THE FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law” Gal 5: 22-23.
The fruit of the Holy Spirit is one and that is love.
The remaining eight are found inside love.
Love may be referred to as an aircraft carrier. Many advanced countries of the world have aircraft carriers in their military.
The duty of aircraft carriers are:
1. Transport hundreds of warplanes to their area of responsibility in the battlefield, through the sea, thereby saving fuel.
2. Serve as a temporary airport for these planes to take off and carry out missions and land.
3. Serve as a mobile refuel station for all the planes on board.
4. Carry and man these aircrafts and support their operations.
5. Serve as a mobile military hospital to attend to the personnel on board.
6. Carry out bombardment of selected targets on air, sea and land, usually with missiles and guns.
7. Carry out search and rescue missions for downed aircrafts and personnel.
From this analogy, you can see that all the remaining eight fruits depend entirely on love. If someone tells you that he loves you, how do you prove whether the person is speaking the truth or not?
You test the person by providing special opportunities for the person to demonstrate what he says.
The Holy Spirit pours love, which is His primary fruit into believers, which in turn produces the eight secondary fruits.
All this is done within the believer. Then the Holy Spirit provides opportunities outside the believer using other people or situations in order for the believer to manifest the fruit of the Holy Spirit outside of him. Now majority of believers are not aware of this due to spiritual blindness or simply ignorance.
They think that the fruit of the Holy Spirit will manifest outside of them by itself.
But that is not true.
It is your responsibility as a believer to work out the fruit of the Holy Spirit, by cashing in on the opportunities that God provides to you on an individual basis. But how do you cash in on an opportunity that you don’t even recognize?
That is where spiritual blindness comes in.
This book will remove your spiritual blindness, so that you will begin to see and recognize these God-sent opportunities. Now your manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit outside of you is the proof that God needs to show that you love Him and your fellow human being, not just saying it with your mouth. If you say you love God and your fellow human being but you are not manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit that means you're a liar or an impostor.
Manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit outside of you brings glory to God and attracts unbelievers to want to know the God that you are worshipping, not what you say with your mouth. So it is your attitude that distinguishes you as a Believer, not your talks (1 John 3:17-18).
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God." Eph 3:17-19.
The verses you just read above is trying to let you know that you cannot bear any good spiritual fruit without being established in love.
Love is the master key of spiritual fruitfulness.
Why?
The reason is that anything you do outside of love is nonsense to God. And cannot stand the test of time.
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that whosever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life” John 3:16.
Jesus Christ is a gift, the gift of love.
God is love (1 John 4:8,16).
Anywhere you see God in the bible, put love there.
Jesus Christ is the physical manifestation of God’s love on earth and the physical manifestation of the eight secondary fruits of the Holy Spirit.
He is our perfect example; that is the reason why you need to follow His footsteps by manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit, which is love and her siblings: joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance.
Therefore, the remaining eight secondary fruits of the Holy Spirit will focus on Jesus Christ alone. Love is simply pouring yourself out unconditionally in order to care for other people and their good without any motive of personal gain (Read 1 Cor 13; Eph 5:2).
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Jesus said wait for the holy spirit and in the books of acts the holy spirit came and changed the world.