Monday, June 24, 2013

God Is 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 our Father is: love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. Now according to Jesus, if we are saved and He abides within us, we will be used by our Father to produce much of His fruit and we will be known by that 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 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 much love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance through us! Because our Father will be made known to the world by His fruit that He produces through us.

It’s our Father within us Who does the works, John 14:10, 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! We are now the branches of the Vine of Christ that bear God’s fruit! Our Father is a God of action and deed and through Christ we serve God with action and Truth. We do this because He is within us, and He is a Being of only action and Truth!

Our Father 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

Our Father has demonstrated His presence from the very beginning of time and He never changes, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! The world will come to know our Father 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. Greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world!

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