A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
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… it and to turn from it if we don't scripture warns us of this kind of double-mindedness double-mindedness Matthew 7 18 a healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 1 John 1.6, if we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and we don't practice the truth. It's impossible. It's impossible for those two things to live in the same place. And David says, this is what you want, God, integrity. What I say, what I do. Paul in Romans 6 tells us what happens when we're truly united to Christ in his death. He says it's impossible for us who have died to sin to still live in it. And then he goes on in Romans 6.6 to say, Your old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing. Sometimes, here's what happens. Sometimes we attempt to keep our old self on life support. Maybe down in our spiritual basements. …
… Which have you traveled by? Let's turn to Matthew 7, verses 15 through 20. So I preached from this text a couple of weeks ago. In it, Jesus warns his disciples not to follow false prophets. And then he lays out the difference between a false prophet and a true prophet, the kind of people we want to follow and the kind we don't, and really points towards the kind of life that we're going to live. And he says this, they will be known by their fruit. They will be known by their fruit, by whether they produce good fruit that brings health to other people and life to other people, or they produce toxic fruit that makes people sick. I want to ask you this question. Are you producing good fruit or toxic fruit? Are the people around you blessed because of your presence in their lives? Do you invest in them? Do you care for them? Do you show them kindness? Or do they get only cruelty from you? …
… So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire, so then you will know them by their fruits. Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? And then I will declare to them, I never knew You. Depart from me, You who practice lawlessness. Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house, and yet it did not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. …
… but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, NEITHER CAN A CORRUPT TREE BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT. EVERY TREE THAT BRINGETH NOT FORTH GOOD FRUIT IS HEWN DOWN AND CAST INTO THE FIRE. WHEREFORE BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM. NOT EVERY ONE THAT SAITH UNTO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. BUT HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. MANY WILL SAY UNTO ME IN THAT DAY, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Have you ever passed a house or been walking up to a house wanting to knock on the door and you see a sign that says, Beware the dog. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT? WHAT DO YOU DO? WELL, YOU BEWARE THE DOG, DON'T YOU? WHEN THERE'S A SIGN THERE THAT SAYS JUST BEWARE THE DOG, YOU STOP RIGHT AWAY AND YOU LOOK AROUND AND WONDER, SHOULD I GO IN THERE? BUT WHATEVER, IT SENSITIZES YOU. I WANT YOU TO IMAGINE WALKING UP TO A HOUSE AND SEEING A SIGN THAT SAYS, BEWARE THE WOLF. I JUST SUPPOSE RATHER THAN HAVING A, A, A, A DOG IN THE YARD. THERE IS A WOLF IN THE YARD. I THINK YOU WOULD DO A DOUBLE TAKE. THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE TODAY, …
… CORRUPT TREE BRINGETH FORTH EVIL FRUIT. A GOOD TREE CANNOT BRING FORTH EVIL FRUIT, NEITHER CAN A CORRUPT TREE BRING FORTH GOOD FRUIT. HUH, YOU'RE A, A TRAVELER ON TWO KINDS OF ROADS. YOU'RE A TREE BEARING TWO KINDS OF FRUIT. YOU'RE A BUILDER BUILDING TWO KINDS, ONE OF TWO KINDS OF, UH, HOUSES. LOOK IN VERSE 24, THEREFORE WHOSOEVER HEARTH THESE SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOETH THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO A WISE MAN WHICH BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON A ROCK. VERSE 26, AND EVERYONE THAT HEARTH THESE SAYINGS OF MINE DOETH THEM NOT SHALL BE LIKENED UNTO A FOOLISH MAN THAT BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON THE SAND." TWO KINDS OF TRAVELERS, TWO KINDS OF TREES, TWO KINDS OF BUILDERS. THAT'S THE WAY OUR LORD IS. AND IN THE CONGREGATION TODAY, JUST LOOK AROUND, EVERYBODY KIND OF LOOKS THE SAME. WE'RE ALL HERE THIS MORNING IN OUR, UH, SUNDAY MORNING GLADRAGS, BUT GOD DOESN'T LOOK ON THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE. GOD LOOKS ON THE HEART AND IN THE CONGREGATION TODAY WE SAY THEY'RE YOUNG AND OLD, RICH AND POOR, WEAK AND STRONG AND SO FORTH, BUT FRIEND, THERE ARE ONLY TWO CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE HERE TODAY, THE SAINTS AND THE AINTS. THAT'S ALL. THE SAVED AND THE LOST, THOSE WHO ARE WITH JESUS AND THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST JESUS, THOSE WHO ARE LOVING HIM AND THOSE WHO ARE HATING HIM, THOSE WHO ARE RECEIVING HIM AND THOSE WHO ARE REJECTING HIM, THOSE WHO ARE CROWNING HIM AND THOSE WHO ARE CRUCIFYING HIM, THOSE WHO ARE ON THE ROAD TO HEAVEN AND THOSE WHO ARE ON THE …