Email from Abiding Place Daily Bread – February 17, 2025 (The Second Day – Genesis 1:6-8) Romans 6:22 – But now, having been set free from sin, and have become servants to God, you now have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life. Fruit Unto Holiness – The Holy Spirit’s Role Fruits are the expressions of one’s conduct and manner of life. When we were the servants of sin, our fruits were the shameful behaviors of iniquity. Now that we are the servants of God, our behavior glorifies God. The fruit of holiness is, in fact, the same as the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, enduring patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance (Galatians 5:22-23). These are the evidence our members are yielded to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, Who is leading and guiding us into all truth, produces the things which pertain unto holiness as we voluntarily yield ourselves to His influence (John 16:13; Romans 6:13; 2 Peter 1:3-4). He is our Teacher, Who has come to show us how to function in the nature of God (1 John 3:24; Philippians 2:13; Colossians 1:29; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Timothy 3:16). If we will yield ourselves to Him, then we are baptized in His influence (Ephesians 5:18; Romans 6:16, 19; Galatians 5:25). We are not able to bear these fruits of holiness unless we are willing to dwell in Jesus. This life of the Spirit demands we dwell in Jesus as a branch dwells in a vine – for without Jesus, we can do nothing (John 15:5; Romans 7:4; Philippians 1:11). The fruits in our lives before we were made a new creation were the fruits of death and of sin (Romans 7:5). But now, we have the fruit of the Spirit of Life which is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth (Romans 7:6; Ephesians 5:9). Blessings, Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
Daily Bread 2/17/2025
