Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness

Galatians 5:22–25Loading... 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

It’s really possible to live in the Spirit but not walk in the spirit that is the definition of a hypocrite. After I preached on gentleness I realized it’s a lot harder to walk the walk than talk the talk.

But the practical application is even if we fail we wake up tomorrow die to the flesh and its desires and try again. It reminds me of the pastor every message he preached was on tithing eventually people got upset and they went to the pastor and said why do you keep prea...