WILL THE REAL CHRISTIAN PLEASE STEP FORWARD: Part Six
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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The Fruit of the Spirit
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Mat
3:7 (NIV) "...Produce fruit in keeping with repentance."
Mat
7:16-23 (NIV) [Jesus:] "By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people
pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise every good tree
bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad
fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will
recognize them. Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the
kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name,
and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell
them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'"
Mat
12:33 (NIV) "Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree
bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit."
Gal
5:22-23 (NIV) The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong
to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
John
13:35 (NIV) "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you
love one another."
Col
1:6 (Wey) Just as it [the Gospel] has also spread through the whole world,
yielding fruit and increasing, as it has done among you from the day when first
you heard it and came really to know the grace of God.
Plp
2:12-13 (NIV) Therefore, my dear friends... continue to work out your salvation
with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to
act according to his good purpose.
John
15:4-5,8,16 (NIV) [Jesus:] "Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No
branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you
bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a
man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can
do nothing... This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing
yourselves to be my disciples... You did not choose me, but I chose you and
appointed you to go and bear fruit--fruit that will last..."
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