Let me tell you the difference between Apple and Apple. This is the gift. This is
the fruit. The gifts of the Holy Spirit they're nice very nice. They tell you
things like we were worshipping and it was saying, hey the place you're in is
too loud ten more minutes and your ears are gonna hurt.
I showed Ilya. Ilya I'm gonna die. That's the gift. It has so many awesome
features. It's so important. It helps me to track my fitness, it helps me to read
messages. It's beautiful. That is the gift. You wear it, you use, it has functions.
This is the fruit. The fruits you know where they're made
not in China okay maybe some in China. But they're made in the garden where
the trees don't strive. Trees just just trees and fruits are produced slowly.
First, they're sour and then they're sweet.
See when Holy Spirit is working on your character, your character first will be
sour. And you don't guilt trip yourself with it you just know one thing I keep
cultivating a relationship and He keeps working. And if your wife says,
"Your characters still sour say it's because Holy Spirit is working." If your
patience is sour, Holy Spirit is working. If you still not there were you
supposed to be, you don't go back and pick it up to working on it you say "Holy
Spirit is working and I have to be sour before I'm sweet." Fruit the benefit of a
fruit is this, if you're full of the Holy Spirit you work on your relationship not
on your character. He will produce it slowly.
He will make it sour before it's sweet. But then the best part is this. People
around you will be nourished as a result of you yielding to the Holy Spirit. Your
spouse will not have to have counseling to deal with the damages of your words
because you will be a fruit. You know what they do with fruits?
They eat them. I always say this when you have a fruit of the Spirit, your spouse
will be fed by you. Without the fruit of the Spirit, they will be fed up with you.
When you have a fruit of the Spirit, your parents will be fed by you. That's
exactly what's going to happen with the spirit-filled person at home. Parents
will do this "mmm" and clean that house, wash the dishes, you home on time man so
good. "Hey son you need any money? I'm gonna find you some." Why? Because
when you full of the Holy Spirit, you have a fruit of the Spirit. When you have
a fruit of the Spirit, you will feed those near you. You can impact the stages
with this but you will always feed with your fruit. That's why you can make
nations think you're anointed and your family doesn't want to talk to you.
Because you got the gift but you don't have the fruit. But how do you get the
fruit? You are filled with Holy Spirit, you cultivate relationship. You don't
work on your character, you work on your relationship. He produces the fruit and
the people around you get the benefit of eating from the work of the Holy Spirit
in your life. And if you don't have it you starve people around you and they
will always say things "We're fed up with you."
Not because you don't have the anointing. Not because you don't have the gifting.
It's because you're working on your character and your reputation instead of
working on your relationship that will produce your character and your
reputation. Somebody say Amen! Somebody touch your neighbor say "Don't work on
your character." Touch your neighbor say "Cultivate relationship, Cultivate
intimacy with God. Don't try to fix your issues. Fix your intimacy with God."
Can somebody say Amen? Come on, can somebody say Amen! Somebody needed to hear
this right now. There is a word for somebody in this room. God is bringing
freedom because you've been under stress trying to change your character. And
God is saying listen I want to change that for you but I want you to spend time
with me. I want you to spend time in my Word. I want you to make relationship a
priority instead of your character.