Well, while everybody is standing, let's listen to the text for today, which is Galatians chapter 5, verse 19 through 23, the modern English version of the scriptures.

You'll notice there these words.

Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these?

Adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred,

strife, jealousy, rage, selfishness, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness,

carousing, and the like.

I warn you, as I previously warn you, that those who do such thing, the ones who make a practice,

a habit of practicing those things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the spirit, this is a contrast between the works of the God but the fruit of the spirit this is a contrast between

the works of the flesh and the fruit of the spirit but the fruit of the

spirit is love joy peace patience gentleness goodness faith meekness and

self-control against such there is no law.

And today we're talking from the subject of the ultimate fruit.

The ultimate fruit.

You may be seated.

Love is absolutely the preeminent fruit of the spirit because it is the fruit out of which all of the other fruit grow.

If you don't have love, where do you get your joy? Where do you get your peace? All of these are an outgrowth

of love itself. Love is the first fruit of the spirit. Notice, I'm so glad that he talked about the first fruit of the spirit. Notice it's, I'm so glad that he talked about the first fruit of the

spirit, the preeminent, the ultimate fruit. It is not power. It is not fame. It is not wealth.

The first fruit of the spirit is love. And the ultimate fruit, it is not something that you consume.

It is something that you become. So when you talk about the fruit of love, it is not merely that we consume love,

we are to become the embodiment of love. The Bible didn't say that God consumes love. The Bible says

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