THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“… The fruit of the Spirit is love… If we live in
the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” Galatians
5:22-25
They that are Christ’s believe His gospel and are committed to
Christ, His gospel and to one another. But believing the doctrinal truths
of the gospel as fact, and not in the heart and in practice having and
living the fruit of the Spirit is a contradiction to the scriptures
and to our profession of faith in Christ. What I am saying is this -
If we truly are Christ’s we have the fruit of the Spirit, which
is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance, and have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
This is a work of God in the new man created in Christ Jesus. The children
of God are not hasty to judge a brother and is quick to forgive because
God, for Christ’s sake has forgiven us. Love is the foundation
of the believer’s life of faith. We love Christ, His gospel and
the brethren because God first loved us and sent His Son to die for
us and He has given us of His Spirit. The child of God is prone to think
the best instead of the worst, especially when it involves a brother
or sister in Christ. The Spirit of God in the heart of the child of
God causes us to seek peace and pursue it. The fruit of the Spirit is
to heal and mend rather than cause division and strife.
“Charity (love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth
not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave
itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh
no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth
all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things”
1 Cor 13:4-7
The family of God is a Spiritual family begotten by God Himself. They
are the body of Christ of whom He is the head. Being one in Him we bear
the same fruit unto His glory. The people of God are the kindest, gentlest,
most generous, forgiving people in the world. Therefore, let all
bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be
put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven
you. Eph 4:31
Tommy Robbins
“Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love;
in honour preferring one another” Romans
12:10
