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Beware The Fruit You Bear (Matthew 7:13-23)

Chuck Huckaby, May 3, 2009
Part of the Sermon on the Mount series, preached at a Sunday Morning service

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.”

Tags: Discipleship, Judgment, Matthew, Sermon on the Mount

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Matthew 7:13-23

13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ (ESV)

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