NORTH ANDERSON BAPTIST CHURCH
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT // GALATIANS 5:22-23

GALATIANS 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such thing”

• It Is Fruit That Identifies Us As

Luke 6:44 “Each tree is

by its own fruit”

Matthew 7:16 “You will

them by their

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”

John 15:8 “By this my Father is

, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My

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• This Is Not To Be Seen A List Of Separate Virtues To Work On But The Collective

Of Christ In You

* The Passage Doesn’t Read “The fruit of our

”

“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do

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without me” —John 15:5

1. HEALTHY FRUIT REQUIRES GOOD

Throughout Galatians, Paul has made it clear that by grace through faith, we’re saved from something. HERE IN GALATIANS 5, we’re reminded that we’re also saved

something

“For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.” —Galatians 5:1

Freedom not only comes in knowing that

necessary for me to be accepted by God has already been accomplished in Christ BUT ALSO everything necessary for me to be approved by God has already been accomplished in Christ

As we read the Fruit of the Spirit a few moments ago, your heart may have went to one of two places:
- SINFUL

– you are doing pretty well and feel morally self-sufficient
- CRIPPLING

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– you are coming up short

Paul is pleading with the Galatians and with us: Plant your lives in the soil of the Gospel!

2. HEALTHY FRUIT REQUIRES A HEALTHY

“For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is

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the flesh; these are

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to each other, so that you don’t do what you want” —Galatians 5:17

“The Spirit gives life but the flesh profits

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” —John 6:33

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I am warning you about these things—as I warned you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God” —Galatians 5:19-23

This is the direction that the flesh is tugging us towards
at the same time, the Spirit is pulling us in an

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things” —Galatians 5:22-23

How can we see victory here?

“I say, then, walk by the

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and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the

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” —Galatians 5:16

The fruit of the Spirit is not

something. It’s about knowing __someone.

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