{"id":2357,"date":"2013-07-04T10:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2013-07-04T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T14:37:05","slug":"becoming-fruit-inspectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Becoming &#8220;Fruit Inspectors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201cBeware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree can\u2019t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can\u2019t produce good fruit. So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Matthew 7:15-20 (NLT)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><i>It\u2019s very important that as Christians we become \u201cfruit inspectors\u201d when listening to or reading teachings from others.\u00a0 While it\u2019s important that the words they use strive to relay the truths and proper context in Scripture, it\u2019s just as vital to examine the manner in which they show Christ\u2019s love to others and try to live those messages out.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBeware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2088],"tags":[724,321,3194,3126,3129,3130,966,1180,3127,269,3128],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-inspirations","tag-actions","tag-christ","tag-daily-inspirations","tag-false-prophets","tag-fruit","tag-fruit-inspectors","tag-god","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-harmless-sheep","tag-jesus","tag-vicious-wolves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-C1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}