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The Fruit of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, and More

Explore the qualities of the Fruit of the Spirit as outlined in Galatians 5:22-23. Learn about the importance of love, joy, peace, and more in living a life led by the Holy Spirit.

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The Fruit of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, and More

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  1. Gal 5:22-23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

  2. The Fruit of the Spirit Love Joy Peace Longsuffering Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self-control

  3. Galatians 5 “Standing Fast In The Liberty And Not Bondage ” Don’t Go Back to Circumcision and the Law (vv. 1-6) Don’t Listen to False Teachers (vv. 7-12) Liberty is to Walk After the Spirit and Not Flesh (vv. 13-26)

  4. Galatians 5 “Standing Fast In The Liberty And Not Bondage ” Liberty is to Walk After the Spirit andNot Flesh (vv. 13-26) Love one another (vv. 13-15) Walk in and be led by the Spirit (vv. 16-18) Don’t do works of the flesh (vv. 19-21) Develop fruit of the Spirit (vv. 22-26)

  5. “But (de) is strongly adversative, contrasting the fruit of the Spirit with the works of the flesh.” M. Willis, p. 264 Works of the Flesh adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; Fruit of Spirit Love Joy Peace longsuffering, kindness Goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control

  6. “..against such there is no law” (v. 23) Love Joy Peace Longsuffering Kindness Goodness Faithfulness, Gentleness Self-control • In context with OT – vs – NT • Gospel changes one’s life • Develop these qualities – Not under any condemnation • Nothing to condemn one who practices these qualities

  7. What is the “Fruit of the Spirit”? Result – comes from following the revelation of the Holy Spirit Verses 16, 18, 25 “The fruit of the Spirit refers to those attitudes and dispositions that are developed as a result of following the guidance of the Holy Spirit as revealed in the written word.” M. Willis, p. 264-265

  8. What is the “Fruit of the Spirit”? • Result – comes from following the revelation of the Holy Spirit • “Fruit” = Singular (not Fruits) • One fruit – with 9 characteristics • Must develop all

  9. The Fruit of the Spirit I. Love

  10. I. Love • Love Defined • Different words Eros – Carnal, Sexual, Sensual Philia – Close Friendship, warm Storge – Family Relationship Agape – Seeks the highest good for others

  11. I. Love • Love Defined • Different words • Lexicons / Dictionaries "Love can be known only from the actions it prompts… It was an exercise of the divine will in deliberate choice, made without assignable cause save that which lies in the nature of God Himself, Cf. Deut 7:7,8…is not an impulse from the feelings, it does not always run with the natural inclinations, nor does it spend itself only upon those for whom some affinity is discovered. Love seeks the welfare of all…” (Vine)

  12. “Therefore, the meaning of Agape is unconquerable benevolence, undefeatable goodwill. Agape is the spirit in the heart which will never seek anything but the highest good of its fellow-men. It does not matter how its fellow-men treat it; it does not matter what their attitude is to it, it will never seek anything but their highest and their best good… “ …is the ability and the power and the determination to love the people we do not like….” William Barclay

  13. Not A Feeling “There are those who think of this love as a sentimental or emotional attachment to someone or to something. Because they equate this love with a feeling, they think that they love when they have this feeling and that they are without love when they do not have this feeling.” James D. Bales

  14. I. Love • Love Defined • Love Exemplified & Illustrated • God is love (1 Jno. 4:8) • God’s love for us (2 Cor. 13:11) • Undeserved (Rom. 5:8) • Inseparable (Rom. 8:35-39) • Degree (John 3:16)

  15. I. Love • Love Defined • Love Exemplified & Illustrated • Love Directed • Toward God (John 14:15, 21) • Toward Man (1 Jno. 4:20-21)

  16. I. Love • Love Defined • Love Exemplified & Illustrated • Love Directed • Love Applied • Characteristics (1 Cor. 13:4-8)

  17. Characteristics Of Love • (1 Cor. 13:4-8) • Suffers long • Kind • Does not envy • Does not parade itself • Not puffed up • Does not behave rudely • Does not seek its own • Not easily provoked • Thinks no evil • Does not rejoice in iniquity • Rejoices in truth • Bears all things • Believes all things • Hopes all things • Endures all things

  18. I. Love • Love Defined • Love Exemplified & Illustrated • Love Directed • Love Applied • Characteristics (1 Cor. 13:4-8) • Overcomes the tendency of man to hate or ignore “Agape is a love that seeks the highest good for its fellowman. Christians will conquer the natural man that tends to ignore or hate one whom it does not love.” M. Willis, 266

  19. I. Love • Love Defined • Love Exemplified & Illustrated • Love Directed • Love Applied • Characteristics (1 Cor. 13:4-8) • Overcomes the tendency of man to hate or ignore • Seeks to help • Physical needs (1 Jno. 3:16-18) • Spiritual needs (1 Pet. 4:8; Jas. 5:19-20) • Stern (2 Cor. 2:4) – doesn’t let person do as like • Ties & binds (Col. 3:12-14)

  20. The Fruit of the Spirit I. Love II. Joy

  21. II. Joy • Joy’s Meaning • Strong: “cheerfulness, i.e. calm delight” • Vine: “Joy, delight” • Translated: “joy”, “joyful”, “gladness” • Closely related to Charis (Grace) – we have joy because of grace • Characteristic – not an occasional matter

  22. II. Joy • Joy’s Meaning • Joy’s Dependence • Not dependent on outward circumstances • Paul in Prison – Yet rejoice (Phil 2:17; 3:1; 4:4) • Not: “I could be happy if…”

  23. II. Joy • Joy’s Meaning • Joy’s Dependence • Joy’s Sources • Faith (Phil. 1:25) • Word produces faith (Rom. 10:17) • Faith produces joy (Rom. 15:13) • Faith dispels doubts, fears & worry (Mt. 6:25-30)

  24. “If you have no joy in your religion, there a leak in your Christianity somewhere.” Billy Sunday “The reason why many poor souls have so little heat of joy in their hearts, is that they have so little light of Gospel knowledge in their mind The further a souls stands from the light of truth, the further he must needs be from the heat of comfort.” William Gurnall

  25. II. Joy • Joy’s Meaning • Joy’s Dependence • Joy’s Sources • Faith (Phil. 1:25) • Obedience (Acts 8:8, 39; 1 Thess. 1:6) • Forgiveness (Psa. 32:1-2, 11; 51:7-12) • Others serving the Lord & progressing (3 Jno. 4) • Discipline & testing (Jas. 1:2)

  26. II. Joy • Joy’s Meaning • Joy’s Dependence • Joy’s Sources • Joy’s Power • Look beyond present to eternal (John 15:11; 16:22) • Endure problems (Acts 5:41; Heb. 10:34)

  27. The Fruit of the Spirit I. Love II. Joy III. Peace

  28. III. Peace • Meaning of Peace • Vine: “…harmonious relationships between men…” • Thayer: “1. a state of national tranquility; exemption from the rage and havoc of war: Rev 6:4 2. peace between individuals, i. e. harmony, concord…” • More than absence of conflict - harmony

  29. III. Peace • Meaning of Peace • Direction of Peace • Toward God (Rom. 5:1) • Toward man (Rom. 12:18; Eph. 2:11-22) • Toward Self [by-product] (Phil. 4:7)

  30. III. Peace • Meaning of Peace • Direction of Peace • Source of Peace • Follow the Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6-7) • Obedience (Rom. 5:1; Rom. 10:15)

  31. III. Peace • Meaning of Peace • Direction of Peace • Source of Peace • Working toward Peace • Pursue it (1 Pet. 3:11; Rom. 14:19) • How? (1 Pet. 3:8)

  32. III. Peace • Meaning of Peace • Direction of Peace • Source of Peace • Working toward Peace • Limitations of Peace • Not peace at any cost • Not compromise of faith (Jude 3) • Wisdom is first pure – then peaceable (Jas. 3:17-18)

  33. The Fruit of the Spirit I. Love II. Joy III. Peace

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