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By Pastor Glenn Pease
A doctor, an engineer, and an attorney were debating whose profession was the oldest.
The doctor said, " it's obvious the medical profession was the first.
The Bible refers to God creating Eve from Adam's rib, and that is surgical procedure."
But the engineer said, "No!
before that, God created the world out of chaos, and one must be an engineer to create a world."
"But wait," said the lawyer, "where do you think that chaos came from?"
Lawyer's do create a lot of chaos, because the very nature of their profession involves the chaos of broken laws, and the resulting broken lives.
Chaos is their bread and butter.
One lawyer had a bumper sticker that read, "PLEASE HIT ME-I'M A LAWYER."
The complexity of the law is so vast because, as judge Harry Shafer writes, "we have fifty million laws trying to enforce ten commandments."
There has to be a law against so many human actions because they are offensive and harmful to other persons and their property.
Paul lists fifteen acts of the sinful nature of man in verses 19-21 of Galatians 5.
But then in verses 22-23 he lists nine things which he calls the fruit of the Spirit, and he ends verse 23 with this statement, "against such things there is no law."
Laws are to restrain people from certain behavior, but there is no need to restrain from these nine things.
In all the huge volumes of laws around the world you will search in vain to find a law against love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
So it is not true that everything good is either illegal or fattening.
None of these nine fruits will add a pound to your body or any guilt to your conscience, for there is nothing illegal or fattening.
There is no need for laws to control the growth of this fruit, for in contrast to the acts of the flesh, these acts and attitudes do not hurt people in any way.
They help and heal, and they add beauty and pleasure to all relationships.
These fruits are a foretaste of heaven, and the goal in this life is to become a garden where they grow in abundance.
The Greek word for fruit is KARPOS, and it is a very popular word in the New Testament.
It is used 66 times, and Jesus uses it more than all the rest combined.
It was one of His favorite words.
I looked up a number of the texts where Jesus used the word fruit and discovered that sometimes he said fruits, in the plural.
At other times he used the singular to convey the plural.
The singular and the plural are used interchangeably.
My conclusion is that there is no basis for the debate over which is most correct to say, the fruit of the Spirit, or the fruits of the Spirit.
It makes no difference if you call them the fruit of the fruits of the Spirit.
Either way you are dealing with nine distinct values.
Fruit is a very positive word, for it brings to mind the images of delicious and tasty food we enjoy.
God started the world with a very healthy environment, for the basic food was fruit in the garden of Eden.
Fruit is basic to the good health of the body.
The Bible ends with fruit as the key food also, for in the book of Rev. we see the Tree of Life, and it bears twelve kinds of fruit-one for each month of the year.
If the Bible begins and ends with fruit, that ought to be a good clue as to what a healthy diet is in the eyes of God.
There is no image of paradise anywhere that does not include fruit as a major factor in its beauty and pleasure
The word fruit comes from the Latin word FRUCTUS, which means enjoyment.
Fruit got this name because it is the source of such quick and easy pleasure.
You just grab an apple off the tree and sink your teeth into it and enjoy it right now without any preparation or cooking.
So it is also with many other fruits.
In contrast, grains, vegetables, and meats call for delayed pleasure until they are prepared for eating.
It is the instant nature of their enjoyment that is a distinguishing characteristic of fruit.
This is the case with the nine fruits of the Spirit also.
They give instant pleasure to the soul.
Like physical fruit, they may take time to develop, but when they are ripe they give immediate enjoyment to both producer and consumer.
People who eat only fruit are called fruitarians.
In this series on the Fruits of the Spirit we are going to be Biblical fruitarians, and strive to consume all God has revealed about spiritual fruit.
The Fruits of the Spirit are actually superior to the Gifts of the Spirit.
The Gifts can be abused and need laws to regulate them, lest they do more harm than good.
And if you have gifts but not the fruits, they are worthless, as Paul says in ICor.
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You can have the gift of tongues, and speak like an angel, but without love you are just a noisy gong and clanging cymbal.
You can have the gift of prophecy and knowledge and understand all mysteries, but without the fruit of love, you are nothing.
Even if you have the gift of faith and can do miracles like moving mountains, but lack love, you are no asset to the kingdom of God.
The point Paul is making is that the Gifts of the Spirit need to be under the direction of the Fruits of the Spirit, or they lose their value Gifts have to do with what you do, but Fruits have to do with who you are.
Being comes before doing.
Doing the right thing can be done even by the most evil of people, but being the right kind of person is what God is after.
Being Christ like has to do with character and not just conduct.
The Fruits focus on character and the inner being and not just on conduct.
The really good news about the Fruits of the Spirit is that they are available to all Christians.
So many of God's people feel they have no gifts, or certainly none that are spectacular.
But Paul makes it clear that nobody is second class when it comes to the Fruits.
The gifts are like body parts.
The eye has the gift of seeing, the ear the gift of hearing, the feet the gift of walking, and so on.
Each has a specialized function that the other members of the body may not have.
But the Fruits of the Spirit are for all members of the body, equally.
No Christian can say that they do not have the capacity to love, feel joy, have peace, etc., like other Christians.
They may not have the gifts of others in the body, but all have equal access to these fruits.
These are not exclusive to any part of the body.
They are for all parts of the body, and every member of the body is expected to grow these fruits.
You and I can be just as loving, and just as joyful, and just as peaceful as Billy Graham, or Mother Teresa, or any other well-known Christian you can think of.
There are people in every church who have just as many Fruits of the Spirit as the best known leaders around the world.
Many people can walk into their back yard and pick an apple off a tree that is just as good as any of the name brand apples you can get in your supermarket.
So there are masses of marvelous fruits in obscure places that almost nobody knows about, but they bring pleasure and beauty to those who do know of them.
Every Christian is a potential fruit producer.
You know an apple tree by its fruit.
If there are no apples on a tree, but pears instead, you know it is a pear tree.
All fruit trees are identified by their fruit.
So the Christian is to be identified by the fruit they bear.
How do you know if a Christian is growing in Christ likeness?
You cannot tell by the position they hold in the church, or by the gifts they display, or by the awards they may win.
You can only tell by the fruit that they bear.
If they are not adding to the pleasure and beauty of the kingdom, but are adding strife, and negatives of all kinds, they may be gifted leaders even, but they are not fruit bearing believers.
This is to be our primary goal.
Nothing else matters if we do not produce the Fruits of the Spirit.
These are the nine marks of the growing Christian.
These are the nine signs of spiritual maturity.
These are the nine evidences of Christ likeness.
The importance and significance of these fruits is all the more magnified when we read the words of Donald Gee, the Pentecostal theologian who writes from a charismatic perspective.
He makes it clear that Pentecostals make a major mistake in thinking that the gifts are all that matter.
He writes,
When the great Forth Bridge in Scotland was
nearing completion we are told that one dull, cold
day the builders tried unsuccessfully all day long
to bring certain important girders together.
Every
available device of mechanical power was used,
without success, and at the end of the day they re-
tired completely baffled.
But next morning the sun
shone in summer warmth upon the great masses
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