What is the fruit of the Spirit the result of?
The fruit of the Spirit is the result of the work of the Spirit in the believer, producing love, joy, peace, and the other listed graces. It is also described as the inner results of salvation in the life of the believer, experienced simply as a result of having believed the Gospel.
Les explains that the fruit of the Spirit is the result of the Spirit’s work, and he lists nine fruits: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. He divides them into three segments of three. The first three—love, joy, and peace—are the inner results of salvation in the believer’s life, what we can experience simply by having believed the Gospel. Les notes we are not saved just as a fire escape to escape hell fire, but to have life abundantly. These attributes enhance life, and against such things there is nothing that can oppose them.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
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What is the relationship between the fruit of the Spirit and the works of the flesh?
The fruit of the Spirit is a total inversion of the activities of the previous verses, which describe the works of the flesh.
What are the nine fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23?
The fruit or result of the Spirit's work is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance, against which there is no law.
What happens in a community where people practice the works of the flesh instead of the fruit of the Spirit?
It would be better to live in a community where everybody lived the fruit-of-the-Spirit life than in a community where everybody practiced the works of the flesh from the previous program, which results in pandemonium and fills the police blotters.