Pay Attention to the Fruit!

While He was on the earth, Jesus gave His disciples some very sound advice, and that is what I want to talk to you about tonight, Friends. In Matthew 7:17-20, Jesus said this, “Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Now granted in this particular portion of scripture, Jesus was specifically talking about false prophets, but He reiterated this same principal in other places in scripture also. Matthew 12:33 for instance, where He said this, “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.” This principal cannot be altered…you cannot get good and bad fruit from the same tree.

Truth....

One thing I absolutely LOVE is TRUTH! I hate lies...I hate deception! Deception is from the EVIL ONE and will ALWAYS lead you down the path of destruction! TRUTH will never be found by following the crowd or going with what's popular. TRUTH must be sought after. You MUST desire to know it and once you find it, you must commit to living in it.

It was in searching for TRUTH many years ago that I finally found Jesus. And it's been by searching for TRUTH that He has given me VICTORY when I have walked in obedience to Him. The times when I have fallen, and failed, and lost my way in life were the times when I believed a lie...when I turned my back on TRUTH and chose to do what seemed right in my own mind. Those were times when I failed miserably!

TRUTH will never send you down the wrong path. 

TRUTH will never give you a defeated life. And 

TRUTH will ALWAYS... ALWAYS set you free!

"Go and Preach The Gospel"

You know...if I didn't know how it all ends, I would be really concerned about the direction the world is headed in. But I read THE BOOK, and I KNOW how it all turns out...and I'm not worried. I know that God is with me and He will take care of me until He decides to bring me Home. What I do worry about are all the people that I love who don't know, and they aren't taking the signs of the times seriously and they're just "going with the flow", doing whatever the world is telling them to do. It really does matter what you know and how you live your life! God gave us His Word so that we WILL know and so we can watch and be prepared!