Series: Flourishing Relationships: Virtues in the Face of Vices Pt2
Title: “The Virtue of JOY”
Text: Galatians 5:13-26; selected
Date: May 11, 2025

Galatians 5:16, 19-21, 22, 23 (NLT): So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. … 19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. … 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

THREE WAYS WE CULTIVATE A VIRTUE OF JOY!


1. J ________________________________________________

“Then he said to them all: ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.’”
— Luke 9:23–24 (NIV)

2. O____________________________________________________

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
— Matthew 22: 37-39 (NLT)

3. Y______________________________________________________

"Abide in Me, and I in you… These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full."
— John 15:4-5,11 (NKJV)

Four Priorities:

Priority 1- Spiritually Fit ____________________________________________________

Priority 2-Physically Fit _____________________________________________________

Priority 3-Emotionally Fit _____________________________________________________

Priority 4-Relationally Fit ______________________________________________________