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Fruit and Trees and Figs and Grapes and Bushes and Briers
Fruit and Trees and Figs and Grapes and Bushes and Briers
You all here know 1000 times more than I do about
planting
pruning
fertilizing
weeding
watering
harvesting
selling
storing
preparing the bounty of this valley.
There is one that I know a little about… EATING the bounty of this valley. I don’t even know all that we grow but I certainly want to EAT my way through it all summer and fall!
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Luke here records a long monologue from Jesus… If Jesus said it and the Apostles heard it, together, why aren’t Mathew, Mark, Luke and Acts all the same?
There are different “versions” of this same verse and the principle of verse in several places in the New and Old Testament.
Generally all of the Apostles heard the same material, they were all close to Jesus and His ministry here on earth. They heard and emphasized the story they heard differently, from a different perspective. There is common language used among the the Apostles but this is not a copy but a Holy Spirit inspired block of text.
Generally all of the Apostles heard the same material, they were all close to Jesus and His ministry here on earth. They heard and emphasized the story they heard differently, from a different perspective. There is common language used among the the Apostles but this is not a copy but a Holy Spirit inspired block of text.
We do not have the original autographs of this or of any material in scripture. The earliest parts of the New Testament that we have are from about 100-150 years after the time they took place.
What we have today…compared to the material from the early 2nd century is nearly identical
Jesus spoke in riddles… or parables. Why wouldn’t he just come out and say what he wanted to say?
We are reading and we have a RELIABLE copy of the words that Jesus spoke!!
Jesus spoke in riddles… or parables. Why wouldn’t he just come out and say what he wanted to say?
He was being shadowed by groups who were attempting to catch him in a falsehood, a lie.
They wanted to “catch him” in a lie so that they could drag him before the Sanhedrin (Judges) and have him bound over for Crucifixion. They wanted him DEAD. It was an economic thing for them.
What they didn’t accept was that Jesus was the Son of God.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
What was wrong with Jesus???
Jesus took 4000 years of Jewish history and turned it upside down -- The Pharisee’s hated him.
He drove people away from The Temple and the payment of the Temple Tax — Rome was concerned about him because of a loss of revenue... but not overly concerned.
Rome did become VERY concerned about Jerusalem, by 70 AD — 40 or so years after the time of Christ, the city, the temple and its inhabitants were destroyed.
Let’s get to our verses for today…these are the same verses that are being taught today in Children’s Church with Cis and her group.
These are the same verses that Jack took his Sunday School through this morning. Hopefully this leads to greater understanding of scripture.
If you know all that you need to know…which is everything you don’t need discipleship, you don’t need Sunday School. The rest of us...
I want to start just one verse prior to our main verses for this morning. I hope it will lead to greater understanding.
How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
This is not part of our passage this morning but we need to understand this verse to understand what Jesus was trying to say in our verses.
This was was talking about being a hypocrite. Portraying a false appearance of religion or virtue or acting in a way that is in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
Luke 6
How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Jesus is saying…
before correcting,
before being so high and mighty you mighty want to check yourself.
Get off your “high horse.”
So let’s go back to Jesus use of parables or riddles when he spoke. These parables remained hidden for most people but would be very clear to those who were intended.
So let’s go back to Jesus use of parables or riddles when he spoke. These parables remained hidden for most people but would be very clear to those who were intended.
Here is our verses for today
“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.
“No good tree bears bad fruit...”
“No good tree bears bad fruit...”
This is a truth…no one could deny this truth. If it’s a good tree it bears good fruit
“Nor does a bad tree bear good fruit.”
This is once again a truth. A bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
Now let’s talk about this verse in context with what we know about verse 42.
With the hypocrite in mind Jesus introduces the person who has this in check.
Notice I said in check, none of us are perfect and we all can fall into hypocrisy at times.
None of us are perfect.
To the person who is self-analyzing and self-correcting
To the “fruit” that is produced that reflects what is at the core of the “good tree,” if the person is good or if they are bad is the “bad tree”
What the fruit tree produces reflects what is at the “core” of the tree that produces it.
The fruit tree cannot produce differently from the tree itself. Good tree, good fruit. Bad tree, bad fruit.
FRUIT IS A PICTURE OF THE PRODUCT IN ONE’S LIFE!!
Luke 3
Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”
But you have planted wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception. Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many warriors,
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.
The essential point is this...
How can you teach if you have a problem and are self-righteous about it?
This is pointed at Pastor’s
This is also pointed at parents
This is also pointed at bosses
This is also pointed at local and national leaders
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
There is also an application here for false teachers…
The one who promises health & wealth.
The one who leads away from faith in Christ alone.
The one who corrupts the very teaching of Christ for personal gain.
The one who twists the scripture so that an individual is held up higher than Jesus.
Luke brings us back and finishes us off with this application
A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
The over-arching principle comes at the end of the verse…what the mouth produces comes from what overflows from the heart and of who we are.
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I want to work my way through the Yakima Valley this summer…one bite at a time. I hope that I pick good fruit, good plants, good sources of the fruit that I take in.
Mostly though I want to keep my heart full of the Fruit of the Spirit...
love
joy
peace
patience
kindness
goodness
faithfulness
gentleness
self-control
Because… “Against such things there is no law.