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Galatians 5:22-24

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but the fruit of the spirit is

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love joy peace

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patience kindness goodness

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faithfulness gentleness

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self control

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against such there is no law

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now those who belong to Christ Jesus

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have crucified the flesh

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with its passions and desires

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we are called to manifest

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the fruit of the spirit in our lives

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but everybody says

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how do I do it?

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I mean that's a wonderful idea

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I would love to be

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loving, kind, patient

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long suffering all these things

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how do you do that?

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I discovered first of all

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is fruit is singular

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it doesn't say the fruits of the spirit

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it says the fruit of the spirit

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so what these things are

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is fruit that comes from

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your spirit when its born again

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what that means is this

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your mind will and emotions

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can subject themselves

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to the flesh on one side

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or the spirit on the other side

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and when the flesh

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rules in your life

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it naturally manifests

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what Galatians calls

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the deeds of the flesh

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on the other hand

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when your mind will and emotions

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are submitted to your spirit

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then you naturally manifest

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the fruit of the spirit

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which are all these things

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that we just read about

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so what the key is

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is to allow your soul

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your mind will and emotions

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to be subject to your spirit

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allow your spirit

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to live through your life

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really the fruit of the spirit

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is like the fruit of a tree

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the fruit of an apple tree

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is apples

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you don't have to pray for apples

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to come from an apple tree

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you don't have to

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beat the apple tree

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to get it to bear fruit

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you don't have to do anything

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an apple tree naturally bears apples

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an apple tree is never

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going to bear pears

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it's never going to bear avocados

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an apple tree will bear apples

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every single time

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your spirit is going to

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manifest the fruit of the spirit

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every time when your spirit

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is operative through your life

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and Paul says a very interesting thing

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he says all these things

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gentleness, self control

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faithfulness, all these things

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against such there is no law

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what he's saying is this

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that you don't need to

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set a law to try to manifest

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these things when you're

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naturally walking in the spirit

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what that means is

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you don't have to have a law

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to force an apple tree to bear apples

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it just naturally does it

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you don't have to try

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to be loving

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try to be kind

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try to be patient

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try to be good

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faithful, gentle

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exercising self control

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you don't have to try

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to do all those things

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that's a law

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if you put a law in your mind

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and try to do those things

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you're not going to be able to do it

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and it's going to be exhausting

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you're going to find yourself failing

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and you're going to be disappointed

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in yourself

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over and over and over again

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how do you do it?

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what you do is press into God

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love God with all your heart

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open the door between the spirit

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and your soul

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and your spirit naturally

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will manifest the fruit of the spirit

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that's why it's called

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the fruit of the spirit

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because these things are what

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naturally manifest

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when your spirit is operative

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so the way that you do that

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is by loving God

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pressing into God

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reading His word

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meditating on His word

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spending time with Him

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that opens the door to the spirit

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and the spirit naturally manifests fruit

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what many many people are doing is

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trying to love

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trying to be gentle

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trying to be kind

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never works

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never works because

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that's trying to do it by a law

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and Paul says we're not to

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walk in the law

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to produce these things

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what we're to do

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is to live in the spirit

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let your spirit manifest

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by loving God with all your heart

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and these things will naturally manifest

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so I encourage you today

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press into God

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meditate on His word

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concentrate on just being with Him

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loving Him

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walking with Him

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and you'll begin to

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naturally see a manifestation

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of the fruit of the spirit

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because its already there

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in your spirit

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in other words

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love is already on the inside of you

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waiting to escape

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waiting to manifest

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kindness is there

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gentleness is there

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patience is there

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waiting to manifest

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and as you press into God

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open your spirit

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and you'll naturally see

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this fruit manifest

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so let's just pray

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Father I pray that today

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as we walk through our day

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the fruit of the spirit

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would be naturally manifest

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because we're living in you

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we're abiding in you

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we're not trying to produce that fruit

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but Father I pray

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for every one of us

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that today we'd draw closer to you

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hear your voice

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walk with you

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and walk in the spirit

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that the fruit of the spirit

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might be manifest in our lives today

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in the mighty name

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of Yeshua Ha Mashiach

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Amen