AV 13
Fruit of Repentance
“Produce
the fruit of perfect repentance.” (Matthew 3:8 Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, George
Howard, ©1995)
According to the forces of nature, we know that apples produce
apples, corn produces corn, and roses produce thorns, but eventually also
roses, and some even produce ‘rose hips’
as well. Elohim spoke it, decreed it,
and every seed produces after its own kind (Genesis 1:11). ‘Fruit’,
according to the dictionary, can also mean the “production, effect or consequence” of an action or event[1].
Let us therefore look at the action of “perfect repentance”. First, repentance is not remorse,
simply being sorry we got caught doing something we should not have been doing,
with the accompanying fear of discipline and punishment. Repentance is the gut-wrenching,
heart-breaking, deep-feeling sorrow that we experience, knowing that we have
offended and dishonored someone we love and respect dearly: our Creator and
Father. And with this sorrow is
the recognition of the need to change.
Whatever the course of action was that led us to the place where we
violated Elohim’s Covenant and Word, whatever it was that brought us to the
instant where we knew we needed to repent, the fact remains that a
change is required.
This change in our actions, our lifestyle, is the “fruit of
perfect repentance”. When we make a
deliberate decision, an act of our own choice, to no longer do the
things that are in direct violation and opposition to the Word of Elohim, we
are producing the correct fruit. We are
choosing to allow Elohim to have His way within us, and to allow HIS fruit to
mature in us as well (see Galatians 5:22-26).
And this is how the world will know to whom we belong …
“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and
appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should
remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name He might give you.” (John 15:16)
“Repent
therefore, and be restored so that your sins be blotted out and times of rest
come to you from the presence of YHWH, and He send to you Him who was prepared
for you, Yeshua the Messiah …” (Acts
3:19-20 HRVS)
©2021
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