The Promise of the Solution

These last days are mainly about good vs evil, light vs dark and clean vs unclean. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is a monument to God’s handiwork, the chasm of us all, where good and evil exist at the same time, but can be a choice for us to pick, because God is righteous and just. And now the Son of God speaks about good fruit and evil fruit in the Gospels to show a distinction from the children of disobedience and the children of God. The distinction between the righteous and the unrighteous is depicted by many things like the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares, but today we will focus on the difference between good fruit and bad fruit.

The Lord gives us a hint to what the purpose of life is in these verses, “You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” Fruit is a nourishing and continuous food source. Good fruit is obviously the best choice to pick because of its health benefits. And the fruit that the Lord Jesus is speaking about are the characteristics of himself, which are the Fruits of the Spirit. If you find someone who has the characteristics of love (charity and sacrifice), joy, peace, kindness, meekness, goodness, faith, long-suffering, and self-control you have found good fruit in the world. Those characteristics are easily transferable. If you show someone love, they will show another person love, and just like how you eat fruit and have seeds leftover, you can also take those seeds and plant more fruit for consumption. It is a give and take situation.

But just like the good fruit, the bad fruit multiplies, but the difference is that the character of the devil is within those who choose that bad fruit. The thing about fruit is that if you eat enough of it, it will change the inside of you over a period of time. What’s inside of us? Our soul. And if you continuously choose to be disobedient, rebellious, deceived, a liar, afraid, indecisive, lazy, angry, harsh with words, fake, and two-faced then your soul will be corrupted with bad fruit. And that bad fruit can be multiplied just like the good fruit. But like the scripture says, “…Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.” Because no matter how much the bad fruit seems pleasurable, it does not fulfill the purpose of what a fruit is created for which is nourishment. Another thing that you should bring to your attention is this scripture, “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.”

Jesus Christ died on a tree with a cross lifting him up as he hung there. Here is the wisdom of the Lord; the first Man died because of the tree of life, and the second Man died on a tree and was raised back to life. The two men had a choice. One chose disobedience and the other chose obedience. The disobedience multiplied throughout the generations and the grace of the Obedient One has multiplied by generations. We only have access to that grace by our faith in Him who died and rose again. In the book of Revelation, the Lord Jesus Christ has given a promise to those who overcome the challenges of this world, ““He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.”’” So, the fruit from the tree of life, which is different from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, will be available to the people who can overcome these last days, the beast system, Satan, and the Nephilim who wants and desires to destroy humankind off the face of the earth.

How are you able to overcome this wicked world system? Let us look at what Enoch the scribe, “the seventh from Adam”, has to say about the last days, “And on the day of trouble, evil will gather over the sinners, but the just will overcome through the name of the Lord of the spirits; and he will show it to the others, that they may repent, and cease the work of their hands.” The solution to the problem of life is to be in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Put away your sins, hate the sin that you love, read the word of God daily, call on his name in gratitude and in trials and tribulations, plead the blood of Jesus Christ and you will be saved, sanctified, and a servant.

Communion is an important part of the church because we are participating in the sacrifice and power of the Lord Jesus who has conquered death and is alive forever more. When Jesus Christ healed the sick and cured the blind and restored the lepers, he was absorbing the sin of those he touched into his own body like a sponge soaking up water. The reason for this verse here, “Yet it pleased God to bruise him…” is because God saw His son literally intake the sin of others into his body and then when his body was being broken from lacerations, it was like a sponge being rung out of all the filthiness that it picked up from cleaning. This is how we build ourselves up in the Spirit. We first sacrifice our desires (which is really sin) and lay them on the cross. How? By confessing your sins and making repentance to Jesus Christ in prayer and fasting. Secondly, we believe in Him and all that He has done for us according to the Bible. And third, we read the word of God to continue in our faith. Once you do that consistently, you will eventually be fit enough to perform miracles in the church as Jesus Christ did in His ministry. The blood of the son of Man is where we ask for the approval of the ultimate cleanser of all cleansing items, the blood of Christ.

If Jesus’ body is the sponge, the blood of him is the disinfectant spray. You clean out your soul, which is tainted by committing sin, by pleading the blood of Jesus Christ over yourself and others. You clean out your area or environment by pleading the blood of Jesus over it, so demons won’t enter into that space to torment you. Doing this with a couple of Psalms and prayer and fasting and communion will grant you the access to the power of the Lord Jesus and him moving on behalf of the believer who is calling on Him. His body, which is the word of God, is our daily bread. And when we are weak in the Spirit, the word of God replenishes and strengthens us to continue to fight spiritual wickedness in high places. Eating the flesh of the son of Man is not a carnal thing, it is a spiritual essence that we partake of to stay within the domain of the Holy Spirit, by reading the word of God and obeying it. Drinking the blood of the son of Man is not a carnal thing either. It is also a spiritual transaction to deliver the measurement of the Lord and to make atonement for all man-kind sins. This is why the practice of Communion in the church is extremely important. The miracles and gifts and peace that you are looking for is within the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.