What happens in a community where people practice the works of the flesh?
The outcome is pandemonium. Such behavior fills police blotters, showing disorder and social chaos. A community living this way experiences the opposite of what the Spirit produces; it is the inversion of the Spirit's fruit, not the abundant life marked by love, joy, and peace.
Les explains that the works of the flesh produce the opposite of the Spirit's fruit. He contrasts a community where everyone lives according to the Spirit—marked by love, joy, peace, and the other fruit—with a community where people practice the works described in the previous program. He says we see that too often, and it is pandemonium; the police blotters are full of people who practice those things. The fruit of the Spirit, by contrast, is the abundant life Jesus spoke of, against which there is no law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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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.