Kindness | Fruit of the Spirit Study | Can I Be Real? Podcast - a podcast by Rae Michelle
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Show Notes:
○ Galatians 5:22-23
○ 1st and foremost, remember that these Fruits of the Spirit are all characteristics of God
• Kindness
○ Kindness- the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate; the quality of being generous, helpful and caring about other people
○ Read Isaiah 63:7-9
○ Read Ephesians 1:7-8 NLT
○ Read Ephesians 2:4-7 NLT
○ Kindness requires intentionality. We must constantly choose to shift our minds from ourselves to looking for the needs of others.
○ Read Matthew 5:44-48 NLT
○ Look at Jesus's ministry on earth, He was Kind
○ In John 4, we see a familiar passage, Jesus talking with the Samaritan Woman
○ Jesus disregarded some of the social rules at that time:
§ During that time and in that culture, women were seen as inferior to men
§ Jews and Samaritans hated each other because Jews believed that Samaritans had betrayed their faith because they had intermarried with foreigners
§ No self-respecting man, let alone a teacher, would ever speak to a woman with a reputation like the woman we see Jesus talking to at the well
○ But Jesus was Kind. He saw a woman, in need of something that she could not attain for herself…living water
§ Read John 4:7-14
○ Jesus did not sugarcoat her current situation…she was a woman who had been married and divorced (men divorced the women) 5 times, and was currently with a man who she was not married to.
○ Despite that, Jesus was Kind. He did not condemn her, but rather He showed her that what she really needed was a right relationship with God
§ Read John 4:21-26
○ In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas are speaking to a group of people who, after seeing them heal a man who had been lame since birth, thought they were Zeus and Hermes. Paul after hearing this says:
○ Read Acts 14:14-17
○ Read Romans 2:2-4
○ Read Romans 11:22
○ Read Colossians 3:12-17
I challenge you to consider God's kindness to you, and to imitate Christ and show kindness to others, not just the people we know and like
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