The Fruit of the Spirit is … (Biblia.com)

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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...

out. Self-control is not biting our tongues whilst at the same time harbouring ill thoughts towards those around us. Self-control is not refraining from hitting someone and then pounding a punching bag or taking our aggression out at the gym by lifting weights. Rather, self-control is the ability to deny ourselves the indulgence of our sinful desires even when no one can see us, even when no one can know our thoughts. Self-control is ultimately the ability to be controlled, not by the sinful self,

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