The Fruit of the Spirit: Introduction

John the Baptist warns the religious people that they think they have it figured out but they don’t. Jesus once again calls the religious people a brood of vipers and that they don’t have everything figured out. Jesus however gives us one more thing to think about. If the old self leaves us and we don’t replace it with the new self that reflects the image of Christ then our old self will come back. We need to make sure we are showing the fruit of the keeping with repentance, or the fruit of the Spirit. Paul tells us what out life shouldn’t reflect and what it should in Galatians 5. We should ask ourselves what fruit we see in our lives, the first list Paul gives us in Galatians or the second.