Galatians 5 presents us with our choices...we can live in the Spirit or we can live in the flesh. You have to pick a side because as we learned these two spirits are at war with one another. The 'fruits of the flesh' include...sexual immorality, envy, selfishness, idolatry (good thing=god thing=bad thing...as our pastor would say), jealousy, outbursts of anger, dissension, murder, etc. The 'fruits of the Spirit' are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control.
Yes, we all mess up and we all posses the fruit of the flesh at times, but the big difference is the team you are on. If you are on team spirit it means that you have trusted the Lord as your Savior and you serve Him. Because of this decision your good fruit starts to out weigh the bad. Please understand...you are NOT a Christian because you do these things...you do these things because you are a Christian. If you are on team flesh you serve yourself. Yes, sometimes you will do seemingly 'good things'...things that may even mimic the fruits of the spirit, but the real question is, who are you doing them for? Not Jesus but yourself and that my friend is idolatry...which as we learned before is a fruit of the flesh. So, I guess that means when you are pulling for team flesh you are just spinning yourself in one big 'ole circle.
What fruits are you picking? What side are you on? Are you on team spirit or team flesh? I'll tell you a little secret...in the end...when it is all said and done...you want to be on team spirit because trust me...team flesh doesn't stand a chance.
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