Galatians 5:22-23
- Introduction
- Kindness
- Defining terms – being helpful, beneficial, or generous; nice
- God is kind
- The kindness of God led Him to save us
- Christians are vessels of God’s kindness
- God commands us to be kind
- Goodness
- Defining terms – positive moral qualities of the most general nature
- Only God is intrinsically good
- Any goodness we have is the fruit of the Spirit
- God’s goodness is God’s glory
- God’s goodness is our goal
- Application
- We grow in these areas through dependence on God
- We depend on Him to develop and produce these qualities
- We depend on Him for grace when we lack these qualities