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  • Rev. Caleb T. Serrano - 1 year ago
    Galatians 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

    How can I put this in a Sirmon
  • Duncan - In Reply - 1 year ago
    if you abide in him he will abide in you and the works of the spirit will be evident in you such as Joy, love ect john 15. and all people are commanded everywhere to repent of like wise will perish.
  • Free - In Reply - 1 year ago
    Hey, my dear, I Won't lecture any of you. But whatever you do, listen to the Holy Ghost and slip Him into your meetings. Then there will always be good meetings.

    The words of Galatians are about fruits of the Spirit. Good luck.

    Jesus loves u all and i in Christ.

    Acts 21:37-40
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    (Sermon Part 2)

    Goodness, this is where good and goodness and all the words that have to do with AGATHOS come from. It displays not a human goodness, but a Spiritual Godly goodness.



    And then here is something that can be pointed out if you so choose. Notice what the King James has. It has the word faith. The more modern translations have changed this to faithfulness, an adjective. But it's not an adjective. It is still the same noun that has been in all the manuscripts. All the manuscripts read the same. The King James has it correct. It seems as thought they couldn't come to grips and justify that God's Spirit produces faith, so they changed it to faithfulness. But it's faith!

    And then you get to Galatians 5:23, and you see the word meekness. There is an old saying that goes, "Meekness does not mean weakness." It means openness or receptivity. It's one of the words that Paul used for those in ministry. It's also translated gentleness. But it means to be open. The person who's giving the word and ministering the things of Christ, that person must be more open and receptive than any other person. They can't close themselves off like they have arrived and everybody else hasn't. They have to be open.

    And then temperance means self-control, or more literally the control of self. This is not self-control like trying to enforce discipline in our eating, as in "I've got to exhibit more self-control when I eat." This word means to be controlled from within, to be controlled by the Spirit of God.

    And then he says against such there is no law. And again, he's saying that this is the fruit of God's Spirit. There is no law against these.

    I know this is not a whole lot, but perhaps this might be of some help as you get ready to present your own sermon.
  • Jesse - In Reply - 1 year ago
    (Sermon Part 1)

    Caleb,

    If I were given the opportunity in church to speak on Galatians 5:22-23, this is probably how I would present it:

    I would break down each fruit listed; love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, and present.

    Beginning with Galatians 5:22, it says, But the fruit of the Spirit is, and then I would draw the attention of those whom I am presenting this to the fact that the word fruit is singular. People have tried to fit all this into a singular fruit. Most of the time people say love is the fruit that all the others are based on, so it's singular.

    But it's actually more inclusive than that! All of these items are elements of the same and the one fruit. You cannot separate love from faith, and joy from faith, and joy from love because it's from the same Spirit. There's only one Spirit and this is Him.

    And then you can break down the elements listed:

    The first element of the one fruit is love, AGAPE. God's Spirit produces love. You and I cannot produce AGAPE love.

    Joy, and that's not the dishwashing soap (If you want to add humor)! It's the Greek word for satisfaction. Be satisfied with the Lord at all times, and again I will say be satisfied. It doesn't mean a happy feeling. It means to be satisfied.



    And then peace. The word peace, EIRENE, means unity.

    Longsuffering means to be slow in human reaction. In God's standpoint, I can tolerate and be slow in my human reaction because that is a characteristic of God's Spirit, not me.

    Gentleness, which is literally the word kindness, and it has to do with being useful. It is Spiritual usefulness. The bible says that if you don't know Christ, you are not spiritually useful at all!

    I will send Part 2 shortly.



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