That's making it personal, Mark. Please refrain from breaking the rules.
Yes, men are known by their fruit. Do you understand what Christ is saying here? He's saying that a good tree will produce good fruit and a corrupt tree will produce evil fruit.
Did you plant yourself as a good tree, Mark? Or did God create you and plant you and give you everything you have, including your desire to love Christ?
No man can love God unless first that man has been born again by the Holy Spirit. And that is a supernatural work of God, a free, unmerited, merciful gift to His family whom He has loved before they loved Him.
***Yes, men are known by their fruit. Do you understand what Christ is saying here? He’s saying that a good tree will produce good fruit and a corrupt tree will produce evil fruit.***
If one lies about another person, that is evil fruit.
***Did you plant yourself as a good tree, Mark? Or did God create you and plant you and give you everything you have, including your desire to love Christ?***
Without the Grace of God, we are nothing.
***And that is a supernatural work of God, a free, unmerited, merciful gift to His family whom He has loved before they loved Him.***
Gen 1:
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4 Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.”
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God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.
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God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.”
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God also said: “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant all over the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food;
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and to all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground, I give all the green plants for food.” And so it happened.
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God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.
God created all Creation and he found it very good.