Faithfulness Crucifies Fickleness
Part of Lent
April 13, 2025

Galatians 5:22-26, 6:9 CSB

It’s easy to it at the Christian life when life isn’t you.

We fall for the lie that loosening our will lessen the .

Galatians 1:6; 4:9; 5:7

Matthew 26:36-46

The crushing comes from our capacity, our community, and our cross.

When your capacity is maxed out, your community has disappeared, and your cross is more than you can bear… has Jesus formed you enough to still crush it at the Christian life? Or is it crushing you?

Three Fickle Responses:

1. Out

Matthew 26:14-16

2. Out

Matthew 26:56

“Long-term relationships are the crucible of genuine progress in the Christian life. People who stay grow.” —Joseph H Hellerman

3. Out

Matthew 26:33-35, Matthew 26:74-75


Faithfulness is:
• obedience with

.
• defeating sin in defeating .
• a fruit of the Spirit, not your human spirit.


Practice the Prayer of FAITH

1. your feelings.

Matthew 26:37-38

2. boldly and humbly for another way.

Matthew 26:39

3. trusted friends to watch and pray.

Matthew 26:41

“It may be a habit that holds us in its destructive bondage, an attitude that deforms our way of living, a perception that warps our view of others, a pattern of relationships with others that is destructive both to them and us, a way of reacting to circumstances that hinders us, a cancerous resentment whose poison is eating away the vitals of our being.” —Robert Mulholland

4. in God’s Will.

Matthew 26:42

“Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.” St. Ignatius of Loyola —St. Ignatius of Loyola

5. in God’s faithfulness.

Hebrews 12:2