Galatians 5:22-23 - Kindness is More than a Conspiracy (2021-10-24)

Phillip Keller, “Kindness involves finding ways to brighten & cheer the lives of others.” Stephen Grellet, “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Kindness is a gift - Galatians 5:22-23 Kindness is a choice – Col 3:12 Kindness is a command – Eph 4:32 God’s expression of kindness - Titus 3:4, Romans 2:4 William Barclay, “More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, & Kind deeds.” Kindness starts with the gift in your heart that is expressed through your life in your home, your workplace, your church, your world Kindness takes practice. Martyn Llyod Jones, The way the dead leaves of winter are removed from some trees is not that people go around plucking them off; no, it is the new life, the shoot that comes and pushes off the dead in order to make room for itself. In the same way the Christian gets rid of all such things as bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking and all malice. The new qualities develop &  the others simply have no room; they are pushed out and they are pushed off. Focus on the new nature and you will eliminate the old nature. 1) Be Perceptive - Philippians 2:4, Romans 12:15-16 2) Be Redemptive - Prov 10:32, Prov 15:4, Eccl 10:12, Joseph Gen 50:20 3) Be Corrective - Prv 27:6, 2 Tim 2:24-26 4) Be Impulsive - Gal 6:10, Eccl 11:4