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almost Almost everyone is capable of loving someone or something.

Throughout the years, love has inspired songs and poems, movies, books, and more.

So what makes Christian love unique?

What makes it stand out from the surrounding cultures' expression of love?

We'll look at the answer today on Truth for Life.

Alastair Begg is teaching from Galatians chapter 5, verse 22.

I know very little about plants. I'm in very dangerous territory this morning, but I do know, I don't know a couple of things.

I do know that hyacinth bulbs are planted in the autumn and they bloom in the spring. I know that

because my grandmother used to plant them all the time. She placed them under a bed in one of the

bedrooms. I don't know why she did that, but it was always very exciting to see my grandmother

crawling under the bed like that and me with her. And we placed them

there, and I was tempted all the time to go crawl under again, see if anything at all was happening.

And most of the time, if one did, there was nothing happening that I could see. It was taking

time. And so the work of God within us to produce fruit is as a result of something that has happened

instantaneously, whereby he has regenerated us by the power of his spirit. But the production

of that fruit is something that then takes place continuously and takes place often quietly and in an

unhurried way and in a process that is often lengthy. But the growth is the evidence of the

transforming power of the gospel. The third thing to notice is that this fruit is singular.

It's singular. You'll notice that if you look at the text. For the fruit of the spirit is.

Not the fruits of the spirit are. It is one fruit. These nine graces, if you like, of Christian character, together form one indivisible

fruit of the spirit. And this is important to realize as well, because some of us are

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