In Serving the New, We Bear Fruit for God (TMF:1635)

Friday, June 18, 2021
Peace to Live By: In Serving the New, We Bear Fruit for God (TMF:1635) - Daniel Litton
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       And now that we are dead to sin, dead to our old, instinctive, worldly ways of living, what is the goal in our newfound faith? Well, we are to bear fruit for God. That’s a total change in how we relate to God, to ourselves, to other Christians, and to the world. That’s a total change in how we live in the world. Bearing fruit for God encompasses every part of the Christian life. It certainly includes the Fruit of the Spirit Paul mentions in Galatians chapter 5, but it is much more than that. The cross-reference verse that immediately comes to my mind in reading this verse in Romans chapter 7 is the one in Ephesians 2. Ephesians 2:10 states, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (ESV).