2. THE SPIRIT FRUIT FAITHFULNESS

3. Faithfulness= “trustworthiness” or “steadfast adherence to a person or thing to which one is loyal.”

4. Have you had someone in your life who has been faithful to you?

5. God is the ultimate example of faithfulness.

6. Psalm 100:5 “The Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations.”

7. There are some great biblical examples of faithfulness of people to one another.

8. There are a lot of great biblical examples of people’s faithfulness to God.

9. One of my favorite examples of faithfulness to God is Paul and Silas singing in the jail cell at midnight!

10. How could they do that?

11. Because they had the information about the Jesus’ promises to help them overcome bad times AND they had personal revelations of those promises too.

12. If information alone could change Christians, then our generation of church goers today would have the greatest impact of any church of any generation.

13. The problem is that many followers of Christ don’t have any personal revelation of the promises of Jesus in their lives.

14. SECOND HAND REVELATION!

15. Hebrews 10:23 “Let's hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, because the one who made the promises is reliable.”

16. Is that information or revelation in your life?

17. There is a lack of commitment in our present day society in ALL areas of life, but especially in our relationship with God.

18. 2 Timothy 3:1-5

19. Paul book ends 19 characteristics of people living in the last days with “lovers of themselves” and “lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.”

20. In the end faithfulness to God or anyone else is ALL about love.

21. One author has said that faithfulness is “love hanging on.”

22. “Peter do you love me?”

23. How do we develop faithfulness?

24. We will produce the fruit of the Spirit WHEN we are led by the Spirit.

25. If we surrender daily to the Spirit then He will lead us to draw close to Jesus through prayer and Bible study.

26. That will grow our love for Jesus stronger, which will in turn grow our commitment stronger.

27. Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, founder of DTS gave three reasons why we should surrender our lives to the control of God.

28. He is all-wise and knows better than anyone else what is best for my life.

29. He is almighty and has the power to accomplish that which is best for me.

30. He loves me more than anyone else in the world loves me.

31. Information + Revelation.