Encouragement

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The Fruit of Goodness

Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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Praise the Lord!!

Goodness is one of the beloved virtues of our heavenly Father and we are admonished to cause this fruit of goodness to bear as a tree of righteousness planted by the river of the Holy Spirit. God"s goodness and His mercies always follows us because He so loved us that He gave His best seed, Jesus Christ for our ransom and He is Good all the time.

Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Rom 2:4

Goodness is deacribed as ...
- The state or characteristic of being good.
- The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
- God.
- The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence
- Moral virtue.

In other words being born again that characteristic quality of being good as God is already deposited in your DNA.

Fruits are therefore desired in every area of life to bring in fulfillment, satisfaction and succession and the same applies to our spiritual fruits. A fruit is ...
- The seed-bearing part of a plant, edible, colourful and fragrant
- An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
- To produce fruit.

Jesus is saying, I have chosen you to bear good fruit ...karpos..gk, and let the fruit remain when they bear, the fruit of goodness ...agathosune..gk, meaning ...goodness, ..virtue, ...beneficence, ...well.

We are the seed-bearing part of the vine to produce fruits which must be found readily edible hanging colourfully and fragrant on the vine. This fruit of goodness is not passive but a deliberate choice of right from wrong. It is the persistence and firm resistance of all moral evil and choosing to follow all the moral good.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. Jn 15:16

Fruit bearing beloved depends on its source, and the source of our fruit is from the Spirit of Christ who has become one with our spirit. One of such fruits from Christ's Spirit is the fruit of goodness.

For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; Eph 5:9

Jesus is the vine and we are the branches of the vine bearing and holding the fruits which are good and of beneficence to the Church, neighbor and you, as good epistles of Christ.

Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: 2 Thes 1:11

Evil is in the world the cause of stealing, killing and destruction which is causing the unpleasant situations around the world and soceity. It is the fruit of goodness bearing that will uproot the moral evil with the moral good.

Let therefore your light of goodness manifest in every place that all may be lighted to rescue the world and soceity of men.

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. Rom 15:14

Will Jesus find your fruit of goodness edible, colourful and fragrant?

Beloved let the fruit of goodness bear.


Be blessed!!!

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