Sinclair Ferguson

What shall I tell them?

What am I going to say?

They wanted to know who God is.

Who is this God, Moses?

What's he like?

And that's a tremendously important question for us, because in many ways our Christian lives are determined by the way we think God is, what He's really like.

And the fact of the matter is that, as one of the Psalms tells us, we tend to become like whatever we worship.

So this really is an important question and we'll return to it tomorrow.

But let's think about it today as well.

If you were listening last week, you'll perhaps remember that we were thinking about what Paul calls the fruit of the Spirit.

In fact, the ninefold fruit of the Spirit.

And if you were with us all last week, you'll probably know Galatians 5, 22 to 23 off by heart by now.

But just in case they're not quite in your memory banks, I'm going to quote the words again.

Here they are.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Against such things there is no law.

Kindness is our theme today.

It follows patience.

And I think you can see how these three graces, patience, kindness, and goodness, form the second of three trilogies in Paul's list.

You can't be kind unless you're patient, can you?