By Their Fruit

Galatians 5:16-26

I: Every tree is known by its fruit.
1. Everything brought forth after its kind.
2. “No spring can produce salt water and fresh.”
3. The best test we can give to prove ones relation to Christ is the fruit test.
4. Paul gave us a guide to measure by, (Busby’s inspection guide).

II: The Fruit from the Tree of Sin:
1. Regardless of the soil or care.
2. Secual immorality outside the marriage vows and unfaithful to the marriage vow.
3. Sensuality: leud, unchaste, uncontrolled appetites.
4. Worship of false gods; anything we allow to come between us and service to God.
5. Witchcraft: Practice of magic.
6. Hatred: quarreling, jealousy, factions, party spirit.
7. Anything in our lives that contributes to this fruit is sin.

III: The Spiritual Fruit:
1. Love: For God, for Church, for others, and for right.
2. Joy: In the clean Christian life, in service to Him that loved us and died for us.
3. Peace: Of mind, of soul, the peace that passes understanding.
4. Patience: Ability to stay until the job is finished.
5. Kindness: Good natured, aggreable.
6. Generosity: Courageous, noble mindedness, free from meaness and smallness.
7. Faithfulness: The cowboys “proof of faith.”