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II. The Holy Spirit Produces Fruit in Believers
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law" (Gal. 5:22, 23).
These graces are the product of the Spirit. It is the fruit of the Spirit; that is, it is His fruit, not our
fruit. He must produce it. Self cannot produce these graces. God the Father desires fruit. Christ
informed us that He is the true Vine, that His Father is the Husbandman, and that believers are the
branches. The husbandman desires fruit. It is the sap, the hidden life in the vine, which partakes of
the minerals of the soil through the roots, transmitting them into the vine and the vine into the
branches that produces the fruit. This beautifully illustrates the work of the Holy Spirit Who came
from God (the Husbandman), into Christ (the Vine), and then was released to dwell in believers (the
branches) who bear the fruit. He operates in the unseen, and the manifestation of His operations is
revealed in the believers by the fruit which He produces through them. He produces fruit, not fruits.
His fruit is love which is manifested in different manners. God is love, and all His doings are
prompted by love. This is true of Christ and of the Holy Spirit, and in a great measure should be true
of believers. When the fruit, the branches, the vine, the roots, and the soil are analyzed, we discover
that each is the same only subsisting in different forms. So God is love, and Christ is love, and the
believer is rooted and grounded in love. The Holy Spirit takes the virtues of God and of Christ and
transmits them to us. It is His desire to reproduce these graces in our lives.
III. The Holy Spirit Strengthens the Inner Man
"That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by
his Spirit in the inner man" (Eph. 3:16).
This strengthening results in becoming rooted and grounded in love. It helps the believer to
apprehend what is the breadth, length, height, and depth, and to know the love of Christ which
passeth knowledge, and to be filled with the fullness of God. The Holy Spirit strengthens the inner
man which benefits us in relation to God, to self, and to others. In relation to God, He makes the
believer strong in faith, in courage, and in endurance. He enables the believer to overcome Satan.
Then the Holy Spirit enables the believer to do all that God calls him to do. With the special calling
that comes from God, the Spirit gives the qualifications to fulfill that calling. Christ said, "But ye
shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me
both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts
1:8). He enables the preacher to preach in the demonstration of the Spirit and of power. (See I Cor.
2:1-5.)
In relation to self, He helps the inner man, that is, the spirit, to discipline the physical or outward
man to subject himself to His leadings, and to cheerfully fall in line with the will of God, though it
will cost privations, hardships, sacrifice, and sufferings to the flesh.
In relation to others, the Spirit will give wisdom, inspiration and power to enable the believer as
a worker to deal wisely with each individual. Every person in the church, from the least to the
greatest, the janitor, every member, and official up to the minister needs to be filled and led by the