Friday July 03rd, 2026
Meditate on Matthew 7:16CEV
« You can tell what they are by what they do. No one picks grapes or figs from thornbushes »
Read Mathew 7:16-23NLT
16 You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
17 A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit.
18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.
19 So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire.
20 Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.
21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.
22 On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’
23 But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’
Yesterday, we discussed the fact that when you are pure in heart, it will show on the outside.
- The state of your heart – whether pure or otherwise, will always show on the outside.
For example, when people see you dressed like a harlot or hooligan, they would know what is inside.
Many people parade themselves as children of God but dress and talk like people of the world, 1 John 2:15.
- When you call yourself light but are looking, sounding and moving like darkness, we know that you are not who or what you claim to be, 2 Corinthians 6:14.
2 Corinthians 5:17Amplified says
« Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life] »
Right from the inside to the outside,
all things become new when a person receives Christ – not all things apart from the fashion sense or speech;
“all things” means all things.
When you change from the inside, it will show in every aspect of your life because the change is from the core of your being.
When you see a Chinese man and a Yoruba man, you can clearly differentiate them by how they look, their language and the food they eat.
You don’t need to be told; you just know based on the fruits you see.
When people see you, can they recognize the DNA of Christ in you ?
If they have to ask whether you are a child of God or not, then check well to see if you are a true Christian.
Some Pastors think that to convert youths to Christ, they must dress and behave like them; not at all.
The youths want someone disciplined enough to challenge them.
They want to show youthful exuberance, with the expectation that their pastor would caution them.
Unfortunately, the people they are looking up to for that discipline are the same ones coming down to their level.
Check the way the seemingly unruly youths treat the disciplined ones: that will tell you that they value discipline.
Why should you now want to be like the unruly ones ?
That must change.
Application – Let others see Jesus in you.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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