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Fruit of the Spirit - a Christian perspective
There is no law against the fruit of the Spirit, meaning that there's nothing preventing us from developing these things. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%205:22-23&version=NIV
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Fruit Of The Spirit, Gentleness, Self-Control, Fruits Of The Spirit, Love Joy Peace
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Is there a message avialable that describes why the fruit of the spirit is in the sequence that it is? Ex: why does love percede joy and why does joy precede peace…etc. etc.
The order of the Fruit in Galatians 5 is in a sequential order where each one is a stage that begets the next one, love being the most important and the foundation to the rest. In 2 Peter 1, it is arranged in rhetorical “sorites,†a type of argument that uses syllogisms to build to the climax of love. Each end is a “bookend†that holds the others; faith is what we all start with. It is the foundation. Then others build to the preeminent essential significance of what love is, the quintessential fruit of the Christian life. The point is these are characters that we add to/supplement, which is what we are given when we grow in Him, what we add to, and what He then multiplies (Rom. 5:1-5; 1 Cor. 13).
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The comment by Rkrejcir on Fruits in Galatians is the best example I have come across, bearing the simple truth that “less is more”. There surely is no law against the embodiment of love in ones life that leads to making ones election secure(2 Peter 1:10-11).
Paul didn’t have in mind any sequential order regards the fruit of the Spirit. His emphasis was to prove the functionality of the Spirit of God working in us. The Spirit of God automatically produce fruits that bear evidence of the grace and love of God. Secondly, the context bear evidence, because of the Judaizer’s teachers doctrine on the law of Moses over the Law of Jesus caused a lot of internal deviation in the church. Whereby, the apostle call them out. Moreover, from the tone of the book we find Paul displeased with their swerving attitude after being born by the Spirit and not by the Law. The fruit of the Spirit is a prove of their genuine and true conversion. Now, being led by the Spirit they could practice the Kingdom attitude and character. I encourage you all to read the verse in it’s proper Historical-Grammatical context.