In Matthew 7:15 Jesus warns us of false prophets that are dressed up as sheep but are really wolves. Paul warned the Ephesian church leaders of the same sort of thing, how people like savage wolves would come in to the church to sow discord. (Acts 20:29) How do we know the wolves? Well, Jesus said we would spot them by their fruit (Matt 7:16). In that passage, in Matthews Gospel, Jesus went on to say that good trees don’t bear bad fruit, nor do bad tress bear good fruit. That’s pretty clear.

What’s on the inside of us, in our hearts, is going to come out in our words and actions at some point (Matt 12:34; Matt 7:20), even though we may try to cover things up.

It's the Holy Spirit that changes us and causes good fruit to develop in our lives (Gal 5:22-23; KJV): “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”

Let’s humble ourselves before God and allow his Spirit to change us and cause his fruit to characterize our lives. Ask God to do this, he will if we allow.

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