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MAT 7:16


English Standard Version
You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?

Many people are familiar with this statement. It is usually used to express the originality of ones character. People believe that the character of someone tells a lot about the personality of the person. Jesus was telling his desciples about how they can detect a fake character. Jesus said " You will recognize them by their fruits". The fruit here represents their character.

What Jesus is trying to make us understand is deeper than what many of us know. A fruit is the by-product of a plant. The process of making a fruit out of a plant is not made in the open ( where everyone sees ) instead is made in the secret where anyone would hardly notice the process of formation of the fruit. Just as fruit is the by-product of a plant so is character the by-product of human beings.

Character is the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. One can also say It is the way of act of an individual. It takes time for a fruit to be formed but when it is formed everyone sees it and it can not be hidden. Character has the same resemblance with fruit, even though it takes time for character to form, but when it's formed it becomes a act in a man's life that can not be hidden.

it is important to note that both character and fruit have different stages of development. We have a stage of "developing" and a stage of
"Maturity". At the stage where character/fruit is "developing" character/fruit can be hidden or faked by human being, it is only at the stage where it is "matured/developed" that they can not be faked. Here everybody sees who you are.

Therefore, it is important we know what Jesus was trying to tell us when he said " By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?". The fruit/ character that Jesus is referring to is the type that can not be faked because it is fully developed and therefore can not be faked. These kind of fruits/ character are usually done in secret by the perpetrator. Jesus is saying that when you get the [b]secret character (what man does when no one watching) then you have gotten his true personality that is original and not faked. This is what he encourages us to go for!!!!

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