Calvary Chapel of San Antonio

"The word for fruit here is singular. It means that the singular gift of love is the fruit of the Spirit. The rest are the things that love produces..."

The grain offering speaks of our service to the Lord. This was NOT an offering for sin; it is an offering of thanksgiving to the Lord for His goodness to us. The grain offering was available to everyone, rich or poor, and only a portion of it was actually burnt before the altar. The rest was given to the priests as an offering for their service to God. The grain was ground (fine flour) and frankincense was added to insure that the offering smelled really good (evidently, God like good smells!)…

The grain offerings had to be prepared at home and brought to the priests. Our devotion to the Lord always begins at home! If your faith isn’t working at home, it’s not genuine. We need to insure that our lives are the same in public or in private. God sees it all…

This is the most fundamental truth in all Scripture! Why is grace, so beautiful, so simple, also so hard to accept?

If you are walking in the Spirit (power of), you will not gratify the sinful nature. Your flesh will be defeated by a greater power at work within. On the other hand, if you are not walking in the power of the Spirit, there is no amount of resolve or willpower that will keep you from caving in to your fleshly desires...

In this book, God will invade your personal space. Personal hygiene, prayer, worship, even your sex lives will be fair game. Please don’t shut out anything/everything God wants to speak to you about… One thing I want you to take special note of is that worship and something dying always go together. God will remove any shallow-ness from your worship if you will let Him do so. Think about that as you contemplate your role in worship here at church. Sort-of sheds new light on the man/woman who says, ‘I don’t like the music part’ and come in late every Sunday to avoid it. Worship is sacrifice—that means we worship regardless of our likes/dislikes and personal preferences. We worship God because of who He is…