Galatians 5:22
22 But [de] the fruit [karpos] of the Spirit [pneuma] is [esti] love [agape], joy [chara], peace [eirene],
longsuffering [makrothumia], gentleness [chrestotes], goodness [agathosune],
faith [pistis],
KJV-Interlinear
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, NASB
The fruit of the spirit, is the spiritual production
that you have when you are, in fellowship. The fruit of the flesh is the carnal
production that you have when you are, not in fellowship. Most people live their lives, out of
fellowship, and therefore most human production is carnal and not spiritual.
You get credit for spiritual production as far as
your spiritual life goes. You never get
credit for carnal production.
Gold, silver and precious stones, are the typical
references for spiritual production.
Wood, hay and stubble refer to carnal production, or production of the
flesh.
When you get to heaven and stand before Christ, a
special fire will burn away all flesh production and only spiritual production
will remain. Such that only the
spiritual production will remain for credit for eternal reward.
If you do good, while out of fellowship, that is
carnal production and useless. If you do
anything while in fellowship, then you get credit for all that you do while in
fellowship.
But as we have already seen, all works of the flesh
are transgressions, or evil, or corruption, based on arrogance and human
effort. God does not recognize human
effort.
Spiritual production, or the fruit of the spirit,
begins with knowledge of doctrine, ‘agape,’ which is the content of the
scriptures, that you must learn and assimilate into your soul.
And this continues with joy, or a calm delight.
And peace, or a relaxed mental attitude.
And longsuffering, which is patience.
And gentleness, which is charity.
And goodness, which is virtue.
And faith, which is certainty and confidence.
