5th S. after Pentecost
5th Sunday after Pentecost Galatians 5:1, 13-25 Our problem is not so much that we do not know what the spiritual harvest should be—i.e. love, joy , peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, but we can fall into the trap of saying does it really matter? If I am already a believer, what can you add to that? Simply put there is much to say for being a believer. That is where we must start in the Christian life. So the real question is what does it mean to be a believer is it not? If the fruit of the Spirit are evidences of the work of God’s grace in our hearts then that should be there in some way, shape , manner or form. AA Hodge who taught at Princeton seminary talks about this area in his little book, Evangelical Theology : “ You cannot take Christ for justification unless you take him for sanctification. Think of the sinner coming to Christ and saying, ‘ I do not want to be holy’ ; ‘ I do not want to be saved from sin’; ‘ I would like...