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Fruit of the Spirit is about |
Being like Jesus |
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Matthew 7:15-20 |
By their fruits you will know them |
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The outcome of unbroken and full communion with Christ |
Spiritual fruit (John -15:1-5) |
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Important keys in cooperating with fruit bearing |
We are receptive We endure pruning We stay connected |
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Every living thing God created, He created |
To bear fruit |
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Love suffer long |
Longsuffering (patience) |
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Love does not envy |
Peace |
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Love does not parade itself |
Gentleness or meekness |
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Love Does not behave rudely |
Self-control, peace |
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Love does not seek its own |
Love and Goodness |
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Love does not rejoice in iniquity but rejoices in truth |
Goodness and joy |
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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things |
Long suffering and Faithfulness |
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Love never fails |
Against such there is no law |
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The fruit of the Spirit is |
Love
The best definition of love includes all of the fruit of the Spirit. |
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Love initiated and proceeded forth from God and is |
A gift to everyone who is born again |
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The fruit of practical Christian love involves |
Seeking the welfare of others |
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How we are to love others |
While they are yet sinning against us. |
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The way of the world and the way of the flesh is |
Selfishness. |
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The fruit of love is |
sacrificial |
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Psalm 100:1-5 |
Serve the Lord with gladness |
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Based on what is going on around me |
Happiness |
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Based on what God has done/is doing inside me |
Joy |
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Matthew 5:14-16 You and I |
Are called to be salt and light to the world around us. |
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Keys to cultivating joy in your life |
Salvation Factor Prayer factor Word factor Giving factor Harvest factor |
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Isaiah 12:3 |
Therefore with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. |
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John 14:27 |
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. |
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Keys to maintaining the Peace of God in Your Life |
You are in right standing with God by His Blood Love the word Keep your mind stayed on Jesus Your trust is in Jesus |
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The flesh does not like the word |
Patient much |
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2 Peter 1:5-6 |
Add to your faith...patience |
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2 Corinthians 2:14 |
Now thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. |
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Matthew 22:14 |
For many are called, but few are chosen. |
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Faithfulness defined |
Trustworthy, sure, true,loyal, reliable, accurate. |
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Examples of faithfulness |
Faithfulness to Jesus Faithfulness to accurately represent the Father's heart to people Faithfulness to your spouse and your family Faithfulness to your employer Faithfulness in handling finances Faithfulness to church family and spiritual authority |
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Being strong in grace (two fold) |
Strong in your dependence on the Lord Strong in staying within the measure of what God has assigned to you. |
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Essential keys to developing faithfulness in your life - 2 Timothy 2 |
Be strong in Grace Endure Hardness Make pleasing God a higher priority than your involvement with necessities of life Training and discipline Live it before we can export it |
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Rewards of the fruit of faithfulness |
Understanding in all things. |
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Examples of God's loving kindness toward us |
Your loving kindness is better than life His loving kindness is great toward us The kindness of God is merciful, not judgmental Kindness is God's drawing card He desires to show kindness through us to draw men to Himself |
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Scriptural basis for the church to be kind |
2 Corinthians 6:4-6 Ephesians 4:32 2 Peter 1:5-7 |
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Goodness |
Favor, bountiful, welfare, gracious, the best (OT)
Benefit, virtue, beneficence (NT)
Both a state of being and acts of benevolence that benefit others. |
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Each of us needs to receive His goodness |
Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. |
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The best way to represent God is |
By acts of goodness |
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Meekness |
Humility, mildness (meekness and humility have the same root word in Hebrew language) OT
Gentle in circumstances, humble, lowly, poor, chasten self, deal hardly with, submit oneself - yield to another (different green word than the one used for humility) NT |
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Sound in mind, moderate as to opinion or passion, strong in a thing, masterful, self-controlled in appetite |
Self-Control |