Can You Really Tell a Tree By the Fruit It Bears?

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Just as a rotten tree produces bad fruit, false religion produces people who do bad things. The world is full of trouble because of the bad things people do. There is immorality, fighting, stealing, oppression, murder, and rape. Many who do these bad things have a religion, but their religion does not move them to practice what is good. They cannot be God’s friends unless they stop doing bad things.—Matthew 7:17, 18. We must wage spiritual warfare in this Christian walk with Christ!
 
Agricola

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its not as simple as that. An apple may look fantastic to eat, but its rotten in the middle, but looking on outside it is not noticable.

There are many so called evangelists and preachers who are just like this, they walk the walk, talk the talk , say all the right things, yet the ministry they give is not Biblical and often given to them by Satan, its often subtle and not noticable, which is where decernment plays a huge part.

Problem is this whole wolf in sheep clothing thing has become to many Christians like a witch hunt, anyone who has a slightly different theological stance on end time prophecy is labelled a false teacher, wolf in sheep clothing etc which is wrong.
 
crossnote

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The offspring of Adam or the offspring of Christ...hopefully the difference is readily apparant.
 
dcontroversal

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The answer would be yes and obvious...Jesus said, you shall know a tree by the fruit it bears.....I will take him at his word and let God and the reaping angels separate the wheat form the chaff at the end of the age as God peers into man to the (tenth) degree and knows all who belong to him as opposed to the children of the devil!
 
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What is the FRUIT?

When one plants beans, beans are the harvest. Plant apples, you harvest apples. Plant wheat you harvest wheat.

One doesn't plant onions expecting to get tomatoes as the harvest.

When Jesus planted the word of God, the harvest is the word of God. Jesus' followers repeat his words.

Luke 8:15, "As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an HONEST AND GOOD heart, and bear fruit with patience." Do you have an honest and good heart?

Matt 12:34, Luke 6:45, "for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth SPEAKS"
 
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