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J. V. Fesko’s The Fruit of the Spirit Is … explores the fruit of the Spirit in connection with the Old Testament, and it examines how we truly obtain godliness. Too often, Fesko points out, we try to achieve godliness by good intentions and religious strivings—efforts that always fall short. Here he looks at Paul’s famous fruit of the Spirit passage in Galatians 5, showing that this work of the...

it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith’ (Gal. 3:13–14). Because we are declared righteous in God’s sight, on account of the imputed righteousness of Christ, we receive the promised Holy Spirit—the indwelling power and presence of the fruit-producing Spirit. Fourth, the righteousness that we see described in the fruit of the Spirit is first and

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