and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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… That's what we're talking about. Dissensions, factions, and envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. Why? Because they're just proving that they do not have that seal of the Holy Spirit, that they are the children of God. But the fruit of the Spirit. Wow. Nine amazing needs that we all have and want. love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh, the self, with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, Let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. It's a picture that we're all going to be a sponge. No one gets out of being a sponge. We're created to serve God. If we don't serve God, we're going to serve something else. We're created to be filled by the Holy Spirit. …
… I'll paraphrase a little bit for you. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, integrity, courage, humility, self-control. Instead of focusing on one trait, this well-known passage from St. Paul shows us how to know and grow all of the fruit of the Spirit. How to know them, that means how to evaluate them, understand them, recognize them in our lives, how to know them, how to grow them. Okay, first, what does this passage teach us about how to know them, how to understand them, recognize them? The first thing we learn about the spiritual fruit, supernaturally produced spiritual fruit and character, is that it shows up internally. It shows up internally. Verse 23 says, now these love, joy, peace, patience, against such things there is no law. Against such things there is no law. What does that mean? Well, imagine a law against joylessness or a law against anxiety, peacelessness. Imagine laws against things like that. They'd be useless. Law is a form of moral constraint. …
III. This leads me to my third remark, which is that EVIL SOWING WILL BRING EVIL REAPING. "Whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap." This is seen in the present result of certain sins. "He that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption." By "the flesh" is meant our corrupt human nature in such sins as are mentioned in the 19th verse of the 5th Chapter of this Epistle, where we read, "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envying, murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God." These are "the works of the flesh." I am not going to expound this passage [Mr. Spurgeon's expositions of the whole passage, Galatians 5:13-26 will be found in Sermons #2632, Volume 45 and #2831, Volume 49] fully, but I want briefly to show you that there are four classes of sins mentioned here. First, Paul mentions sins of lust—adultery, which violates the most sacred ties—fornication, which defiles the body. Uncleanness, which is secret, not known to others, but which is fully known to God. Fleshly thoughts, fleshly words and fleshly acts—lasciviousness, the outward uncleanness which "society" condemns, yet often practices. He who is doing any of these things is sowing to his flesh and he will, most surely, "of the flesh reap corruption." You who are true Christians, of course, hate all these things, as Jude says, "hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." But mind that you also hate all books in which these things are worked up into attractive narratives, for you cannot even casually glance at such books, much less read them, without polluting your whole being! But as for those who practice these sins, which the Apostle here enumerates, let them not dream that they can be saved while they continue to love that which God hates with a perfect hatred! …