Kindess and Goodness

1. Fruit of the Spirit:
Kindness and
Goodness

2. Galacians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy,
peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, 23 gentleness
and self-control. Against
such things there is no
law.

3. Kindness + Goodness
 kindness is more
about our attitude and
goodness is more
about the things we do
for others.

4. 1. You have to PUT ON kindness and
goodness. It’s something you wear
that day, by choice.
A. To be KIND AND GOOD is always a
CHOICE, not a reaction.
B. You have to be dressed properly in
the Spirit.
C. You have to PUT IT ON. You have to
do it on purpose.

5. Acts 10:34
34 Then Peter began to
speak: “I now realize how
true it is that God does not
show favoritism

6. D. Goodness:
Goodness is in God’s nature and when you do
good, you are doing God’s work. Goodness is
Godness.
Mark 10:18
“No one is good but one, that is , God.”
Matthew 5:45
45 that you may be children of your Father in
heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil
and the good, and sends rain on the righteous
and the unrighteous.

7. 2. You have to TAKE OFF HURT in
order to PUT ON kindness and
goodness.
A. Some people want to be good and
kind but they have too much pain in their
heart.
B. When does anger become sin?

8. Ephesians 4:26-32
 26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do
not let the sun go down on your
wrath, 27 nor give place to the
devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no
longer, but rather let him labor,
working with his hands what is
good, that he may have something
to give him who has need.

9.  29 Let no corrupt word proceed
out of your mouth, but what is
good for necessary
edification, that it may impart
grace to the hearers. 30 And do
not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,
by whom you were sealed for the
day of redemption.

10.  31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger,
clamor, and evil speaking be put
away from you, with all malice. 32
And be kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God in Christ
forgave you.

11. Why should we show kindness
and goodness?
 As it is written: "There is no one
righteous, not even one; - Romans
3:10
 You are to imitate me, just as I imitate
Christ. - 1 Corinthians 11:1

12. Kindness + Goodness
Acts of thoughtfulness
Gestures of LOVE
Godly acts
Expression of mercy
Conform to the nature of
God

13. “[The Christian] does not
think God will love us
because we are good, but
that God will make us good
because He loves us.”
-C.S. Lewis