Friday – May 12, 2023, Iyar 21, 5783
FRIDAY NUGGETS
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT – LONGSUFFERING
Greetings dear and precious saints of God and welcome back to Friday Nuggets and the teaching of the Fruit of the Spirit, this week focusing on Longsuffering. Longsuffering is not an attractive sounding topic and is otherwise known as patience. Please take a moment and share this teaching as widely as possible by every means available to you. Thank you so much for sharing, that is important to the Kingdom of God and to this Ministry. Be reminded of my newest book, a must read, Awake, Arise, and Triumph – Be Love. Yes, you can be love just like our Master, you just have to want too.
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Now, let’s turn our attention to our primary Bible text for this study continuing to read out loud.
Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
As I have mentioned previously these fruit of the spirit are in our spirit man not our soul. The condition of our soul, the home of our mind, will, and emotions, has a significant role in the expression of these fruit. Our fruit when we are born again is in an infant stage. Nonetheless it is identical to Gods’ and has the potential for great growth. We are responsible for the expression of this fruit not God. It is a waste of time to pray for more love, faith, or patience (longsuffering) for they are developed not imparted. I think it is useful to think of these in the spirit man as trees and the useful expression of each one is as a tree produces fruit like apples. The tree itself is of little use but the fruit of the tree is of great use. The best fruit is produced by a healthy tree spiritually. That is, one receiving the right nutrients. The one proper and vital nutrient is the Word of God. That must be coupled with a disciplined righteous mind, a disciplined righteous mouth, and walking in righteousness on purpose.
Now let’s take a look at this work longsuffering in the Greek language. The Greek word is transliterated to English as Makrothymia meaning longanimity, forbearance, fortitude, longsuffering, and patience according to Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. This word is a compound word in both the Greek and the English meaning long and passion, fierceness, indignation, and wrath according to Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary. It is wonderful that our Heavenly Father is longsuffering and it is important that we be so with our fellow man. Great mercy and love have been shown to all mankind, with great forbearance. So, let’s be thankful and sow again what the Lord has sown to us and we reaped. As we chew on the meat we have received to this point let’s consider the following passage.
Ephesians 4:1-5 (KJV)
1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
As we see later in this same chapter, our vocation, all of us, is ministry on behalf of the Kingdom of God. We are to do that ministry in humility and patience with one another and those to whom we minister. We do it because of love (agapē). I remind you to get my book “Be Love”. The Apostle Paul then goes on to admonish us not to forget we are to be in unity, one body. Well, that went by the wayside long ago. As I understand it there are now some 4200 divisions of Christianity. Between most of us there is much common ground, walk on that ground. Scripture is not for our interpretation; it is for us to rightly divide. There is no private interpretation, we study to show ourselves approved of God rightly dividing the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15).
Lord willing, I will pick up right here next Friday.
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2 Chronicles 20:20 b (KJV)
20 … Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (KJV)
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
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