And God-like goodness has special reference to the active benevolence of God. Goodness is a fruit of the Spirit. Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. Fuller, D. D.The English ambassador, some years since, prevailed so far with the Turkish emperor as to persuade him to hear some of our English music, from which (as from other liberal sciences) both he and his nation were naturally averse. It is a very singular instance of imaginative misreading of plain facts that the primitive Church should be held up as a pattern Church. A town, if it can be but set on fire, the enemy may hope to take it with more ease. Are a hindrance to the progress of the gospel.4. "They are quarrelling," was the answer. May the Holy Spirit lead us, beloved, these days, into His sweetness, quietness, and gentleness, subduing every coarse, rude, harsh, and unholy habit, and making us like Him, of whom it is said, "He shall not strive, Rev. The individual members are not isolated graces, but all connected, springing from one root and constituting an organic whole. For this reason the Lord, after He had said, "For from the heart go forth evil thoughts," then went on to add what it is that belongs to evil thoughts, "murders, adulteries," and the rest. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. AugustineOn ContinenceAll we Therefore, who Believe in the Living and True God18. For those are they, whom it willed should be done to death by us, that is to say, the works of the St. Hath not each of us some "right eye"? III 'Walk in the Spirit''Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. (3) The best method to cure this great evil, and to prevent this great danger. Without entering here on questions for which a sermon is scarcely a suitable vehicle of discussion, it may be sufficient for our present purpose to say that, as usually, when employing this antithesis the Apostle means by Spirit the divine, the Spirit of God, which he triumphed Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureWhat Makes a Christian: Circumcision or Faith? He lists the works of the flesh,22. [1716] We grant that all these things are true, and we say that the Law is not necessary, save for them unto whom bondage is yet profitable: and that, Thrice happy they who at Thy side, Thou Child of Nazareth, Have learnt to give their struggling pride Into Thy hands to death: If thus indeed we lay us low, Thou wilt exalt us o'er the foe; And let the exaltation be That we are lost in Thee. Do not the Scriptures command us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect? The righteous man is the man of stiff, inflexible uprightness; but he may be Rev. "But, remember," said Aristippus, "that I, being older than you, do make the first motion." Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. "The fruit of the Spirit is gentleness" (Gal. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. v. 22). Nothing is more important then, than that we should be continuously filled with the Holy Spirit, or to keep to the metaphor, that the "trees of the Lord should be continuously full of sap"--His sap. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. "(a)It includes the ruin of our outward comforts. (c)Endeavour for a catholic spirit. 'In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.'--GAL. AugustineOn ContinenceAnd Also, when He Exhorts Us, that we Live not after the Flesh9. Grow In Grace And Knowledge II Peter 3. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. I could almost guarantee that what they wouldn't say would be freedom. It is all the time to be His fruit. May the Holy Spirit lead us, beloved, these days, into His sweetness, quietness, and gentleness, subduing every coarse, rude, harsh, and unholy habit, and making us like Him, of whom it is said, "He shall not strive, Rev. The gospel will not allow us to pay our enemies in their own coin, and give them wrath for wrath; much less will it suffer brethren to spit fire at one another's face. For it is written, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace (Gal. We are told that, Aristippus and AEschines having differed, the former came to the latter and said "AEschines, shall we be friends?" "The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness" (Gal. Is not this still true that many professed Christians snap right and left at their own brethren, when they had better save their teeth for the wolves?Evils of strifeSpencer.They say of bees, that, when they strive among themselves, it is a sign that the queen is about to leave the hive. III 'Walk in the Spirit''Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: For these are opposed St. (a)Lament your own and others' sin in this particular. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in our hearts and lives and service, and His victorious life will Roy Hession and Revel HessionThe Calvary RoadThe Dove and the LambVictorious living and effective soul-winning service are not the product of our better selves and hard endeavours, but are simply the fruit of the Holy Spirit. and the fruits of the Spirit,25. We are not called upon to produce the fruit, but simply to bear it. Neil.The following incident, respecting two philosophers of old, may well put to the blush Christians who are unwilling to be reconciled, and who consequently have their intercourse with heaven hindered (Matthew 5:24). "Yes," replied AEschines, "and therefore I conclude that you are the worthiest man: for I began the strife, and you began the peace."(C. A town, if it can be but set on fire, the enemy may hope to take it with more ease. Divisions run religions into briars and thorns, contention and parties. On his return the scout said, "It is true the dogs are many, but there are not many mastiffs among them. Are a hindrance to the progress of the gospel.4. Let none now seek to divide Christians by building up a wall of party spirit between them; for, "behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."(G. doubts! Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. Without entering here on questions for which a sermon is scarcely a suitable vehicle of discussion, it may be sufficient for our present purpose to say that, as usually, when employing this antithesis the Apostle means by Spirit the divine, the Spirit of God, which he triumphed Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureWhat Makes a Christian: Circumcision or Faith? Paul says, "If you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. 2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. He then that has no care to keep peace refuses to bear the fruit of the Spirit. We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." But who those enemies are, it hath set forth plainly enough. v. 22, 23, R. V., "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance." The life of a Christian must be one of progress. If we may judge of their morality by the exhortations and dehortations which Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Fruit of the Spirit'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. )The evil of dissensionsT. Gurnall. I. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. A. A. TorreyThe Person and Work of The Holy SpiritJoy'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' 28, 29.--"Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? The "works of God," as they denominate them, were not any and every duty, but those more special and important acts, by which the creature might secure William G.T. The wolves were somewhat afraid, for the dogs were many and strong, and therefore they sent out a spy to observe them. Do not the Scriptures command us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect? And not a few afterwards acknowledged that a real good and blessing was the consequence to all parties, by the opportunely falling down of that old dividing wall Party spirit is a wall of separation which the coming and the work of Christ was intended to remove. (c)These contentions bring great dishonour to Jesus Christ. and not to observe circumcision;13. but rather love, which is the sum of the law.19. AugustineOn ContinenceHere Therefore These Men Too Evil, While they Essay to Make Void the Law9. Do not labour to screw-up one another to the utmost. (d)Be clothed with humility. Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. 'In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.'--GAL. Goodness is a fruit of the Spirit. What a catalogue we have here of lovely moral characteristics. It is not enough for us to have been born again of Water and the Holy Ghost, and to have received the Gifts of the Spirit from time to time through the different means of grace. Here therefore these men too evil, while they essay to make void the Law, force us to approve these Scriptures. (Admonition 23.) "(a)It includes the ruin of our outward comforts. "The ideal brotherhoodA little boy, seeing two nestling birds pecking at each other, inquired of his elder brother what they were doing. There is further to Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureFaith the Sole Saving Act. It is to be like God. 'Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.'--GAL. Meekness, temperance'--GAL. The answer might surprise many of us, and that's what we want to talk about today in Galatians 5, beginning in verse 11-15 (ESV). The perfume was borne across the breach; so that the gardens were the, sweeter. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. (5) Consider your own personal moral failings. That a week after Easter we still get to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ? Without entering here on questions for which a sermon is scarcely a suitable vehicle of discussion, it may be sufficient for our present purpose to say that, as usually, when employing this antithesis the Apostle means by Spirit the divine, the Spirit of God, which he triumphed Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureWhat Makes a Christian: Circumcision or Faith? IIIFifteenth Sunday after Trinity Church Officers Warned of Vain-Glory. Text: Galatians 5, 16-24. Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. Jesus is always victorious. 16 But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. It is love that edifieth, but division pulleth down. LOVE IS THE REAL LIBERTY. Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces" (Psalm 122:6, 7).(R. (c)This destruction infers the ruin of our posterity. v. 22). We are not to suppose that the Apostle here uses the familiar contrast of spirit and flesh to express simply different elements of human nature. It is to be like God. And God-like goodness has special reference to the active benevolence of God. Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. The "works of God," as they denominate them, were not any and every duty, but those more special and important acts, by which the creature might secure William G.T. I. --JOHN x"The fruit of the Spirit is love."--GAL. (2) Sometimes men "bite" one another by plain slandering one another, charging them with crimes which they abhor. )The evil of dissensionsT. It is a sad presage of an approaching famine (as one well observes) not of bread, nor of water, but of hearing the Word of God when the thin ears of corn devour the plump full ones; when our controversies about doubtful things, and things of less moment, eat up our zeal for the more indisputable and practical things in religion.(American. The legalists in their little system of self-righteousness spent their strength upon the mint, the anise, and the cummin; while the weightier matters of the Law - righteousness, judgment, and faith - were neglected. "Not at roll, I am sorry to say," was the answer; "our numbers are diminishing weekly." )Dissensions in the ChurchR. AugustineOn ContinenceAnd Also, when He Exhorts Us, that we Live not after the Flesh9. I fear to come out boldly and declare that I believe that Christ fully saves me now. Bowden. The gospel, which makes wolves and lambs agree, does not teach the lambs to turn wolves and devour each the other. These are those waters of Marah that embitter our spirits, and quench the Spirit of God. Really I Robert Lee BerryAdventures in the Land of CanaanI have Said This, Lest Haply Married Fruitfulness Dare to vie with virgin Chastity7. What can I do with them? (d)They grieve the Holy Spirit of God. The life of a Christian must be one of progress. If we may judge of their morality by the exhortations and dehortations which Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Fruit of the Spirit'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. A. Let us all, then, be entreated, conjured, and persuaded to forbear biting and devouring one another. 25 If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. You would have others to bear with you; and why will not you bear with others? )Satanic origin of quarrels among ChristiansW. A. TorreyThe Person and Work of The Holy SpiritJoy'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' Believers are one in Christ, as He is one with the Father. (j)My last advice is, to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." To which end consider (1) The greatness and baseness of the sin. However, this did not cheer me so much," continued the wolf, "as this, that as they came marching on, I observed they were all snapping right and left at one another, and I could see clearly that though they all hate the wolf, yet each dog hates every other dog with all his heart." You would have others to bear with you; and why will not you bear with others? He then that has no care to keep peace refuses to bear the fruit of the Spirit. But it happened that the musicians were so long in tuning their instruments that the great Turk, distasting their tediousness, went away in discontent before the music began. We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." Is not this still true that many professed Christians snap right and left at their own brethren, when they had better save their teeth for the wolves?Evils of strifeSpencer.They say of bees, that, when they strive among themselves, it is a sign that the queen is about to leave the hive. The father had grown grey in a long life of depredation and danger, and his scars bore witness to his narrow escapes in the chase, or his less honourable encounters with the faithful guardians of the hen roost. It were better, as one says, that Caesar should break all Pollio's curious glasses, than that they should break the bond of charity, or that the breach of them should be the occasion of so much inhumanity of brethren one against another. J. Wilmot-BuxtonThe Life of Duty, a Year's Plain Sermons, v. 2Sixth Day for the Spirit of Love in the ChurchWHAT TO PRAY.--For the Spirit of Love in the Church "I pray that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and Thou in Me; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them." I am not perfect; far from it. AugustineOf Holy Virginity. We are not to suppose that the Apostle here uses the familiar contrast of spirit and flesh to express simply different elements of human nature. The flowers and shrubs of each garden discovered that members of their own families had been living on the other side, and therefore really near to each other, though they had had no communion, owing to the wall between.5. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: For these are opposed St. If it was only the wolf that was worrying the flock, we might cherish the hope that we could get him driven out. "Worse than that, I fear. v. 22). We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." Gal 5:17 John NewtonOlney HymnsAnd on this Account That, Which, the Parts that Beget Being Bridled by Modesty5. If we may judge of their morality by the exhortations and dehortations which Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Fruit of the Spirit'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. Neil.The following incident, respecting two philosophers of old, may well put to the blush Christians who are unwilling to be reconciled, and who consequently have their intercourse with heaven hindered (Matthew 5:24). No, when any such embers of contention begin to smoke among Christians, we may know who left the spark; no other but Satan, he is the great kindle-coal of all their contentions. All real beauty of character, all real Christlikeness in us, 'The fruit of the Spirit is joy.' For it is written, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace (Gal. The individual members are not isolated graces, but all connected, springing from one root and constituting an organic whole. v. 22). Steele, M. Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. Nature's harshness has melted away and she is now beaming with the smile of spring, and everything around us whispers of the gentleness of God. (h)Mind every one his own business. This every one may do, and this every one ought to do: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. "No," replied the child, "that cannot be, for they are brothers." (g)Avoid extremes. )Dissensions in the ChurchR. "The fruit of the Spirit is all goodness" (Gal. His power is boundless. AugustineOn ContinenceAll we Therefore, who Believe in the Living and True God18. v. 22). Especially are the doubts concerning my entire consecration aggravating, and those, too, concerning my entire cleansing. (f)They greatly hinder the conversion of the ungodly, and the progress in holiness of the godly. A. ). Text: Galatians 5, 16-24. He wills them to stand in their liberty,3. Do not labour to screw-up one another to the utmost. For this reason the Lord, after He had said, "For from the heart go forth evil thoughts," then went on to add what it is that belongs to evil thoughts, "murders, adulteries," and the rest. v. 22, 23, R. V., "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance." Are a hindrance to the progress of the gospel.4. In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. )Consumed one of another: Strife in the foldTwo friends met the other day. SheddSermons to the Natural ManWalking with God. We are bidden "to stir up the gift that is in us;" we are told to "grow in grace." )The evil of dissensionsT. What shall I do? (c)This destruction infers the ruin of our posterity. Without entering here on questions for which a sermon is scarcely a suitable vehicle of discussion, it may be sufficient for our present purpose to say that, as usually, when employing this antithesis the Apostle means by Spirit the divine, the Spirit of God, which he triumphed, 'In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love.'--GAL. Goodness is just "Godness." In heaven they are praising Him all the time for His victory. 'The fruit of the Spirit,' says Paul, not the fruits, as we might more naturally have expected, and as the phrase is most often quoted; all this rich variety of graces, of conduct and character, is thought of as one. I fear to come out boldly and declare that I believe that Christ fully saves me now. J. Wilmot-BuxtonThe Life of Duty, a Year's Plain Sermons, v. 2Sixth Day for the Spirit of Love in the ChurchWHAT TO PRAY.--For the Spirit of Love in the Church "I pray that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them and Thou in Me; that the world may know that Thou didst send Me, and hast loved them as Thou hast loved Me that the love wherewith Thou hast loved Me may be in them, and I in them." "Worse than that, I fear. A. SheddSermons to the Natural ManWalking with God. A. and exhorts to walk in the Spirit.Dictionary of Bible ThemesGalatians 5:155132biting5821criticism, among believers8765grudgeGalatians 5:2-256511salvationGalatians 5:9-216026sin, judgment onGalatians 5:13-166679justification, results8452neighbours, duty toGalatians 5:13-185380law, and gospelGalatians 5:14-163209Holy Spirit, and loveLibraryMarch 28. JOHN vi. There is further to Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureFaith the Sole Saving Act. Differently to be admonished are those that are at variance and those that are at peace. For this reason the Lord, after He had said, "For from the heart go forth evil thoughts," then went on to add what it is that belongs to evil thoughts, "murders, adulteries," and the rest. Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." and the fruits of the Spirit,25. He lists the works of the flesh,22. If we may judge of their morality by the exhortations and dehortations which Alexander MaclarenExpositions of Holy ScriptureThe Fruit of the Spirit'But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23. The righteous man is the man of stiff, inflexible uprightness; but he may be Rev. 26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. And also, when he exhorts us, that we live not after the flesh, lest we die, but that by the Spirit we mortify the deeds of the flesh, that we may live; surely the trumpet which sounds, shows the war in which we are engaged, and enkindles us to contend keenly, and to do our enemies to death, [1832] that we be not done to death by them. Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. The fact is, the sheep have taken to worrying each other, and our condition, therefore, could not be worse. "What a pity that piece of old wall had not fallen down before," said the flowers.3. Enfeeble and imperil the Church.5. It is all the time to be His fruit. Do not the Scriptures command us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect? On his return the scout said, "It is true the dogs are many, but there are not many mastiffs among them. And God-like goodness has special reference to the active benevolence of God. Fuller, D. D.The English ambassador, some years since, prevailed so far with the Turkish emperor as to persuade him to hear some of our English music, from which (as from other liberal sciences) both he and his nation were naturally averse. "No," replied the child, "that cannot be, for they are brothers." Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." It is, the relation between the Curate and his Incumbent; or more particularly, the Curate's position and conduct Handley C. G. MouleTo My Younger BrethrenHow those that are at Variance and those that are at Peace are to be Admonished. (i)Observe that good old rule, of doing to others as you would be done to. 1. Our understandings were sorely wounded by the fall of Adam; and they are but imperfectly and unequally recovered by all the means which the gospel affords. Enfeeble and imperil the Church.5. Great consequences followed the Falling of the piece of the old wall.1. Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. "We must not sail for the commodity of peace beyond the line of truth; we must break the peace in truth's quarrel:" so another learned man. It is pride that begins and maintains our quarrels. AugustineOn the Profit of Believing. It is not enough for us to have been born again of Water and the Holy Ghost, and to have received the Gifts of the Spirit from time to time through the different means of grace. 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