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Producing Fruit
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Romans 6:21-22  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The context answers what the fruit in each verse symbolizes. In verse 21, the product of actions of which we are now ashamed would have been death. But because of God's calling and our subsequent repentance, our status and relationship with Him have changed—and so has what we are producing with our lives. We are now His slaves rather than sin's, producing fruit to holiness rather than shame and death. In the end God will give us everlasting life. The choice is ours. Which fruit would we rather have, shame and death or holiness and life? John W. Ritenbaugh The Fruit of the Spirit

Colossians 2:7  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) "As you have been taught" refers to what Epaphras and Tychicus had taught the Colossians. Paul wanted them "abounding in it"—growing, producing fruit, and not deviating from it. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 20)

 

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