Fruit

“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. (Luke 6:43-45 ESV)

This is an interesting passage. Basically from this passage we are either good or bad and we can not change. There is no room for redemption. For is you have a store house of good in your heart then you are good, and you can do nothing that is evil. And if you have evil in your heart, then you can do no good and everything you do is evil.

Yet is everything you do good? I know everything I do is not good, and yes I am a sinner. So there must be evil in me. I do things wrong and that are sinful everyday. Yet I also hope that some of the things I do during the day are good. But according to the passage above, this is not possible. Someone that has evil in them and does evil can not do good. And someone who has good in them and does good, can not do evil. We are either Saint or Sinner, not Saint and Sinner at the same time…

So what gives? Is this passage wrong? Or can we not believe just this passage of scripture by itself?

This text is not wrong, but it can not stand by itself. We know that we are both good and evil, Saint and Sinner, and the fruit we produce is what lies inside of us, but our flesh fights our sanctification…

So bad tress produce good fruit and good trees slip…

The good news here is that Jesus loves us and has gone to the extreme of dying so that you can have a relationship with God. Live in that relationship and let Him worry about how fruity you are…