Week 11 Fruits of the Spirit vs. Sinful Nature (Galatians 5:16-26) “And in this corner…”
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Week 11
Fruits of the Spirit vs. Sinful Nature (Galatians 5:16-26)
“And in this corner…”
A Shift Happens
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Under the New Covenant behavior is still important but the reason is it flows from a different motive | no longer motivated by trying to obtain righteousness or self-advancement | good behavior is for the sake of others and for the honor of Christ
A Shift Happens
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| Just as Jesus was the fulfillment of the law, so the Spirit is the replacement (and fulfillment) of the law as God’s instrument for moral guidance
Acts vs. Fruit
|Fruit evokes a different image: from one of human responsibility to one of divine enablement | The Christian life is a life of consistent surrender to the Spirit
Acts vs. Fruit
| The fruit of the Spirit puts God’s character on display. The gifts of the Spirit put God’s power on display | Love is first on the list of the fruit of the Spirit
Acts vs. Fruit
1 Corinthians 13:1-2 angels, (NASB) 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of but do not have love , I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing .
Acts vs. Fruit
1 Corinthians 14:1 (NASB) Pursue love , yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. | What is our directive?
| Pursue love | Earnestly desire spiritual gifts
Acts vs. Fruit
Self-control is last in the list. It regulates all the preceding fruit : |Love w/out restraint becomes passion |Joy taken to excess is shallow silliness |Peace becomes apathy |Patience becomes idleness |Kindness becomes flirting |Goodness becomes self-serving |Faith completely without reason becomes blind superstition |Gentleness becomes weakness/timidity
Galatians 5:24-25
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified nature with its passions and desires. 25 Since the sinful we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Our Responsibility
| 24 “have crucified their flesh” | 25 “let us keep in step w/ the Spirit” | 26 “let us not become conceited” | 13 “do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature” “serve one another in love.” | 16 “live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature”