Be a Witness of Love+ | Apostle Shane Wall
The world is used to living in conformity to sin (pleasing the flesh by appeasing their own feelings). As the church of Jesus Christ, we were built to produce a different kind of fruit.
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Sermon Notes:
17 For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.
18 But if you are guided (led) by the [Holy] Spirit, you are not subject to the Law.
19 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies),
21 Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
*- The world is used to living in conformity to sin (pleasing the flesh by appeasing their own feelings). As the church of Jesus Christ, we were built to produce a different kind of fruit.
22 But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love...
Be a Witness of Love+
22 But the fruit of the [Holy] Spirit [the work which His presence within accomplishes] is love, joy (gladness), peace, patience (an even temper, forbearance), kindness, goodness (benevolence), faithfulness,
*- fruit: Metaphorically, that which originates or comes from something; an effect, result; equivalent to work, act, or deed.
*- love: of the affection, good-will, or benevolence of person to person; especially of that love of Christians toward Christians which is enjoined and prompted by their religion, whether the love be viewed as in the soul or as expressed
*- love is used in the singular form, denoting that the remaining works are results from the fruit, love.
23 Gentleness (meekness, humility), self-control (self-restraint, continence). Against such things there is no law [[a]that can bring a charge].
Galatians 5:17-23 (AMPC)
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
*- Love, plus obedience, equals God being pleased. We can only love with a pure heart by faithful acts of obedience.
*- Obedience purifies our souls. If undue condemnation persists after we repent, we’re encountering a soulish problem. Obedience, moving forward, will purify our souls from all condemnation.
*- Let love be the motivation for all obedience.
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter 1:22-23 (KJV)
*- Our new birth isn’t just a spiritual saying. Being born again is just as real to God as natural human birth.
That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 30:20 (KJV)
*- Some people don’t allow God‘s love to fully favor them because they take His love for granted, which hinders the full effect of His love on their lives. They don’t love (work), via obedience, according to God’s love, and thus, they get what people get who reject God’s love— ultimate destruction and calamity.
Homework:
Make a list of 10 other virtues (having or showing high moral standards) that can be coupled with love to produce righteous results.
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