“You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So you’ll recognize them by their fruit. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” Matthew 7:16-21 CSB https://bible.com/bible/1713/mat.7.16-21.CSB

Christians must start bearing fruit that lasts and measuring one another to encourage and rebuke one another toward ever-increasing fruitfulness, lest our country continue to be destroyed morally, spiritually, and financially. We worship money and not God. We have become greedy and pleasure-seeking. The result is a country without moral restraint. It can be argued that our many natural calamities result from God’s removal of protection from our land because His Church no longer strongly influences the entire culture toward holiness and righteousness. The Church must define good by obedience to everything Jesus commanded, for this is the will of God for us. Good fruit is not the absence of bad fruit but the production of that which pleases God and lasts forever. The fruit that God requires from us is the redeemed lives of those who live around us. We are responsible for warning, sharing, loving, and serving humanity where we live and beyond with our prayers and offerings to restore all people to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. While we are not responsible for people’s response to our sharing of the gospel, we are responsible for sharing the gospel as His witnesses. We must believe the gospel is the power of God to save all who believe. Faith comes by hearing, and what must be heard is the Word of God, Jesus, Who is recorded in the Scriptures. God has made His Church His messengers of reconciliation. He is making His appeal to all people through us. We who are truly good when we work to bear fruit that will last. The good tree, the good soil, seeks and saves the lost bearing evidence of laboring in the harvest that is so ripe, thirty, sixty, and even one hundredfold. If we can point to no one as fruit in our laboring for their salvation and obedience to Jesus, then perhaps we are not the good trees we think we are. Let us then repent and pray to bear much fruit, proving we are His disciples.