The apostle Paul contrasts the fruit of the Spirit with the works of the flesh. The works of the flesh are fornication, idolatry, jealousy, selfishness, etc. The fruit of the Spirit , however, is precisely what God alone can effect in us. The fruit of the Spirit is the fruitfulness of that Spirit now rooted ever so deep in us and suffusing us throughout. The gifts of the Spirit, on the other hand, have to do not with the formation of the Christian's character but with the ministry or service that we render to the congregation or to the world.
Fruit has to do with character, gifts with service.
The service we are to render is whatever talent or ability we have made available to others for the edification of others. Fruit and gifts are the result of the Spirit's saturation of that man or woman whom the Spirit first convicted and convinced and brought to repentance and faith. Today is Pentecost Sunday. Peter preached a sermon boring in the first half and antagonistic in the second. Many hearers, however, were neither bored nor antagonized.