October 1, 2025 • 64 mins
The Porch examines the next three "fruit of the Spirit" described in Galatians 5:22–23, patience (longsuffering), kindness, goodness. They are the result of living in complete alignment with the Holy Spirit. These external virtues are produced in Believers for the benefit of others.
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Okay, let's get those Bibles open. Let's follow along. We're
talking about the fruit of the Spirit and Galatians five,
verses twenty two and twenty three. But the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self control. We've talked already about love, joy, and peace.
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We're going to continue on with long suffering, which is patience, kindness,
and goodness. But the ninefold fruit of the Spirit are
virtues created as a byproduct of living a life for God.
Virtues that manifest the reality of life in Yeshuah in
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the Lord, and these virtues are authentic examples of the
character produced in those who walk by the Spirit, Father Son,
Holy Spirit Fruit. There is evidence that you are a believer.
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The fruit of the Spirit fruit singular, emphasizing that these
qualities are mutually dependent. ACSPST aspects excuse me of the
life of a believer in Yeshuah Hamasiak Jesus the Messiah.
The Life Application Bible Commentary says this fruit is singular,
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indicating that all the fruits exist as a unit, like
a bunch of grapes, rather than many different pieces of fruit,
and that all are important to all believers, unlike gifts
that are dispensed differently to different people. Fruit is a byproduct.
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It takes time to grow and requires care and cultivation.
The Spirit produces the fruit. Our job is to get
in tune with the spirit. Believers exhibit the fruit of
the Spirit not because they work at it, but simply
because they are filled with the Holy Spirit. The rukkak Kadesh.
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The fruit of the Spirit separates believers from a godless,
evil world. It reveals a power within them and helps
them to become more like Messiah in their daily lives.
Remember what he said John fifteen five. I am the vine.
You are the branches. He who abides in me erminent resonance,
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and I in him bears much fruit. For without me
you can do nothing. Vine branches fruit, and the Holy
Spirit is the sap that flows through the vine that
produces that fruit. It's pretty basic once you understand it,
once you grasp it, once you see it. True spirituality
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comes when you live under the complete control of the
Holy Spirit, which, believe me, I understand, is very difficult
in a fallen world, and the fruit of the spirit
will be evidence of spiritual maturity and growth in holiness,
an aspect that doesn't seem to be talked about it anymore,
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doesn't seem to be a desire. I desire, and I
fail miserably, but I try. The spiritual life and growth
of believers is very much like a fruit bearing tree.
Fruit is evidence of the health and the vitality of
the tree, and so is the believer's life. Their attitudes
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and behavior should reflect the presence of the Holy Spirit.
That's without the manifestation of the gifts. You don't need
to tell me who you are by putting on a
show for me. Show me who you are by the
fruit that you produce. It's the manifest evidence of a
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life with the Spirit of God living and reigning. And
you shew. It implied that the character of her life
is determined by the presence of the Holy Spirit. Yes,
I know, by grace we've been saved. But there are
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rewards once we get to heaven. There are blessings once
we get into paradise with Him, and those blessings come
from the fruit that you produced in this world. Life application.
Bible commentary goes on about fruitfulness. It's the spontaneous work
of the Holy Spirit in us. The Spirit produces these
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character traits that are found in the nature of Messiah himself.
They're byproducts of Messiah's control. We can't obtain them without
his help. If we want the fruit of the Spirit
to grow in us, we must join our lives to his.
To grow in us, we must grow in him. We
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must know him, We must love him, remember him, and
imitate him. As a result, we will fulfill the intended
purpose of the law to love God and our neighbors.
So which are these qualities do you desire the Spirit
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to produce in you? Only you know that the nine
fruit that are listed in Galatians five twenty two through
twenty three. The first three, love, joy, and peace, are
supernaturally offered to us. The second three long suffering or patience, kindness,
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and goodness. What we're talking about tonight are the fruit
produced through us by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
produces this fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self control. There is no law against these things,
because they are the fulfillment of the law. It's His
presence within us that accomplishes it. We'll have love, will
have joy, We'll have that gladness that comes from knowing Him.
We will have peace, peace in the midst of the storm,
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peace in the midst of tragedy, peace and the mist
of everything going on around us. We'll have patience and
even temper, will be kind. We'll have goodness, will be
benevolent towards others, and will have faithfulness. Oh my goodness,
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if we had that, if we lived like that every day,
how much better would our lives be? Love, joy, and
peace internal fruit offered supernaturally by God. Long suffering, patience, kindness,
and goodness. External fruit produced in us for others produced
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by the Holy Spirit. That would tell people that we
know him. It would manifest itself in our relationship with others,
with each other, and even with the world. Instead of
choosing to be provoked or retaliate, we would endure the
suffering and choose to love others. A lack of fruit
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in a believer's life is it just reveals a diminished
or even a lack of a relationship with the Holy Spirit.
And I've seen a lot of people who claim to
be spiritual and put on the show and do all
of that that don't have the fruit. You can't create it,
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and you can't make it happen. The Spirit produces the fruit.
It's not natural, it's super natural. Romans fourteen seventeen. For
the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but
righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. That's
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the Kingdom of God. If we're walking in the Kingdom,
if we're living the Kingdom, we will have righteousness and
peace and joy. Two Corinthians thirteen eleven. Finally, brethren, farewell,
become complete, be of good comfort, be of one mind,
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live in peace, and the God of love and peace
will be with you that long suffering. It means patient endurance,
to bear long with frailties, offenses, to bear long with
injuries and the provocation of others without murmuring or resentment. Man,
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is that supernatural. It's the ability to bear the imperfections
of other people. And that's not what the world teaches.
That's not what the world shows us, especially in the
social media world, criticize, shame, tear down. No, that's not
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the Holy Spirit. And when you have a knowledge of
your own imperfections and our need for God's mercy and forgiveness,
were patient with others? And if not, he will remind
you patiently putting up with people who irritate you, and
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people do. The Holy Spirit's work in us increases our endurance,
and sometimes you have to pray for it. Sometimes you
have to ask for it. Holy Spirit, help me. I
am not doing very well with this person or with
this situation, was Paul saying one Corinthians thirteen, starting verse four.
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Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy,
Love does not beard itself, it's not puffed up, does
not behave rudely, does not seek its own It's not provoked,
thinks no, evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, which is
inbred sin, but rejoices in the truth, bears all things,
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believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. That's
why the first fruit is love. Everything is keyed off
of that two Corinthians six, Verses four through six. But
in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God
in much patience, in tribulations and needs and distresses, in stripes,
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which means being whipped in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors,
and sleeplessness in fast things, by purity, by knowledge, by
long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love. Again,
it always comes back to love Ephesians four, Versus one
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and two. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech
you to walk worthy of the calling with which you
were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering,
bearing with one another in love. Somebody who wrote me
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recently about to said, pray for me. I have a
hard time putting up with, specially some of the more
weird members of our family family of believers. And believe me,
there are some very weird members of the family. They've
been fooled, they've been deceived. They don't know the word,
they don't study, they're fed like birds in a nest.
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They don't know how to chew their own food. And
it's not easy. I remember one time in a sh
shared this with this person. There was a particular person
at the Church of Christian Heritage. I had a lot
of problems with he and I. We just didn't get along.
Our personalities clashed. And I remember one time just scriping
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to the Lord about him, and I said, well, Lord,
if he's a part of the body, we know which
part of the body he is. And of course you
could figure out what I was referring to. A second
went by and I'm walking to my car, and all
of a sudden, the Lord say, yeah, what does that
make you? I knew what he meant. He got it.
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He nailed me. It's not easy. So you stop, you pray,
you repent, and you just ask for help. Colossians one thirty,
verse ten. And this is something we should hear for ourselves,
that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him,
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being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God, strengthened with all might according to His
glorious power. For all patience and long suffering with joy
giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to
be partakers of the inheritance of the saints and the Light.
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He has delivered us from the power of darkness and
conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His Love,
in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins. Miss pretty definite statement there of who and
what we should be like and Colossians three, starting verse
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twelve twelve pulses, Therefore, as the elect of God, that's
you and me, as the elect of God Holy and beloved,
put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long suffering, bearing
with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has
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a complaint against another. Even as Messiah forgave you so,
you also must do. Put a lot of pressure on me, there, Lord,
a lot of pressure. But I'll help you. He helps me.
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And believe me, I'm not sitting here and saying these
things to you as if I've obtained it. If I've
reached it, I struggle with it. It's not easy, the
pressures and being if you're sick, or your financeers or whatever,
it is the enemy is using to get you off kilter.
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That's usually when he'll send something to test your fruit.
Two Timothy four, starting verse. Who preach the word, he
says to be ready in season and out of season, Convince, rebuke,
exhort with all long suffering and teaching, for the time
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will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But
according to their own desires, because they have itching ears,
they will heap up for themselves, teachers, and they will
turn their ears away from the truth, and be sure
be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in
all things, endure afflictions, do the work of the evangelists.
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Fulfill your ministry. We're living in a time where people
want their ears tickled instead of the pure water of
the word, they want the manure of the world jammed
into their ears. They want to water down corrupted word,
a rotten word. They want to produce rotten fruit and
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think that it's okay. It's not kindness, that's the next
word home. An Illustrated Bible dictionary said kindness is a usefulness,
it's a beneficence. This word is similar to gentleness or
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goodness or uprightness, generosity, and graciousness. The New Testament constantly
describes kindness as an attribute of God. Kindness is the
willingness to give others, give to others above and beyond
what they deserve. It's acting charitably, benevolently towards others as
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God did towards us. Kindness takes the initiative in responding
to other people's needs. It's the disposition of being gentle
caring about someone else two Timothy two, verse twenty four.
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And a servant the Lord must not quarrel, but be
gentle to all, able to teach patient in humility, correcting
those who are in opposition. If God perhaps will grant
them repentance so that they may know the truth, and
they may come to their senses and escape the snare
of the devil, having taken captive by him to do
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his will. They've been taken captive to do his will.
So when you have patience, you'll also have kindness. You
see the flow, you'll see people for who they are,
You'll see them with His eyes. It's a part of
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who we're supposed to be, and it's definitely a part
of who the leadership of any body, which is us
not a building. The building is just where the body
meets Titus three, verse one, remind them leaders believers to
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be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be
ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one,
to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving
various lusts and pleasure, living in malice and envy, hateful
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and hating one another. But when the kindness and the
love of God, our Savior, towards man, appeared, not by
works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to
his mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration
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and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Again through the washing
of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He
poured out on us abundantly through Jesus the Messiah, our Savior.
Even James gets in on the act of James three seventeen.
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But the wisdom from above, the wisdom from God, the
wisdom from the throne room, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
willing to yield full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
without hypocrisy. You see how polluted things have become the
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fruit being produced by some believers in some fellowships. Looks
real good until you turn it and you see that bruise,
and then you cut it open and see the bruise
goes all the way to the core. Very sad thing
to see. Kindness is a characteristic of true love. If
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you have His love in you, you're gonna be kind
towards others. The Lord's people should possess kindness, not withhold it,
not refuse to dispense it to others, not make them
work for it, not make them pay you for it.
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Just give it the way he did Ephesians four point
thirty two. Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving
one another, even as God messire forgave you. That's what
it always has to come down to. For me, being
reminded by the Spirit what the Lord has done for me,
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I am obligated to do for others. The Lord said
it in the Sermon on the Mount Matthew five p. Seven.
Blessed of the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Is
your mercy account empty? Do you offer mercy? If you don't.
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When you go to Him to seek some, you'll find
out that your account is empty. He keeps tracked by
the way of how we represent him in this world,
of how we show others who he is in the media.
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Put down in sarcasm are promoted and rewarded. The more sarcastic,
the more clever somebody could be, the more famous they become,
the more followers they have, the more they enjoyed and
tearing others down. The message of kindness is in sellable
in Hollywood. It isn't cool to be kind. But we
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shouldn't be bound by the world. We shouldn't be bound
by what others decide. We should walk in the word,
we should walk in the spirit. And you know what,
when judgment comes, Messiah will reward those who have shown
kindness to others. In Matthew twenty five, verse just thirty
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fourth or thirty six, and the King will say to
those on his right, come you, blessed of my Father,
you favored of God, appointed to eternal salvation, and hurt
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
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I was a stranger and you invited me in I
was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and
you visited me with help administering care in prison, and
you came to me again. Not easy, especially in the
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world right now. But when we stand before him at
the end, he's going to let us know that he
was watching, he was keeping track. And so many times
when I have messed up, I've had to pray and
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ask ask him to put it under the blood throat
and the sea of forgetfulness, for forgiveness. I want to
be kind. I want to treat others the way he
would want me to treat them. Two Corinthians six, starting
verse three. We give no offense in anything that our
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ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we
commend ourselves as ministers of God in much patience, patience
in needs distresses. Yes, I know I may have read
this one of ready, but so what faith comes by hearing?
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Hearing by the word of God. You got to hear
it again, and you have to hear it over and over,
and you have to read it over and over, and
you may have to read it out loud to yourself
or listen to somebody like me willing to read it
out loud to you, to make sure that every time
we come together it's based upon the Word and not
upon my opinion. It's great to have an opinion. It's
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better to have the knowledge of God. Patience and tribulations
and needs and distresses and stripes and imprisonments and tumults
and labors, sleeplessness, fast things by purity knowledge, and we
go by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit,
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by sincere love, by the Word of the Truth, by
the power of God, by the armor of righteousness, on
the right hand and on the left, by honor and
dishonor by evil report and good report. As deceivers, and
yet true is unknown, and yet well known, as dying.
And behold, we live as chastened and yet not killed,
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as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet many, making
many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Paul understood all of that layer by lay, precept by precept,
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through the life that he lived and the life that
he showed to others. And it's really sad as I'm
thinking about this, as I'm saying it, that that was
what he built all of those local churches on and
as soon as they got past the first batch of
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leaders he created, some of who became the leavers. The
leaders he created, it went away, and those churches died
because the flesh got in there, the enemy got in there.
That's why it takes work. It has to be cultivated.
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There has to be a free flow of the Holy Spirit.
Man cannot be in charge. Psal, I'm thirty one to
twenty one. Blessed be the Lord, for he has shown
me his marvelous kindness in a strong city. His marvelous
kindness I didn't deserve. It. Gave me back the family
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I threw away, forgave me for everything I had done
I wouldn't have forgiven me. Sometimes I struggle with it.
I think about it, and it's been a while. Two
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Peter one, starting verse five. For this very reason, giving
all diligence, add to your faith, virtue to virtue, knowledge
to knowledge, self control, to self control, perseverance to perseverance, godliness,
to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. If
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these things are yours and abound, you will neither be
barren nor unfruitful. In the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah. Plant those seeds and you'll have fruit. Go
to Teco Peter one, verses five through eight, and say
do I have these seeds? Have I planted these seeds
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in my garden? One John three, sixteen, and seventeen. By
this we know love because he laid down his life
for us, and we also ought to lay down our
lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods
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and sees his brother in need and shuts up his
heart from him, how does the love of God abide
in him? I'm not saying to be taken advantage of,
because they've had that happen. It's not a good feeling.
But if you can help someone, help them, don't let
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them suffer. If you're the only one who can help them.
If you have it, bless him. And if it isn't
exactly what they need, bless them with what you got.
Ephesians two, who was starting verse four, But God, who
was rich in mercy because of his great love with
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which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Messiah. By grace you have
been saved and raised us up together and made us
sit together in the heavenly places. In Messiah Isshua that
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in the ages to come he might show the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness towards us. In
Messiah issue for by grace you have been saved through faith,
and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,
not of works, lest anyone should boast, for we are
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His workmanship created in Messiah is shue of four good works,
which is an outquot, which is a fruit of salvation,
which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
When anyone tells you it's by works that it isn't
a free thing, read to them Ephesians two four through ten.
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Goodness being benevolent, it's active goodness. It's not just the thought.
It's generosity. It's the state of being good, of being kind, benevolent, generous,
and godlike in life and conduct, reaching out to do
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good to others even if they don't deserve us. You know,
we didn't get what we deserved when we deserved it.
Sometimes we have to set that aside for others as well.
Goodness does not react to evil, but absorbs the offense
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and responds positively. How am I going to do that?
Richard it's a result of walking in the spirit, because
it's not you, it's Messiah who lives in you through
the Holy Spirit, that you will do these things. That's
why when you have that opportunity of Galatians sixten, you
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have the opportunity to do good, you will. You won't
base it upon whether they deserve it or not. You'll
listen to the Spirit and either say yes or no.
And he may say no because it's a blessing that
somebody else is going to give. That's why walking in
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the spirit means listening in the spirit. We need to
think of God as good, and when we do that,
we give a pre eminence to his character of goodness,
because why it's a fruit of the spirit. It's a
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presence in us. It's something we've been made into to
produce for you. All once darkness, but now are light
in the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the
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fruit of the spirits is in all goodness, righteousness and truth.
Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord Ephesians five
eight through ten. You know what's interesting, at least to me. Anyway,
we're doing this in the next batch of the fruit,
and then we're going to go into spiritual warfare. And
how does that all apply. Well, Ephesians five leads us
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into Ephesians six, and then that pol deals with the
armor of God and warfare. Well, you can't go into
war if you don't have peace. If you don't I love,
you're not kind. If you don't have self control, if
you don't have the fruit of the spirit, you cannot
function for him on the battlefield. You can't serve him.
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And when we get into that, we're going to refer
back to this so that you can understand. I must
have self control. I must be doing this for love.
I must be benevolent in what I'm doing. I'm not
here to destroy. I'm not here to tear down except
for the principalities and the strongholds of the enemy. See
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the fruit, the effect, the byproduct of the light or
of the spirit, is in every form of what kindly, goodness,
uprightness of heart, and the trueness of life life in
the Lord. If we're gonna be like him, we've gotta
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walk like him. If we're going to walk like him,
we can't just talk like him. We have to be
like him. When people look at us in his situation,
they need to be reminded of him. They need to realize, Oh,
this person's been with you, shore, this person's been with Jesus.
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They know him. Tewod Thessalonians one to eleven. With this
in view, we constantly pray for you. I constantly pray
for you, that our God may deem and count you
worthy of your calling and his every gracious purpose of goodness,
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and with power, may complete in your every particular work
of faith, the faith which is that leaning of the
whole human personality on God in absolute trust, in confidence,
and his power and his wisdom and his goodness. May
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He give you the power to accomplish all the good
things your faith prompts you to do. May He give
you the power the ability to accomplish all the good
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things that your faith prompts you to do. Goodness isn't
a passive quality. It's a deliberate, deliberate I'm sorry I
swallowed that word, deliberate preference of right to wrong. It's
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the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil and
to choose and to follow all moral good. That's what
our society lacks. It lacks his goodness, it lacks his character.
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We have all these buildings. We have all these abominations, denominations,
names of this and house of that, and this person
and that person. And we don't have a whole lot
of goodness, do we. I'm not seeing it, and I
pay attention. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the
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day of trouble, and he knows those who trust in him,
nay him one seven. The Lord is gracious and full
of compassion, slow to anger, and great in mercy. P.
One forty five eight. God's goodness reveals in us through
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us through two things, through giving and forgiving. I know
some of us got nailed on that one. I don't
want to forgive. I want to hold on that person
hurt me so so. But they they didn't ask for forgiveness.
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So what does the Word tell you to do? What
would the Lord want you to do? Psalm thirty four,
Verse eight. O Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blessed is the man, blessed is the woman. Blessed is
the person who trusts in him. If we're abiding in Messiah,
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if we're living in him, if we have taken permanent
way in Him, we are reproducing in ourselves. Thousands of
instances when we're completely unaware of doing that. It's a
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natural byproduct. It's a fragrance that just flows Galatians sixt' nine.
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for
in due season we shall reap if we do not
lose heart.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
If you lose heart, you're gonna quit. You're not gonna
cult defeat, cultivate the fruit. You're not gonna watch it.
You're not gonna water it. Don't grow weary. That's what
the enemy wants. He wants to beat you up and
beat you down. I want you to quit, want you
to stop being nice, want you to stop helping others.
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He wants you to stop caring. He wants you to
stop forgiving. And if you do that, you kill the crop.
In due season, you will reap. Don't lose heart. See.
One of the things we see about the Book of
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Acts Church at every instance is that they managed to
convert so many to the faith because of their kindness,
because of their love, because of their benevolence, whether it
was the healing of the man at the Gate Beautiful
or even Peter just going to Cornelius's house, or Paul
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in the jail keeping the jailer from killing himself and
then preaching the gospels of the same family of the
man who had beaten him and put him in chains.
Oh that's them, Richard, Their disciples, They they're special. They've
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been annoying. Did they've walked with the Lord? They've talked
with the Lord. So have we? We need to ask, Lord,
let it be so and me. Let me show others
this kindness and draw them to you. Let me love
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the unlovable. Let me care for those that have been ostracized, intimidated.
When we ministered to the homeless in Tallahassee was the
greatest training field and school of the spirit we could
have ever had. Because we did that, We loved the unlovable.
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We cared for those that had been kicked out of churches,
who were not even allowed to sit on church pews,
but they were sitting in our family room. We fed them,
we clothed them, we took care of them. Sometimes I
had to go visit them and Jai and it came
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easily because once the Lord did it. Once the Lord
took this little group of misfits, which is what the
Home Church started with, and he dropped his spirit upon us,
and we began to do that, then the miracles started happening,
and all the things that should have happened happened because
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we were being like him. We were being the Book
of Act Church. And when people see that, they want
the same love, they want the same hope, the same joy,
and the same peace that the Book of Acts showed
to the world. That's why for me, the porch is
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so important. That's why I continued to do this week
after week, and even if we get interrupted. You know,
last week Deb had her surgery and and uh, I
forget what else. The surgery was last week, and I
think the week before I had bronchitis, which I'm still
getting over, and I'm thinking, Okay, I have every right
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in the world to take off. No, I won't do that.
I won't do that because this is important. This word
is important, this spirit is important, this fruit is important.
And it wouldn't it wouldn't be just like an Italian
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to have his own fruit stand. And by the way,
I used to do that. I used to work in
the produce at the A P when I first got
started there, so I know fruit, no vegetables. My wife
lets me pick them out when we go food shopping.
This is important to me. You are important to me.
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I know for some of you. This is the only
word you're going to get that week. And as long
as I can breathe, as long as I can talk,
as long as I can sit here and the technology
allows me, and even if it did not figure some out,
this word will go forth. The Kingdom of God will
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be shown, and the enemy's kingdom will be shaken. Two
Timothy too, starting verse twenty two, run from anything that
stimulates youthful lust. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love and peace.
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Enjoy the companionship of those who call the Lord with
pure hearts. Again, I say, don't get involved in foolish,
ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the
Lord must not quarrel, but be kind to everyone, to
be able to teach and be patient with difficult people,
gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will
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change the people's hearts and they will learn the truth.
Then they will come to their senses and escape from
the devil's trap, for they've been held captive by him
to do whatever he wants. Yes, I know I've repeated
a little more of this scripture. I've expanded it why
gently instruct those who oppose the truth. This isn't about arguing,
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This isn't about debates. This is about the word, presenting
the word for me. It's not about politics. I don't
do politics. It's not what I'm called to do for me.
That doesn't further the Kingdom of God. Let's not get
in there. I know some people just got there set
up a little straight and they want to deal with
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that or right. I mean, you have an opinion, that's fine,
I'll listen to it. But here's my thing. I'm here
to further the Kingdom of God. I'm here to get
people saved here and delivered. I'm here to destroy the
kingdom of darkness and set the captives free, to go
rescue those that have been captured, to plunder the spoils
of the enemy, to make straight the highway for the
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return of the king. To get ready because the King
is coming. We need to take care of one another.
We need to help one another, We need to care
about one another. The one thing you see from the
churches that exploded in the Book of Acts, they took
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care of one another. They took care of the teachers
because there was no salary. There was no, Hey, we're
gonna put you on a payroll' get your insurance. We'll
give you all this other stuff. Constantine, through the use
of the end of the enemy, was brilliant in bringing
the church into bondage by giving them tax right off
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tax advantages. We're not going to tax you anymore. You're
the government religion now. And there came the bondage. Oh,
you want to keep this tax advantage. You can't preach that.
You can't say that. Now we need to take care
of one another. If you know someone's hungry, feed them.
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If you know someone has a need, see if you
can meet it. Provide for people that teach the word
of God, I mean, the real teachers of the Word
of God. It allows somebody like me to just do this,
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which outside of the residuals I still get from my
acting career, and it's about it any other thing I've
ever tried to do to further my finances. The Lord
has stopped, and I know that he's getting ready to
bestow upon me his blessings, but they're now for me.
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I can't hold on to them. They got to float
through me for the Kingdom to build what he wants
to build built to do what he wants done, to
go where he wants me to go. It's not about
building mansions and having cars and the jewelries. And that's
how the enemy trips up all these people that start
out with good intentions. But we know what the saying says. Right,
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the road to hl is paved with good intentions. No,
they need to be God intentions. But I will tell
you there's power in goodness Romans twelve to twenty one.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil by what.
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Overcome evil with good. Out of the personal relationship that
we have between us and Messiah will come the fruits
of holy living. And the vine produces the fruit through
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the branches who are us. So we have to stay attached.
We have to be a part of the equation. We
have to We have no control over it. I'm trying
to find words here that we're not in my head
a second ago. So the Lord didn't time. You want
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to speak up, that'd be great. We need to just be.
If we are attached to the vine, we will produce fruit.
We need to let it flow, and we need to
let it go. No, no fruit does no good If
it's days on the vine and roots. It needs to
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do what it's called to do. He's the vine, we
are the branches. The Holy Spirit produces the fruit. Now,
the difference between a just regular optimist and a believer
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who's an optimist is that the regular optimist lives by
the principle that life is good. The believer who's an
optimist lives by the principle that God is good. It's powerful.
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We cannot live by the worldly perspective of right and wrong.
We need to live by God's perspective of right and wrong.
And when we do that, we will just unconsciously naturally
abound in fruit. And please the Lord, Please the Master.
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You know there is a progression from when you get saved.
When you first meet him, there is, you know, an intimacy.
He's Jesus. You're you, which is good to be you.
But the more you get to know him, and the
longer you walk with him, he's still you. Sure he's
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still Jesus. However you met him, he becomes a little
more special. You begin to see the royalty, the regal
nature of the king. You begin to see him on
the throne. Now the respect changes. I still love him
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just the same, I still have access to him just
the same, But there is a respect and an admiration
that grows the longer you know him. I want to
please him. And when we as a body do that,
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when we instinctively walk in his spirit and radiate his
spirit and produce the fruit of the spirit, the world
becomes becomes conscious of his divine headship over the church.
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And there's that respect, there's that awe of God, there's
that wonder of God. You sure is the head of
the church. It's not a man and a white fish
hat based on Dagon just threw that in there. No,
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the head of the Church is Jesus of Nazareth, King
of Kings, Lord of lords, no man, no woman, no person.
And when we live like that, the world will see that.
Glossians one thirty, verse three. We give thanks to God
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and the Father of our Lord, Jesus the Messiah, praying
always for you, since we've heard of your faith and
Messiah is Shuah, and your love for all the saints,
because of the hope which is laid up for you
in Heaven, of which you heard before in the world
of the truth of God, the Word of the truth
of the Gospel, which has come to you. It has
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also in all the world and is bringing forth fruit
as it is also among you since the day you
heard it and knew the grace of God in truth.
And I just had this thought, Thank you Lord. He
does that Holy spirit come slides in and as I'm
saying something, he says, hey, wait a second, I want
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to show you something, and he lays it on you.
You know right now, when you go to the supermarket,
sometimes you can go to the fruit. It's not there
or it's bad. That has to do with the supply chain.
It's either not being delivered, or it's been delivered late,
or somebody's holding it hostage, or they're charging too much
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for it. Everything in this world is about a supply chain.
We don't have to worry about that. We have a
direct conduit to the one who supplies the fruit that
we're talking about. It's never going to show up rotten,
it's never going to show up late, and we have
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to deliver it to others. So we need to pray
for one another. We need to believe in one another.
We need to pray that was strengthened in his glorious
power and have endurance and patience in our needs and
be filled with joy, always thinking our Father, a heavenly father,
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sharing the inheritance, living in the light, forgiving others as
He forgave us, and the fruit of the Spirit will
lead us into becoming more like him two Corinthians three eighteen.
We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror
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the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
same image, from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord, glory to glory. Get in his presence,
Absorb the glory, shine the glory, produce the fruit. And
remember it's the fruit of the Spirit. But we must
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be planted and exposed to the light for growth, and
I mean light with the capital L. The darkness of
this world will starve the fruit of its nutrients and
produce the fruit of the flesh. Cast it off. Walk
in the spirit Galatians five sixteen through seventeen. Walk in
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the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of
the flesh, because the flesh lust against the spirit, and
the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to
one another, so that you do not do the things
you wish. Walk in the spirit. Start your day in
the Spirit, Start your day in prayer, start your day
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in praise. If we're going to produce fruit, we have
to open ourselves up fully to the light of the
Lord and the glory of God and the active, powerful,
living presence of the Royal Kakadash. The Holy Spirit and
believers will produce the Lord's virtues within us, and we
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will become a living tree bearing good fruit, being in
close relationship with them, letting the Spirit develop it in
him for us. And when you think about this, when
you listen, when you take your notes, I want you
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to remember something. When it comes to living a holy,
spirit filled life of the grace of God, you can't
do it on your own. He does it with you. So, Father,
thank you, Thank you for allowing us to bear your fruit,
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to shine your glory. Thank you for allowing us to
show the world we are your kids. Thank you, Lord
for being the vine so that we can be the branches,
and the Spirit can produce the fruit through us. Speak
to us collectively, speak to us individually. Show us what
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you need from us. Trim us, Lord, prune off anything
on us that's not of you. Help us to grow,
help us to shine and your glory. Help us to
be like you. Help us to show the world who
you really are, in what your church was meant to be.
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And I pray all these things in your shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious
to you. May the Lord, I don't know your shoe
a hummer shehiock, lift up his countenance upon you and
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give you peace. Give you shallom. I'm Richard Grund. This
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Okay, let's get those Bibles open. Let's follow along. We're
talking about the fruit of the Spirit and Galatians five,
verses twenty two and twenty three. But the fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self control. We've talked already about love, joy, and peace.
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We're going to continue on with long suffering, which is patience, kindness,
and goodness. But the ninefold fruit of the Spirit are
virtues created as a byproduct of living a life for God.
Virtues that manifest the reality of life in Yeshuah in
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the Lord, and these virtues are authentic examples of the
character produced in those who walk by the Spirit, Father Son,
Holy Spirit Fruit. There is evidence that you are a believer.
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The fruit of the Spirit fruit singular, emphasizing that these
qualities are mutually dependent. ACSPST aspects excuse me of the
life of a believer in Yeshuah Hamasiak Jesus the Messiah.
The Life Application Bible Commentary says this fruit is singular,
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indicating that all the fruits exist as a unit, like
a bunch of grapes, rather than many different pieces of fruit,
and that all are important to all believers, unlike gifts
that are dispensed differently to different people. Fruit is a byproduct.
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It takes time to grow and requires care and cultivation.
The Spirit produces the fruit. Our job is to get
in tune with the spirit. Believers exhibit the fruit of
the Spirit not because they work at it, but simply
because they are filled with the Holy Spirit. The rukkak Kadesh.
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The fruit of the Spirit separates believers from a godless,
evil world. It reveals a power within them and helps
them to become more like Messiah in their daily lives.
Remember what he said John fifteen five. I am the vine.
You are the branches. He who abides in me erminent resonance,
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and I in him bears much fruit. For without me
you can do nothing. Vine branches fruit, and the Holy
Spirit is the sap that flows through the vine that
produces that fruit. It's pretty basic once you understand it,
once you grasp it, once you see it. True spirituality
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comes when you live under the complete control of the
Holy Spirit, which, believe me, I understand, is very difficult
in a fallen world, and the fruit of the spirit
will be evidence of spiritual maturity and growth in holiness,
an aspect that doesn't seem to be talked about it anymore,
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doesn't seem to be a desire. I desire, and I
fail miserably, but I try. The spiritual life and growth
of believers is very much like a fruit bearing tree.
Fruit is evidence of the health and the vitality of
the tree, and so is the believer's life. Their attitudes
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and behavior should reflect the presence of the Holy Spirit.
That's without the manifestation of the gifts. You don't need
to tell me who you are by putting on a
show for me. Show me who you are by the
fruit that you produce. It's the manifest evidence of a
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life with the Spirit of God living and reigning. And
you shew. It implied that the character of her life
is determined by the presence of the Holy Spirit. Yes,
I know, by grace we've been saved. But there are
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rewards once we get to heaven. There are blessings once
we get into paradise with Him, and those blessings come
from the fruit that you produced in this world. Life application.
Bible commentary goes on about fruitfulness. It's the spontaneous work
of the Holy Spirit in us. The Spirit produces these
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character traits that are found in the nature of Messiah himself.
They're byproducts of Messiah's control. We can't obtain them without
his help. If we want the fruit of the Spirit
to grow in us, we must join our lives to his.
To grow in us, we must grow in him. We
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must know him, We must love him, remember him, and
imitate him. As a result, we will fulfill the intended
purpose of the law to love God and our neighbors.
So which are these qualities do you desire the Spirit
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to produce in you? Only you know that the nine
fruit that are listed in Galatians five twenty two through
twenty three. The first three, love, joy, and peace, are
supernaturally offered to us. The second three long suffering or patience, kindness,
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and goodness. What we're talking about tonight are the fruit
produced through us by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit
produces this fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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and self control. There is no law against these things,
because they are the fulfillment of the law. It's His
presence within us that accomplishes it. We'll have love, will
have joy, We'll have that gladness that comes from knowing Him.
We will have peace, peace in the midst of the storm,
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peace in the midst of tragedy, peace and the mist
of everything going on around us. We'll have patience and
even temper, will be kind. We'll have goodness, will be
benevolent towards others, and will have faithfulness. Oh my goodness,
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if we had that, if we lived like that every day,
how much better would our lives be? Love, joy, and
peace internal fruit offered supernaturally by God. Long suffering, patience, kindness,
and goodness. External fruit produced in us for others produced
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by the Holy Spirit. That would tell people that we
know him. It would manifest itself in our relationship with others,
with each other, and even with the world. Instead of
choosing to be provoked or retaliate, we would endure the
suffering and choose to love others. A lack of fruit
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in a believer's life is it just reveals a diminished
or even a lack of a relationship with the Holy Spirit.
And I've seen a lot of people who claim to
be spiritual and put on the show and do all
of that that don't have the fruit. You can't create it,
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and you can't make it happen. The Spirit produces the fruit.
It's not natural, it's super natural. Romans fourteen seventeen. For
the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but
righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. That's
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the Kingdom of God. If we're walking in the Kingdom,
if we're living the Kingdom, we will have righteousness and
peace and joy. Two Corinthians thirteen eleven. Finally, brethren, farewell,
become complete, be of good comfort, be of one mind,
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live in peace, and the God of love and peace
will be with you that long suffering. It means patient endurance,
to bear long with frailties, offenses, to bear long with
injuries and the provocation of others without murmuring or resentment. Man,
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is that supernatural. It's the ability to bear the imperfections
of other people. And that's not what the world teaches.
That's not what the world shows us, especially in the
social media world, criticize, shame, tear down. No, that's not
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the Holy Spirit. And when you have a knowledge of
your own imperfections and our need for God's mercy and forgiveness,
were patient with others? And if not, he will remind
you patiently putting up with people who irritate you, and
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people do. The Holy Spirit's work in us increases our endurance,
and sometimes you have to pray for it. Sometimes you
have to ask for it. Holy Spirit, help me. I
am not doing very well with this person or with
this situation, was Paul saying one Corinthians thirteen, starting verse four.
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Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy,
Love does not beard itself, it's not puffed up, does
not behave rudely, does not seek its own It's not provoked,
thinks no, evil, does not rejoice in iniquity, which is
inbred sin, but rejoices in the truth, bears all things,
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believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. That's
why the first fruit is love. Everything is keyed off
of that two Corinthians six, Verses four through six. But
in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God
in much patience, in tribulations and needs and distresses, in stripes,
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which means being whipped in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors,
and sleeplessness in fast things, by purity, by knowledge, by
long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love. Again,
it always comes back to love Ephesians four, Versus one
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and two. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord beseech
you to walk worthy of the calling with which you
were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering,
bearing with one another in love. Somebody who wrote me
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recently about to said, pray for me. I have a
hard time putting up with, specially some of the more
weird members of our family family of believers. And believe me,
there are some very weird members of the family. They've
been fooled, they've been deceived. They don't know the word,
they don't study, they're fed like birds in a nest.
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They don't know how to chew their own food. And
it's not easy. I remember one time in a sh
shared this with this person. There was a particular person
at the Church of Christian Heritage. I had a lot
of problems with he and I. We just didn't get along.
Our personalities clashed. And I remember one time just scriping
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to the Lord about him, and I said, well, Lord,
if he's a part of the body, we know which
part of the body he is. And of course you
could figure out what I was referring to. A second
went by and I'm walking to my car, and all
of a sudden, the Lord say, yeah, what does that
make you? I knew what he meant. He got it.
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He nailed me. It's not easy. So you stop, you pray,
you repent, and you just ask for help. Colossians one thirty,
verse ten. And this is something we should hear for ourselves,
that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing him,
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being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the
knowledge of God, strengthened with all might according to His
glorious power. For all patience and long suffering with joy
giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to
be partakers of the inheritance of the saints and the Light.
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He has delivered us from the power of darkness and
conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His Love,
in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins. Miss pretty definite statement there of who and
what we should be like and Colossians three, starting verse
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twelve twelve pulses, Therefore, as the elect of God, that's
you and me, as the elect of God Holy and beloved,
put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long suffering, bearing
with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has
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a complaint against another. Even as Messiah forgave you so,
you also must do. Put a lot of pressure on me, there, Lord,
a lot of pressure. But I'll help you. He helps me.
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And believe me, I'm not sitting here and saying these
things to you as if I've obtained it. If I've
reached it, I struggle with it. It's not easy, the
pressures and being if you're sick, or your financeers or whatever,
it is the enemy is using to get you off kilter.
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That's usually when he'll send something to test your fruit.
Two Timothy four, starting verse. Who preach the word, he
says to be ready in season and out of season, Convince, rebuke,
exhort with all long suffering and teaching, for the time
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will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. But
according to their own desires, because they have itching ears,
they will heap up for themselves, teachers, and they will
turn their ears away from the truth, and be sure
be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in
all things, endure afflictions, do the work of the evangelists.
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Fulfill your ministry. We're living in a time where people
want their ears tickled instead of the pure water of
the word, they want the manure of the world jammed
into their ears. They want to water down corrupted word,
a rotten word. They want to produce rotten fruit and
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think that it's okay. It's not kindness, that's the next
word home. An Illustrated Bible dictionary said kindness is a usefulness,
it's a beneficence. This word is similar to gentleness or
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goodness or uprightness, generosity, and graciousness. The New Testament constantly
describes kindness as an attribute of God. Kindness is the
willingness to give others, give to others above and beyond
what they deserve. It's acting charitably, benevolently towards others as
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God did towards us. Kindness takes the initiative in responding
to other people's needs. It's the disposition of being gentle
caring about someone else two Timothy two, verse twenty four.
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And a servant the Lord must not quarrel, but be
gentle to all, able to teach patient in humility, correcting
those who are in opposition. If God perhaps will grant
them repentance so that they may know the truth, and
they may come to their senses and escape the snare
of the devil, having taken captive by him to do
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his will. They've been taken captive to do his will.
So when you have patience, you'll also have kindness. You
see the flow, you'll see people for who they are,
You'll see them with His eyes. It's a part of
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who we're supposed to be, and it's definitely a part
of who the leadership of any body, which is us
not a building. The building is just where the body
meets Titus three, verse one, remind them leaders believers to
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be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be
ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one,
to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving
various lusts and pleasure, living in malice and envy, hateful
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and hating one another. But when the kindness and the
love of God, our Savior, towards man, appeared, not by
works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to
his mercy, He saved us through the washing of regeneration
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and renewing of the Holy Spirit. Again through the washing
of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He
poured out on us abundantly through Jesus the Messiah, our Savior.
Even James gets in on the act of James three seventeen.
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But the wisdom from above, the wisdom from God, the
wisdom from the throne room, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
willing to yield full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
without hypocrisy. You see how polluted things have become the
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fruit being produced by some believers in some fellowships. Looks
real good until you turn it and you see that bruise,
and then you cut it open and see the bruise
goes all the way to the core. Very sad thing
to see. Kindness is a characteristic of true love. If
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you have His love in you, you're gonna be kind
towards others. The Lord's people should possess kindness, not withhold it,
not refuse to dispense it to others, not make them
work for it, not make them pay you for it.
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Just give it the way he did Ephesians four point
thirty two. Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving
one another, even as God messire forgave you. That's what
it always has to come down to. For me, being
reminded by the Spirit what the Lord has done for me,
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I am obligated to do for others. The Lord said
it in the Sermon on the Mount Matthew five p. Seven.
Blessed of the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Is
your mercy account empty? Do you offer mercy? If you don't.
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When you go to Him to seek some, you'll find
out that your account is empty. He keeps tracked by
the way of how we represent him in this world,
of how we show others who he is in the media.
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Put down in sarcasm are promoted and rewarded. The more sarcastic,
the more clever somebody could be, the more famous they become,
the more followers they have, the more they enjoyed and
tearing others down. The message of kindness is in sellable
in Hollywood. It isn't cool to be kind. But we
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shouldn't be bound by the world. We shouldn't be bound
by what others decide. We should walk in the word,
we should walk in the spirit. And you know what,
when judgment comes, Messiah will reward those who have shown
kindness to others. In Matthew twenty five, verse just thirty
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fourth or thirty six, and the King will say to
those on his right, come you, blessed of my Father,
you favored of God, appointed to eternal salvation, and hurt
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
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I was a stranger and you invited me in I
was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and
you visited me with help administering care in prison, and
you came to me again. Not easy, especially in the
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world right now. But when we stand before him at
the end, he's going to let us know that he
was watching, he was keeping track. And so many times
when I have messed up, I've had to pray and
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ask ask him to put it under the blood throat
and the sea of forgetfulness, for forgiveness. I want to
be kind. I want to treat others the way he
would want me to treat them. Two Corinthians six, starting
verse three. We give no offense in anything that our
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ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we
commend ourselves as ministers of God in much patience, patience
in needs distresses. Yes, I know I may have read
this one of ready, but so what faith comes by hearing?
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Hearing by the word of God. You got to hear
it again, and you have to hear it over and over,
and you have to read it over and over, and
you may have to read it out loud to yourself
or listen to somebody like me willing to read it
out loud to you, to make sure that every time
we come together it's based upon the Word and not
upon my opinion. It's great to have an opinion. It's
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better to have the knowledge of God. Patience and tribulations
and needs and distresses and stripes and imprisonments and tumults
and labors, sleeplessness, fast things by purity knowledge, and we
go by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit,
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by sincere love, by the Word of the Truth, by
the power of God, by the armor of righteousness, on
the right hand and on the left, by honor and
dishonor by evil report and good report. As deceivers, and
yet true is unknown, and yet well known, as dying.
And behold, we live as chastened and yet not killed,
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as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet many, making
many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Paul understood all of that layer by lay, precept by precept,
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through the life that he lived and the life that
he showed to others. And it's really sad as I'm
thinking about this, as I'm saying it, that that was
what he built all of those local churches on and
as soon as they got past the first batch of
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leaders he created, some of who became the leavers. The
leaders he created, it went away, and those churches died
because the flesh got in there, the enemy got in there.
That's why it takes work. It has to be cultivated.
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There has to be a free flow of the Holy Spirit.
Man cannot be in charge. Psal, I'm thirty one to
twenty one. Blessed be the Lord, for he has shown
me his marvelous kindness in a strong city. His marvelous
kindness I didn't deserve. It. Gave me back the family
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I threw away, forgave me for everything I had done
I wouldn't have forgiven me. Sometimes I struggle with it.
I think about it, and it's been a while. Two
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Peter one, starting verse five. For this very reason, giving
all diligence, add to your faith, virtue to virtue, knowledge
to knowledge, self control, to self control, perseverance to perseverance, godliness,
to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. If
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these things are yours and abound, you will neither be
barren nor unfruitful. In the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
the Messiah. Plant those seeds and you'll have fruit. Go
to Teco Peter one, verses five through eight, and say
do I have these seeds? Have I planted these seeds
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in my garden? One John three, sixteen, and seventeen. By
this we know love because he laid down his life
for us, and we also ought to lay down our
lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods
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and sees his brother in need and shuts up his
heart from him, how does the love of God abide
in him? I'm not saying to be taken advantage of,
because they've had that happen. It's not a good feeling.
But if you can help someone, help them, don't let
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them suffer. If you're the only one who can help them.
If you have it, bless him. And if it isn't
exactly what they need, bless them with what you got.
Ephesians two, who was starting verse four, But God, who
was rich in mercy because of his great love with
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which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Messiah. By grace you have
been saved and raised us up together and made us
sit together in the heavenly places. In Messiah Isshua that
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in the ages to come he might show the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness towards us. In
Messiah issue for by grace you have been saved through faith,
and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God,
not of works, lest anyone should boast, for we are
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His workmanship created in Messiah is shue of four good works,
which is an outquot, which is a fruit of salvation,
which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
When anyone tells you it's by works that it isn't
a free thing, read to them Ephesians two four through ten.
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Goodness being benevolent, it's active goodness. It's not just the thought.
It's generosity. It's the state of being good, of being kind, benevolent, generous,
and godlike in life and conduct, reaching out to do
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good to others even if they don't deserve us. You know,
we didn't get what we deserved when we deserved it.
Sometimes we have to set that aside for others as well.
Goodness does not react to evil, but absorbs the offense
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and responds positively. How am I going to do that?
Richard it's a result of walking in the spirit, because
it's not you, it's Messiah who lives in you through
the Holy Spirit, that you will do these things. That's
why when you have that opportunity of Galatians sixten, you
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have the opportunity to do good, you will. You won't
base it upon whether they deserve it or not. You'll
listen to the Spirit and either say yes or no.
And he may say no because it's a blessing that
somebody else is going to give. That's why walking in
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the spirit means listening in the spirit. We need to
think of God as good, and when we do that,
we give a pre eminence to his character of goodness,
because why it's a fruit of the spirit. It's a
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presence in us. It's something we've been made into to
produce for you. All once darkness, but now are light
in the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the
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fruit of the spirits is in all goodness, righteousness and truth.
Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord Ephesians five
eight through ten. You know what's interesting, at least to me. Anyway,
we're doing this in the next batch of the fruit,
and then we're going to go into spiritual warfare. And
how does that all apply. Well, Ephesians five leads us
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into Ephesians six, and then that pol deals with the
armor of God and warfare. Well, you can't go into
war if you don't have peace. If you don't I love,
you're not kind. If you don't have self control, if
you don't have the fruit of the spirit, you cannot
function for him on the battlefield. You can't serve him.
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And when we get into that, we're going to refer
back to this so that you can understand. I must
have self control. I must be doing this for love.
I must be benevolent in what I'm doing. I'm not
here to destroy. I'm not here to tear down except
for the principalities and the strongholds of the enemy. See
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the fruit, the effect, the byproduct of the light or
of the spirit, is in every form of what kindly, goodness,
uprightness of heart, and the trueness of life life in
the Lord. If we're gonna be like him, we've gotta
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walk like him. If we're going to walk like him,
we can't just talk like him. We have to be
like him. When people look at us in his situation,
they need to be reminded of him. They need to realize, Oh,
this person's been with you, shore, this person's been with Jesus.
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They know him. Tewod Thessalonians one to eleven. With this
in view, we constantly pray for you. I constantly pray
for you, that our God may deem and count you
worthy of your calling and his every gracious purpose of goodness,
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and with power, may complete in your every particular work
of faith, the faith which is that leaning of the
whole human personality on God in absolute trust, in confidence,
and his power and his wisdom and his goodness. May
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He give you the power to accomplish all the good
things your faith prompts you to do. May He give
you the power the ability to accomplish all the good
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things that your faith prompts you to do. Goodness isn't
a passive quality. It's a deliberate, deliberate I'm sorry I
swallowed that word, deliberate preference of right to wrong. It's
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the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil and
to choose and to follow all moral good. That's what
our society lacks. It lacks his goodness, it lacks his character.
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We have all these buildings. We have all these abominations, denominations,
names of this and house of that, and this person
and that person. And we don't have a whole lot
of goodness, do we. I'm not seeing it, and I
pay attention. The Lord is good, a stronghold in the
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day of trouble, and he knows those who trust in him,
nay him one seven. The Lord is gracious and full
of compassion, slow to anger, and great in mercy. P.
One forty five eight. God's goodness reveals in us through
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us through two things, through giving and forgiving. I know
some of us got nailed on that one. I don't
want to forgive. I want to hold on that person
hurt me so so. But they they didn't ask for forgiveness.
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So what does the Word tell you to do? What
would the Lord want you to do? Psalm thirty four,
Verse eight. O Taste and see that the Lord is good.
Blessed is the man, blessed is the woman. Blessed is
the person who trusts in him. If we're abiding in Messiah,
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if we're living in him, if we have taken permanent
way in Him, we are reproducing in ourselves. Thousands of
instances when we're completely unaware of doing that. It's a
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natural byproduct. It's a fragrance that just flows Galatians sixt' nine.
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for
in due season we shall reap if we do not
lose heart.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
See.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
If you lose heart, you're gonna quit. You're not gonna
cult defeat, cultivate the fruit. You're not gonna watch it.
You're not gonna water it. Don't grow weary. That's what
the enemy wants. He wants to beat you up and
beat you down. I want you to quit, want you
to stop being nice, want you to stop helping others.
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He wants you to stop caring. He wants you to
stop forgiving. And if you do that, you kill the crop.
In due season, you will reap. Don't lose heart. See.
One of the things we see about the Book of
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Acts Church at every instance is that they managed to
convert so many to the faith because of their kindness,
because of their love, because of their benevolence, whether it
was the healing of the man at the Gate Beautiful
or even Peter just going to Cornelius's house, or Paul
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in the jail keeping the jailer from killing himself and
then preaching the gospels of the same family of the
man who had beaten him and put him in chains.
Oh that's them, Richard, Their disciples, They they're special. They've
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been annoying. Did they've walked with the Lord? They've talked
with the Lord. So have we? We need to ask, Lord,
let it be so and me. Let me show others
this kindness and draw them to you. Let me love
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the unlovable. Let me care for those that have been ostracized, intimidated.
When we ministered to the homeless in Tallahassee was the
greatest training field and school of the spirit we could
have ever had. Because we did that, We loved the unlovable.
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We cared for those that had been kicked out of churches,
who were not even allowed to sit on church pews,
but they were sitting in our family room. We fed them,
we clothed them, we took care of them. Sometimes I
had to go visit them and Jai and it came
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easily because once the Lord did it. Once the Lord
took this little group of misfits, which is what the
Home Church started with, and he dropped his spirit upon us,
and we began to do that, then the miracles started happening,
and all the things that should have happened happened because
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we were being like him. We were being the Book
of Act Church. And when people see that, they want
the same love, they want the same hope, the same joy,
and the same peace that the Book of Acts showed
to the world. That's why for me, the porch is
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so important. That's why I continued to do this week
after week, and even if we get interrupted. You know,
last week Deb had her surgery and and uh, I
forget what else. The surgery was last week, and I
think the week before I had bronchitis, which I'm still
getting over, and I'm thinking, Okay, I have every right
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in the world to take off. No, I won't do that.
I won't do that because this is important. This word
is important, this spirit is important, this fruit is important.
And it wouldn't it wouldn't be just like an Italian
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to have his own fruit stand. And by the way,
I used to do that. I used to work in
the produce at the A P when I first got
started there, so I know fruit, no vegetables. My wife
lets me pick them out when we go food shopping.
This is important to me. You are important to me.
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I know for some of you. This is the only
word you're going to get that week. And as long
as I can breathe, as long as I can talk,
as long as I can sit here and the technology
allows me, and even if it did not figure some out,
this word will go forth. The Kingdom of God will
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be shown, and the enemy's kingdom will be shaken. Two
Timothy too, starting verse twenty two, run from anything that
stimulates youthful lust. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love and peace.
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Enjoy the companionship of those who call the Lord with
pure hearts. Again, I say, don't get involved in foolish,
ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the
Lord must not quarrel, but be kind to everyone, to
be able to teach and be patient with difficult people,
gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will
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change the people's hearts and they will learn the truth.
Then they will come to their senses and escape from
the devil's trap, for they've been held captive by him
to do whatever he wants. Yes, I know I've repeated
a little more of this scripture. I've expanded it why
gently instruct those who oppose the truth. This isn't about arguing,
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This isn't about debates. This is about the word, presenting
the word for me. It's not about politics. I don't
do politics. It's not what I'm called to do for me.
That doesn't further the Kingdom of God. Let's not get
in there. I know some people just got there set
up a little straight and they want to deal with
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that or right. I mean, you have an opinion, that's fine,
I'll listen to it. But here's my thing. I'm here
to further the Kingdom of God. I'm here to get
people saved here and delivered. I'm here to destroy the
kingdom of darkness and set the captives free, to go
rescue those that have been captured, to plunder the spoils
of the enemy, to make straight the highway for the
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return of the king. To get ready because the King
is coming. We need to take care of one another.
We need to help one another, We need to care
about one another. The one thing you see from the
churches that exploded in the Book of Acts, they took
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care of one another. They took care of the teachers
because there was no salary. There was no, Hey, we're
gonna put you on a payroll' get your insurance. We'll
give you all this other stuff. Constantine, through the use
of the end of the enemy, was brilliant in bringing
the church into bondage by giving them tax right off
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tax advantages. We're not going to tax you anymore. You're
the government religion now. And there came the bondage. Oh,
you want to keep this tax advantage. You can't preach that.
You can't say that. Now we need to take care
of one another. If you know someone's hungry, feed them.
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If you know someone has a need, see if you
can meet it. Provide for people that teach the word
of God, I mean, the real teachers of the Word
of God. It allows somebody like me to just do this,
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which outside of the residuals I still get from my
acting career, and it's about it any other thing I've
ever tried to do to further my finances. The Lord
has stopped, and I know that he's getting ready to
bestow upon me his blessings, but they're now for me.
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I can't hold on to them. They got to float
through me for the Kingdom to build what he wants
to build built to do what he wants done, to
go where he wants me to go. It's not about
building mansions and having cars and the jewelries. And that's
how the enemy trips up all these people that start
out with good intentions. But we know what the saying says. Right,
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the road to hl is paved with good intentions. No,
they need to be God intentions. But I will tell
you there's power in goodness Romans twelve to twenty one.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil by what.
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Overcome evil with good. Out of the personal relationship that
we have between us and Messiah will come the fruits
of holy living. And the vine produces the fruit through
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the branches who are us. So we have to stay attached.
We have to be a part of the equation. We
have to We have no control over it. I'm trying
to find words here that we're not in my head
a second ago. So the Lord didn't time. You want
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to speak up, that'd be great. We need to just be.
If we are attached to the vine, we will produce fruit.
We need to let it flow, and we need to
let it go. No, no fruit does no good If
it's days on the vine and roots. It needs to
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do what it's called to do. He's the vine, we
are the branches. The Holy Spirit produces the fruit. Now,
the difference between a just regular optimist and a believer
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who's an optimist is that the regular optimist lives by
the principle that life is good. The believer who's an
optimist lives by the principle that God is good. It's powerful.
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We cannot live by the worldly perspective of right and wrong.
We need to live by God's perspective of right and wrong.
And when we do that, we will just unconsciously naturally
abound in fruit. And please the Lord, Please the Master.
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You know there is a progression from when you get saved.
When you first meet him, there is, you know, an intimacy.
He's Jesus. You're you, which is good to be you.
But the more you get to know him, and the
longer you walk with him, he's still you. Sure he's
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still Jesus. However you met him, he becomes a little
more special. You begin to see the royalty, the regal
nature of the king. You begin to see him on
the throne. Now the respect changes. I still love him
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just the same, I still have access to him just
the same, But there is a respect and an admiration
that grows the longer you know him. I want to
please him. And when we as a body do that,
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when we instinctively walk in his spirit and radiate his
spirit and produce the fruit of the spirit, the world
becomes becomes conscious of his divine headship over the church.
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And there's that respect, there's that awe of God, there's
that wonder of God. You sure is the head of
the church. It's not a man and a white fish
hat based on Dagon just threw that in there. No,
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the head of the Church is Jesus of Nazareth, King
of Kings, Lord of lords, no man, no woman, no person.
And when we live like that, the world will see that.
Glossians one thirty, verse three. We give thanks to God
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and the Father of our Lord, Jesus the Messiah, praying
always for you, since we've heard of your faith and
Messiah is Shuah, and your love for all the saints,
because of the hope which is laid up for you
in Heaven, of which you heard before in the world
of the truth of God, the Word of the truth
of the Gospel, which has come to you. It has
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also in all the world and is bringing forth fruit
as it is also among you since the day you
heard it and knew the grace of God in truth.
And I just had this thought, Thank you Lord. He
does that Holy spirit come slides in and as I'm
saying something, he says, hey, wait a second, I want
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to show you something, and he lays it on you.
You know right now, when you go to the supermarket,
sometimes you can go to the fruit. It's not there
or it's bad. That has to do with the supply chain.
It's either not being delivered, or it's been delivered late,
or somebody's holding it hostage, or they're charging too much
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for it. Everything in this world is about a supply chain.
We don't have to worry about that. We have a
direct conduit to the one who supplies the fruit that
we're talking about. It's never going to show up rotten,
it's never going to show up late, and we have
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to deliver it to others. So we need to pray
for one another. We need to believe in one another.
We need to pray that was strengthened in his glorious
power and have endurance and patience in our needs and
be filled with joy, always thinking our Father, a heavenly father,
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sharing the inheritance, living in the light, forgiving others as
He forgave us, and the fruit of the Spirit will
lead us into becoming more like him two Corinthians three eighteen.
We all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror
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the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
same image, from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord, glory to glory. Get in his presence,
Absorb the glory, shine the glory, produce the fruit. And
remember it's the fruit of the Spirit. But we must
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be planted and exposed to the light for growth, and
I mean light with the capital L. The darkness of
this world will starve the fruit of its nutrients and
produce the fruit of the flesh. Cast it off. Walk
in the spirit Galatians five sixteen through seventeen. Walk in
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the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of
the flesh, because the flesh lust against the spirit, and
the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to
one another, so that you do not do the things
you wish. Walk in the spirit. Start your day in
the Spirit, Start your day in prayer, start your day
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in praise. If we're going to produce fruit, we have
to open ourselves up fully to the light of the
Lord and the glory of God and the active, powerful,
living presence of the Royal Kakadash. The Holy Spirit and
believers will produce the Lord's virtues within us, and we
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will become a living tree bearing good fruit, being in
close relationship with them, letting the Spirit develop it in
him for us. And when you think about this, when
you listen, when you take your notes, I want you
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to remember something. When it comes to living a holy,
spirit filled life of the grace of God, you can't
do it on your own. He does it with you. So, Father,
thank you, Thank you for allowing us to bear your fruit,
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to shine your glory. Thank you for allowing us to
show the world we are your kids. Thank you, Lord
for being the vine so that we can be the branches,
and the Spirit can produce the fruit through us. Speak
to us collectively, speak to us individually. Show us what
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you need from us. Trim us, Lord, prune off anything
on us that's not of you. Help us to grow,
help us to shine and your glory. Help us to
be like you. Help us to show the world who
you really are, in what your church was meant to be.
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And I pray all these things in your shoe his name. Amen.
May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the
Lord make his face to shine upon you, be gracious
to you. May the Lord, I don't know your shoe
a hummer shehiock, lift up his countenance upon you and
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give you peace. Give you shallom. I'm Richard Grund. This
has been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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