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Subaru Sermon – Strange – Surprise – Salvation, 11AUG

An email to my pastor:

Hi Pastor, that was a great sermon, very thoughtful… Listened in the car…

I so appreciate the fruit that appears in the orchard that God has given me… just like you read from Galatians 5…. that fruit seems to pop up awfully frequently for me these days…. it does still takes me by surprise, as you know…

Even just now I am listening to our praise song “ode 15, eternal life”  and I reached down to pick up a random vbs tag which is not mine, I have no idea how it showed up in my car… it’s the one about eternal life… I attached a photo… Strange

Another example is the next big Girl Scout trip to the exact same place where we planned then cancelled a vacation for us…. strange…

And strange wonderful to receive a work award yesterday… not so strange, because I write some nominations every year and have a good track record of them… Not so many people write them, people don’t realize the golden opportunity… kinda like salvation, many people don’t realize the golden opportunity… they have to choose to embrace it…. yup!

Have great fruitful day!

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Galatians 5 – Life by the Spirit

¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. ¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁵ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ 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.

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. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited,provoking and envying each other.