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My name is Rick Renner
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And today we're going to return to Galatians 5
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and we're going to begin studying the Fruit of the Spirit.
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We have spent 6 programs discussing the works
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of the flesh, but finally today we're going
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Welcome back to the
program, reach for Your Bible.
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And today we're gonna
return to our anchor verse,
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which is in Galatians 5:16.
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We always use the Bible in this program,
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but in Galatians 5:16,
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the apostle Paul declares - This
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I say then, walk in the spirit
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and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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Those words - this I say then - are really profound in
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the Greek language.
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In Greek it says lego de.
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The word lego, means I say - it's very strong,
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it's very emphatic all by itself.
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But then Paul adds the word de.
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And the word de describes something that is categorical,
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something that is emphatic,
something that is absolute.
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So you could translate it - Hear me, hear what I'm saying.
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I tell you emphatically, I tell you with absolute certainty,
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I tell you categorically, that if
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you walk in the spirit, you shall not fulfill the lust
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of the flesh.
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And that word walk, doesn't mean to hit
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and miss it from time to time,
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it means to regularly walk in the spirit -
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which means - we can regularly walk in the spirit.
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It's the Greek word, peripateo.
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The word peri, describes something that is encircling
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or general vicinity.
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The word pateo means to walk.
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And when you compound these two words together,
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it depicts one who habitually
walks in one vicinity.
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It has become his realm of existence, and
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therefore sometimes it is translated to live.
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You can even translate the verse -
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This I say categorically: this I say
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with absolute certainty:
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this I say emphatically,
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that if you habitually walk in the spirit
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or live in the spirit,
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you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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And the words, shall not,
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in Greek are the words,
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ou me. The word ou, is the emphatic form of the word no.
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The word me, also means no. It's a double negative.
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It literally means - you emphatically will not fulfill
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the lusts of the flesh. The word flesh,
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the Greek word sarkos, which describes the flesh,
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the carnal nature, base instincts,
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and it's very interesting that when you read
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what Paul adds in Ephesians 3:3,
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he states very clearly that in the flesh there is lust,
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there is desire, and there is a mind.
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The flesh has a mind of its own.
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And you have to learn to say no to the flesh,
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deny its operation, and say yes to the Spirit.
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And if you'll step up into the high road
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and walk in the spirit
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and live in the spirit, you will pull the plug on the flesh.
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Paul says you will in no wise fulfilled the lust
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of the flesh.
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And the RIV of Galatians 5:16 is - Make the path
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of the spirit, the place where you habitually live and walk.
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Become so comfortable on this
spiritual path that you learn
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to leisurely and peacefully
stroll along in that realm.
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Living your life in this spirit realm is the best way
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to guarantee that you will
not allow the yearnings
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of your flesh to creep out and fulfill themselves.
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Then in Galatians 5:19 to 21, he describes
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what the flesh produces.
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Listen to what he says; Now the works of the flesh
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and we saw that this word works,
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the Greek word erga, describes hard labor, hard work.
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Oh, it's so hard what the flesh produces.
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And he says this hard labor
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that the flesh produces
in our lives are manifest,
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which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
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lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
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emulation, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,
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murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like.
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And I've spent 6 programs covering all these words,
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so we really understand what the works of the flesh are.
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But today we're going to come to Galatians 5:22
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& 23, where Paul continues to say - But,
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but - here's an alternative.
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But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
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long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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meekness, temperance.
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Against such there is no law.
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And I want to tell you a story.
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Many years ago, Denise
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and I went to see some friends
in southern Ukraine in a
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little Moldovian village.
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It was a very primitive place,
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but wonderful, wonderful
people who lived there.
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It was like stepping
into National Geographic.
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The sheep were walking on the streets
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and goats were walking on the road
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and the roads had no pavement.
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They were just rutted and muddy.
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But when we walked to our friend's house,
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we came into their driveway
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and it was covered with a veranda.
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And their veranda was covered
with the most beautiful,
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beautiful green vines that
were laden with grapes.
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That's why I brought these
grapes to the program today,
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because it reminds me
of that day when Denise
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and I went to that village.
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I had never seen such a mixture of grapes in my life:
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yellow grapes, purple grapes, green grapes, blue grapes,
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and I had never seen grapes so big.
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I didn't even know
grapes could be that big.
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We sat down and we had dinner, and
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after dinner they said
it was time for dessert.
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But rather than bring us cake or pastries
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or ice cream, they brought a big bowl
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of grapes just like this.
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And I remember thinking, I've
never had grapes for dessert.
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But when we finally put them in our mouths
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and bit down, the juices literally flowed.
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That was the sweetest fruit
I had ever tasted in my life.
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In fact, I have
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to tell you my taste buds can
almost remember it right now
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as I'm describing it.
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And I wanted to come back for
another taste of those grapes.
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I wanted to come back for another helping
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and another helping
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because it was so rich, it
was so flavorful, so tasty,
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so luscious.
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That's what fruit is.
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And the reason I'm telling you this is
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because this is what the Holy Spirit wants
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to produce in your life.
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Fruit so wonderful that
when people get a taste
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of your life, they'll want to
come back for another helping.
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Listen to what Paul said in Galatians 5:22.
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He says - But the fruit of the spirit is love,
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joy, peace, long, suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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meekness, temperance.
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What a contrast to what the flesh produces.
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The flesh produces works.
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It implies hard work and hard labor.
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The flesh - it produces a life that is dominated
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by excess, imbalance, unhealthy extremes,
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laziness, self-abuse, hatred, strife, bitterness,
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irresponsibility, and neglect.
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In fact, the way of the
flesh is the hardest route
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for any individual to take,
yet the flesh cries out
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to be in charge.
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But a life dominated by the
spirit is filled with benefits
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and blessings.
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In fact, Paul describes
it with the word fruit;
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but the fruit of the spirit.
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That word fruit is the Greek word karpos.
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That word karpos describes the fruit of plants, the fruit
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of trees, the fruit of one's body,
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or it could describe the fruit - children or your offspring.
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But it describes fruit regardless of whether it is a plant,
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an animal, a human.
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All fruit is produced by a seed.
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There has to be a seed in order for fruit to be born.
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If there's no seed, there will be no fruit.
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And whatever the seed is determines what kind
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of fruit is going to be produced.
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And we find this principle in Genesis 1:11
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and 12, where the Bible says -
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And God said let the earth bring forth grass,
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the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit
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after his kind, whose seed
is in himself upon the earth.
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And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass
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and herb yielding seed after his kind
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and the tree yielding fruit
whose seed was in himself
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after his kind.
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The seed produces its own kind.
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And my friends, God's seed has been placed
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inside you and me.
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But let's talk about seed
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and let's talk about
fruit just for a moment.
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Apples always produce apples. Why?
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Because apple seeds can
only produce apples.
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Oranges produce oranges. Why?
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Because an orange seed can
only produce an orange.
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And isn't it amazing that
in the animal kingdom,
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dogs always produce dogs?
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Cats always produce cats.
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Humans in the human realm
always produces humans
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because the seed determines the fruit.
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That's just the way that it is.
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So with this in mind, let's look at 1 Peter 1:
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23, where the Bible says - being born again -
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that's talking about you and me -
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we're born again, not of corruptible seed - hmm -
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but of incorruptible seed by the word of God, which liveth
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and abideth forever.
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Which means the moment we
receive Jesus as the Lord
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of our life, by faith,
God sowed his spirit
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and sowed his word into
our hearts like seed.
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We received a God seed into our spirits.
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In fact, John says it like this in 1 John 3:
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9; Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin,
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it means cannot go on sinning -
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why - For his seed -
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whose seed - God's seed remains in him
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and he cannot sin because he is born of God.
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But in 1 John 3:9,
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thou word seed - listen carefully -
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it's the Greek word sperma.
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It's where you get the
word for seed or a sperm.
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And it literally means
the moment you said yes
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to the lordship of Jesus
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and the Holy Spirit came into
you, God seed came in you.
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God's divine sperm came
into you the moment
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you were born again.
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And in that seed is the DNA
of God, the power of God,
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the character of God, the life of God, all
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of it came into you in the
form of spiritual seed.
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And just like apples always produce apples
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and oranges always produce oranges and cats produce cats
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and dogs produce dogs and human beings produce human beings,
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you have received a God seed inside
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of you when God put his
spirit in his word inside you.
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And therefore you should expect
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to produce God in your life.
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You have the DNA of God in you.
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You have the character and
the power of God in you.
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And because God's seed is
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for you to produce God and
godly fruit in your life.
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Wow! Let me ask you - Does a vine dresser worry
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that he might go out into
the field and find oranges?
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No. Or does one who has
an apple orchard worry
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that he might run out into the field
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and find watermelons hanging from his tree?
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No. Why?
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Because the seed always produces
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after its own kind.
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spiritual realm as well.
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And if God has sown his spirit like seed into you -
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and he has, then you have every right to expect divine fruit
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to be produced in your life.
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And the fruit that the Holy
Spirit produces is wonderful.
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It is godly fruit that overflows with blessings and life.
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And once we partake of the love, joy, peace, long,
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suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
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temperance: once we partake of that wonderful fruit
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and once others partake of it
in our lives, they're going
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to come back for another
helping and another helping
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and another helping because
they will find the fruit
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of your life to be so
pleasant and so rich.
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You'll be like a luscious bowl of grapes
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that leaves a good taste in people's lives.
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Wow! But we have to make the choice
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to walk in the spirit
and produce this fruit.
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And my friend, it really is a choice.
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We can choose to be dominated by the flesh
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or we can choose to step
up onto the high road
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and walk in the spirit.
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And this brings us back to Galatians 5:16,
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where Paul says, This I say then,
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and as I told you, the Greek says - lego de.
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Lego means I say; the word day describes something
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that is spoken with absolute certainty, something
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that is emphatic or categorical.
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So you could already translate the verse -
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Hear me, hear me now: I'm telling you
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with absolute certainty.
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I'm telling you emphatically
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and categorically, if you walk in the spirit,
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and again, this word walk doesn't mean hit
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and miss it from time to time,
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it's the Greek word peripateo. Peri describes the realm
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where you live and function, the sphere of your existence.
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The word walk, the Greek word pateo, from the word pathos.
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The word pathos describes a path.
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The word pateo means to walk on that path.
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When you compound it together with the word peri,
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it forms the word walk -
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peripateo - one who walks around in one general vicinity.
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It is the path of his life,
the only path that he knows.
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In fact, he lives in this realm.
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This means you can live in the spirit:
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not just one time a week
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or every once in a while or hit and miss it.
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You can literally live there.
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Paul says, if you live in the spirit,
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you shall not.
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And the Greek says you
emphatically will not fulfill
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the lusts of the flesh.
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And that word lust, the Greek word, epithumia.
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It's a compound of 2 words: the word epi,
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which is an intensifier, it means over.
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It pictures someone that's doubled over and hankering
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after something.
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The word thumia, describes passions.
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When you compound the two words together,
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the word lust, describes the desire, a craving
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or the carnal longings of the
flesh, one that is bent over,
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hankering, yearning for something, craving something.
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And here the apostle Paul tells us, the flesh has desire,
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it has cravings.
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And if you yield to it,
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you'll end up pursuing
those things instead
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of the higher realm.
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And that's why he says,
emphatically, categorically
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with absolute certainty,
you have to make the choice
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to walk in the spirit.
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And when you make that choice,
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you shall not in no wise fulfill the lust
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of the flesh.
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Oh, that is so powerful.
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Now I have to ask you - What do you want?
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You have to make a choice.
You have to choose wisely.
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Do you wanna walk in the cruel, hard,
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bitter works of the flesh?
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Or would you prefer to
mortify the deeds of the flesh
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and allow the Holy Spirit
to produce his wonderful,
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luscious, delicious fruit
in your life that makes you
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so pleasurable,
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people will want to keep coming back to you
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for another helping.
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I know that's what you want,
but you have to choose wisely.
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But Galatians 5:19-21 says fully -
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Now the works of the flesh are manifest
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which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
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lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
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emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,
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murders, drunkenness and revellings and such
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like: you can choose that or you can choose verses 22-23:
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But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
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long, suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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meekness, temperance.
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My friends, choose the high road, walk in the spirit
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and you will not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
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You will begin to produce the fruit
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of the Holy Spirit in your life.
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And tomorrow we're going
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to begin describing the specific fruit
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that the Holy Spirit wants to produce in you.
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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Someone has asked the question - What's going
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to happen in Heaven during the Great Tribulation?
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Well, we know that the Great Tribulation will begin when the
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church is raptured.
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And I'm a firm believer in
the rapture of the church.
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And as soon as we are vacated,
God's wrath is going to begin
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to be poured out on the earth for 7 years.
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But while God's wrath is being
poured out on earth, a lot
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of activities is going to be happening in heaven with us.
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We are going to be attending the marriage feast of the Lamb.
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And during those 7 years, according
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to 2 Corinthians 5:10, each
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of us will stand
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before the judgment seed
of Christ to give account
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for our level of obedience in this life.
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And our future occupation in
eternity will be determined by
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how faithful we were now,
which means my friends,
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this is a qualifying
time for what we're going
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to do in the future.
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And if you wanna do something
wonderful in eternity,
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then God needs to find you faithful now.
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But during the great
tribulation, heaven is going
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to be filled with activity as we celebrate
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with the Lord at the
Marriage Feast of the Lamb.
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And as each one of us
are called singularly
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before the judgment seat of
Christ, for Jesus to reward us
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for our levels of obedience.
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A life dominated by the flesh is a hard life.
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It is filled with excess, imbalance, extremity laziness,
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self-abuse, hatred, strife, bitterness,
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irresponsibility and neglect.
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The way of the flesh is
the hardest route to take,
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but a life dominated by
the Holy Spirit is filled
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with benefits and blessings.
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I'm talking about love,
joy, peace, long suffering,
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gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness and temperance.
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Don't give way to the flesh
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and allow it to produce
its ugly work in your life.
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to see the specific fruit
that the Holy Spirit wants
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to produce in your life.
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He wants to make you so godly
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and so delicious that people
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I know you want to choose supernatural life giving fruit,
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of the year to sharpen your understanding of God's word.
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And if you already have Vol.I then order Vol.II.
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In both of these, there
are 1000 Greek word studies
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that will really sharpen your
understanding of the word
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of God and make you love
the New Testament even more.
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But let me pray for you.
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Father, I thank you so much that today we could really begin
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to focus on the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
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Lord, we wanna choose the high road.
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We wanna walk in the Spirit,
pull the plug on the flesh,
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and let the Holy Spirit turn
us into a delicious serving
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of food for people.
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Help us Lord to be so wonderful
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that we'll bring something godly
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and wonderful into other people's lives.
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In Jesus' name - Amen. I'll see you tomorrow.
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But remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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of a king is there's power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord,
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed the
prayer of salvation with us,
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would you please let us know by going
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to renner.org/salvation?
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We would love to connect with you.
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Discover the many ways you can
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We invite you to partner with
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