Good Fruit

Many of us have come out of Christianity and are learning Torah.
We are learning the Words and the Ways of the Father.
This is a good thing.
It seems that we wiped our slates clean and started over in our knowledge and our doctrine.
Again, this is a good thing.
But now it is time to return to New Testament study, and to understand and apply it in accordance with what we learned in Torah.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all. And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all. Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil, does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth, it covers all, believes all, expects all, endures all. Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be inactive; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known. And now belief, expectation, and love remain – these three. But the greatest of these is love.
Qorintiyim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 13:1

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah. And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatiyim (Galatians) 5

It is time to embrace these scriptures again, but building upon the foundation of Torah instead faulty mainstream Christian doctrine.

As I said yesterday, there is a great deal of rotten fruit in Torah community, all in the name of chasing after the truth.
Yes, please continue seeking truth in study and prayer, but without the bad fruit of arguments and fighting, dividing from fellowship, rejection of family and friends, unfriending and blocking.

If someone has gone down a wonky path, show them what you have learned in scripture.
But don’t try to force it on them.
If they don’t “get it” pray for them and continue to be kind.
Don’t allow bad fruit to be what you see when you look on the path behind you.

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