DAILY TRUTH - Anorexia, Demon-Possession, TikTok, & The Fruit Of The Spirit.
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Summary
Truth and love are two different tools used at different times for different ends. Truth is a hammer and love is a screwdriver, and it depends on what job you're trying to accomplish. In some cases, we may need the hammer, and in other cases we need the screwdriver. The Bible describes the relationship between truth and love as "Love" and "Truth."
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. We would never tell a 17-year-old girl who weighs, you
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know 78 pounds and and she looks in the mirror and every time she looks in the mirror she says
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i'm a whale i'm so overweight i'm disgusting i'm ugly we would never say it's loving to tell that
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anorexic girl who has a a problem a mental problem dysphoria she is not seeing clearly
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she is deceived there may be demonic spirits at work or it may just simply be a mental
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deficiency, or it could be the effect of being brainwashed and influenced by TikTok and Instagram
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and Hollywood and all these different things, multiple contributing factors. But the point
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remains that what she sees when she looks in the mirror is categorically false. It is not true.
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And it therefore is not loving for us to go and say, I want to affirm your truth. Hey, if your
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truth is that you're fat as a as a 78 pound 17 year old girl well i mean it would be unloving
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for me to tell you that your truth isn't real so you know what sweetheart you are fat you're the
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fattest girl i've ever seen now apply that same logic to transgenderism is that not exactly what
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we're told to do as loving that same 17 year old girl let's now say she has a healthy weight
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but but she says i'm a boy well hey if that's what you see if that's how you feel if that's
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your truth and the most loving thing that i can do is affirm that reality no the most loving thing
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that we can do is love someone in truth when the bible says that we're called to speak the truth
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in love sadly many evangelical christians have taken truth and love as though they were at odds
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with one another. We've pitted them against one another. Like truth and love are two options
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and that we're able to choose one at any given time. Like as though truth and love are two
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different tools used at different moments for different ends, right? Truth is a hammer and
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love is a screwdriver and it depends on what job we're trying to accomplish. In some cases,
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we may need the hammer. In some cases, we may need the screwdriver. That is not the way that
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the Bible describes the relationship between truth and love. The truth is loving, and love,
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if it is love, is always truthful. The best way to think of these is apply it to the concept or
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the doctrine of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit, again, to go back to
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that analogy or illustration, it's not a toolbox with nine different tools inside, right? Love,
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joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
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I'm building a house right now, and at some moments I may need the saw, at other moments I need the
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screwdriver, at other moments I need the hammer. I'm going to take out of my toolbox love for this
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leg of the race, and truth for this leg of the race, and gentleness for it. No, the nine fruit of the
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Spirit. Listed in Galatians, first and foremost, it is not an exhaustive list. These are simply
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some of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And that word fruit should be understood as fruit, just
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like the fruit of our faith, as Connor said earlier, is obedience. Fruit simply means evidence,
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the result of, the physical visible manifestations of another ultimate reality. Fruit is the cause
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of the root or the effect, I should say, of the root. So when the Bible speaks of the fruits of
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the Spirit, we're not saying that there are nine fruit of the Spirit like a buffet and you choose
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one at a time or maybe two or three and you leave the rest there and you come back for them
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later whenever they're needed. That's not what's being described. To use, well, to use fruit as
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the analogy of fruit, right? An apple, banana, pineapple, oranges. If we were to think of it
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like that, there are not nine fruit of the Holy Spirit, meaning nine different kinds of food
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fruits, apples and oranges and lemons and whatever. No, it would be nine different characteristics of
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one piece of fruit. Like an apple is crunchy and sweet and tart and this and nine different
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characteristic. The fruit of the Spirit is the characteristics of the third person of the Holy
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Trinity, namely the Holy Spirit of God. That's the way that we're meant to understand the fruit
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of the Spirit, which means what? It means that if you have the Holy Spirit, which you do if you are
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in Christ, per 1 Corinthians chapter 6, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom
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you have received from God. You are not your own. You were bought with a price, and if you have the
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Holy Spirit, you do not have a portion of the Holy Spirit. Can I be frank with you for just a
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second right here at the end? Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry
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and from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you,
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you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest.
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We're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites
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lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply
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cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in
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a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the
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grocery store. You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you,
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