The Fruit of the Holy Spirit Galatians 5:22 Memory Text But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.  Lesson 7 1st Quarter 2017

We could add movies or TV that depict these things. Contrast Galatians 5:19, 20 ’Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,  idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fighting's, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies.’ We could add movies or TV that depict these things.

John 15:1 I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vinedresser. V2  Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.  V5 ‘for without Me you can do nothing’.  V7 ‘If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done to you.’ V10 If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.  V 11 ‘I have spoken these things to you so that My joy might remain in you and your joy might be full.’  Sunday

1 Corinthians 13 of the Spirit? ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is Love’ Monday Galatians 5:22  ‘But the fruit of the Spirit is Love’ Why is love the first and most important part of the fruit of the Spirit? 1 Corinthians 13

‘for the kingdom of God is not eating Tuesday What’s the cause of the joy the Holy Spirit brings? Romans 14:17  ‘for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.’  John 14:27  Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 

mean stop work? ‘patience’ Does 2 Peter 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness Wednesday 1Corinthians 13:4  Love suffers long and is kind; Ephesians 5:9  for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,  Galatians 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness 

Blessed are the meek! For they shall inherit the earth. Galatians 5:23  meekness, self-control; against such things there is no law.  Matthew 5:5  Blessed are the meek! For they shall inherit the earth.  Proverbs 16:32  He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit is better than he who takes a city.  Thursday The Greatest is Love! What is a Fruit & a Gift?

the love of Christ, which will ever manifest itself “‘If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new’ 2 Corinthians 5:17. Nothing but divine power can regenerate the human heart and imbue souls with the love of Christ, which will ever manifest itself with love for those for whom He died. When a man is converted to God, a new moral taste is supplied, a new motive power is given, and he loves the things that God loves; for his life is bound up by the golden chain of the immutable promises to the life of Jesus. Love, joy, peace, & inexpressible gratitude will pervade the soul, and the language of him who is blessed will be, ‘Thy gentleness hath made me great’ Psalm 18:35.” 1Selected Messages p336 Friday