" Check Your Basket "

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, self control. Nothing in the Torah stands against such things. Moreover, those who belong to the Messiah Yeshua have put their old nature to death on the stake, along with its passions and desires. ( Galatians 5:233-24)



Has it been a long time since you've inspected your spiritual fruit basket??? Ever thought about the fact that "some kind" of fruit is being produced one way or the other?? These verses in Galatians lets us know it's our responsibility to do some inspecting. What kind of fruit are we producing,,,can we be honest? When we don't it's because we do not understand the importance.

This is how my Father is glorified -- in your bearing much fruit; this is how you will prove to be my talmidim.(John 15:8)

You will recognize them by their fruit. Can people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

Likewise, every healthy tree produces good fruit, but a poor tree produces bad fruit.

A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, or a poor tree good fruit.

Any tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown in the fire!

So you will recognize them by their fruit. ( Matthew 7:16-20)



If you are a part of the Body of Messiah, then people should be able to look for-and find-fruit in your life. Why? Because as we just read as a disciple of Messiah Yahshua, blessed be His name, will produce spiritual fruit. Truth is you can only give what you have. Any farmer plants seed and looks forward to the day it produces, he carefully watches the fruit and inspects it to see that the right kind of fruit is produced. Fruit inspection is vital, touching, tasting and even the feel, until perfected for sharing, but it all starts with a seed that eventually turns into a tree. Then to take it a step further, within the fruit is even more seeds that should be able to be replanted to produce even more of this fruit.

In the Parable of the Sower, Yeshua spoke of seed that falls on different types of ground, representing different reactions to the truth of the gospel message. The final category He mentioned in Mark 4:20 was good ground: "But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirty-fold, some sixty, and some a hundred" (NKJV).

This metaphor is used many times in scripture, are we inspecting our fruit?? And what happens when the righteous fruit isn't developed? Do we still try to give it out? Elohiym forbid! Should we remember that we reap what we sow? Therefore if we sow any of the wrong fruit listed in Galatians 5: 19-21 and reap the results, why are we suprised???

For the whole of the Torah is summed up in this one sentence: "Love your neighbor as yourself" but if you go on snapping at each other and tearing each other to pieces, watch out, or you will be destroyed by each other! (Galatians 5:14-15)

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (1 Peter 1:17)

Lets be good farmers that fruits are worthy of repentance (Matthew 3:8) Judging our ownselves daily and within each action, especially the fruits of our own mouths, that should be used to bear fruits of praise toward our Elohiym, that others may glorify our Father which is in Heaven. Remember we just tend what belongs to the King,,,,

"I am the real vine, and my Father is the gardener. Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned. Stay united with me, as I will with you -- for just as the branch can't put forth fruit by itself apart from the vine, so you can't bear fruit apart from me. "I am the vine and you are the branches. Those who stay united with me, and I with them, are the ones who bear much fruit; because apart from me you can't do a thing.

Honoring our Messiah for loving us enough even unto death so that we could sow righteous seed from Our Father. Surely He is worthy of a couple minutes of our time to do an inspection. Amen and HalleluYah!

Check your Basket! What kind of fruit have you given out today????

Shalom

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