FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT - Power Points to Jesus

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Steven J Wallace
The Fruit of the Spirit
Additions of Scriptures and other edits:
Jack Wheeler – Clovis Ca
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FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
LOVE
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FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“JOY”
&
“PEACE”
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Galatians 5:22, 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
goodness
self-control. Against such there is no
law.
relationships
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Galatians 5:22, 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, FAITHFULNESS,
GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL.
Against such there is no law.
relationship to God
and word
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FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“FAITHFULNESS”
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Galatians 5:22, 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, FAITHFULNESS,
GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL.
Against such there is no law.
also be used within
personal relationships
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Defining “Faithfulness”
Bible Greek Lexicon
Conviction of the truth of anything, belief; in the
NT of a conviction or belief respecting man’s
relationship to God and divine things, generally
with the included idea of trust and holy fervor born
of faith and joined with it
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Defining “Faithfulness”
The One Who is “Faithful”
Has the character of one who can be relied on.
Can be trusted
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Contrasting Romans 1
28 And even as they did not like to retain God
God in
their knowledge, God gave them over to a
debased mind, to do those things which are not
fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents,
31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,
unforgiving, unmerciful;
cause
effect
ungodly
fruit
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Contrasting Romans 1
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in
their knowledge, God gave them over to a
debased mind, to do those things which are not
fitting;
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
immorality, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit,
evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud,
boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents,
31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving,
unforgiving, unmerciful;
ungodly
fruit
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Contrasting Romans 1
Four Translations
31 “don’t have any sense, don’t keep promises, and
don’t show love to their own families or mercy to
others”
31 “Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings,
unkind, having no mercy”
31 “foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless”
31 “Without understanding, covenant-breakers,
without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful”
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Faithfulness
• Is claimed by many but found in
only a few
• Prov. 20:6
– “Most men will proclaim each his own
goodness, But who can find a faithful
man?”
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Faithfulness
• Can easily vanish from men
– Ps. 12:1-3
– “Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases! For
the faithful disappear from among the
sons of men. 2 They speak idly everyone
with his neighbor; With flattering lips and a
double heart they speak. 3 May the Lord
cut off all flattering lips, And the tongue that
speaks proud things”
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Faithfulness
• Is a quality to be found in our
relationships
– with God
– with our family
– with our fellow man/brethren
– all aspects of our lives
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Faithfulness
To God
IS R E Q U I R E D
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Faithful Wives
Faithful Masters
Faithful Men
Faithful Children
Faithful in death
1 Peter 5:12
By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose,
I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this
is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To God
• In what God has given us
• Matthew 25:21
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and
faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a
few things, I will make thee ruler over many
things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To God
• In the small things
• Luke 16:10-12
10 He that is faithful in that which is least is
faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the
least is unjust also in much.
11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the
unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your
trust the true riches?
12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is
another man's, who shall give you that which is
your own?
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Brethren
• Assembling with the saints
• Hebrews 10:24-25
24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto
love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting
one another: and so much the more, as ye see
the day approaching.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Brethren
• 1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all
sin.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Brethren
• Assembling with the saints
• Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin willfully after that we have
received the knowledge of the truth, there
remaineth no more sacrifice for sins
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Brethren
– ask yourself:
–
“If everyone were as faithful as I
am, what would the church here
be like?”
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Brethren
• Be there for those in trouble
– discipline/admonishment
– Encouragement
Submit to one another
Ephesians 5:21
Submitting yourselves one to another in the
fear of God.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Parents to children
Ephesians 6:4
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to
wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Children to parents
Ephesians 6:1-3
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this
is right.
2 Honor thy father and mother; (which is the first
commandment with promise;)
3 That it may be well with you, that you may live
long on the earth.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Wife to husband
• Ephesians 5:22
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as unto the Lord.
• Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so
love his wife even as himself; and the wife see
that she reverence her husband.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Husband to wife
• Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Husband to wife
• Ephesians 5:33
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so
love his wife even as himself; and the wife see
that she reverence her husband.
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Husband to wife
• Ephesians 5:28-29
28 So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but
nourish and cherish it, even as the Lord the
church:
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AREAS OF
Faithfulness
To Family
• Husband to wife
• 1 Corinthians 7:3
Let the husband render unto the wife due
benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the
husband.
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Realize the Faithfulness of God
• In Temptation
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able;
but will with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
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Realize the Faithfulness of God
• In Protection from Satan
• 2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish
you, and keep you from evil.
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Realize the Faithfulness of God
• In Sanctification/Salvation
• 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
23 And the very God of peace sanctify you
wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and
soul and body be preserved blameless unto
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 Faithful is he that calls you, who also will
do it.
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Realize the Faithfulness of God
• In Forgiveness
• 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
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Faithfulness
• describes one’s faithful service that may be
relied upon
• describes one’s loyalty that may be depended
upon
• describes one’s word that may be accepted
• describes one’s unwavering commitment to
•Jesus
DOES THIS DESCRIBE YOU?
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Are You
Faithfull ?
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