Everyone will bear fruit, but everyone must taste his own fruit. The fruit of Christians is different from that of the world. Unbelievers who are full of their own evil consequences will also suffer from their own evil consequences, and good people who listen to the Tao and believe will be satisfied and bear good fruits, righteous fruits and beautiful fruits.
Pro 14: 14 runs counter to it, and people who are good will be satisfied with their own results, and good people will be satisfied with their own actions.
Pro 1:3 1 Therefore, they will eat their own fruits and be full of their own tricks.
? The Lord will repay everyone's actions, that is, the so-called "good is rewarded with good, evil with evil, and it is not time to deduct points." So we should not envy the lives of the wicked, as long as we keep the lives of our good people.
Pro 24: 16 For though the righteous fall seven times, they will rise again. But the wicked are overwhelmed by misfortune.
Pro 24: 19 Don't worry about the evildoers, and don't be jealous of the wicked.
Pro 24:20 For the wicked shall not be rewarded. The lamp of the wicked will go out.
Let me share three kinds of fruits that the Bible requires Christians to bear:
First, bear good fruit.
1, Christians should bear good fruit.
? Good results are the good deeds of the righteous, that is, doing good to others. This is a sacrifice acceptable to God, because those who have pity on the poor lend money to the Lord and store their treasures in heaven. The righteous will be blessed by God for their good results. Christians should repay the good results of the Lord, because the word of the Lord is good and so is our God. Only when he bears good fruit can he be called a child of God.
Knot 18:20, but those who commit crimes will die. A son does not bear the sins of his father, and a father does not bear the sins of his son. The good fruit of a righteous man is his own; The evil that the wicked does is his own.
Biblical examples:
? The "good fruit" mentioned by Paul's apostles to Roman believers is that foreigners (Macedonia and Achaia) are willing to donate money to help the poor in Jerusalem. It is also a debt paid after receiving spiritual interests, which is a good result.
Sea fish of Sparidae 15:26 Because Macedonia and achaean are willing to make a donation to the poor among the Jerusalem saints.
Sparidae marine fish 15:27 This is what they are willing to do, but it is actually a debt. For since the Gentiles are partakers in spiritual benefits, they should provide them with things to cultivate themselves.
Sea fish of Sparidae 15:28 When I finish this matter and give them this good fruit, I will pass by you and go to Spain.
The elder Jacob said in the book of James that what comes from above is from God, and the purpose is to make people bear more good fruits. It can be seen that it is necessary and proper for Christians to bear good fruit.
The vine bears grapes, and the fig tree bears figs. The vine cannot bear figs, and the fig tree bears olives. It's like "as you sow, so you reap".
James 3: 12 My brothers, can fig trees bear olives? Can vines bear figs? Salt water does not give off sweet water.
James 3: 17 Only the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle and submissive, full of compassion, bearing good fruit, without prejudice or hypocrisy.
2. Christians will not bear the bad consequences.
? People who don't believe in Jesus do evil without regret, resulting in bad consequences, and destruction is an inevitable result.
Gospel of Kyle 16: 16 Those who believe and are baptized will be saved, and those who do not believe will be condemned.
John 3: 18 those who believe in him will not be condemned; An unbeliever is condemned because he doesn't believe in the name of God's only son.
? Christians will not bear the consequences because they believe in Jesus. Although some Christians are inevitably defeated by evil deeds when they are weak and offend God with evil deeds, Christians will be moved by the reprimand of the Holy Spirit, so they will soon wake up and repent and will not bear the consequences. In repentance, God will show mercy and forgiveness.
Like Jeremiah the prophet, he was trapped in evil. At that time, the prophet Jeremiah was worried about his compatriots and sighed for Jerusalem because of its wickedness.
Jeremiah 4: 18 What you did provoked this, which is the result of your sins. It's really bitter and harmful to your heart. "
? When sin is rampant in Jerusalem, God will raise enemies of Israel and Judah to attack Jerusalem to punish the apostate people, teach them and discipline their children. Let them wake up and turn around in suffering, and God will be merciful again.
Jer 4:/kloc-0: 3 Behold, the enemy will come up like a cloud, his chariots like a whirlwind, and his horses are swifter than eagles. we are ruined ! We were defeated!
Jerusalem can only be saved by washing away the evil in its heart, just as people trapped in sin should sincerely repent and wash away the evil in their hearts with the blood of the Lord Jesus.
Jeremiah 4: 14 o Jerusalem, put evil away from your heart so that you can be saved. How long will evil thoughts remain in your heart?
Second, the fruit of benevolence and righteousness.
Our Christ is just, and his words are just, and out of the righteousness of God. The Bible is written by God and teaches people to learn righteousness, so Christians should bear the fruit of righteousness.
James 3: 18 what makes people peaceful is the righteous fruit planted with peace.
Noah's family of eight, who preached justice, was saved by God, because Noah was a righteous man with good fruit and obeyed God's command. It took 120 years to build the ark (it may not take so many years to build it since God ordered Noah to build the ark). This ark is Noah's good fruit.
Gradually decrease 2:5 God did not forgive that generation. He brought the flood to the ungodly generation, but protected Noah's family of eight who preached justice.
Third, bear beautiful fruits.
Among Moses' blessings to all the Israeli tribes, the blessing to Yue Se mentioned that the only "beautiful fruit" in the Bible is the beautiful fruit when the sun matures. Yue Se is blessed by God, but we Christians today want to bear beautiful fruit, because our God's joy is to glorify God, because his beloved son Jesus told us to bear beautiful fruit!
Deuteronomy 33: 13 "As for Yue Se, may his land be blessed by the Lord, with treasures in the sky and dew and springs under the ground;
Deuteronomy 33: 14 gets beautiful fruits cooked by the sun and treasures cultivated by the moon;
Deuteronomy 33: 15 Get the treasure of Gu Shan and the treasure of the eternal mountain;
Deuteronomy 33: 16 It is the pleasure of the LORD to possess this land and its treasures, and to dwell among thorns. May all these blessings be on the head of Yue Se and on the head of a man separated from his brother.
Summary:
? The above three kinds of fruits are the fruits that we Christians should bear. Of course, the fruits of Christians in other aspects, such as the fruits of lips and the fruits of the Holy Spirit, are actually included in these three fruits.
So we Christians should learn the three fruits mentioned above (good fruit, righteous fruit and beautiful fruit).
(1) Paul's faithful service has produced good results, and foreign believers are willing to donate money to help poor Jewish believers. (2) Noah's obedience produced righteous results, and when the world was destroyed by floods, the whole family was saved.
(3) Yue Se, because of his fear of God, bears beautiful fruits. He was blessed twice in his life, and his eldest son was blessed. His two sons became two of the twelve tribes and were counted as children of Israel, which is the evidence of God's blessing. The beautiful fruit of Yue Se is given by God.