A Better Way - Be Kind, Remind (Fruit Of The Spirit - Kindness)

“you be nice”…

God has never told us to be nice.

Galatians 5:22-23 

Kindness Is Different

Matthew 5:13 & 14

Matthew 12:36 

idle = careless,  a word you didn’t really labor over in your heart. 

Galatians 6:8 

Matthew 16:23 

James 1:19 

Kindness Is Calculated 

Colossians 3:12 

kindness = chrēstotēs - to show kindness or to be friendly to others.

Kind People Put On Adaptability

Philippians 2:7 

Kindness Encourages Change

Romans 2:4 God’s kindness leads you to repentance?

 Jeremiah 9:23-2423 Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; 24  But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the Lord, exercising kindness

Exodus 34:6 The Lord, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth

Psalm 106:7 When our fathers were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, 

Be kind, Remind.

2 Samuel 9:1-3 David asked, “Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan’s sake?” 2 Now there was a servant of Saul’s household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” “At your service,” he replied. 3 The king asked, “Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God’s kindness?” Ziba answered the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.”


2 Samuel 9:5 So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel. 6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, “Mephibosheth!” “At your service,” he replied. 7 “Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness  for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?” 

2 Samuel 9:9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family. 10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.) 11 Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s sons

Titus 3:3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.

Ephesians 2:6-7 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

Jesus is God's kindness to us

Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.