Book of Galatians- John Mendiola -3_21_2021
Teachers
Lesson Summary
This Bible study class focused on the fruit of the Spirit and the believer's responsibility to cultivate these characteristics through intentional effort. The teacher emphasized that the fruit of the Spirit is not a passive result of divine intervention but a disciplined pursuit requiring active obedience to God's Word. Key discussions centered on 2 Peter 1:5-10, where Peter instructs believers to add virtues like faith, knowledge, self-control, and love to their lives. The class also examined Romans 6:6-13, explaining how baptism symbolizes the death of the old self and the commitment to live in newness of life. The teacher highlighted that the absence of these qualities can lead to spiritual blindness, urging self-examination and growth. The lesson reinforced that Christians must actively resist the desires of the flesh and align their lives with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Key Scriptures
But also for this very reason, giving all due diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, self-control perseverance, perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will neither bear nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is short-sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure. For if you do these things, the beauty of all that is that you will never stumble.
Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, so that we should no longer also then, therefore, be bondage to sin.
Consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore, sin is not in your mortal body, so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body parts as instruments of righteousness for God.