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What does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit of God?
It means that, above all else, the Fruit of the Spirit will be increasingly apparent in your life.
The more I mature in the Christian life, and the more I study the Scriptures, the more persuaded I am that the Fruit of the Spirit is the primary indication of God’s presence in the believer’s life.
It is not so much preaching and teaching or ministry that communicates Christ’s life to the people around us, but our rootedness in the Spirit.
It’s the Fruit of the Spirit that are the true indicators of our transformation in Christ.
The Fruit of the Spirit is always generated completely in every believer, no matter how faintly evidenced its various characteristics may be.
What do I mean by that?
I mean that when you’re saved and the Spirit comes to indwell your life, at that moment you get, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
The Fruits of the Spirit are a package deal.
You don’t get, love, patience, and kindness one moment, and then – if you’ve developed those over several years of faithful Christian living – get joy, faithfulness, and gentleness some time later.
You get all of the Fruit of the Spirit because you get all of the Spirit.
Our job is to cultivate each of the attributes of the Spirit’s fruit so that they become increasingly obvious in our lives.
Tonight, I want to preach on goodness.
“Good” is one of those words that is difficult to define.
Like the word “love,” we use the word good in so many different ways that it is hard to get a handle on what the word truly means.
Webster's dictionary gives seventeen different uses for the word good.
We use the word in so many different contexts: We use it to indicate competence – “You’re good at math.”
We use it to indicate reliability – “The car has good brakes.”
We use it to indicate strength – “You have good eyesight.”
It can mean kindness – “It was good of you to come.”
It can mean moral excellence as in performing good deeds or good works.
It can refer to behavior – “You’ve been a good child.”
We use it to indicate enjoyment – “Boy, that was a good party.”
It can mean thoroughness – “Give it a good washing.”
It can mean immensity of number as in a good many people.
We use it to indicate soundness as in good reasoning.
We use it to indicate expedience – “I thought it good to have a try.”
It can even mean freshness as in the bread is still good.
It can mean worthiness – “Good ol’ George.”
It can refer to attractiveness – “Wow, you sure look good.”
It can refer to a desirable end – as when we sacrifice the present for future good.
We use it as a noun, and advective and an adverb.
So then, when the Apostle Paul writes that goodness is one of the attributes of the Spirit, what does he mean to tell us?
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I. THE WORLDLY VIEW OF ‘GOOD’ – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE GOOD LIFE
#. the predominate philosophy that governs western culture’s concept of goodness can be distilled down into one phrase – /“If it feels good, do it!”/
#. our cultural theme-song is the chorus to Debbie Boon’s hit You Light Up My Life
#. the chorus says, /“How can it be wrong when it feels so right?”/
#. there was a time in western culture when goodness was all about character and the principles of integrity and rectitude that went into developing a good character
#. today, goodness is about feeling and feeling good instead of being good
#. as long as I feel good about life, life must be good and I must obviously being good
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most Americans spend an extraordinary amount of time and effort and money trying to make ourselves feel good
!! A. FOR SOME FEELING GOOD IS ABOUT LOOKING GOOD
#. for some folks, appearance means everything
#. if you can look like you’re living the good life you must have
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our society place a high priority on our looks
#. the right body weight
#. the right hair style or the right hair color
#. the right look and all that goes into that
* ILLUS.
Americans spent $10.4 billion on cosmetic surgery in 2011.The American Society of Plastic Surgeons said plastic surgery spending is up 3 percent over 2010, powered in part by a 71-percent uptick in chin augmentations.
20,680 Americans forked over more than $38 million on chin jobs last year.
While chin jobs seem to be all the rage, breast implants were still number one with 307,180 surgeries.
The five top reasons for having plastic surgery include: 1) Heath reasons, 2) Accidents, 3) Self-esteem, 4) Re-constructive surgery, and 5) Vanity.
#. add to this the extraordinary amount of money our culture spends of cosmetics and fashions
#. for many in our culture, the focus is on /‘it’s all about me’ and ‘how do I feel?’, and ‘am I validated?’,
‘am I okay in the world?’/
#. to one degree or another, we've become a narcissistic culture excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity.
!! B. FOR OTHERS FEELING GOOD IS ABOUT HAVING THE GOODS
#. for a large segment of our society, feeling good about life means having all the things of this world
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whatever the latest and greatest gadgets are, we’ve gotta have ‘em
#. feeling good, if it means anything, means most of all—prosperity
#. it means having all the things that are likely to fulfill and satisfy our desire to acquire
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and if someone has more than we do, it is patently unfair!
#. this means a constant procurement of new things and more things, believing that they will provide us good living
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THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF ‘GOOD’ – IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF GOD IN US
#. what is goodness all about?
#. we get a clue from Jesus in Matthew 19 in the incident with the Rich Young Man
#. the rich young ruler came up to Jesus and asked, /“Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”/
#. to which Jesus replied /“Why do you ask me about what is good?
There is only One who is good.”/
#. in Mark’s gospel it’s a little clearer: He says /“No one is good—except for God alone.”/
#. why does Jesus answer the young man that way?
#. because he needs to remove the misconception that we as human beings, on our own without the grace of God, can know what good is and can do good
!! A. GOD SAYS THAT GOODNESS IS CHARACTER ENERGIZED BY HIS SPIRIT
#. to understand goodness, and what good is, we must come to know God
* /"For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And His faithfulness to all generations."/
(Psalm 100:5, NASB95)
#. in the English language, the word good has a multiplicity of meanings
#. in the Greek language, the word translated good in the New Testament indicates one particular quality
#. it refers to energized character that expresses itself in active, and beneficial – even aggressive – goodness
#. the word goodness in the Scriptures literally means, an uprightness of heart and life
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this uprightness leads to a life of doing good for others even when others don’t deserve it
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goodness is about being good and doing good because God has made us good
#. the divine goodness that God implants within you though His Holy Spirit needs to be released
* Ephesians 2:10 /“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”/
KJV
#. there is a major problem with being good and letting goodness flow from our lives
#. the problem is this: we have not been born with a nature that seeks to do good
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we have been born with a nature that is prone toward evil
#. we are not naturally good
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we do not have it within ourselves naturally to respond in goodness to the people around us or the situations we find ourselves in
#. we are born with a selfish inclination, with a selfish nature that views goodness as /“What’s best for me?”/
#. a lot of people go through life wondering, /“Why was I born?
What am I supposed to do in life?
For what reason was I created?”/
#. the lost person will continually search and never find the answer to that question until he or she finds Christ
#. the saved person has the answer for those questions
#. we know from the Scriptures that we were created to do good works – God’s works – in this world
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we are not saved by our good works, we cannot receive forgiveness for our sins or salvation because of our good works, but once we’re save, our life is to be lived doing good works
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