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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. He’s not finished. Then he gave his own body
        as a martyr to be burned. What kind of surrender is that? He
        speaks with the tongue of angels, he knows every mystery, he
        knows everything about everything and he has faith to move
        mountains and he surrenders everything he has and gives it to
        the poor and then he gives his body to be burned.  How does the
        Holy Spirit describe him? He’s described as being like a noisy
        gong; a cymbal. And it says that he profits nothing. God says
        that he didn’t have love.
               Love is the fruit of the Spirit.  He did all those things but
        he  didn’t  have  love.  Those  were  wonderful  works  but  they
        weren’t  fruit.  The  house  built  on  the  sand  did  not  have  a
        foundation.  The  difference  between  works  and  fruit  is  the
        source of works or fruit. What is the origin of all that display?
        Does it come from man or does it come from the Lord?
               If it comes from the Lord it’s called “fruit”. If it comes
        from man it’s called “works”. It’s like law and grace. Law is
        what  I do. Grace is what God does. We want to study fruit.
        It’s  true  that  there  are  a  couple  of  exceptions.  That  is,
        sometimes  works  and  fruit  look  so  much  alike  that  you  can
        change the words. Like Matthew 5:16, “Let  your light shine
        before men in such a way that they may see your good works,
        and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” That they may see
        your  good  works;  but  those  works  are  fruit.  So,  sometimes
        works and fruit are the same. James 2:26, “For just as the body
        without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.”
        Faith without works is dead. Sometimes, not often, works can
        be fruit.


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