1. Galatians 5:22–23

2. Only one way – forward!
Numbers 33:55-56:
“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.
And as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.”

3. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519-430 BC)

4. 4 False Approaches to Spirituality
Isolation: The Essenes.
Legislation: The Pharisees.
Contextualization: The Sadducees.
Revolution: The Zealots.

5. Victory in the Spirit! Life. Mind. Heart. ---------- Power/gifts.
Equipment.
Protection.
Team.

6. Victory in Jesus & the Spirit!
“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing”
John 15:5.
Life.
Mind.
Heart.
Power/gifts.
Equipment.
Protection.
Team.

7. A New Creation
2 Corinthians 6:14-15:
“What partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?”

8. Not the old person
Ephesians 4:17-20:
“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
But you did not learn Christ in this way.”

9. Depravity in the Entire Man
Physical
Spiritual
Relational
Intellectual
Immorality
Idolatry
Enmities
Drunkenness
Impurity
Sorcery
Strife
Carousing
Sensuality
Jealousy
Outbursts/rage
Disputes
Dissensions
Factions
Envying

10. New in every way! God man self Love Patience Faithfulness Joy Kindness
Physical
Spiritual
Relational
Intellectual
Immorality
Idolatry
Enmities
Drunkenness
Impurity
Sorcery
Strife
Carousing
Sensuality
Jealousy
Outbursts/rage
Disputes
Dissensions
Factions
Envying
God
man
self
Love
Patience
Faithfulness
Joy
Kindness
Gentleness
Peace
Goodness
Self-control

11. “We love, because He first loved us.”
No ordinary love!
1 John 4:19:
“We love, because He first loved us.”

12. Service!
Romans 6:17-19:
“But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed,
and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.”

13. Joy! Joy! Joy!
2 Corinthians 9:7:
“Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

14. All joy!
2 Corinthians 9:7:
“Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”
James 1:2-3:
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.”

15. Westminster Shorter Catechism (1646-47)
Q. 1. What is the chief end of man? A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever “Christians must also long to draw closer to God. If we are quenching our thirst at forbidden fountains, we have no reason to expect God to be satisfying. If we are not nourished by the bread from heaven, we will satiate ourselves with crumbs from the world. Once we have become addicted to the world’s nourishment, our appetite for God is spoiled” (Pastor to Pastor, 82).

16. Mutually Exclusive!
James 4:4:
“You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
John 16:2:
“They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.”

17. Mutually Exclusive!
John 16:2:
“They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.”
John 16:33:
“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

18. Literally ‘long-suffering’
μακρο-θυμία ‘long- heat’

19. God is Longsuffering
Romans 9:22:
“What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?”
1 Timothy 1:16:
“Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.”

20. God is full of Kindness
Luke 14:13-14:
“But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

21. God is full of Kindness
Luke 14:13-14:
“Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.”
Titus 3:4:
“But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy.”

22. The LORD is good!
Psalm 100:5:
“For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting and His faithfulness to all generations.”
Ephesians 5:8-9:
“For you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth).”

23. “liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons” Titus 1:12
“love one another, love theft, love debauchery, hate your masters, and never tell the truth” (ICC, 260).

24. Great is Thy Faithfulness
Deuteronomy 32:4:
“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He.”

25. Great is Thy Faithfulness
Deuteronomy 32:4:
“The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; a God of faithfulness and without injustice, righteous and upright is He.”
Romans 3:3:
“What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?”

26. “I Am gentle and humble of heart” Matthew 11:
“Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.”
Matthew 11:29:
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

27. “I Am gentle and humble of heart” Matthew 11:29
“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
Matthew 21:5:
“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold your King is coming to you, gentle, and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

28. Literally ‘from strength’
εγκρατέια We have no spiritual strength

29. Fervent Prayer for spiritual strength
Luke 22:43-44:
“Now an angel from heaven appeared to Him, strengthening Him. And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.”

30. Mention in other places!
Ephesians 4:1-3:
“Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,
being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

31. From Peter’s last letter
“having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,
and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.
For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

32. A Shelter in the Storm
The Lord’s our Rock, in Him we hide, A Shelter in the time of storm; Secure whatever ill betide, A Shelter in the time of storm.
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land, A weary land, a weary land; Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land, A Shelter in the time of storm.
A shade by day, defense by night, A Shelter in the time of storm; No fears alarm, no foes afright, A Shelter in the time of storm.

33. my Jesus, I Love You
My Jesus, I love Thee, I know Thou art mine; For Thee all the follies of sin I resign. My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art Thou; If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now. I love thee because thou hast first loved me and purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree; I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow; if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now. I’ll love Thee in life, I will love Thee in death, And praise Thee as long as Thou lendest me breath; And say when the death dew lies cold on my brow, If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus, ’tis now.

34. Soli Deo Gloria!!!