Fruit Of The Spirit Tic ~ Tac ~ Toe
Love
Longsuffering
Gentleness
Peace
Joy
Goodness
Faith
Meekness
Temperance
Apples and Oranges
The following questions are optional.  Each player must answer the question correctly to place his/her fruit in the correct space.
Love
1.  Who loves you?
2. Who loves the world so much He died to save us from our sins?  (John 3:16)
3. Which son did Jacob (Israel) love more than all his children that he made a coat of many colors?  (Genesis 37:3)
4. What did Jesus say was the great commandment in the law?  (Matthew 22:36 & 37)
5. In 1st Corinthians 13:13 we read, “And now abideth faith, hope, charity (or love), these three.”  What is the greatest of these?

Joy
1. What gives you joy and makes you happy?
2. Who told the shepherds, “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people”?  (Luke 2:10)
3. After David returned from killing the giant Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing with great joy, but who became very jealous and tried to kill David? (I Samuel 18:6-11)
4. David said in the book of Psalms “weeping may endure for a night, but _______.”
(Psalm 30:5)
5. In the parable of the sower; on which ground do they receive the word with joy; and have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away?
(Luke 8:13 and Matthew 13:20 & 21)

Peace
1. David says we can lay down in peace and sleep, because (who) gives us safety?
(Psalm 4:8)
2. What did Jesus say to calm the stormy winds and the sea? (Mark 4:39)
3. Who appeared to the shepherds and praised God saying, “Gory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men”? (Luke 2:8-14)
4. Isaiah declared “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The might God, The everlasting Father, __________.” (Isaiah 9:6)
5. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called _________.” (Matthew 5:9)

Longsuffering
1. Who loves us and is longsuffering with us when we do wrong?
2. Who was longsuffering with his 11 brothers and let them have corn in Egypt, even though they had treated him badly?  (Genesis 45:1-7)
3. Because God was longsuffering with the people of Nineveh, whom did He send to preach to them? (Jonah 1:1&2 and 4:11)
4. What leader of the children of Israel was longsuffering with them and prayed that God would not destroy them in the wilderness? (Deuteronomy 9:7-29)
5. Who is longsuffering to us “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance”? (II Peter 3:9)






Gentleness
1. Who was the mother of Jesus and was gentle with her new baby? (Luke 2:7)
2. What Hebrew baby did Pharaoh’s daughter gently take out of the Nile River? (Exodus 2:10)
3. Who was gentle with the man robbed and beaten on the Jericho road? (Luke 10:30-35)
4. Isaiah tells us that in the New Kingdom the “cow and the ____ shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox” (Isaiah 11:7)
5. Who took Paul and Silas to his house and washed their stripes and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house? (Acts 16:25-34)

Goodness
1. Who wants us to be good?
2. Who is the Good Shepherd? (John 10:7-14)
3. Who was a good man that found grace in the eyes of the LORD and God told him to build an ark before the flood? (Genesis 6:8-14)
4. Which well known Psalm ends, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever”? (Psalm 23:6)
5. What did God create on the first day, and saw that it was good? (Genesis 1:4 & 5)

Faith
1. Who had faith and built an ark to the saving of his house? (Hebrews 11:7)
2. Who had faith that God would deliver Israel when he slew the giant Philistine, Goliath, with a sling and a stone? (I Samuel 17:50)
3. Who had faith that God would deliver him from the hungry lions and continued to pray to his God? (Daniel 6:10-24)
4. Who by faith led God’s people out of Egypt, through the winderness, to the Promised Land? (Hebrews 11:23-29)
5. Who had faith that God would deliver them out of the fiery furnace and would not bow to the golden image of King Nebuchadnezzar? (Daniel 3:16-25)

Meekness
1. Who, in meekness, gave His life on a cruel cross? (Luke 23:46)
2. Who was the meekest man in all the earth that God chose to lead His people out of Egypt and to the Promised Land? (Numbers 12:3)
3. In His sermon on the mount, Jesus said, “Blessed are the meek: for they shall ________.” (Matthew 5:5)
4. Who said, “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls”? (Matthew 11:29)
5. Who washed the Lord’s feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair?
(Luke 7:44 and John 11:2)

Temperance
1. Who fasted forty days and forty nights in the wilderness and show great self-control and temperance when Satan tempted him? (Matthew 4:1-11)
2. Who said, “Be ye holy; for I am holy”? (Leviticus 11:44 and I Peter 1:16)
3. What four Hebrew children showed great temperance and would not defile themselves with the king’s meat or wine? (Daniel 1:5-17)
4. Who told the Corinthian Church, “if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offent”? (I Corinthians 8:13 and 1:1)
5. Who exhorted the Philippian Church in his letter saying, “Let your moderation be known unto all men”? (Philippians 4:5 and 1:1)





Answers

Love
1. (Answers vary)
2. Jesus
3. Joseph
4. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”
5. Charity, or love

Joy
1. (Answers vary)
2. The angel of the Lord
3. King Saul
4. Joy cometh in the morning
5. Those on the rock or in stoney places

Peace
1. The Lord
2. “Peace, be still”
3. Angels
4. The Prince of Peace
5. The children of God

Longsuffering
1. (Answers vary)
2. Joseph
3. Johan
4. Moses
5. The Lord

Gentleness
1. Mary
2. Moses
3. The Good Samaritan
4. Bear
5. The Keeper of the Prison, or Philippian Jailor

Goodness
1. (Answers vary)
2. Jesus
3. Noah
4. The 23rd Psalm
5. Light

Faith
1. Noah
2. David
3. Daniel
4. Moses
5. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (or Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah)

Meekness
1. Jesus
2. Moses
3. Inherit the earth
4. Jesus
5. Mary, the sister of Lazarus

Temperance
1. Jesus
2. God
3. Daniel (Belteshazzar), Hananiah (Shadrach), Mishael (Meshach), and Azariah (Abednego)
4. Paul
5. Paul

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