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 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 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 Ken Pell on Jan 27, 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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                    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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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 27, 2010
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE ROOT BEARS THE FRUIT
A farmer one planted two fruit trees on opposite sides of his property.  The one he planted to provide a hedge hide the unsightly view of an old landfill; the other to provide shade to rest under near a cool mountain stream which ran down beside his fields.  As the two
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Mar 15, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WORKS VS. FRUIT
A machine in a factory works and turns out a product, but it could never manufacture "fruit." Fruit must grow out of life, and, in the case of the believer, it is the life of the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). When you think of "works," you think of effort, labor, strain, and toil; when you
                    
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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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                    Contributed by Mark Eberly on May 19, 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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