Ripe Life 7 of 9

Galatians 5:22-23 New Living Translation… But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

Romans 3:3 New Living Translation… True, some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful?

Introduction: Consistency is a sufficient descriptor of God’s Character. Reference Hebrews 13:8

Transition: Faithfulness is the fruit that brings our confession into our conduct. It asks whether the people who hear us praise God can also depend on us.

Exposition:

–God remains faithful when people fail.

Human unfaithfulness cannot overturn divine truthfulness.

Reference Deuteronomy 7:9, Romans 3:5-8

–The Spirit produces what our strength cannot sustain.

Fruit only grows through living dependence expressed in daily obedience.

–Let faithful become the name your life earns.

Faithfulness is a noun naming a quality; faithful is an adjective describing a person. That grammatical distinction leads us toward a spiritual question: does the quality describe our lives?

Conclusion: Reference Revelation 2:10 Until means to the point – Unto means beyond the point.

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