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By Pastor Glenn Pease
A young boy had been sent to his room for bad behavior.
After awhile he emerged and told his mother he had thought it over and prayed about it.
"That's wonderful", said the mother.
"If you ask God He will help you be good."
The boy responded, "But I didn't ask God to help me be good, I asked Him to help you put up with me."
This little guy discovered the path of least resistance.
He realized life would be easier if others would just change in relation to him.
Let's face it, life would be easier for all of us if people would just tolerate our weaknesses, and put up with our shortcomings.
In other words, if everybody else had the fruit of the Spirit we would not have to bother being good.
Somebody would have to remain as a pain to give others an opportunity to exercise their fruits.
But since this fantasy is never going to be a reality, the Christian needs to face the fact that goodness is not an option, but an absolute necessity.
It is impossible to be Christ like without goodness, the sixth fruit of the Spirit.
The subject of goodness is so vast in the Bible it would take hours just to read all of the texts.
I counted in my concordance 77 different words and word combinations dealing with the theme of goodness.
It is overwhelming to try and convey the significance of this material in one message, but let's begin by seeing that goodness begins in the very nature of God.
His goodness is linked to His love, as are all of the fruits.
The only reason there is a relationship between God and man is because God is good.
In Psalm 25:7-8 we read, "Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O Lord.
Good and upright is the Lord; therefore, He instructs sinners in His ways."
We see the goodness of God is what makes Him care about sinners and their forgiveness, and their guidance into the truth.
Why do we have a Savior?
Because God is good.
Why do we have a Bible?
Because God is good.
Why do we have the church for fellowship and encouragement?
Because God is good.
All the gifts and blessings we have, we have because God is good.
If He was only Holy He would have destroyed the world long ago and started over.
But God is good, and goodness is love reaching out to give a helping hand to those who cannot make it on their own.
The Good Samaritan was good because he helped a man survive who would not have without his help.
Psalm 34:8 says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good."
Over and over the Bible says the Lord is good, and He expects His people to reflect that goodness in the world.
Hannah Whitall Smith, famous for her book The Christian's Secret Of A Happy Life, tells of her discovery of the goodness of God in her other book, The God Of All Comfort.
She writes,
"I shall never forget the hour when I first discovered that
God was really good.
I had, of course, always known that
the Bible said He was good, but I had thought it only
meant He was religiously good; and it had never dawned
on me that it meant He was actually and practically good,
with the same kind of goodness He has commanded us to
have.
The expression, "The goodness of God," had
seemed to me nothing more than a sort of heavenly state-
ment, which I could not be expected to understand.
And
then one day I came in my reading of the Bible across
the words, "O taste and see that the Lord is good, " and
suddenly they meant something.
The Lord is good, I
repeated to myself.
What does it mean to be good?
What
but this, the living up to the best and highest that one
knows.
To be good is exactly the opposite of being bad.
To
be bad is to know the right and not to do it, but to be
good is to do the best we know.
And I saw that, since
God is omniscient, He must know what is the best and
highest good of all, and that therefore His goodness must
necessarily be beyond question.
I can never express what
this meant to me.
I had such a view of the real actual
goodness of God that I saw nothing could possibly go
wrong under His care, and it seemed to me that no one
could ever be anxious again.
And over and over, when
appearances have been against Him, and when I have been
tempted to question whether He had not been unkind, or
neglectful, or indifferent, I have been brought up short by
the words, "The Lord is good"; and I have seen that it
was simply unthinkable that a God who was good could
have done the bad things I had imagined."
Bad things happen to good people all the time in this fallen world, but not because God wills it.
He, in fact, forbids it, and no one is guiltless who does a bad thing against his neighbor.
Jesus went about doing good, and never did a bad thing to anyone.
He did have severe words of judgement for the Pharisees, who had perverted the truth of God.
They were such religious people, but they were not good.
No amount of religion, learning, ritual, or legalistic law keeping is worth a hill of beans if it does not make you good.
Jesus blasted all religion that failed the test of goodness.
If people are not made good by their faith, their faith is no good.
God is good, and what is not good is not of God.
That is Biblical theology in a nutshell, and this is to be our guide for evaluating all movements and ideas-are they good?
Before Paul's conversion he was a very religious man.
He was learned in the Old Testament law.
He was scrupulous in his obedience to the legalistic system of the Pharisees.
He was zealous in his promotion of the Jewish faith.
Paul had all you could ask for in a religious person, it would seem.
He had it all except for one thing, he was not good.
He was cruel and hard hearted, and he hurt and killed people who would not conform to his convictions.
When he surrendered to Christ as Lord of his life, he had all the virtues he had before, but now he was also a good man.
He never again hurt another person for not conforming to his convictions.
He did not persecute the Jews as he did Christians.
He did good to them as he sought to persuade them that Jesus was their Messiah.
He devoted a good part of his ministry to doing good to the Jews in Jerusalem.
Paul was converted from being a radically religious man to being a good man in Christ.
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