“Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.” Philippians 1:11
We are filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus and since we are, we do the works of righteousness, and we speak righteously and it brings glory and praise to God! “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45 We will work righteously and we will talk righteously by the power of Christ that is within us and that will bring glory to God, and since we do, people will know that we are born of God! Not all who say Lord, Lord, will be saved. Only those who are known by Jesus and who are empowered with the Holy Spirit to do the works of the Lord shall be saved!
What are the fruits of righteousness? Well, first let’s read what Jesus said about us and fruit. “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He may give it you.” John 15:16 The first fruit of righteousness and the reason that Jesus has chosen us and ordained us is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature! Now to assist us in producing this fruit we have the power to go to God and ask for what is needed and it will be given us! We have the Holy Ghost within us to teach us all things, so as we are preaching the Gospel to every creature the Holy Ghost will tell us what we need to accomplish it. The Name of Jesus gives us access to go to God and get it, and out of the abundance of our hearts we will speak it, and then the power of God through us will produce righteous fruit that will remain! And every angel in Heaven will rejoice because a lost sheep has come home, someone is saved! This is our great commission; to ever live to serve others by allowing God to freely work through us. Just as it is Jesus’ great commission, and we are one with Him, to ever live to serve believers! And since Jesus does ever live to serve us, we are saved to the uttermost! And Jesus says that with the Word of God, we will be used to produce thirty, sixty, and even a hundredfold return! Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
The next fruit of righteousness is this: “But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” Romans 6:22
We are free from sin, praise God we are free from sin! Just as if we are free from debt, and owe no man anything, we are free from sin; there is none within us. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Notice that we are made free from sin? God doesn’t say that we just don’t sin, God actually frees us from sin and He does it through the Blood of Christ, and the Blood washes us clean from sin! And since we are free from sin by the Blood of Christ, we are holy. Being holy is a fruit of righteousness. I know so many people that believe we will always be sinners while we are here on this earth, but that’s not true. The real problem with this thought process is that the people who believe this way are relying on themselves to keep clean from sin, and they will fail every time! They are putting their trust and faith in their own abilities and not where it should be, which is in God! God is not weak in this area, Jesus’ Blood doesn’t fail to wash us clean from all of our sin, and as King David said, we are blessed, because we are righteous and our works didn’t make us that way! We are now free from sin, and we are holy only because of Jesus, and this is one of our fruits of righteousness! “For if the First-Fruit be Holy (Jesus), the lump is also holy: and if the Root be Holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16
“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
We are now filled with all of these things, the glass isn’t half full, it’s full! We are filled with the fruit of the Spirit by the power of Jesus Christ within us and since we are full, it brings praise and glory to God! Jesus fills us with all of these things, and if there is anything that would hinder them from filling us, God will prune it out of us! “Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:2 This is the greatness of His salvation for us; we continually grow in the fruits of righteousness! We will continually produce more fruit by the power of Christ within us, and God will continually receive more and more glory through us! God is the perfect Gardener, and we are one with the Perfect Vine, and if the Vine is righteous, the branches are righteous as well! Hallelujah, that is great preaching! We will continually be used by God to produce more love, joy, peace, faith, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperance, and we will continually suffer people not believing in Jesus, even though they see His righteousness through us. This is the fruit of the Holy Ghost within us! “(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and Truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord” Ephesians 5:9-10
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins gird about with Truth, and having the breastplate of righteousness upon you. And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace; Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God” Ephesians 6:13-17 Now this is really good here, we have the breastplate of righteousness, we have God’s breastplate of righteousness, it’s not a duplicate, it’s His very own! That’s good Truth in and of itself! But, what does God’s breastplate of righteousness protect? The breastplate protects our hearts; righteousness protects our hearts! We believe with the heart and that is how we are saved! Oh, do you see where God is going with this? Faith is to be taken above all of the other armor, but if we fail to allow God to use it through us in a situation, His righteousness still protects our hearts! Glory be to God, I have lived this so many times. Something comes and shakes me, and I don’t allow Jesus to Author and Finish His faith within me to speak the Word to the situation, and yet I come out unharmed, and stronger than before the attack! And I do, because God’s righteousness has protected the very thing that I have to believe in Him, my heart!
We are righteous because Jesus is righteous. Jesus fills us with the fruits of righteousness, and the Holy Spirit produces the fruits of righteousness within us, and if anything is hindering this process, God removes it, so that He can produce more fruit through us! And praise God if we fail to allow Him to Author our faith, or we fail to use His Word, or if we fail to act in peace, or if we fail to operate in Truth, the breastplate of God’s righteousness will still protect our hearts! We are completely saved and through Christ we are righteous, and that is how people will know that we are born again!
We are filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus and since we are, we do the works of righteousness, and we speak righteously and it brings glory and praise to God! “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Luke 6:45 We will work righteously and we will talk righteously by the power of Christ that is within us and that will bring glory to God, and since we do, people will know that we are born of God! Not all who say Lord, Lord, will be saved. Only those who are known by Jesus and who are empowered with the Holy Spirit to do the works of the Lord shall be saved!
What are the fruits of righteousness? Well, first let’s read what Jesus said about us and fruit. “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My Name, He may give it you.” John 15:16 The first fruit of righteousness and the reason that Jesus has chosen us and ordained us is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature! Now to assist us in producing this fruit we have the power to go to God and ask for what is needed and it will be given us! We have the Holy Ghost within us to teach us all things, so as we are preaching the Gospel to every creature the Holy Ghost will tell us what we need to accomplish it. The Name of Jesus gives us access to go to God and get it, and out of the abundance of our hearts we will speak it, and then the power of God through us will produce righteous fruit that will remain! And every angel in Heaven will rejoice because a lost sheep has come home, someone is saved! This is our great commission; to ever live to serve others by allowing God to freely work through us. Just as it is Jesus’ great commission, and we are one with Him, to ever live to serve believers! And since Jesus does ever live to serve us, we are saved to the uttermost! And Jesus says that with the Word of God, we will be used to produce thirty, sixty, and even a hundredfold return! Faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
The next fruit of righteousness is this: “But now being made free from sin, and become servants of God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.” Romans 6:22
We are free from sin, praise God we are free from sin! Just as if we are free from debt, and owe no man anything, we are free from sin; there is none within us. What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? Notice that we are made free from sin? God doesn’t say that we just don’t sin, God actually frees us from sin and He does it through the Blood of Christ, and the Blood washes us clean from sin! And since we are free from sin by the Blood of Christ, we are holy. Being holy is a fruit of righteousness. I know so many people that believe we will always be sinners while we are here on this earth, but that’s not true. The real problem with this thought process is that the people who believe this way are relying on themselves to keep clean from sin, and they will fail every time! They are putting their trust and faith in their own abilities and not where it should be, which is in God! God is not weak in this area, Jesus’ Blood doesn’t fail to wash us clean from all of our sin, and as King David said, we are blessed, because we are righteous and our works didn’t make us that way! We are now free from sin, and we are holy only because of Jesus, and this is one of our fruits of righteousness! “For if the First-Fruit be Holy (Jesus), the lump is also holy: and if the Root be Holy, so are the branches.” Romans 11:16
“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
We are now filled with all of these things, the glass isn’t half full, it’s full! We are filled with the fruit of the Spirit by the power of Jesus Christ within us and since we are full, it brings praise and glory to God! Jesus fills us with all of these things, and if there is anything that would hinder them from filling us, God will prune it out of us! “Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” John 15:2 This is the greatness of His salvation for us; we continually grow in the fruits of righteousness! We will continually produce more fruit by the power of Christ within us, and God will continually receive more and more glory through us! God is the perfect Gardener, and we are one with the Perfect Vine, and if the Vine is righteous, the branches are righteous as well! Hallelujah, that is great preaching! We will continually be used by God to produce more love, joy, peace, faith, goodness, gentleness, meekness, temperance, and we will continually suffer people not believing in Jesus, even though they see His righteousness through us. This is the fruit of the Holy Ghost within us! “(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and Truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord” Ephesians 5:9-10
“Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins gird about with Truth, and having the breastplate of righteousness upon you. And your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace; Above all taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God” Ephesians 6:13-17 Now this is really good here, we have the breastplate of righteousness, we have God’s breastplate of righteousness, it’s not a duplicate, it’s His very own! That’s good Truth in and of itself! But, what does God’s breastplate of righteousness protect? The breastplate protects our hearts; righteousness protects our hearts! We believe with the heart and that is how we are saved! Oh, do you see where God is going with this? Faith is to be taken above all of the other armor, but if we fail to allow God to use it through us in a situation, His righteousness still protects our hearts! Glory be to God, I have lived this so many times. Something comes and shakes me, and I don’t allow Jesus to Author and Finish His faith within me to speak the Word to the situation, and yet I come out unharmed, and stronger than before the attack! And I do, because God’s righteousness has protected the very thing that I have to believe in Him, my heart!
We are righteous because Jesus is righteous. Jesus fills us with the fruits of righteousness, and the Holy Spirit produces the fruits of righteousness within us, and if anything is hindering this process, God removes it, so that He can produce more fruit through us! And praise God if we fail to allow Him to Author our faith, or we fail to use His Word, or if we fail to act in peace, or if we fail to operate in Truth, the breastplate of God’s righteousness will still protect our hearts! We are completely saved and through Christ we are righteous, and that is how people will know that we are born again!
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