses that we'll go to.
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We're going to look at these last two, Proverbs 25, 28. It says, this is what happens when you have somebody who does not have self-control, a man. this is a man. who's Anybody who's listening to this, it's a man or a woman, but people without self-control, right?
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Without self-control is like a city that is broken.
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and into and left without walls.
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So think about, you have to think about it a little bit into history a little bit, but think about like a fort or a fortifications around a city um to protect from people to attacking. um It's just like if all of the protections of a city are just broken into and left without walls. Basically there's,
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there's no stopping it. Somebody who has no self-control, you can't stop them. There's no holding them back. They are just out of control and they're like a a crazy windstorm or um any kind of disaster that comes our way. Like it is out of control. We can't stop it.
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That's what a person is when um they don't have self-control. And then here, this last verse, and then we'll go back and we'll finish up um finish up ah the the Spirit. And it says this, so 1 Corinthians 9.25, every athlete, so if you are an athlete, maybe you play soccer or football,
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You know, an athlete, it's just anybody could be running marathons, whatever it is. You know, if we do something physical, sports related, right? We exercises, we exercise self-control in all things, right? So that means if we're going to get in the right shape, we eat the right things, we make sure we're training and we're we're running and we're...
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lifting things. We're carrying things like we're just trying to get in shape. And every athlete does this. They try to control their bodies. And they do it.
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To receive a perishable wreath. So their reason for doing self-control is so that they can get a reward. At that time, they would gotten a wreath that would go around their their head and it would be like a trophy.
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They would say, look at us, we. We got a trophy. We do it for an imperishable crown. A perishable crown is going to, because it was a leafy green thing, would eventually die because it wasn't connected any anymore.
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But we are looking for an imperishable crown. When we exercise self-control over our lives, over sin, and we choose to follow Christ, we are rewarded with crowns in heaven. Yeah.
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So we do this for a bigger purpose than athletes exercise self-control.
Conclusion and Encouragement
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All right, my time is winding short with you all, so let's go back up here and we'll finish this off. So fruit of the Spirit, right, is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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Against such things there is no law. So you're not going to find rules against being loving. You're not going to find rules against being joyful or peaceful or patient or kind or good or faithful or gentle or having self-control. but There's not going to be a law or a rule that's going to say that these things don't apply.
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And those... who belong to Christ Jesus, people who've accepted Christ as your savior, we kill the flesh.
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This stuff up here, the sins, we kill them.
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We kill it with its passions
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and desires.
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So our passion and desire for these things, our immorality, impurities, we kill those. We crucify them.
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And we put on the new passions and desires, the ones that do the fruits of the Spirit. Because if we live by the Spirit... We need to keep in step with the Spirit.
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Meaning we follow as the Spirit, as we keep living in these things, and we keep walking with the Lord, keep walking in His Spirit. We need to keep step with the Spirit. Where the Spirit leads us, we go.
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Where He sends us, we go. And we don't do this so we become, we don't we do not want to become conceited. This is not so we can numb stick your nose up and be better than everybody else.
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It's not so that we can provoke others and say, you need to do what I'm doing. You need to get on my level. Nope. It's not for that. And it's not for envying each other. It's not to say, oh man, my friend is really good at faithfulness and I just, I just want to be more faithful.
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right It's not like that. That's not what these are for. We're not to be conceited through this the fruits. We're not supposed to provoke others to wrath, and we're not supposed to be envying those that follow the fruits of Spirit. In fact, we're supposed to rejoice with them.
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right Down here we talked about rejoicing with those who rejoice. if People are living this stuff out. We need to be excited and on fire for it. So thank you all um for listening. Thank you for those who ah translated this. um This has been a blessing to be able to speak to you to you all.
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I'll be praying that God continues to work in all of your hearts and lives and um again, that God will be with you. um So this has been Logan Howard sharing the fruits of spirit.
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And we will see you all next time. And if there's not a next time, then maybe I'll have to come visit you guys sometime. So we'll see you all.
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Bye.