Bullet points from this morning’s study of 2Corinthians 5

• God gave His Spirit to prepare us for Glory

• His Spirit is making us more into the likeness of Christ

• The likeness of Christ is identified by the fruit of the Spirit

• Evidence of His work in us is shown by the increase of the fruit of the Spirit

• Confirmation of His work in us is manifest by our motivation, our ambition – the ambition of the Christian is to please God, to be pleasing to Him; the love of Christ controls us

• Death to self and living for the One who saved us, namely Jesus Christ, is not rooted in obliga