The Fruit of the Spirit

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It is only by the power of the Holy Spirit that Christians can cultivate virtues that reflect the character of God Himself. From his expositional series in the book of Galatians, today R.C. Sproul identifies the fruit of the Spirit and encourages God’s people to grow in these qualities.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0	Loyalty is such a rare commodity, but the Holy Spirit gives it as a fruit.
0:08.0	And one of the reason is that the Spirit gives to us what mirrors God's own virtues.
0:15.4	Our God is a loyal God.
0:17.8	God has never been disloyal to any of his children.
0:24.1	He's never betrayed one of us at any time.
0:36.7	As we pursue righteousness, as we strive by the Spirit of God to put to death the deeds of the flesh, there's also fruit, fruit of the
0:39.4	spirit that should be evident in our lives. Paul lists the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
0:45.1	peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. And that's what we'll
0:51.5	consider today on this Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:56.5	Yesterday, we learned about the works of the flesh, and we're switching gears today as you hear another sermon from R.C. Sproles series in Galatians.
1:05.2	These two messages are from a much longer series, and those sermons form the basis for his expositional commentary on Galatians.
1:13.1	For the final time, you can request the hardcover edition when you give a donation before midnight tonight at renewingyourmind.org,
1:21.4	or when you call us at 800-435-4-33.
1:26.0	Thanks for standing with us as we seek to serve the global church with faithful discipleship
1:31.3	resources. Well, there are worldly ways to think about love, joy, and peace. So here's Dr. Sproll
1:38.9	to consider the Bible's definition of the fruit of the spirit. The last time we were together, I talked briefly about the cosmic war that rages in the soul
1:55.0	of every Christian.
1:57.0	It's a war not with flesh and blood, but a battle with powers and principalities and spiritual
2:04.9	wickedness in high places.
2:06.9	And we were talking about this war that goes on unceasingly between the flesh and the spirit.
2:17.2	And at that time we looked carefully at what the apostle Paul
2:21.9	delineated as the works of the flesh, which works are so destructive that if we in our lives are
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