Fruit of the Spirit: Compassion
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13 For you were called to be free, brothers and sisters; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
16 I say, then, walk by the Spirit and you will certainly not carry out the desire of the flesh.
17 For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
21 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.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. The law is not against such things.
24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Background: Galatians is a book of freedom and liberation from the law and sin. Paul writes to the Galatian church for the purpose of correction. The church is being troubled by the Judahizers that are attempting to put the church back under the yolk of the law. In Gal. 3:1 Paul expresses his frustration with them. He was not one to mince words. He calls them foolish because they believed and were following the thing from which they had been rescued, the weight of The Law. The defense that the law was to be followed must have been born from the lifestyle of some of those that claimed to follow the teaching of Grace. In Galatians 5 Paul deals with those that would use the teaching of grace and freedom as an opportunity to sin. This is the background to the passage we will be studying over the next several weeks.
1. Does a disciple of Christ have a path that can guarantee he will not give into temptation? Do we always take that path?
1. Does a disciple of Christ have a path that can guarantee he will not give into temptation? Do we always take that path?
2. What does Paul say is constantly going on inside of a believer?
2. What does Paul say is constantly going on inside of a believer?
3. Who does Paul warn will not be in heaven?
3. Who does Paul warn will not be in heaven?
How does this idea fit with what Jesus taught in the parable of the sower? Matthew 13 ; Matthew 24:13
How does this idea fit with what Jesus taught in the parable of the sower? Matthew 13 ; Matthew 24:13