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The Fruit Test

In the Garden of Eden, God planted the Tree of Knowledge. He told Adam and Eve that they could eat the fruit of any tree except that one. Eventually they took the fruit and ate it. That fruit exposed their inner desire to no longer have God as their source of knowledge. Today, each of our lives produce fruit. That fruit also exposes what’s in our heart. We can say we believe or live a certain way, but the fruit will always outweighs our words. You cant say you’re an orange tree with apples on your branches. No one would believe you. People see the fruit that our lives produce. We can’t claim one thing while producing another. Fruit is the visible evidence of our internal source. We will always be identified by our fruit.

Here are some Bible verses on

1. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

Colossians 1:10 NLT

2. You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you.

John 15:16 AMP

3. A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:17-19 NLT

4. My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.

John 15:8 AMP

5. A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.

Matthew 12:33 NLT

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Producing Fruit

In Genesis 3 we see the account of Adam and Eve being tempted and eventually sin. The serpent asked Eve, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”of all the ways he could have tempted them, he did it with fruit. I think that’s because fruit is the result of hidden things. Fruit is the harvest of previous work. Fruit is the outward representation of inner work. The Bible is full of verses about fruit. Good fruit comes from obedience, spending time with Jesus and the soil we are planted in. Fruit is where your faith becomes visible. We must make sure we are producing good fruit and that we aren’t tempted to think that it’s the result of anything other than God’s faithfulness and goodness.

Here are some Bible verses on fruit we should produce:

1. A tree is identified by its fruit. If a tree is good, its fruit will be good. If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad.

Matthew 12:33 NLT

2. You didn’t choose me, but I’ve chosen and commissioned you to go into the world to bear fruit. And your fruit will last, because whatever you ask of my Father, for my sake, he will give it to you!

John 15:16 TPT

3. I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit; for you can do nothing without me.

John 15:5 GNT

4. But other people are like seeds sown in good soil. They hear the message, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirty, some sixty, and some one hundred.

Mark 4:20 GNT

5. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23 NKJV

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