Galatians 5:16-26
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Don’t hear this as a call to try harder to be a good person, this is a call to believe the gospel and commune with the Spirit… And you will have victory if you have the Spirit
- However, This is Only Possible in Christ, who is the Epitome of the Fruit of the Spirit:
- Love – He is the one who showed amazing love in dying for those that would kill him
- Joy – who counted it all joy to suffer for the sake of God’s purposes
- Peace – He is the true peacemaker who brings peace between God and Man in his crucifixion
- Patience – He is a man of patience, as he willingly takes on flesh and 33 years to accomplish his mission
- Kindness, Goodness, and Gentleness – He showed kindness to the beggars, and blind, and to us spiritual beggars and blind
- Faithfulness – And He was faithful, dependable, even as He wept and sweat drops of blood in a garden prepared to stand under the weight of God’s wrath due or sin not his… he was there, he could be counted on
- Self-control – And He is the only man who’s appetites didn’t control him – who is able to look at a cross and say not “my will” but yours be done!