Matthew 7:16
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
The Lord said we could know the authenticity of the prophet by his fruit. It should not be difficult then to see whose ministry is of the Lord and whose is man made. It is just a matter of examining the fruit. And herein lies some of our trouble.
First, we ignore obvious fruit.
We see things that are in contradiction of the Word, but because we don't want to rock the boat or perhaps we like the prophet, so we ignore fruit of the wrong sort.
Second we look for the wrong things as right fruit.We think of
• Excitement
• Enthusiasm
• Largeness and the
• Impressive
as the right fruit. We have plugged in worldly values as spiritual fruit.
Genuine fruit, on the other hand, would be things like
• Humility
• Christlikeness
• A sojourner's mentality
• Meekness
• Concern for the glory of God and
• Etc.
We will know them by their fruit but we must know how to find fruit!
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
The Lord said we could know the authenticity of the prophet by his fruit. It should not be difficult then to see whose ministry is of the Lord and whose is man made. It is just a matter of examining the fruit. And herein lies some of our trouble.
First, we ignore obvious fruit.
We see things that are in contradiction of the Word, but because we don't want to rock the boat or perhaps we like the prophet, so we ignore fruit of the wrong sort.
Second we look for the wrong things as right fruit.We think of
• Excitement
• Enthusiasm
• Largeness and the
• Impressive
as the right fruit. We have plugged in worldly values as spiritual fruit.
Genuine fruit, on the other hand, would be things like
• Humility
• Christlikeness
• A sojourner's mentality
• Meekness
• Concern for the glory of God and
• Etc.
We will know them by their fruit but we must know how to find fruit!
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