The document discusses righteous character as the fruit of salvation produced in believers' lives by Jesus Christ. It says this righteous character brings glory and praise to God when seen in believers' lives. It provides scriptural support showing how living by the Spirit and allowing Him to produce fruit in one's life glorifies God. Producing much fruit as true disciples through righteous character brings great glory to the Father.

1. Righteous Character
Philippians 1:11

2. Righteous Character
Philippians 1:9-11 - I pray that
your love will overflow more and
more, and that you will keep on
growing in knowledge and
understanding. 10For I want you
to understand what really

3. matters, so that you may live
pure and blameless lives until the
day of Christ’s return. 11May you
always be filled with the fruit
of your salvation - the
righteous character produced
in your life by Jesus Christ -
for this will bring much glory
and praise to God. NLT

4. I. Fruit of your Salvation
(Righteousness)
This is the Righteous Character
Christ imputed to your account
at conversion

5. Be more concerned with your
character than with your reputation.
Your character is what you really are
while your reputation is merely what
others think you are.
Sanctity of Life, C. Swindoll, Word, 1990, p.

6. What is in Process,
What is Continuing?
The expression of this
Righteous Character
When it is seen it is the
Fruit of the Spirit

7. In order for the Fruit of your
Salvation to be seen in your life
you must abide in Christ.
This is the continuing or process
portion of what the
Apostle is saying.

8. We need Him for salvation and
we need Him to express
righteous character.
The measure of a man’s real
character is what he would do if he
knew he would never be found out.
Source Unknown

9. Galatians 5:16-25 – So I say, let
the Holy Spirit guide your
lives. Then you won’t be doing
what your sinful nature craves.
17The sinful nature wants to do
evil, which is just the opposite of
what the Spirit wants.

10. And the Spirit gives us desires
that are the opposite of what the
sinful nature desires. These two
forces are constantly fighting
each other, so you are not free to
carry out your good intentions.
18But when you are directed by
the Spirit, you are not under
obligation to the law of Moses.

11. 19When you follow the desires of
your sinful nature, the results are
very clear: sexual immorality,
impurity, lustful pleasures,
20idolatry, sorcery, hostility,
quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of
anger, selfish ambition,
dissension,

12. division, 21envy, drunkenness,
wild parties, and other sins like
these. Let me tell you again, as I
have before, that anyone living
that sort of life will not inherit the
Kingdom of God.

13. 22But the Holy Spirit produces
this kind of fruit in our lives: love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,
23gentleness, and self-control.
There is no law against these
things!.

14. 24Those who belong to Christ
Jesus have nailed the passions
and desires of their sinful nature
to his cross and crucified them
there. 25Since we are living by the
Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s
leading in every part of our lives.
NLT

15. Fame is a vapor, Popularity an
accident. Riches take wings.
Only one thing endures,
Character.
Horace Greely

16. James 3:18 – And those who are
peacemakers will plant seeds of
peace and reap a harvest of
righteousness.
Character is much better kept
than recovered.
Thomas Paine

17. The Fruit of Righteousness also
includes winning people to Christ.

18. Romans 1:13 - I want you to
know, brothers, that I have often
intended to come to you (but thus
far have been prevented), in
order that I may reap some
harvest among you as well as
among the rest of the Gentiles. ESV

19. Colossians 1:4-6 - For we have
heard of your faith in Christ Jesus
and your love for all of God’s
people, 5which come from your
confident hope of what God has
reserved for you in heaven. You
have had this expectation ever
since you first heard the truth of
the Good News.

20. 6This same Good News that
came to you is going out all over
the world. It is bearing fruit
everywhere by changing lives,
just as it changed your lives from
the day you first heard and
understood the truth about God’s
wonderful grace. NLT

21. The best index to a person’s
character is:
How he treats people who can’t
do him any good, and
How he treats people who can’t
fight back.
Abigail Van Buren

22. God has little patience with those
weak souls who say to
themselves, “I shall go this far
and no farther.” Is it up to the
creature to make the law for his
Creator? What would a king say
of a subject, or a master of a
servant, who only served him in

23. his own way, who feared to care
too much for his interests, and
who was embarrassed in public
because of belonging to him?
What will the King of Kings say to
us if we act like these cowardly
servants?
Francois Fenelon

24. II. for this will bring much glory
and praise to God.

25. John 15:8 - When you produce
much fruit, you are my true
disciples. This brings great glory
to my Father. NLT

26. 1 Corinthians 10:31 – So
whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do it all for the
glory of God. NLT

27. I think we delight to praise what
we enjoy because the praise not
merely expresses but completes
the enjoyment. It is not out of
compliment that lovers keep on
telling one another how beautiful
they are; the delight is incomplete
till it is expressed. C. S. Lewis

28. Ephesians 1:11-14 –
Furthermore, because we are
united with Christ, we have
received an inheritance from
God, for he chose us in
advance, and he makes
everything work out according
to his plan.

29. 12God’s purpose was that we
Jews who were the first to trust in
Christ would bring praise and
glory to God.

30. 13And now you Gentiles have
also heard the truth, the Good
News that God saves you. And
when you believed in Christ, he
identified you as his own by
giving you the Holy Spirit, whom
he promised long ago.

31. 14The Spirit is God’s guarantee
that he will give us the
inheritance he promised and that
he has purchased us to be his
own people. He did this so we
would praise and glorify him.
NLT

32. Reputation is made in a moment;
Character is built in a lifetime.

33. Reputation grows like a
mushroom;
Character grows like an oak.

34. Reputation makes you rich or
makes you poor;
Character makes you happy or
makes you miserable.

35. Reputation is what men say
about you on your tombstone;
Character is what angels say
about you before the
throne of God.

36. Your Reputation
is what men think you are.
Your Character
is what God knows you to be.
William Hershey Davis

37. His goal is not to pamper us
physically but
to perfect us spiritually.
Paul W. Powell
God is more concerned about our
character than our comfort.

38. III. Meditation & Application
Reflect on the last time you
naturally praised and glorified
God at work, school or play.

39. What ignited
your praise and glory
to God?

40. How were you impacted
when you did this?