“But the fruit of the Spirit is love..."
Galatians 5:22a
True love will be that love which comes from the fruit of the Spirit. Such a love the natural man will never know. Galatians 5:16 commands us to “walk in the Spirit”. When the believer dies to self and purposes to surrender their lives to Christ and Christ alone, they will desire to walk in the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit will burst from such a life. What a wonderful life it will be. It will be the life that God wants for His children. If the redeemed in Christ ever get a hold of the wonderful life that is awaiting them in a Holy Spirit filled life; the ways of the world would lose their grip and the power and the will of God would be set ablaze in their life. I want us to consider such real love and the objects of such a love.
I. A love for the Saviour- Our love for the Lord Jesus Christ will be bountiful in our hearts and lives. We will want to decrease that He might increase in our lives. A love for what the Saviour has done and those things He is doing will be the motivation for our love for Him as we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
II. A love for the scriptures- We will have a want and a desire for more and more of God’s Word. We will hunger and thirst for His truth. It will be as honey to our taste and food for our days. The things of God will be the object of our love and the Word of God will be high on the list. The Psalmist wrote, “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil” (Psalm 119:162.) This will be the song of our hearts.
III. A Love for the saints- We will have a love for the people in the pews, the Pastor in the pulpit and the preacher on the platform. We will pray and with our prayers our love for the saints will be evident as they will be on our hearts. When they hurt we will hurt. When they know joy we will know joy.
IV. A love for the sinners- We will look beyond the exterior and see them as the Lord Jesus sees them, lost. John 3:18 teaches us that those without Christ are condemned already. We won’t be critical of the lost when we remember the words of Paul in reference to those who are now saved and where it was they once were, “ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Ephesians 2:1-3.)
I never knew real love until I was saved and now I pray that all of us that are saved would desire to be filled with the Spirit that we might bear the fruit of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22a
True love will be that love which comes from the fruit of the Spirit. Such a love the natural man will never know. Galatians 5:16 commands us to “walk in the Spirit”. When the believer dies to self and purposes to surrender their lives to Christ and Christ alone, they will desire to walk in the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit will burst from such a life. What a wonderful life it will be. It will be the life that God wants for His children. If the redeemed in Christ ever get a hold of the wonderful life that is awaiting them in a Holy Spirit filled life; the ways of the world would lose their grip and the power and the will of God would be set ablaze in their life. I want us to consider such real love and the objects of such a love.
I. A love for the Saviour- Our love for the Lord Jesus Christ will be bountiful in our hearts and lives. We will want to decrease that He might increase in our lives. A love for what the Saviour has done and those things He is doing will be the motivation for our love for Him as we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
II. A love for the scriptures- We will have a want and a desire for more and more of God’s Word. We will hunger and thirst for His truth. It will be as honey to our taste and food for our days. The things of God will be the object of our love and the Word of God will be high on the list. The Psalmist wrote, “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil” (Psalm 119:162.) This will be the song of our hearts.
III. A Love for the saints- We will have a love for the people in the pews, the Pastor in the pulpit and the preacher on the platform. We will pray and with our prayers our love for the saints will be evident as they will be on our hearts. When they hurt we will hurt. When they know joy we will know joy.
IV. A love for the sinners- We will look beyond the exterior and see them as the Lord Jesus sees them, lost. John 3:18 teaches us that those without Christ are condemned already. We won’t be critical of the lost when we remember the words of Paul in reference to those who are now saved and where it was they once were, “ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Ephesians 2:1-3.)
I never knew real love until I was saved and now I pray that all of us that are saved would desire to be filled with the Spirit that we might bear the fruit of the Spirit.
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