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dissensions, factions,, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things
like these, of which I forewarn you that those who practice such
things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

In chapter 5:22 he talks about the fruit of the Spirit, “But the fruit
of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no
law.” Sometimes those two things look alike. If you look at
someone’s life is it works or is it fruit? Sometimes the works of the
flesh are bad works; immorality, impurity, anger, jealousy, envy,
arguing. The works of the flesh are not good. But sometimes the
works of the flesh are good.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “If I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all
mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my
possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned,
but do not have love, it profits me nothing.”

Those verses describe a person that never existed. You’ve never
met a person like that. Let me, again, describe that person. It’s
somebody who speaks with the tongues of men and angels. Have
you ever met anybody like that? It’s somebody, the Bible says, that
has a gift of prophecy and knows all mystery. Did you ever meet
anyone like that? That person is described as someone who knows
everything and has all knowledge. I never met anybody like that. I
don’t think you have met anybody like that either. Not only does he
speak like an angel and knows every mystery, has knowledge about
everything and you can’t ask a question that he can’t answer, but the
description is larger. It says that he has all faith so that he can move
mountains, literally. This is an amazing person.

And there is more. It describes his surrender. It says that he took
everything he had, sold it and gave it to the poor. That’s amazing.