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Fruit of the Spirit vs. Works of the Flesh – Galatians 5:16-26

IDC Raleigh December 4, 2011

Galatians 5:16-26

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Don’t hear this as a call to try harder to be a good person, this is a call to believe the gospel and commune with the Spirit… And you will have victory if you have the Spirit

  • However, This is Only Possible in Christ, who is the Epitome of the Fruit of the Spirit:
  • Love – He is the one who showed amazing love in dying for those that would kill him
  • Joy – who counted it all joy to suffer for the sake of God’s purposes
  • Peace – He is the true peacemaker who brings peace between God and Man in his crucifixion
  • Patience – He is a man of patience, as he willingly takes on flesh and 33 years to accomplish his mission
  • Kindness, Goodness, and Gentleness – He showed kindness to the beggars, and blind, and to us spiritual beggars and blind
  • Faithfulness – And He was faithful, dependable, even as He wept and sweat drops of blood in a garden prepared to stand under the weight of God’s wrath due or sin not his… he was there, he could be counted on
  • Self-control – And He is the only man who’s appetites didn’t control him – who is able to look at a cross and say not “my will” but yours be done!
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IDC RaleighFruit of the Spirit vs. Works of the Flesh – Galatians 5:16-26
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Christ Our Liberator – Galatians 5:1-15

IDC Raleigh November 27, 2011

Galatians 5:1-15

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The Galatians started out terrific, but tanked…

• The author of Hebrews says that weight and sin can hinder us.
• But something else can as well: false teaching. Such is the case of the Galatians.

They failed to understand how you live the Christian life, once you get in the race. Particularly, they failed to understand Christian freedom.

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Growing in Grace – Galatians 4:8-31

IDC Raleigh November 20, 2011

Galatians 4:8-31

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When we try to turn from God and his gospel, it is like returning to a fifthly orphanage, the pit. This passage is all about learning to live as God’s children, in the freedom of grace and in the love of the Father.

In these verses, Paul opens up his heart to his spiritual children, the Galatians. He speaks as a shepherd, as father, and even using the language of a gentle mother. Even though Paul has rebuked them earlier, the language is of friendship and family here.

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Adoption: From Slaves to Sons – Galatians 4:1-7

IDC Raleigh November 13, 2011

Galatians 4:1-7

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Take the this message of adoption to the millions who need the Gospel more than anything. Some object: what about evangelism? What about it? If orphans were a country they would be the 5th-8th largest country. There are more orphans than people in Russia. If you decide to do global evangelism, you have decided to evangelize orphans.

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