What does the Bible say about the fruit of the Spirit?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In Galatians 5:22–23, the Apostle Paul wrote that "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." What is this fruit? How can Christians experience the fruit of the Spirit every day? And why is experiencing this fruit so important to the Christian life and witness?
Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum answers these questions as he seeks what the Bible says about the fruit of the Spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Over the next five to ten minutes, you'll hear Dr. Denison discuss what the Bible says about a particular topic. |
| 0:11.7 | To watch or share these biblical insights, subscribe to the Denison Forum YouTube channel at |
| 0:17.0 | YouTube.com forward slash Denison Forum. |
| 0:21.0 | Hello. My name is Chris Elkins, and I'm with the Denison Forum, and Jim Denison is joining us today. |
| 0:27.8 | Jim, we recently discussed in a video, the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:32.1 | But let's talk about a related subject to that today. |
| 0:35.4 | What does the Bible say about the fruit of the Spirit? What is this |
| 0:39.8 | fruit? That's a great question because it's such an urgent subject as we'll talk about for just a bit |
| 0:45.8 | today as well. So you get to Galatians chapter 5 and the Bible says the fruit of the spirit is and then you |
| 0:51.3 | get nine different characteristics, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. |
| 0:58.0 | Well, inside that text, there are three things to note immediately. |
| 1:00.8 | First of all, fruit is singular. |
| 1:03.1 | It doesn't say the fruits of the Spirit. |
| 1:05.8 | It says the fruit of the Spirit. |
| 1:08.4 | And from that we need to understand. |
| 1:09.8 | These are not nine different fruits. These are nine different manifestations of the Holy Spirit. And from that we need to understand, these are not nine different fruits. These are nine |
| 1:12.6 | different manifestations of the Holy Spirit. There are nine different characteristics, nine different |
| 1:17.6 | aspects, nine different adjectives, describing the work, the product, the result of the Holy Spirit in a person's life. |
| 1:23.6 | That leads to the second point to make it is the fruit of the spirit. |
| 1:28.3 | If you look it up in the Greek, you see that that's in the genitive. And what that means is |
| 1:31.9 | it's the fruit that belongs to the spirit. It's the fruit possessed by the spirit. Fruit means |
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