“Fruit of the Spirit” – Part 2
Galatians 5:22-23
By: Pastor
November 25, 2018 – SN
Love, joy, peace – inward
Longsuffering, gentleness, goodness – outward
Faith, meekness, temperance – upward
The fruit of the spirit should be a demonstration that you as a Christian should be like.
You can control how your fruit is bearing.
You can have an impeccable testimony if you have the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
- Longsuffering
Means the slowness of avenging wrongs, patiently enduring; patiently waiting in enduring hardness
Longsuffering goes against your flesh.
Your thought is you are going to get back at them.
Hebrews 6:12
You should not respond quickly, but you should wait patiently.
If it hard to be patient, but you need to learn patience and let God handle everything.
A man of God said “It’s been questioned if a man can practice the life of longsuffering without mercy.”
Sometimes you will be injured by others; sometimes on purpose, but sometimes not on purpose.
If you are saved you will be injured by other at one time or another.
Living in the Spirit helps you to respond correctly.
Sit and think of how God has been longsuffering to you.
If someone does you the way you do God, you would never talk to that person again.
Wait patiently in love.
Longsuffering is bearing up through all troubles and difficulties without murmuring or repining.
Your flesh magnifies what other to do you.
Longsuffering is opposed to a hastiness of revenge.
You in the flesh have the tendency to say you are going to get them back.
Longsuffering does not think or acts like that.
God’s desire for you is for you to walk in the Spirit and to have the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
Without longsuffering in your life, it messes up the whole fruit. If not deal with, you will have bitter fruit the rest of your life.
Not having longsuffering in your life can knock you out of your walk for God
- Gentleness
Gentleness is kindness which is an attribute of Jesus Christ
Ephesians 2:7
His attribute that He is trying to put in your life.
If you are not gentle it’s because you are not letting it come out.
How hard is it to be kind to others?
You are fighting the attribute of God if you are not showing forth gentleness in your life.
Gentleness is sweetness.
A sweet disposition should be in your life.
A kindness should really break out to others in the house hold of faith.
There should be a care for one another.
Our characteristic should not be meanness.
A person that is Spirit-filled will leave behind a sweet odor.
Gentleness means that you can be entreated when done wrong.
You try to fix something instead of blowing up about what just happened.
Gentleness is the quality of being kind, tender, and mild mannered.
Holding yourself in and not letting your flesh take over.
Remember others are not your enemy, the devil is.
Remember that your job as a Christian in life is to glorify God.
Gentleness is the response of a Christian.
Your testimony gets hacked away because you are not bearing the fruit of the Spirit.
Greatest testimony is when you can ask God to help you bear the fruit of the Spirit in your life and let Him work in your life so that He can be the one that can show forth the fruit of the Spirit in your life.