that manifest Godly wisdom
- Overcoming anger in a sporting event
- Cleaning up one’s language and thought process
- Learning to overcome compromise
- Demonstrating a change of heart
- Having an open attitude toward correction
- Good tree versus bad tree, being careful to observe the fruit
- Hypocrisy taints fruit
- Anything that damages the congregation is evidence of bad fruit
- Repentance is an ongoing process -- continue bearing good fruit
- The mental battle in being able to produce good fruits
- Excitement going into God’s Sabbath
- Stopping excessive drinking
- Patience
- Taking proper time with prayer and study
- Starting to keep the Sabbath
- Changing conversation to Godly conversation and escaping worldly conversation
- Less talking, more listening
- Avoiding arguments about belief (people who think differently from you)
- More compassionate with people in the world
- A joyous home
- Sending cards
- Offering to do the dishes and take out the trash
- When someone returns back to the faith being a congregation that is open and accepting of them
- Honesty
- Humility
- Change
- Attitude of Service
- Respect
- Peaceable Attitude
- Looking Out For Others
- Tenacity
- Keep Your Tongue
- Forgiveness
- Hard Worker
- Compassion
- Prayer
- Humility
Examples of bad fruits
o Division and discord
o Gossip
o Divorce
o Sometimes bad fruit can look good (example of the melon)
o Backstabbing
o Being self-centered and focused on ourselves rather focusing on others
o Not taking proper rebuke
o Not provoking your children to wrath
o Outbursts of anger