Spiritual Fruitfulness
The LORD God calls us to be spiritually fruitful. We are to bear fruit for the kingdom of God. But in our day, the fruitfulness of many Christians has been hijacked.
The Lord Jesus Christ said “You will know them by their fruits.” He usually speaks of fruitfulness in the context of evangelism. He calls us to be the salt and light of the world.
Conversely, he says unfruitful branches will be cut off and thrown into the fire.
Fruitfulness can be a litmus test of whether we walk with the LORD God or not.
But in our day, the fruitfulness of many Christians has been hijacked.
Many Christian leaders say the quality of our spirituality is a matter of the heart instead of our actions. For them, fruitfulness is a matter of internal opinions to be held with sincerity.
And some Christian leaders have weaponized their congregations around issues in secular politics. For them, fruitfulness is a matter of voting as the leader says.
Thus after all these centuries, the Christian community has not dealt with its most grievous problems.
For example, why do so many Christians fight against Diversity?
How has the Christian community come to treat Greed as a virtue?
Why do so many Christians despise Poor People?
After all these centuries, how can Racism among Christians still be a thing?
The LORD God wants us to be fruitful. Fruitfulness tells us whether we are actually walking with the LORD God or not.
Otherwise, unfruitful branches will be cut off and thrown into the fire.
Are you bearing fruit for Jesus Christ? Are you a fruitful Christian? How can you grow in fruitfulness?
Psalm 1:3. He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers.
Proverbs 11:30. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 20:11. Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
Isaiah 5:2. He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
Isaiah 27:6. The time is coming when my people will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole earth with her fruit! (NLT translation)
Jeremiah 28:9. The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet happens, then the prophet will be known, that the LORD has truly sent him.”
Ezekiel 19:10. Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Matthew 7:15. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Matthew 7:16. By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:17. Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
Matthew 7:18. A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Matthew 7:19. Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 7:20. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Matthew 13:23. What was sown on the good ground, this is he who hears the word, and understands it, who most certainly bears fruit, and produces, some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Luke 6:43. For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
Luke 6:44. For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
John 12:24. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 15:2. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
John 15:4. Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
John 15:5. I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:16. You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Romans 7:4. Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
Colossians 1:10. that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
2 Peter 1:8. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
James 3:17. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.
1 John 3:7. Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
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