You Shall Know Them By Their Fruit.

[Guest clancy]

What does this mean ?....You Will Know Them By Their Fruits?

What is that scripture saying?

Im staying silent for the moment on this subject.

Would like to hear from you?

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by clancy

[Duck]

Good question

[mailmandan]

Bad trees (hearts) produce bad fruit. Jesus is identifying false teachers in Matthew chapter 7. He was giving us a guide for identifying them. False prophets will have actions that correspond to their corrupt nature. Just as a good tree (heart) produces good fruit to correspond with it’s regenerate nature. 

[Justin Adams]

From the agrarian setting of most scripture, if the tree did not produce it was radically pruned. If it still did not produce, then it was replaced with one that would. So hence, 'fruit' is a kind of bellwether as to a Believer's 'product' or 'yield'. Either good or bad. Plentiful or scarce. Positive or negative.

Edited March 4, 2021 by Justin Adams

[Guest clancy]

15 minutes ago, mailmandan said:

Bad trees (hearts) produce bad fruit. Jesus is identifying false teachers in Matthew chapter 7. He was giving us a guide for identifying them. False prophets will have actions that correspond to their corrupt nature. Just as a good tree (heart) produces good fruit to correspond with it’s regenerate nature. 

This is a brilliant post....I’ve been waiting for this....Praise God!!...

[OneLight]

Fruit is the result of an action or a statement.  The results can be something tangible or spiritual.

Bad Fruit from Galatians 5:19-21

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Good Fruit from Galatians 5:22-26

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.  Against such there is no law.  And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

[Walter and Deborah]

In agreement with these views of what the Lord is saying.

Love, Walter

[Marathoner]

4 hours ago, clancy said:

What does this mean ?....You Will Know Them By Their Fruits?

What is that scripture saying?

Im staying silent for the moment on this subject.

Would like to hear from you?

 

Excellent answers. @Justin Adams touched upon the meaning in the analogy of the vineyard (or orchard) which appears time and again throughout the scriptures, the Lord's parables being perhaps the most meaningful for us today. I've worked with growing things (plants and livestock) and understand that patience is imperative where fruit-bearing is concerned. 

It takes time to achieve the desired result. We are vines (or branches) in our Father's vineyard and the patience of Christ, His Son who is called faithful and true, will see an abundance of fruit pleasing to God. Radical pruning seems rather devastating to the plant when it is done --- I've had to do this with a variety of plants and they looked terrible at first --- but removing "sucker growth" brought forth an abundance of fruit in their season. Overgrown plant, very little fruit; trimmed and compact plant, an abundance of it.  

The analogy is quite profound.    

[Marathoner]

Heh, I could probably write a novel about my battles with tomato plants, cherry tomatoes in particular. Left to their own devices they grow out of control and if you aren't watchful and patient to prune them properly, they're only good for the compost pile. Snip-snip sayeth the shears! I pruned fruitless growth at the nodes and watched when they started producing one wave of tomatoes after another... it was actually ridiculous. We gave away bags of tomatoes to friends and strangers alike. 

Hey... want some tomatoes? Please? 

 

[Guest clancy]

32 minutes ago, Marathoner said:

Excellent answers. @Justin Adams touched upon the meaning in the analogy of the vineyard (or orchard) which appears time and again throughout the scriptures, the Lord's parables being perhaps the most meaningful for us today. I've worked with growing things (plants and livestock) and understand that patience is imperative where fruit-bearing is concerned. 

It takes time to achieve the desired result. We are vines (or branches) in our Father's vineyard and the patience of Christ, His Son who is called faithful and true, will see an abundance of fruit pleasing to God. Radical pruning seems rather devastating to the plant when it is done --- I've had to do this with a variety of plants and they looked terrible at first --- but removing "sucker growth" brought forth an abundance of fruit in their season. Overgrown plant, very little fruit; trimmed and compact plant, an abundance of it.  

The analogy is quite profound.    

Brilliant....Amen!!!