Are You Producing Fruit in Keeping With REPENTANCE? (Matthew 3:8)

Glory be to God! ** 🙋🏾‍♀️ STAY TUNED UNTIL THE VERY END OF THIS EPISODE! ** 🚩TUNE IN EVERY 2 TO 3 DAYS FOR NEW EPISODES! Follow me on Facebook under AuntCynthia Whitaker 😊💥 Join me today on the podcast as I discuss: In order for your faith to be genuine, you must produce works/deeds of righteousness that will be evidence of your repentance. These are not works of the Law to earn salvation. These "works" are called good fruit (deeds) that comes from being saved. It should come naturally to those of us who longs to please our Heavenly Father! We CANNOT claim the Name of Jesus for salvation and still walk in habitual, deliberate, blatant sin! The Bible teaches that if we walk by the Spirit, we will not gratify the lust of flesh. Repentance is the act of changing one’s mind that results in a change of actions. Sincere biblical repentance involves turning away from sin both in thought and action; and turning to God in obedience henceforth. Today, we will be looking at the story of John the Baptist. In the wilderness of Judea, he began his ministry traveling the region preparing Israel to receive her Messiah, Jesus Christ. He went “preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins” (Luke 3:3). John spoke severely, challenging those religious leaders’ spiritual pride and hypocrisy head-on! They needed to know that God’s judgment for sin was coming. Aware of their insincerity of heart, John said, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit in keeping with repentance” (Matthew 3:7–8). Amen! The believer’s ability to produce fruit in keeping with repentance depends wholly on our intimate fellowship with Jesus Christ, who said, “Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:4–5, NLT). The root will naturally prod