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Galatians 5:22-23
Love – The willing, sacrificial giving of oneself for the benefit of others without thought of return.
Joy - The cheerful acceptance and calm delight in difficult circumstances
Peace - being safe from harm in spirit, mind and body
Longsuffering – Slow to Wrath or an enduring temperament that expresses itself in patience with the shortcomings of others.
Gentleness - softness in manners
In every relationship there will come toxins or poisons with destructive capacity.
However God has provided a way through His Spirit to offer cleansing and health.
He wants us to bear the fruit of Goodness.
Some people think that the fruit of gentleness is identical to the fruit of goodness.
It is true there are similarities between them, but they are different responses toward different circumstances in life.
Gentleness is a reaction that we demonstrate by yielding to God.
Goodness, like love, is an action.
The definition of goodness is, “conforming our lives and conversations to behave benevolently toward others.”
Some people just seem to have desire to do good for others, they are eager to be a help…
When a family was going on an extended vacation they asked their nine-year-old neighbor, Mike, about taking care of the family dog.
They explained that the job would require feeding, watering, grooming, walking and spending plenty of time playing with the dog and giving her lots of love.
After covering the job description, they asked what the job would be worth to him.
The little boy replied, “I’ll give you ten bucks.”
There are various ways people interpret the word good:
To some, goodness revolves around anything that increases their pleasure.
However, we know that even non-pleasurable seasons can be good for us.
Some say knowledge brings goodness.
They say if we can increase knowledge of good, there will be no evil.
But knowing what is good has never guaranteed that we would do it.
Some equate goodness with not doing certain things.
“I didn’t eat chocolate—I was good!” (I’ve been on a diet for 2 weeks, and all that I’ve lost is 2 weeks) or “I did not curse, so I am good.”
The fruit of the Spirit is about Abiding in Christ and living out His nature.
Goodness then describes a person who seeks to promote the prosperity and happiness in the lives of others.
This comes as we yield to the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Spirit led Christians are molded to act like God.
What do we know about the goodness of God?
God Works for Our Good
God gives Good Gifts
Jesus displayed the Goodness of God
Goodness is supernatural.
It is not something we can produce on our own; it must be the fruit of the Holy Spirit within us.
By the way in speaking of goodness as benevolence, it is more than giving of our money.
We need to demonstrate goodness with our money, time, energies, gifts and talents as well as our actions and reactions to the mistakes of others.
How does it develop in our lives?
I. Realize Our Inability to Produce God’s Goodness
A. Because of Our Human Nature
I once heard a secular humanist say that his belief was in complete, inherent goodness of man.
I wondered what planet he had been living on lately.
There are those who say man is inherently good, but there are two reasons I do not believe this:
First, I believe the Bible
Second, I am a parent!
Scripture paints a very different picture of our nature than we like to portray.
B. Because of the Flesh
Even a Christian, in the flesh, can do terrible things.
We are often too covetous or worried about our own needs or wants that we are not concerned about others.
Jesus talks about our treasures in the Sermon on the Mount:
Jesus tells us that we should not focus on the acquisition of temporary things that will be of no value to us when we die.
Instead we should lay up treasures in Heaven.
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
– Jim Elliot
The word “treasure” means “a great quantity of anything that is collected for future use.”
In Jesus’ day, there was no Wal-Mart on every street corner.
There was no government aid, no unemployment insurance, no welfare, no return-to-work programs.
So when Jesus told these people not to focus on necessary resources, He seemed to be telling them to abandon their existence!
In reality, He was not teaching them to forsake the provision of their daily needs, but rather to get their focus off of that and onto the kingdom of God.
When we do that, God provides every need often in abundance.
However, it is not enough to merely focus on the kingdom of God.
There is another step to having our needs met here on earth.
Jesus said that we must seek His righteousness.
What does that mean?
Remember that when we do good under the influence of the Spirit, we are engaged in righteousness.
Therefore looking for opportunities to do good, under the influence of the Spirit (not doing good in our power) is seeking God’s righteousness.
In other words, to gain God’s provision, we must experience justification and yield to our sanctification.
The devil ties to get us to focus on our own needs.
This bumps God out of the equation.
If we can meet our own needs, we will not learn to depend on God.
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Rely on the Holy Spirit for Goodness
A. We Are Born of the Spirit
The new birth is a spiritual process.
Goodness can only come about by the Holy Spirit through a spiritual process.
B. We Receive a Divine Nature
C. We Must Walk in the Spirit
III.
Reveal the Goodness of God to a Lost World.
Being good is what we are on the inside.
Doing good is what people see on the outside.
Good living is the fruit of the Spirit.
There are three ways we can reveal goodness:
A. Goodness Is Found in the Word of God
We don’t know what is good by our own feelings.
We cannot be a “good” husband or wife, apart from the Word of God.
Mark Twain – “It’s not the parts of the Bible that I don’t understand that bother me.
It’ the parts I do understand…”
B. Goodness is Cultivated through Godly Fellowship
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can and as long as you can.
–John Wesley
C. Goodness Is Revealed through a Walk with Christ.
We should not brag about fruit because it is all to the glory of God.
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The good work of witnessing
2. The good work of serving
At home
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