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Our State of Theology – 9i(8)f
Galatians 5:22-23: Fruit of the Holy Spirit, Kindness
Galatians 5:22–23 (NKJV)
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23gentleness, self-control.
Against such there is no law.
The singular fruit, as compared with the plural works, suggests that the effect of the Spirit’s inworking is one harmonious whole, while carnality tends to multitudinousness, distraction, chaos.
There are no true virtues and good affections without the grace of regeneration.
Galatians 5:22- 23 is a portrait of Christ.
Kindness = χρηστότης chrēstotēs = the quality of being helpful or beneficial, goodness, kindness, generosity of humans.
The quality of being warmhearted, considerate, humane, gentle, and sympathetic.
Kindness is an active, busy virtue.
It is the thoughtful insight, the delicate tact, the gentle ministering hand of charity.
1 Corinthians 13:4 (NIV84)
4Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
Ephesians 4:17–5:5 (NIV84)
17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
18They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
19Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
20You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.
21Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
23to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
26“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
27and do not give the devil a foothold.
28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.
29Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
5:1Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
2and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
3But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
V. 32, Kind = love, the fundamental Christian virtue, but in the special form of forgiveness.
Be kind = gently pleasant; soft and mild (and pleasant); not harsh, stern, or severe.
We must display spiritual graces instead of soul-destroying grudges.
Wuest translated the beginning of this verse as, “And be becoming kind.”
We might not be able to achieve the kind of total revolution of inner disposition demanded by the Holy Spirit all at once.
God makes allowance for us to learn and practice, even though we already have the indwelling Holy Spirit to provide the energizing power needed for change.
God does demand that here and now—right away—we start putting away the old nature and putting on the new.
Colossians 3:12–14 (NIV84)
12Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
13Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
14And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
The elect of God are holy and dearly loved.
Verse 12 was not a mandate or command for the believer to become holy and thereby are dearly loved; it was a description of God’s elect.
The imperative or mandate of verse 12 starts with the word clothe.
See that your manner of life is fitting in accordance with that kind of life the elect of God should live.
As God’s elect (God’s choice of certain from among mankind who were as saved individuals), we have been made holy (set apart for God) and are dearly loved by God.
Holy = ἅγιος hagios = separate from common condition and use; dedicated.
God chose believers out of the mainstream of mankind and drew them to Himself.
They are different from the world.
When believers fail to act differently from the world, they violate the very purpose of their calling.
Dearly loved = ἀγαπάω agapaō = to love, value, esteem, feel or manifest generous concern for, be faithful towards; to delight in, to set store upon.
That believers are beloved of God means they are objects of His special love.
Election is not a cold, fatalistic doctrine.
On the contrary, it is based in God’s incomprehensible love for His elect.
Ephesians 1:3–14 (NIV84)
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.
In love
5he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace
8that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.
9And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ,
10to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment—to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.
11In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
12in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.
13And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,
14who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.
The Bible speaks of three kinds of election:
One is God’s theocratic election of Israel.
“You are a holy people to the Lord your God,” Moses told Israel in the desert of Sinai; “the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth” (Deut.
7:6).
That election had no bearing on personal salvation.
“They are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,” Paul explains; “neither are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants” (Rom.
9:6–7).
Racial descent from Abraham as father of the Hebrew people did not mean spiritual descent from him as father of the faithful (Rom.
4:11).
A second kind of election is vocational.
The Lord called out the tribe of Levi to be His priests, but Levites were not thereby guaranteed salvation.
Jesus called twelve men to be apostles but only eleven of them to salvation.
After Paul came to Christ because of God’s election to salvation, God then chose him in another way to be His special apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 9:15; Rom.
1:5).
The third kind of election is salvational, the kind of which Paul is speaking in our present text.
John 6:44 (NIV84)
44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:65 (HCSB)
65He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”
V. 4, God chose us to be holy and blameless in his sight.
We are holy and blameless because God chose us to be that way and not because we became holy and blameless through our own efforts.
Just as we’ve been made holy and dearly loved (Colossians 3:12).
V. 5, God predestined us to be adopted as his sons; our adoption came not as a result of our effort, but through God’s choosing us to be adopted.
In Theologian Robert A. Peterson’s book, Adopted by God, a woman named Lisa writes:
Adoption is attractive to me because it is the perfect antidote to legalism.…
[Legalism] was the driving force in my life.
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