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forth fruit. When we have real fruit, He’s glorified. Our Lord Jesus
spoke of two houses that looked very much alike. If you look with
our physical eyes you couldn’t tell the difference but He explained
that one had a foundation on sand and one had a foundation on rock.
With these eyes you 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. Let me, again, describe that person. It’s