Grace and peace to you from our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is a call by Jesus to do what he commands. The good fruit metaphor is used a lot by Jesus in connection with living a righteous life. Discipleship requires righteous living. We have the grace that comes form knowing Jesus and being welcomed into his presence, but there is also the requirement to be righteous. Jesus gives his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, a sermon largely devoted to living good. In the end of the sermon he concludes by saying 'be perfect, as your Father in heaven is perfect.' These are not just idle words of Jesus, words to give us something to shoot for. This is a command. We are to be righteous, to be holy. We should bear good fruit. It is not easy to be perfect, to bear good fruit. But through faith in Christ, and the help of Christ, we can achieve holiness, we can bear good fruit. God bless,
Pastor Josh
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