St Barnabas Middlesbrough

So then how do we go about doing this well in verse 16 of our passage paul says that we should live by the spirit i say not by gratifying the desires of the flesh as images of god the fruits of the spirit exist waiting for us to live them out we are all if you want to think about this in maybe a different way we are all trees waiting to come to life trees naturally fruit trees naturally bear fruit is what they're made to do we are made to bear fruit in our lives but we need the spirit's help to do it we need to come to life and so even though all these gifts are given to other people given given to all of us we need life to come to us but god has given us his spirit god has given us a connection to him so that we can live this out and so the first thing we need to do is have a connection to the spirit.