DAY 619 - Be Fruitful! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Galatians 5:22-26

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Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=加 拉 太 書 5&version=CUV

Bible Study

     After Paul's warning of not biting and devouring each other in yesterday's passage, he points to the right way to live a life led by the Holy Spirit and not the flesh.  

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      Paul speaks of the works of the 'flesh', but the fruit of the 'spirit'…there lies Paul's whole vision of what happens to someone when they come, through faith and baptism, into the community of the Messiah's people.
     People start off in the condition Paul calls 'flesh'.  They are born into human families, with ethnic and territorial identities.  They discover within themselves all kinds of desires, which, if allowed full rein, will produce the 'works'  listed in verses 19-21…When God finally establishes his kingdom, people like that will have no place in it…
    Paul's main point is still to persuade them to return to the full, complete gospel he had given them, instead of embracing the false message of the 'agitators' . 
    

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Galatians and Thessalonians. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.72-74.

      Do you allow the Holy Spirit to direct your life? Do you have the fruit of the Holy Spirit?

      
Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: Be fruitful!

    What I got from Jesus today is a reminder and call to be fruitful. If you follow the way of the 'agitators" no matter in your church or elsewhere, you will still be under the works of the 'flesh', your old self. If you follow the lead of the Holy Spirit, then your life will be more and more fruitful, full of all those fruit. They all come at the same time because the fruit of the Spirit is a singular number.

     Check daily whether you are more and more full of the fruit of the Holy Spirit or the works of the flesh. Don't lie to yourself thinking that you are full of the fruit of the Holy Spirit but in fact you are hating some people, jealous of other people's success, stirring up rumours and separation and tearing down your church as a family. 

Daddy,

Lead us to crucify our sinful nature so that we do not have the flesh to work in us anymore but to follow the lead of the Holy Spirit that we bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit.  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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