{"id":893,"date":"2011-11-26T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"by-their-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"By Their Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Galatians 5:16-26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: Every tree is known by its fruit.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Everything brought forth after its kind.<br \/>\n2. &#8220;No spring can produce salt water and fresh.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. The best test we can give to prove ones relation to Christ is the fruit test.<br \/>\n4. Paul gave us a guide to measure by, (Busby&#8217;s inspection guide).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The Fruit from the Tree of Sin:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Regardless of the soil or care.<br \/>\n2. Secual immorality outside the marriage vows and unfaithful to the marriage vow.<br \/>\n3. Sensuality: leud, unchaste, uncontrolled appetites.<br \/>\n4. Worship of false gods; anything we allow to come between us and service to God.<br \/>\n5. Witchcraft: Practice of magic.<br \/>\n6. Hatred: quarreling, jealousy, factions, party spirit.<br \/>\n7. Anything in our lives that contributes to this fruit is sin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: The Spiritual Fruit:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Love: For God, for Church, for others, and for right.<br \/>\n2. Joy: In the clean Christian life, in service to Him that loved us and died for us.<br \/>\n3. Peace: Of mind, of soul, the peace that passes understanding.<br \/>\n4. Patience: Ability to stay until the job is finished.<br \/>\n5. Kindness: Good natured, aggreable.<br \/>\n6. Generosity: Courageous, noble mindedness, free from meaness and smallness.<br \/>\n7. Faithfulness: The cowboys &#8220;proof of faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galatians 5:16-26 I: Every tree is known by its fruit. 1. Everything brought forth after its kind. 2. &#8220;No spring can produce salt water and fresh.&#8221; 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&#8217;s inspection guide).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}