The Fruit is On Your Lips
/Psalm 34:1-10
Psalm 22
Man w/ out the help of the Holy Spirit
Romans 3:11-14
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. 12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. 13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness [acridity]:
How do I go from one who speaks curses to one who speaks blessings?
Confess Jesus, “Well, I’ve done that…”
Evaluate yourself in relation to the word not in relation to others (2 Corinthians 13:5 AMP)
Confess Jesus— the planting of the seed….
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The word confess is an English word translated from the Greek word Homologeo… same/say
Romans 4:3
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
We are to confess what we believe
Romans 10:10
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Making a foundation
Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Believe about you what God believes about you! Confess about yourself what God says about you! But if your heart is not lining up with the mirror of the word, confess your sins, because He is faithful to forgive.
Now, according to the word, you’re a believer. Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”. We will look at these passages in context in a moment, but let’s see what was in the abundance of Jesus’ heart.
You can really learn a lot about a person whenever they are caught in a bad predicament. It’s when a person is pressed that you are able to really see what’s in them.
LK 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Peter—after Pentecost
LK 23:43 “…you will be with me in paradise.” What did he do to get there? Changed mind
JN 19:26-27 …behold, your son!”…“Behold, your mother!” They will know you by your love
MT 27:46 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
JN 19:28 “I thirst.” On the cross, I thirsted for the Father’s will (Pss. 42:1-2; 63:1)
I went without for you. Will you hunger and thirst for the righteousness that I purchased for you?
JN 30 “It is finished,”
LK 23:46 into your hands I commit my spirit!”
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.
He connects fruit to speech. Just like a tree brings forth fruit, a mouth brings forth words
Matthew 12:33-37
33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Idle—barren, inactive, shunning the labor one ought to perform.
The words of believers are supposed to have meaning. Our words are supposed to line up with His word. We are supposed to speak truth and life. There can be a lot of opinions on how that can look and sound:
Truth and Life
Matthew 7:14
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Matthew 10:39
He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
Matthew 16:25
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
***Matthew 18:8 illustration of brain w heart w hand
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:36
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
The tongue causes a lot of damage!
James 3:6-12
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9 With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11 Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water.
James 3:13-18
Wisdom from Above
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Galatians 5:20-21
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God
Hatred- enmity and hostility/ enmity— the state of being or feeling actively opposed to someone or some thing
Variance- contention, strife, fighting, discord, quarreling, wrangling
Wrath- is from thumos which refers here to passionate outbursts of anger or hostile feeling
Seditions- which speaks of dissensions and divisions/ dissensions— A factious group was trying to undermine the government
Heresies- the noun means "that which is chosen." It can refer therefore to a chosen course of thought or action, hence one's chosen opinion, and according to the context, an opinion varying from the true exposition of the Word of God, in the latter sense, heresy. It also refers to a body of men separating themselves from others and following their own tenets. The word could have incidental reference to the Judaizers and their teachings