What Does the Fruit of the Spirit Look Like?
What Does the Fruit of the Spirit Look Like?Chapter 5 — New Life
Lesson 39: What Does the Fruit of the Spirit Look Like?When the Holy Spirit works, He makes a new character grow in us.
Explanation
The fruit of the Spirit is the way the life of a person changed by God begins to look. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, and the other qualities are not produced by ambition alone, but by the work of the Holy Spirit in the heart.
The Bible speaks of the fruit of the Spirit in the singular. God is at work to make the believer’s life more and more like Jesus.
Bible story
Barnabas appears in the book of Acts as a man who encourages others, rejoices in God’s grace, and looks for the good of the Church. In the way he lived, we see something of the fruit of the Spirit: kindness, faithfulness, and love for people.
Remember
- The truth: When the Holy Spirit works, He makes a new character grow in us.
- The fruit of the Spirit shows that God changes character, not only outward behavior.
- This fruit grows over time and looks more and more like the life of Jesus.
Galatians 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”
Tap to open the verse in Scripture and mark it as read.
- Pray for one particular fruit that you see you are missing, such as patience or gentleness.
- Pay attention to the way you speak and react; that is often where you can see what is growing in the heart.
- Rejoice in small steps of change, and thank God for them.
1. What is the fruit of the Spirit?
2. Which of these is part of the fruit of the Spirit?
3. The fruit of the Spirit is produced by…
4. How do you recognize the fruit of the Spirit?