Bring Forth Fruits Of Repentance!

"Therefore bring forth fruits in keeping with repentance and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham." ~ Luke 3.8

Our repentance toward Christ is made evident in the fruit we bear. Fruits of generosity (v.11); Fruits of fairness (v.13); Fruits of kindness, truthfulness, and contentment (v.14).

What a declaration of genuine repentance unto Christ...to be generous, fair, kind, truthful and content.

Go Back, Go Back, and Go back again and again!

“At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves.

We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him.”

~ Timothy Keller, Paul’s Letter to the Galatians

(HT: Of First Importance)