What Is the Fruit?

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

What Is the Fruit?

Are you Christ's? Has He changed your heart? Then from the good heart will come good thoughts. From the Christ-life within will come the deeds of Christ. Gal. 2:20. The fruit will be "in all goodness and righteousness and truth." Eph. 5:9. It will be "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." Gal. 5:22, 23. Where before the heart hated God's law (Rom. 8:7), it now loves it (1 John 5:3), and fulfils it in all its blessed righteousness (Rom. 8:4). The belief of the saved man is "unto righteousness." Rom. 10:10. His faith is the "faith which worketh by love." Gal. 5:6. His love is that which keeps the commandments of God; "and His commandments are not grievous." 1 John 5:3. Reader, seek Christ for this change, and let Him live in you His life. So shall your life bear good fruit, and you will know Christ, as He desires to be known to all, "THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." Jer. 23:6.