Galatians 5:16-26
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Today's Passage: Galatians 5:16-26
The fruit of the Spirit included in this passage are some of the most famous verses in the Bible, and for good reason! They are a great vision for what the Christian life should look like.
Neglected, somewhat perhaps, is the context in which they are given. Not only are we exhorted to live out the fruit of the Spirit, part of doing so is is putting sin to death.
Galatians 5:24 serves as a helpful thesis to our set of verses: “And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
These verses continue in Paul’s theme of the importance of putting off the old and putting on the new as a foundation of spiritual growth and transformation.
He teaches this in:
Ephesians 4:22-24 — 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Colossians 3:5-17 — 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Given this pattern, we see that part of producing the fruit of the Spirit also means the ceasing of producing the fruit of the world. Ask God to help you both put sin to death and also put on the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
Written By: Graham Withers
Today's Passage: Galatians 5:16-26
The fruit of the Spirit included in this passage are some of the most famous verses in the Bible, and for good reason! They are a great vision for what the Christian life should look like.
Neglected, somewhat perhaps, is the context in which they are given. Not only are we exhorted to live out the fruit of the Spirit, part of doing so is is putting sin to death.
Galatians 5:24 serves as a helpful thesis to our set of verses: “And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.”
These verses continue in Paul’s theme of the importance of putting off the old and putting on the new as a foundation of spiritual growth and transformation.
He teaches this in:
Ephesians 4:22-24 — 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Colossians 3:5-17 — 5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8 But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Given this pattern, we see that part of producing the fruit of the Spirit also means the ceasing of producing the fruit of the world. Ask God to help you both put sin to death and also put on the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
Written By: Graham Withers
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