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9 Fruits of the Holy Spirit
By Michael Bradley
As you will see I the Scripture verse I will give you in this article - there
is one very special incredible verse that will tell you that God the Father
wants to transmit 9 specific fruits of the Holy Spirit up into our
personalities.
The first three articles that we have listed in our sanctification section all
set the stage as to what God is looking to do with each one of us. God wants all
of us to enter into a sanctification process with Him so that He can begin the
process of molding, shaping and transforming us into the image of His Son Jesus
Christ. He wants to make us more holy like He and Jesus are. He wants to
transform us by the renewing of our minds. He wants to put right thinking into
our thought process.
In the first article we have listed under this section titled Sanctification,
I gave you the specific verses from Scripture that showed you that it is by the
power of the Holy Spirit that this sanctification process is done with you in
this life. However, you will not be a passive robot in all of this. You have to
be willing to work in cooperation with the Holy Spirit once He begins to start
this process within you.
Your job is to get into the Word to find out exactly what it is God is going to
want to change about you. You will need to find out what qualities God will want
you to try and put on into your personality and what qualities He will want
you to try and put away.
This article will be the first of a series of articles giving you all of the
appropriate Scripture verses showing you exactly which qualities and attributes
God wants to get worked into your personality and which qualities that He will
want to pull out of you.
And there is no better place to start this series of articles than with the 9
fruits of the Holy Spirit. If you want to start off by keying on some of the
more positive qualities that God would really like to get worked into your
personality - really study and meditate on these specific 9 qualities.
When God the Father purposely isolates and spells out 9 specific qualities that
will be coming directly from His Holy Spirit - He is really letting you know the
extreme importance of these specific 9 fruits. These 9 fruits are major fruits
and qualities that are coming directly from God Himself, and every Christian
should do the best they can to work with the Holy Spirit in getting all 9 of
these fruits worked into his or her personality.
I'll first start off by showing each of these 9 specific fruits so that you can
have all 9 of them isolated at the top of this article. I will then give you the
Scripture verse that these 9 fruits are coming from. I will then do a brief
commentary on each one of these fruits so you can fully understand what each one
of these fruits are and how they can dramatically change the quality of your
life and your state of being if you are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to
start to work all 9 of these fruits into your mind, soul and personality.
Here are the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit
Love
Joy
Peace
Longsuffering
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-control
Now here is the specific verse from Scripture where these 9 fruits are coming
from:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galatians 5:22)
Before I get into the appropriate commentary on what each of these fruits are
all about, note the following:
1. The word Spirit is with a capital S - which means that these 9 fruits are
coming directly from the Holy Spirit - not from us.
2. What this means is that God's love, God's peace, God's joy and God's goodness
can be started to be transmitted up into your personality. These are His
attributes and His personality qualities that will start to flow and mesh into
the core of your personality. Think about the ramifications of this - that God
the Father Himself is allowing us to share in a part of His divine nature by
allowing His Holy Spirit to transmit and impart these nine qualities right up
into our soul and personality!
That is why God the Father is specifically telling us in this verse that these 9
fruits are coming directly from the Holy Spirit - so that we can fully
appreciate the magnitude of such an experience.
Jesus has already told us that He is the vine and that we are the branches. The
branches draw their life from the vine - not vice versa. Just as the branch
draws its life from the vine - so we too draw our life directly from Jesus.
Jesus will release His life to us through the Holy Spirit in exactly same way
that the vine will release the life of the tree into the branches.
In one short, but incredible powerful Scripture verse, God the Father is giving
all of us an incredible revelation on what can go on behind the scenes in the
spiritual realm for those that are willing to work with Him in this
sanctification process. About the Author Article written by Michael Bradley of Bible Knowledge Ministries. Their website is a resource of Bible knowledge commentary and teaching. They currently have over 100 in depth Bible articles.
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