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There Is No Passive Righteousness

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 50.

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There Is No Passive Righteousness.

—We do not estimate the worth of a tree by its harmlessness, but by the fruit it bears. It is needful that Christians be more than passively good. To do no wrong is to be as the fruitless fig-tree. It is God’s purpose that mankind bear much fruit, even so are they His disciples. John 15:1-5. “If any man have not the Spirit of ‘Christ, he is none of His,” but “the fruit of the ‘Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and ‘truth.” The tree is known by its fruit.