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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.
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 tongues
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