God Will Be Made Known By His Fruit

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians 5:22-23

“I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without Me ye can do nothing.” John 15:5

“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Matthew 7:16

The fruit of God is: love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. And according to Jesus if we are saved and He abides within us, then we will be used by God to produce much of His fruit and we will be known by our fruit! Jesus is our Vine and we are now His branches and without Him we can do nothing. The only fruit that we will produce as the branches of Jesus our Lord and Savior, is the fruit that He produces through us! Do we gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles? The fruit of Jesus is: love, joy, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. So if we are truly saved and if we are truly the branches of Jesus then we should absolutely expect that He produces only much love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance through us! “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

Here is what God was showing me this morning, not only will we be known by our fruit, but that He will be made known by His fruit that He produces through us. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father that dwelleth in Me, He doeth the works.” John 14:10 It’s God within us Who does the works and the only reason that we can do anything is because of Jesus. So when the world sees fruit being produced through us, what they are actually seeing is God and the world will know Him by His fruit! And we are now the branches of His Vine that bear His fruit! God is a God of action and deed. We serve God in action and Truth because He is within us, and He is a Being of only action and Truth! We are now members of His body, of His flesh, and His bones as Ephesians 5:30 proclaims we are.

God has never asked man to believe on Him solely by hearing about Him. “And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:” 1 Corinthians 2:14 “Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake.” John 14:11 God has demonstrated His presence from the very beginning and He never changes, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! Jesus taught us that if we have faith, even faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, than God could work miraculously through us. And as we just read, faith is the evidence of what we hope for. Faith for us comes from hearing the Truth and the Truth sets us free. We need to hear that God working powerfully through us shows the world Who and what He is! The world will come to know God by the fruit that He produces through us. We should expect to have faith directly from God so that we may be used by Him to perform miraculous things. We should expect God to cause us to love regardless of the situation. We should expect God to cause us to be patient, good, gentle, and meek. And we should expect God to cause us to be full of joy continually. We are the branches of the Vine that produces this fruit. The fruit will make this Truth known and through this fruit the world will believe and be saved! Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world!

Be blessed in the power of His might!