Contributed by Scott Bayles on Jun 28, 2012
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THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
And the first thing God told Adam and Eve was: "Don't."
"Don't what?" Adam replied.
"Don't eat the forbidden fruit," God said.
"Forbidden fruit? We got forbidden fruit? Hey, Eve . . . we got Forbidden Fruit!"
"No way!"
"Yes WAY!"
"Don't eat that fruit!" said
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Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 10, 2011
ROOTS AND FRUITS
How many of you have been to a funeral? As you approach the casket you'll see numerous floral arrangements, and these floral displays use two different kinds of flowers.
First there are the bouquets of cut flowers, and there are planters. There's generally more bouquets than
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Contributed by John Tung on Feb 11, 2009
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WHY FRUIT?
Why are these character traits called fruit of the spirit? Why not other food groups: like meat of the spirit or bread of the spirit or dairy of the spirit?
There are four reasons why it’s called fruit of the spirit: because fruit is healthy, sweet, living and whole.
Fruit is healthy
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Contributed by Chris Jordan on Oct 23, 2008
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BEARING FRUIT
I once read of a little boy who used to escape his bedroom after being punished. He would crawl out of his bedroom window down an old fruit tree to the ground. One day, his father told him that he was going to chop down the fruit tree, because it hadn’t borne any fruit for a number
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Contributed by Ken Pell on Jan 26, 2008
Spiritual Fruit
I have something in my treasure chest that you will recognize today.
This small limb is from a very specific tree in my back yard. Do you know what kind of tree it is? Try and guess.
This limb is from an apple tree.
Every year this APPLE tree gives Vickie and me a lot of
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Nazarene
Contributed by Brian La Croix on Jul 6, 2008
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FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
The fruit is singular, not plural.
The most common teaching is that there are nine fruits of the Spirit. But that’s not the case. It’s one “fruit,” and that fruit has those characteristics.
For instance, take an apple. It’s one apple, but it has many characteristics: red,
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
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FRUIT DISTRIBUTION
The Spirit's provision of fruit might be compared to a man standing on a ladder in an orchard, picking the fruit and dropping it into a basket held by a helper below. No matter how much fruit is picked and dropped, the helper
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Contributed by Robert Sickler on Jan 26, 2012
FRUIT REQUIRES EFFORT AND DEDICATION
The young boy stood looking up at the naked ice-covered limbs of his favorite cherry tree. It was 4:30 in the morning and the full moon produced a silvery sheen in the ice, which almost seemed to originate within the branches themselves. The young man let out
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Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 18, 2009
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WHERE FRUIT BEGINS
I believe with everything that is in me that fruit begins with each one of us. It begins with a decision, “I want to bear fruit. I want to honor Jesus. I want to walk in his ways. And I will do it no matter what. No matter what life throws at me. No matter what struggles I face.
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Church Of God
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THE SPILLED FRUIT SALAD!
Here is a bowl of fruit salad for you!
I always make fruit salad for Christmas, it has been a family tradition for many years.
While at home, my Mom and Dad always received a lot of fruit for Christmas.
We would always make fruit salad out of the fruit and top it with
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Assembly Of God
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Illustration: Old Age -Fruit of God
A young man came to a man of ninety years of age and said to him, "How have you made out to live so long and be so well?" The old man took the youngster to an orchard, and, pointing to some large trees full of apples, said, "I planted these trees when I was a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
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"The fruit of the Spirit is the harvest, marking growth and maturity. It produces ethical character. It is the true measure of holiness of life and practice in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 10, 2007
The fruit of the Spirit is not the work of the believer. It is the work of Christ in his soul... That is being done in him and through him by the Lord Himself. It may be noted that the apple grows on the apple tree; the orchard owner does not
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience the
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"The most fruitful lesson is the conquest of ones own error. Whoever refuses to admit error may be a great scholar, but he is not a great learner. Whoever is ashamed of error will struggle against recognizing and
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"The love of anything is the fruit of our knowledge of it, and grows
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the
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