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3. Contributor Richard O’Ffill Principal Contributor T HE F RUIT OF THE S PIRIT

4. The Fruit of the Spirit Contents 1. “By Their FRUIT…” 2. The Fruit of the Spirit Is LOVE 3. The Fruit of the Spirit Is JOY 4. The Fruit of the Spirit Is PEACE 5. The Fruit of the Spirit Is PATIENCE 6. The Fruit of the Spirit Is KINDNESS 7. The Fruit of the Spirit Is GOODNESS 8. The Fruit of the Spirit Is FAITHFULNESS 9. The Fruit of the Spirit Is MEEKNESS 10. The Fruit of the Spirit Is SELF-CONTROL 11. The Fruit of the Spirit Is RIGHTEOUSNESS 12. The Fruit of the Spirit Is TRUTH 13. The Fruit of the Spirit: The Essence of CHRISTIAN CHARACTER

5. The Fruit of the Spirit Our Goal {5} The purpose of this quarter’s lessons is not to focus on how we can become more patient or more loving or more gentle or more faithful but on how we can let the Holy Spirit make us more like Jesus, who is patience, love, gentleness, and faithfulness personified.

6. The Fruit of the Spirit Lesson 12, March 20 The Fruit of the Spirit Lesson 12, March 20 The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth

7. Key Text Jeremiah 29:13 NKJV “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.”

8. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth Initial Words {150} The Greek word for truth, aletheia, has two meanings. One is objective truth (actual facts, verity, or principle), and the other is subjective truth (truth as a personal excellence—a candor of mind that is free from affectation, pretense, dissimulation, falsehood, and deceit). When both of these are real in our lives, we will manifest truth as a fruit of the Spirit.

9. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth Quick Look 1. Jesus is the Truth (John 14:6) 2. Seeking the Truth (Jeremiah 29:13) 3. Walking in Truth (2 John 4)

10. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth 1. Jesus is the Truth John 14:6 NKJV “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’ ”

11. 1.Jesus is the Truth Truth Is a Person {151} This text challenges the idea that truth is only subjective and personal: “Each finds his own path to God.” There’s a whole other element. The Truth is a Person. You come to truth through a relationship with a Person. This is a different idea from the notion of truth being only a group of facts. Jesus, a human being, is the Truth; thus, if you want to know truth, you have to know Jesus.

12. “Only when the truth is accompanied to the heart by the Spirit will it quicken the conscience or transform the life. … Unless the Holy Spirit sets home the truth, no souls will fall on the Rock and be broken.” —The Desire of Ages 671, 672. What we see in the work of the Holy Spirit is both the objective and subjective aspect of Truth. 1.Jesus is the Truth The Spirit and Truth {153}

13. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth 2. Seeking the Truth Jeremiah 29:13 NLT “If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me.” “When you come looking for me, you’ll find me.” Msg

14. 2. Seeking the Truth “With All Your Heart” {155} “With all your heart” means “sincerely,” true in word and act. Sincerity means being real and genuine, not artificial. It means speaking or acting “from the heart” and meaning it. Sincerity is important because the one who isn’t sincere, the one whose heart isn’t committed to what’s true and right, is someone with a divided heart.

15. The more we continue in evil, and the more we do what we know is wrong, the more defiled our conscience becomes and the further from the Truth we get. You can have more than enough head knowledge to be saved. Objective truth alone is not a fruit of the Spirit. Truth lived out in our life, that’s the fruit we need to bear. 2. Seeking the Truth A Conscience Seared {157}

16. 1 John 1:6 NKJV “If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.” The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth 3. Walking in Truth

17. Living in God’s Light {159} Truth, as a fruit of the Spirit, isn’t just what we know—it’s what we do. Walking in the light, walking in the truth, is more than just keeping the Ten Commandments. Living in the truth is basically manifested by how we deal with people and how we treat them.

18. If we are sharp, cross, unforgiving, vengeful, hateful, unsympathetic; 3. Walking in Truth Living in God’s Light {159} if we treat people as means rather than as ends, if we are trampling upon others in an attempt to advance our- selves, then we are walking in darkness, no matter how strictly we keep the Sabbath, no matter how faithfully we adhere to the health message, no matter how much we profess faith in Jesus, pay tithe, and go to church.

19. The Fruit of the Spirit Is Truth Final Words {156} The Bible, God’s Holy Word, reveals who Jesus is. It is the means by which we understand the great metanarrative of human existence—the great controversy between God and Satan, the plan of salvation, the end of sin and Satan forever. It is therefore impossible to know the Truth—Jesus—minus God’s Holy Word.