Matthew 7:16 to 20 tells us:
16 By their fruits you will know them. Are grapes picked from thorns, or figs from thistles?
17 Thus every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree can not bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree can bear good fruit.
19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
We have the duty to bear fruit as children of God from the moment we accept him as God and savior of our lives, fruits that testify that in reality there is a work that began in our lives and that he promised that he would finish it until the end of his life. day of his coming.
So next I will make reference in some passages of the bible in which mention is made of bearing fruit in our walk in God.
Fruit worthy of repentance.
Matthew 3: 8
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance. (Witnessing that there is true repentance in us and a genuine change)
Bearing fruit will have its reward.
Matthew 21: 43
Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken from you, and will be given to people who will produce the fruits of it. (As a true loving father, God will give rewards to those children that will bear fruit in our walk with him)
Carry fruits to be blameless and sincere.
Philippians 1: 10
That you may approve the best, so that you may be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ. 11 full of the fruits of righteousness that are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. (It is these fruits that in the day of Christ will make us blameless and sincere through him for the glory of his name)
The fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 5: 22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; Against such things there is no law. (Unlike the works of the flesh, the fruit of the Holy Spirit is only one composed of several qualities, that being all of them in a Christian there is no law that can go against it)
The purpose of bearing fruit
Romans 6: 22
But now that you have been set free from sin and made a slave to God, you have your fruit for sanctification, and as an end, eternal life. (Once freed from sin and being enslaved to Christ we will have a holy life through him, as the scriptures say be holy because I am holy says the Lord)
Praise as a fruit to God.
Hebrews 13:15
Therefore, let us always offer to God, through him, a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. (Also through our lips we can bear fruits that declare the fidelity and glory of our great almighty God)
