Jesus showed that the
most important thing we could do is ‘Love’.
Some church leaders
came and have conversation about God’s word. One Deacon asked, “what is the
fruit you are always talking?”
I responded,
repeating my speech on the last Saturday in our church, saying, “ Yes, what
you, leaders say is correct. Money is necessary to run the church functioning.
Without church set up, a single individual can not do much work to spread the
Gospel. Good work is necessary and is the mirror of every person. Attending
church is necessary to grow in faith and share faith in God and is the will of God
that we live and grow together.
However, the fruit,
every true Christian must have are –
1)
‘Love’ for God and others;
2)
‘JOY’ for having eternal life and all
the blessings he receives from God
3)
‘Peace of mind’ in any situation,
knowing God do everything for good and sure of his salvation in Jesus Christ;
4)
Has ‘Patience’ in every situation;
5)
Has ‘kindness’ to all;
6)
He is ‘good’ for all and in every work;
7)
He is ‘faithful’ in every dealing;
8)
His ‘gentleness’ is known to all, and
9)
Has ‘self control’.
The Bible says, “The
fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and self control.” (Galatians 5:22-23)
Many Christian try
and leaders also teach to be good with good and moral character, live a good life
and do good works. Leaders rebuke, insult and expose when the members of the
church. Leaders teach – ‘Do this, Don’t Do this’ and show them rules and laws
to follow strictly to be good, ‘to do this’, ‘not to do that’. Selecting
suitable verses from the Bible are read out, rebuke the members in a suitable situation.
All try their best to
bear ‘fruits of the spirit’ in own strength and all fail. We must fail, God
will never help us so long as we take steps in our own strength. He will help
only when we know our weakness, surrender to Him, pray for His forgiveness of
our sin and fault of not relying on Him and ask earnestly for His help.
How can we bear the
holy fruit, ‘the fruits of the spirit’, so long as ‘the blood of Adam’s and Eve’s
sin are still in us and so long we live with sin?
If we ever can, Jesus,
the Son of God, need not have come to this world from the Father God in Heaven and
died on the cross for us.
We will never bear ‘fruits
of the spirit’ ! It is Jesus Himself who will bear these fruits in us, when He
lives in us, in the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, Jesus
says, in John 15 :1-8 - “I
am the true vine, …… Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can
bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit
unless you remain in me.
I am the vine; you are
the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart
from me you can do nothing.”
So long you are not in
Jesus, the tree, you are not the branch of Jesus. Jesus is now, after He died
of earthly dead, He is in Spirit. We must have Jesus as our spirit, have the
forgiveness of God and have Salvation in Jesus Christ. Only then, Jesus will
live in us as the Spirit (the Holy Spirit).
When the Holy Spirit
lives in us, He (the Holy Spirit) bears the fruits of the spirit in us. He will
makes the fruits appear before the people and others will enjoy these fruits.
When, the fruit of the spirit – ‘love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control’, is bear by the Holy
Spirit, giving tithes, offering, donation, good works, good behaviour, good
life, etc. are automatically come out from where the fruit of the spirit come,
from the Holy Spirit in us.
Our only duty is ‘to
remain in Jesus’ and we are in Jesus, when we accept Jesus as our personal Lord
and Saviour; and the Holy Spirit live in us.
The Holy Spirit is
given by God to all those who have Jesus as Lord and Saviour.
So, call on Jesus and
ask for help in constant prayer. Ask forgiveness of your sin and accept Him as
Lord and Saviour. Ask to send the Holy Spirit live in you, in Jesus name.
Write ‘Amen’ if you pray.God
bless you.
