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A brief article on whether Christians can really determine if a tree is good or bad. Are you able? Would you want to be able?

This is a follow up article from the "Pope is in Hell".

Can You Really Tell a Tree By its Fruit "“ or Was Christ lying?
By Dr. C. Matthew McMahon
http://www.apuritansmind.com/Christi...ndItsFruit.htm

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C. Matthew McMahon, Ph.D. (Pot hole Digger)
John 5:39, "...search the Scriptures..."

Dr. C. Matthew McMahon.com, www.apuritansmind.com and www.puritanpublications.com
Member - Christ Presbyterian Church

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Great job Matt. I know alot of people who have the same trouble you mentioned in your Post Script. We must judge by the gospel. It is just as much a judgement to judge a person to be saved and going to heaven, as it is judging a person to be lost and going to hell. Either way people judge. Somehow it's ok as long as you judge them going to heaven, but woe to you if you say John Paul II is in hell! This is hypocritical IMHO.

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Jeff Bartel
Mechanical Engineer
Member - Trinity Reformed Church - RPCNA

"To believe in the power of man in the work of regeneration is the great heresy of Rome, and from that error has come the ruin of the Church. Conversion proceeds from the grace of God alone, and the system which ascribes it partly to man and partly to God is worse than Pelagianism" (The Reformation in England (London, 1962), Vol. 1, p. 98)

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Sober yet humorous at the same time. You preclude deathbead converts and well disguised hypocrites?

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*Peter Gray* Elkins Park RPCNA

"Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. " Mk 9:24
"The greatest thing we can desire, next to the glory of God, is our own salvation; and the sweetest thing we can desire is the assurance of our salvation. In this life we cannot get higher than to be assured of that which in the next life is to be enjoyed. All saints shall enjoy a heaven when they leave this earth; some saints enjoy a heaven while they are here on earth." Joseph Caryl

I was looking for my notepad Matt but couldn't find it

God has described in His Word what good and bad fruit look like, in judging a tree as bad or as good (including myself) I use the standards of God and NOT my own. God's Word judges the trees not us, but the Lord has made us familiar with the nature of good and bad fruit. I think in examining ourselves we can often question whether we are lacking or sparsely laden with fruit, and so we can tend to not want to judge others, or even consider fruit at all. Also we can view being loving as not encouraging others to examine the fruit of a worldly icon for fear they may be distressed and disappointed by the results of the examination. So when it comes to a time on the earth when the great lies are being widely disseminated as truth, who speaks if we cannot? Who will stand on the truth of God against the lies of Satan? Who will declare that the figs are rotten, or will we just stand by and watch as the figs are declared by the world to be sound and succulent?

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How often have you wondered why Christ should set His heart upon such a one as you! --Octavius Winslow

Lon Wadkins (Jesup, Iowa)
New Covenant Fellowship, OPC
Independence, Iowa