Today in our church all staff meeting Pastor Paul taught on putting on the fruit of the Spirit, gentelness. The one thing that he started by saying, it is impossible to put on this fruit as well as the others because on our own we can not do it, but if you go to the end of the section that Paul is talking about in Galatians we see how we can put on all of the fruits of the Spirit that are mentioned. In Galatians 5:24--25 he says, "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."
Have you died to yourself today? This is a question that I never really ever ask myself but I should do it everyday. When we start living to ourselves then we start putting on the human characteristics which will result in sin and all the things that are mentioned in vs 19-20. Have you ever looked at the list of the fruits of the Spirit and you have to be convicted because we all fall short of that list, but when we read the last verses of the section we see that when we crucify our flesh then we can live by the Spirit.
Galatians 2:20~ I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Amen- May we constantly die in our flesh and know that we live in the Spirit. May Christ live in me!
PJ
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