Sermon: Beware The Fruit You Bear

Beware The Fruit You Bear
Matthew 7:13-23

“Jesus calls us to examine our lives and determine whether we are sewing seeds of self-destruction!”

Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount describing for us the attitudes of those who love the Lord – humility, grief over sin, strength at God’s disposal, an insatiable hunger and thirst for righteousness, mercy, heart purity, peacemaking, and faithfulness under pressure and persecution.

Jesus then goes on to explain the true meaning of God’s Law revealed to Moses to clear up the perversions that religious people made and make as they keep looking for loopholes that make them look righteous.

Our Deadly Attraction To Easy Paths and Bad Fruit

There are many easy ways to be religious or spiritual. In the old days you just went to the church of your choice on Sunday and lived like you wanted the rest of the week. Today, we’re much more sophisticated. We may call it spirituality or some other post modern term, but we basically do what we want an call it “being spiritual”. The common denominator is a the choice to do whatever we please. And that’s why the path of Jesus seems strange too us. It calls us to follow Him in faithfulness. Psalm 15:4 puts it like this “Blessed is the man who keeps his oath even though it brings him pain.”

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