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couldn’t see the foundation. So, they look like they are the
same, until the storm came. And when the rain came the house
on the sand fell down.
There are two words that look very much the same. The
first word is the word “works”. The other word is the word
“fruit”. Sometimes works and fruit look very much the same.
In Galatians 5:19, God describes the works of the flesh, “Now
the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are; immorality,
impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy,
outbursts of anger, disputes, 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. I’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
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