“Either consider the tree good and its fruit good, or consider the tree rotten and its fruit rotten. A tree is known by its fruit. Children of snakes! How can you speak good things while you are evil? What fills the heart comes out of the mouth. Good people bring out good things from their good treasure. But evil people bring out evil things from their evil treasure. I tell you that people will have to answer on Judgment Day for every useless word they speak. By your words you will be either judged innocent or condemned as guilty.” (Matthew 12:33-37, CEB)
You judge a tree by its fruit.
You judge a person by their actions and how they treat others.
You can recite all the scripture you want and sit in a pew every Wednesday and Sunday and do Bible study on other days of the week. But sitting in a pew in a congregation does not make you a follower of Christ any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
Your actions prove if you follow Jesus.
How you treat the widow, the orphan, the lowly, the stranger, the sojourner, the immigrant. How you treat the person who is not like you, and you do not understand, that shows your heart, and if you are a follower or not.
So watch out, your fruit is showing. What does it tell us?
aSacredRebel 