Life Fruit

You can tell what kind of tree you're dealing with by identifying it's fruits. It's fruits are the most visible expression of each trees unique identity. Every fruit is different, though all descendant of seeds from their respective genus of trees, each fruit carries a unique name or signature, making each fruit meaningfully distinct. Fruits vary widely in color, shape, and flavor. Some, like dragon fruit, bare strikingly similarities to others, like kiwis, although visually opposite of one another! Yet I am sure there are many examples of fruit looking exactly like each-other while having wildly different flavors or material structures! The difference between two fruit of visible like-kind could be as great as the difference between life and death, as one fruit could be poisonous while another looking just like it could be healthy and life-giving! How then do you tell the difference between two virtually identical fruit which are indiscernible to the naked eye? Well, as knew from the beginning, the truth is that it's by understanding and identifying the TREE from which the fruits descended that any accurate deduction concerning the identity and defining characteristics of the fruits are made.

There were two trees in the Garden, and likewise today there are two perspectives of man from which ideas and judgements are deduced. One is a tree planted by many streams of water whose leaves never wither and who bears fruit continually in every season, never withered, never parched, and never failing in it's prosperous production of fruit. Another tree is in quite the opposite position and isn't located where streams of waters flow, where sunlight shines, fresh winds blow, or where soil is rich and fertile. Even the fruit of our lips point to there being a tree in us sourcing the words we believe and speak, and different manner of men experience differently the experience of life in the Garden.

Having a Father whose grace empowers our effortless production of fruit pleasing to the Fathers will and satisfying of His standard is the Tree of Life. From the position of this tree, Life itself circulates within and produces fruit effortlessly. The Son reflects every detail inherited by Him from The Father as effortlessly as The Father Himself is who He is. The Son's existence is sustained by and sourced within His Father; His every trait down to the most minuscule element of His design fully resemble and give accurate reflection to that Truth which defines His Father's Spirit. Like a tree can produce no other fruit than the seed of the tree from which it descended, the Father can produce no other offspring than that which is produced by the seed of His Spirit's original authentic thought of Himself. This Oneness between Spirit and Father is exhibited in His Son's definition matching exactly those things which His Father's Spirit defines His Father as.

The Son reveals the Father.

Because of separation from the idea of a God who is pleased with us and whose will our actions are consistent with, we experienced separation from the Spirit of Sonship and were instead inflicted by the Spirit of Fearful Expectation of Punishment. Our Father was recast as our judge by our conscience's affliction in response to our sin and sense of continual infraction of that which defines Him. By our Father being misconstrued as an example for us, we failed to notice Him as the example OF us He's always been as every tree only produces fruit in consistency with it's design!

God had no error in Himself when we were created of Him, but like Himself, we stood unconditionally separate from the laws ruling any created things [as Angels] and instead stood the grace of the natural, pre-existent, eternal offspring [as Gods in Christ]. Jesus' reveal of His Father's love for us in His love for His Father forever cast out the former veil of fear of judgement by which we'd previously been hindered from recognizing the Face of The Father or it's associated echo and mirror reflection in the Face of The Son, who we ourselves are. To this day, only fruits produced by those who have yet to receive the light of the message of God in Christ Jesus by which the One Father of the human race is eternally paternally identified by way of His love-act towards us. His giving of Himself for us identifies His Life as ours, identifying Himself as loving and gracious Father while identifying us in His Son as eternally beloved recipients of the gracious gift of eternal (resurrection) life!

So today, we effortlessly follow our Father's command that we follow the voice of the Good Shepherd... and that we do not follow the voice of the stranger or listen to the fruit of his lips. The foreign father has been dispelled! We are no longer Gentiles in the sight of a Jewish God, or Sinners in the sight of a Righteous God, but are Sons in the sight of the Father God! All of us, as humanity itself is, has always been, and will continue to be known [by Him] as the Fruit of His Lips. We are the incarnation of His spoken words, His every word concerning Himself mirrored in us, on display in our representative, Christ Jesus, who Himself confirms our present standing and the condition of our every treasure as safe in Him, Body, Mind, and Soul. He loved us with all His mind, all His strength, and with all His soul, fulfilling His own law in us as it's the presence of His Fatherly Love in us which confirms our sonship like a Signet ring. That Spirit [of His Love] is the confirmation of our Sonship, and far before comprehended or entered into the experience of by man, that Love for us remains eternally present as unchanging rock-solid truth by the continual effect of the eternal sacrifice God made for humanity in giving us His Son and unfettered by our rejection of Him, poured out the whole of His life, name, and Spirit as our own... abandoning Himself to us that we may live. THIS is our God and Father, the tree of whom we are branches and the producer of our fruit. By the fruit of your persuaded heart, the words which proceed from your lips confirm that you are indeed His own, and are dearly protected, unconditionally forgiven, blessed, favored, and loved.