Today’s passage: Matthew 12:33-37
Helpful thoughts:
- Good trees bear good fruit. Bad trees bear bad fruit. You can’t staple an apple on a lemon tree and call it an apple tree.
- Everything that comes out of us started within, in the inner man (The heart).
- Jesus judged these Pharisees based on what they said.
Questions to consider:
- Where do the things we say come from?
- Is it right to say, “That wasn’t me!” when we do or say something wrong? Why not?
- How do we grow in our actions and words? Where is the target for change?