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Love is Kindness A Fruit Instructed Grieving the Holy Spirit. With all malice A Fruit of Ministers We commend ourselves. Ministers of God. A Fruit of Grace The exceeding riches of His grace. In His kindness toward us. A Fruit of the Elect Exceeding riches of the grace of God. Put on kindness. A Fruit that Appeared The washing of regeneration. The renewing of the Holy Spirit. Love is Kindness Kindness - this is another aspect of the love of God. It is one of the facets of the love fruit of the Holy Spirit. It is not natural to man, but is a work of the Spirit through the new birth, and His infilling. The Meaning of Kindness In the original this word means serviceable, good-natured, pleasant, gracious, helpful. It has also been translated easy, gentleness, goodness. Kindness will go to any lengths to help and be of service. It is the attitude of servant hood in the love of God. Kindness is dedicated to making life easy and blessed for others. When Jesus washed his disciples' feet He was demonstrating kindness. His miracles, His healings and deliverances were all acts of supernatural kindness. Kindness cannot stand to see miserable, unhappy, diseased and wretched people. Love is Kindness The Kindness of God God is kindness - He has gone to every length to alleviate the pain and suffering of man. His kindness will meet all your needs. A Fruit Instructed Instead of being painful and burdensome toward those around us - instead of being part of the problem, we are to become part of the solution to one another's problems. That is, we are to be easy and helpful and we are to serve so that others can relax and be at ease in our company. Love is Kindness Grieving the Holy Spirit Thoughts Words and Acts of unkindness These are things designed to destroy and break down other people and they is grieve the Holy Spirit. Love is Kindness With all Malice Malice is an intention or plan to harm and destroy. This is the exact opposite of kindness. If this is in our lives we are going against the spirit of kindness which always – does well for speaks well for thinks well of This is pleasing to the Holy Spirit Love is Kindness A Fruit of Ministers Here we see how limitless the love of God is and the extent to which it will go. We Commend Ourselves We should be able to draw up a list of activities that speak of the love of God in our lives. How far are we prepared to go? What will the fully developed fruit look like? Tribulations, needs, distresses, stripes, imprisonment, tumults, labours, sleeplessness, fasting this is what kindness will endure for the sake of other people. Love is Kindness Ministers of God This literally means servants of God - and as we have said, kindness is related to the servant aspect of God's love. 'Hesed' This is the Hebrew of the Greek 'agape'. It literally means to 'bend the back or neck in service'. This is what Jesus did. This is an act of kindness performed by the Creator of the universe. Jesus demonstrated to His disciples what they should do and showed them what servants of God should be like. Love is Kindness A Fruit of Grace God's kindness is a facet of the richness of His mercy; of His great love for us. Compassion is a force within the Father that moves Him towards kindness - and He has placed that force within us. The Exceeding Riches of His Grace Notice the adjective: 'exceeding‘ Exceeding means to throw beyond or to overdo it. Riches means having more than you can see any way to use. Grace, according to Vine's Dictionary, means "that which bestows pleasure, delight, or causes favourable regard." Love is Kindness In His Kindness toward Us The greatest act of kindness is that God should take one who is dead in sin and make him alive. God in His kindness takes sons of disobedience, bound by lusts of the flesh and by nature children of wrath, and makes them alive, raising them to the heavenly places and bestowing the full rights of royal children on them. Love is Kindness The Purpose of His Kindness To demonstrate the exceeding riches of His grace! A Fruit of the Elect Our lives as the elect and as ambassadors of Christ should be flooded with the exceeding riches of the grace of God. We should allow this greatness of His love to gush out onto the world around us. It will – make people alive give people the will to live and bring life in abundance If you leave the fragrance of death around you it is because have not demonstrated the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness. Love is Kindness Put on Kindness Let kindness be the garment that clothes you. A Fruit that Appeared Kindness appeared in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. Jesus Christ is kindness itself seen in His life on this earth. His whole ministry says one thing - KINDNESS. Love is Kindness The Washing of Regeneration Regeneration means reborn which in itself is a washing. When the old nature falls away and is replaced by a new creature. The newly born creature has a new nature of love and kindness. Kindness is a fruit of the renewing of the Holy Spirit. The incorruptible seed of kindness is a genetic trait, a hereditary quality in the new creature. Love is Kindness The Renewing of the Holy Spirit Renew means to make new or to have a new beginning - this is the work of the Holy Spirit.