Lin

“This person had not one good thing to say about me and as far as whether I was a sister in Christ, they said they couldn’t read my heart.  If reading someone’s heart was necessary then we couldn’t know that anyone was a Christian. This person had not one good thing to say about me and as far as whether I was a sister in Christ, they said they couldn’t read my heart.  If reading someone’s heart was necessary then we couldn’t know that anyone was a Christian. ”

I am tired of all this ‘I can’t see your heart’ business. What a subtle misuse of scripture that is everywhere!  People are buying into this nonsense everywhere.

What comes out of the heart is fruit. And we are told that a good tree cannot produce bad fruit. Fruit trees have seasons and season after season a good tree will produce good fruit.

This was just a way for this person to not have to admit you have good fruit and that good fruit was in attempting to reconcile in love and faith.

If a professing Christian is angry, hateful, viscious on a consistent basis (even secretly hiding behind others) and willfully sinning knowing the truth then that is bad fruit. Where does that come from? The heart.