FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT | LOVE
GALATIANS 5:22 BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, 23 GENTLENESS, SELF-CONTROL; AGAINST SUCH THINGS THERE IS NOT LAW.
KEY SCRIPTURES
Galatians 5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.” Bobby – age 5.
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Love is a type of fertilizer that helps all of the other fruits to grow!
John 3:16 produces 1 John 3:16
1 John 3:16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
KEY POINTS
- God is Love like rain is wet.
- God’s love has been demonstrated.
- God so loved He gave.
- Gods Love never gives up.
- Jesus was our propitiation.
- God’s love is perfect removing Fear of Judgment.
- Our Love for others is a barometer of whether Christ is in us.
Ways We Should Love Others
- We Should protect
- We should be Honest
- We Should Forgive
- We should give
- We should serve
- We should never give up on anyone
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- In what way did the message speak to you?
- Has anyone ever given up on you? What does that say to you?
- Explain in the group the meaning of Propitiation.
- How do we protect? Love always protects.