Results

This year your elders have asked me to talk about spiritual gifts and the fruit of the Spirit. I have more to say about these subjects than time will allow. I hope that you will pardon me if I leave something unsaid, and I trust that you will benefit from what I do say. Our first subject is spiritual…

Our final subject is the last group of fruit segments, viz., those that we see in ourselves. Faith The seventh segment of the fruit of the Spirit is translated faith in the King James Version and faithfulness in the New King James. Faith sometimes refers to the doctrines of Christianity, and other times…

The fruit of the Spirit, wrote the apostle Paul, is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Concerning the godly man Psalm 1 says, And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not…

The second category of fruit-segments includes those that help us relate to our neighbor, viz., longsuffering, gentleness and goodness. These three segments go together, just as love, joy and peace do. And just as importantly, we can’t have these three segments without the first three. Unless we love…