Christian Conduct

Dear Friend, 

I see too much hate today. It is on Social Media like a sickness. Some of the nicest people I know post such hateful things on Facebook. It is as if their niceness is sublimated, and seem to think posting or forwarding nasty things on Social Media is okay.  

Most of the people I see doing this claim to be Christians. In fact, many think they do it as an act of Christianity.  We need to be aware that no ethnic group was more despised by the Jews than the Samaritans. Yet Jesus ministered in love to the Samaritans, and Philip and Peter brought them into the umbrellas of Christianity. There was no one more despised than the Romans and their deviant lifestyle than the Jews, and yet Jesus treated them with love. 

 If you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit resides in your spirit. Please note the following scripture from the New Testament by Paul and James:

     Rom_8:9  …  Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him

     Rom_8:16  The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

     1Co_3:16  Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

     1Co_12:3  … no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

     Jas 4:5  Or do you think the Scripture means nothing when it says that the Spirit that God caused to             live in us jealously yearns for us? 

     1Th_5:19  Do not quench the Spirit

     Ephesians 3:16 ESV “That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened         with power through his Spirit in your inner being”

If you are a Christian you have received a deposit and a seal. 2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV “And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.”       

The guarantee is a pledge or a deposit against something that happens at a future date. This quote means the believer has been saved for eternity. The deposit guarantees a contract (or covenant).

Romans 8:9: “You . . . are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.”

So, one is not a Christian if they do not have the Holy Spirit.

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The fruit of the Spirit is like a tree that bears fruit. The believer will exhibit the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

 If not, the person is barren and unfruitful. (Jn 15:2) “He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does not bear fruit he prunes...”

     [Gal5: 22 ESV “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”]

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward, visible and godly virtues displayed in a believer's life, that evidence the inward, invisible presence of the Holy Spirit. These virtues or characteristics stand in stark contrast to the fruit of the flesh.

The fruit of the flesh is the opposite of the fruit of the Spirit. It is hate, unhappiness, strife, bitterness, rudeness (impatience), bad behavior, lacking gentleness or self-control.

Which are you?

 


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