“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? 8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, 9 and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’
He could just as well be talking to us today. Vipers are mischievous, serpents. Bear fruits worthy of repentance.
The world’s fruits are different then fruits of repentance as we can’t take repentance fruit to the bank! And we as the other vipers can’t say that we are good with the Lord when we walk unworthy, and our fruits of repentance are few.
We can’t rely on I read the Bible once, I pray, I go to church when I’m not working, my father or grandfather was a pastor, I talk to a pastor on the phone sometimes, I got baptized, I got sprinkled, I should read the Bible more, I should pray with my kids, pray with my husband, my wife, my mother my father, my friends, my neighbors. Those are should’a fruits, they are denial of God, refusal to obey, and in fact, show disagreement with God whom we claim to know and just love so much and that Jesus is our everything! when Jesus is what we do when we have time to do it in our busy schedule.
Jesus must come first. Not sometimes, not 1, 2, 3, Sundays out of 4. I read the Bible sometimes on Sunday. When most likely you don’t open it, you look at a TV screen or projector for your scriptures Fellowship must be daily, not just asking for stuff being double-minded without showing up for the fellowship class – Reading the Bible.
We look at these scriptures and the devil tells us just like he told the Pharisees and Sadducees that they were good. Gods not talking to YOU. He’s talking to the non-believer, No God is talking to the believer. He is talking to YOU.
Can you hear Him? I sure can and He’s beating a drum in my ears and showing my eyes what is evil and what is good and I can pretend I obey while I walk in disobedience into transgression away from God whom loved me first and walking with the devil who doesn’t love me at all and doesn’t care anything about me, and doesn’t have one good thing for me to pay for my sins so I can be forgiven and have everlasting life in paradise.
I need to listen and react to what He wants to correct in me and get instruction in righteousness from Him not from the world that seeks to kill me.
Be a doer of the Word, not just a hearer. (the Bible said that) But first, you have to hear so you can do. So listen to God these scriptures are meant to cut us so we can have heart surgery to save us. Report for surgery TODAY.