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226. They Will All Be Taught By God

John 6:35, 41-51

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

... . Historically and traditionally, the temple and church have been the schools of virtue. Not so necessarily as places of organizational denomination, but as places that teach children to replace selfishness with unselfishness, dishonesty with honesty, sensuality with self-control, and hatred with love. The family is the strongest educator, but moral teachings in the family are based on what prophet and sage have inculcated. Those families that place emphasis on religious training are generally the ones ...

227. What Is 40 Days Of Purpose?

2 Timothy 4:9-18

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James Merritt

... become more like Jesus. That raises the question - what is Jesus like? If you want a perfect picture of Jesus, it is called the fruit of the spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 names them. The fruit of the spirit is: Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self control (Galatians 5:22-23, ESV) God wants to produce that fruit in your life every day. How does He do that? This may be the most import thing you'll learn today. The way that God produces the fruit of the spirit in your life is by ...

228. Get Real

John 15:1-11, 16

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James Merritt

... that mean to be Christ-like?" We don't have to wonder. The Apostle Paul talked about the fruit of the Spirit and said this is what it looks like. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." (Galatians 5:22-23, NASB) That is what God wants in us - a life that reflects the character of Jesus Christ. When you read about the fruit of the spirit and you know anything about Jesus, you know basically ...

229. Creeds and Deeds - Sermon Starter

Mark 7:1-23

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Brett Blair

... manners. As wonderful as those situations are, none of them compare to having a neighbor, a friend, a husband, a wife, a son, or a daughter with a good heart. When you discuss good behavior, you are discussing the quality of a person's self-control. When you discuss a good heart, you are discussing the quality of the person. This is the focus of today's Scripture. Pharisees and teachers have come down from Jerusalem and, interestingly, they are gathered around Jesus watching the disciples. The disciples, it ...

230. A House for Our Home and a Home for Our Faith

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Maxie Dunnam

... in your mother Eunice, and now I am sure abides in you. Hence I remind you to kindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of hands. For God did not give us a spirit of commitity but a spirit of power and love and self-control. Talk about roots. There it is. But also, rewards. Connect with that verse 13 and verse 14. Follow the pattern of the sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard the faith that has been entrusted to you by ...

231. Fruitcakes, Fruit-Baskets and New Year’s Babies

Ephesians 1:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... How do you know if our church is maturing spiritually? Are you conceiving? Are you “being fruitful?” Are the “fruits” of the Spirit being conceived in your life and in the life of your people: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal.5:22). When you and I stand at bar of Judgment Day, we are not going to be asked: “How big was your back-account? How strong was your budget?” We will be asked: “Did you love people? Did you let people love ...

232. Thanks for the Memories

Philippians 1:1-11

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J. Howard Olds

... in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it will be even more fruitful. (John 15:1-2) The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22) We are so brainwashed by productivity even in the Church that we know very little about fruitfulness. The results of productivity are big churches, big budgets, big staff, big choir, big egos. Productivity is a result of goals established ...

233. The Gift of Gifts

John 1:1-14

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... , the true meaning of Christmas fills us not only with hope, but with the Spirit of Christmas, which is the Fruit of the Spirit found in Gal 5:22-23: "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things." NRSV The True meaning of Christmas, this child, the Word of God made flesh, lives in us through the spirit. God gave us Himself. God is the Spirit within us, reminding us who we are and whose we are ...

234. If Everybody’s Okay, What’s the Problem? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 John 1:5--2:14

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J. Howard Olds

... a spiritual turnaround mean for you? Decide to move on with assurance. Walk in the light. Stay in fellowship. Rejoice in the knowledge that you are a child of God. Enjoy the fruits of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. We have a problem. It’s called sin. God has a remedy. It’s called grace. We have a choice. It’s called free will. Wouldn’t you really like to find peace with God? Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a ...

235. For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

Galatians 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... If it feels good, do it”, is our unofficial motto. Later on in this 5th chapter of Galatians, Paul gives a summary of the fruit of the Spirit and many of us know that list: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithful ness, gentleness, self-control. Most of you are familiar with that list, but how many of you are aware that immediately preceding that list, Paul for us the works of the flesh, the works of the result of freedom becoming license. That list includes impurity, sensuality, idolatry ...

236. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 2

Galatians 5:16-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... lesson. In two succinct verses, he underscores the life of the Christian as “the harvest of the Spirit”, as the expression of the living Christ in us. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (verses 22—23). Rehearse a part of what we said last Sunday. Paul doesn’t talk about fruits, plural, fruits of the Spirit, but rather fruit singular, fruit of the Spirit. He talked about works plural - works of the flesh, but now ...

237. Finding Our Place in All Creation

Genesis 1:1, 26-31

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J. Howard Olds

... . As children of God, we are called to be faithful. We are also called to be fruitful. God probably meant more by this than just having children. Sow the seeds of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Let the sacredness of human life permeate our decisions concerning issues like abortion, euthanasia, and human cloning. Let that old story speak to us about the dignity of human life. You see our beginnings determine our endings, to paraphrase the psalmist ...

238. The Heart of the Matter Is the Heart!

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... " (vv. 21-22), then there is a serious and eternally fatal spiritual heart problem there. On the other hand, if someone's life is characterized by the fruit of the Spirit, "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control" (Galatians 5:22-23), then the heart belongs to Christ. The evidences of spirit fruit are indicators of a healthy spirit-heart. The Consecrated Heart It is, finally, the difference between religion and relationship that Christ addresses with the ...

239. Cancel Your Plans

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James Packer

In Scripture we see several purposes for fasting. It's part of the discipline of self-control; it's a way of sharing that we depend on God alone and draw all our strength and resources from him; it's a way of focusing totally on him when seeking his guidance and help, and of showing that you really are in earnest in your quest; it's ...

240. What Can You Bear?

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Charles Ryrie

... of the Spirit in nine terms in Galatians 5:22-23, and Peter urges the development of seven accompaniments to faith in order that we might be fruitful (2 Peter 1:5-8). Two of these terms are common to both lists: love and self-control. The others are joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, virtue, knowledge, endurance, piety, and brotherly love. To show these character traits is to bear fruit in one's life. TWO, right character will result in right conduct, and as we live a ...

241. Cabinet Masterpiece

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... called an acquaintance, a famous surgeon. "It's an emergency," he yelled, "a matter of life and death. Come quick!" The startled surgeon dropped everything and rushed to the home of the artist, expecting the worst. When confronted with the dog. The surgeon, with masterful self-control, said not a word but proceeded to treat the dog with the same skill he would have used on a human being. Then he picked up his instruments and left. Weeks passed, the dog got well, yet the artist never received a bill from the ...

242. Fighting Mad

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Joe Franklin

There's a little-known story about Joe Louis that illustrates self-control. He and the late G.I. comedian, Harvey Stone, were on tour entertaining the troops during the Second World War, and in their uniforms they often went unnoticed by civilians. In New York City one day Louis was driving rushing to a performance when Louis accidentally sideswiped a cab. The ...

243. Recall Notice

Humor Illustration

... the REPENTANCE procedure. Next, download ATONEMENT from the Repair Technician, Jesus, into the heart component. No matter how big or small the SIN defect is, Jesus will replace it with: Love Joy Peace Patience Kindness Goodness Faithfulness Gentleness Self control Please see the operating manual, the B.I.B.L.E. (Best Instructions Before Leaving Earth) for further details on the use of these fixes. WARNING: Continuing to operate the human being unit without correction voids any manufacturer warranties ...

244. Lust

Galatians 5:16-26

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David E. Leininger

... . What he was trying to do with those unusual friends of his was to point the way to life on a higher level, life characterized by those words that Paul would hold up to the Galatians: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" (Galatians 6:22-23). Such a life is so attractive in the way it is lived that people just naturally want to follow along. If the church could convince itself that this might be a better way to cure some of the moral ills of society ...

245. Lent 5

Psalm 126:1-6, Isaiah 43:16-21, John 12:1-11, Philippians 3:4b-14

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... pray for collaboration among all nations and tribes. As the global economy shifts, let us not destroy the earth. As profit becomes a vociferously demanding idol, let us not sacrifice children’s education and health anywhere in the global village. Bring renewed self-control out of climate changes and out of America’s imposition of Western democracy in eastern lands. Mothering God — Jesus of Nazareth trusted that you and he would establish a neighborly way for humankind to be in the world. We as human ...

246. Proper 12

Genesis 18:20-32, Psalm 85:1-13; 138:1-8, Hosea 1:2-10, Luke 11:1-13, Colossians 2:6-19

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Julia Ross Strope

... us and we, too, find new and multiple ways to benefit our living on this earth. We live forward into the future and pray for the next generation, for our children and grandchildren. May they learn compassion, truthfulness, generosity, beauty, and self-control. Let them know and feel your creating presence. Amen. Benediction/Charge Life is a journey to Mystery. Experiment with multiple names for God; Explore different ways to respond to the Holy Spirit. Laugh each day and unbuild the overwhelming towers of ...

247. Proper 16

Psalm 71:1-6, Isaiah 58:9b-14, Jeremiah 1:4-10, Luke 13:10-17, Hebrews 12:18-29

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... what real compassion is. Help us not to be blinded by irresponsibility, by ethnic identities or by disease. Guide us through our questions and our dilemmas of climate changes, aging, children’s activities, relationships, loneliness, and soul health. Increase our self-control so that we do not abuse the earth and its gifts necessary for life. Amen. Benediction Life is a journey to Mystery. Experiment with multiple names for God; Explore different ways to respond to the Holy Spirit. Laugh each day and ...

248. Tarzan He Was Not

John 15:1-17

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King Duncan

... we can bear fruit. Now, before we leave, what is this fruit that we are to bear? In Galatians 5 St. Paul gives us a partial list which he calls the fruit of the spirit. These fruit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (22-23). We might be tempted to add other fruit like generosity and acceptance, but, of course, these are at least implied by the first of the fruit which is love. If you would be a better spouse or a better parent or a better employee ...

249. The Trial Before Felix

Acts 24:1-27

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... conduct is tested and the attribute of God that led him to put humanity right with himself (see esp. Rom. 3:21ff.). History would show how far short Felix came of that standard, and the presence of Drusilla at his side was evidence that they both lacked the self-control of which Paul also spoke. Evidently what they heard brought conviction, for when Paul went on to speak of the judgment to come (see disc. on 1:10f.; cf. Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:3), Felix became afraid and brought the interview to a close. 24:26 ...

250. Further Instructions

Colossians 4:2-6

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... in prayer. The call to “watchfulness” formed one of the categories of the baptismal (catechetical) instruction that was given to new Christians (cf. Eph. 6:18–20: “Pray … be alert”; 1 Pet. 4:7; “clear minded … pray”; 5:8: “Be self-controlled and alert”). Its inclusion in Colossians is another example of traditional material that was taken over and applied to the situation at Colossae. Prayer is to be offered in thanksgiving. This is the seventh time that thanksgiving is mentioned in ...

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