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Summary: Activities of the H.S.

•Revealing…..•Redeeming………….. •Indwelling….•Transforming……………..•Filling…..

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What is the Fruit of the Spirit• Are 9 attributes of a TRUE Christian life. • The fruit of the Holy Spirit is the result

of the Holy Spirit’s presence in the life of a Christian.

• One of the primary purposes of the Holy Spirit coming into a Christian's life is to change that life.

• It is the Holy Spirit's job to conform us to the image of Christ, making us more like Him. 4

The order is important

• The Bible gives a list of the F.O.S, and the order of this list is very important. • There is a reason why LOVE is the first one and

SELF CONTROL is the last one. • Everything STARTS with LOVE. LOVE is the

foundation of all the other fruits. • Everything ends with SELF CONTROL. Without

SELF CONTROL you will NOT be able to successfully show the other fruits.

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Fruit vs Gifts

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Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• 1 Cor: 12 8-11: 8To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines. 7

Fruit vs Gifts• Gifts are given by God. • Fruits are developed. • Gifts are for the benefit of OTHERS.• Fruits are for your own benefit. • The world and many Christians are more interested in your Gifts.• God is more interested in your fruits.• A “Christian” with gifts and no fruits is a religious person. • A Christian with fruits and no gifts is still a REAL Christian.

• An apple tree doesn’t have to announce the entire world that is an Apple tree, by its fruits we know is an Apple tree. The same way works with us, by our fruits people know if we really belong to God.

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The importance of the F.O.S

• John 15: 1-8 1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

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John 15: 1-8

• 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

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Matthew 7:15-20

• 15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

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What is Love?1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poorand give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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1 Corinthians 13• 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they

will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.• 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But

the greatest of these is love.14

How can we have this kind of love?

• We are SELFISH by nature. • We are NOT capable of having this kind of love by

our own.• The LOVE of GOD must be present in our life.

Romans 5:5 • Treat/Love others the same way GOD treats you. 1

John 4:20 • You don’t have to wait for GOD’s permission to help

someone else. • If you focus in LOVE, everything else will be taking

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Romans 5:5• 5 And hope does not put us to shame,

because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

1 John 4:20

• 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

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John 13:34• A new command I give you: Love one another. As

I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Matthew 22:37-40• 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your

heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[c

] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[d] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

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