glorydaz
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You're under educated. And do not appreciate what a gift God has given you.
I do appreciate what God has given me, but I don't claim the fruit of the Spirit as my own. My love would never be as good as God's. My long-suffering would never be good enough. Those things don't come from my spirit. They are the result of the Holy Spirit's working in my life.
We live and are empowered by the Spirit of God yet we are not zombies that are incapable of doing acts of love. By placing the fruit of the spirit as being the fruit of the Holy Spirit you are denying that when you sin it is your flesh.
Oh, we can do acts of love, but without the love of God being shed abroad on our heart BY the Holy Spirit, those acts of love would merely be selfish acts of the flesh. And, you should ditch the zombie analogy, it's over-used and doesn't have a thing to do with who it is that produces the Fruit OF THE SPIRIT in us.
You have both my little lass, a newborn spirit and the flesh. When you sin, that's your flesh. When you're loving (unlike while reading this hehe) you're walking in your new born human spirit.
I'm not in the flesh, nor do I sin in the flesh, my little turtle dove, but I'll let you go on preaching if you're so inclined. You're going to have to do a better job, though, if you expect me to accept what you're saying.
Romans 8:9-10 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.