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Add more kids were in here cuz they were going to sing a really good song about fruit of the spirit today, but I will do that another Sunday coming up, but the one that I have for this week in goodness.

And you'll probably notice that I'm not taking these in the order that they are in the scripture in Galatians about for the spare.

But part of that reason, is some of the fruit we're going to do, is they correspond with the different weeks of Advent in the theme, is the same as what some of the fruit are.

So you'll see that when we get there, but this week is goodness.

And I thought, how do we Define something like goodness?

Yeah, I'm sure if we went around the room and got everyone's definition of goodness.

There will be quite a few differences and how we would Define that word.

One of the definitions.

I liked.

It said that goodness has to do with moral and spiritual Excellence.

That is known by its sweetness, and act of kindness.

I thought that was a pretty good definition of what goodness is.

And they read a lot of different places in scripture talking about goodness, you know, Paul help to find the virtue of goodness when he observed in Romans chapter 5 verse 7.

He said very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person do for a good person.

Someone might possibly Dare To Die.

Do you ever heard that verse and just wondered?

What are they really talking about?

And why do they say that?

You know, someone Wouldn't Die For A righteous person.

But for a good person, They might.

I think the reason that verse is worded that way is because we all know all too.

Well, that, you know, a Christian person can be morally, upright.

But still not manifest that virtue of goodness.

You know, morally they might be doing everything, right?

But it just falls short of manifesting the grace of goodness.

You know, this person might be very admired and respected for their high moral standards.

And, you know, they might even have some friends who are good enough friends that those friends would say that, yeah, they would be willing to risk their life for them.

But the upright person who also has goodness.

You know, those are the sort of men and women that everyone respects that Everyone likes and most likely those people who are not only morally upright, but also exhibit the grace of goodness.

They're more likely to have friends who are willing to be self-sacrificing.

Because of their goodness.

But you know, Paul knew that when he said these things in Romans chapter 5 that you know, his readers were going to want to know more about this character quality of goodness.

It kind of the quality of the love that supposed to find Christians, you know, the love that is supposed to fill each and everyone of us.

He knew that he would have to describe it in great detail.

And if you read through, Romans.

You hear a lot of that detail there?

But, you know, in that passage you, no farther than that chapter, when Paul reminds them of the greatest manifestation of God's love that.

He talks about when it Says there.

In the very next first.

It says, for while we were still helpless.

At just the right time Christ.

Died for the ungodly.

So, if you think about that, while men were utterly helpless to bring themselves to God, he sent his only begotten son.

Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins.

And he didn't even worry about the fact that at that point in time.

We were all still trapped in our sins.

We were all still totally unworthy.

Of what he was going to do for us?

You know, when we were powerless to escape our own skin, our own sand when we were powerless to escape death when we were powerless to resist the enemy and everything that he throws at us when we were powerless to, please God in any way by our own virtue.

God went ahead and sent his son anyway to die for us.

You know, natural human love is pretty much always based on the attractiveness of the object that we say we loved, right?

You know, for some reason that thing appeals to us, it could be a thing.

It could be a person.

But we say we love it because for one reason or another that object is attractive to us.

And I think, unfortunately, a lot of times when we think about God, we think about his goodness.

We think about his love.

We try to Put that same attribute on him, that same limit on.

God's love.

You know, we think that God's love for us is dependent upon how good we are, how attractive we are to him.

But, you know, Jesus points out that in Matthew chapter 5 verse 46, there that even Tax Collectors who were the most despised people of his day and age.

You know, even they love people who love them.

Or people who can help them or benefit them in some way.

He's trying to tell them that God's love is not that way.

And that's lucky for us.

Just think about it.

What?

If God loved us, the way we loved him.

I don't think most of those would want that most days.

What if God only paid attention to us as often as we paid attention to him or what if God only spoke to us as often as we speak to him?

Or what if God only cared about what was going on in our lives?

It's often.

As we care about what he tells us in the Bible.

It's lucky for us.

That that is not how God sees it.

And he doesn't see it that way, because of what Jesus did for us on the cross.

And, you know, that you think about it to love someone who's unlovable.

To me, that is a big part of the true definition of goodness.

When someone's totally undeserving, totally.

unfit for us to love them for any other reason than we simply love them.

And you know, that's how God's immense love for us.

Has been supremely demonstrating Christ dying for the ungodly.

Before we even took a step towards him.

He sent his son to die.

For totally unrighteous undeserving and unlovable human beings.

And, you know, Paul contrast that with what he says there in verse 7, he contrasts that with the idea that, you know.

We would barely be willing to die for a righteous person.

We might die for somebody who he thinks good.

But if we just thought, well, they're righteous that we don't know.

And you know, Paul isn't contrasting, a righteous person against a good person, but he simply using those terms to kind of mean the same thing to his point is that it's uncommon for a person to sacrifice their own life for anyone for any reason.

You're even if we know that person has really high moral character.

It doesn't necessarily mean we would want to sacrifice our life for them.

And he says, you know, only a few people would give their life for someone who they know to be truly good.

He's just using that to say that, you know, on top of the righteous person who, you know, Morley is up, right.

This good person is someone that you actually know, you know, the life they live so, you know, they're good.

There might be a little more of a chance.

But you would willingly sacrifice their life.

but if you think about it, how many people would Even think of dying for someone who you knew was a wicked rotten scoundrel.

That doesn't sound too.

Appealing, doesn't.

Or who would be willing to die for someone who, you know, pays absolutely no attention to.