“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil: for God was with Him” Acts 10:38.
Goodness may be defined as zeal for truth and righteousness and a hatred of evil. To simplify it, it is loving what God loves and hating what He hates.
The fruit of goodness makes you to hate sin but love sinners. Now the verse we just read above says that Jesus went about doing good; but majority of us go about building our personal empires and kingdoms instead of God’s Kingdom.
What reward do we expect to receive from the Lord when we have already rewarded ourselves?
That Jesus went about doing good wasn’t because the people deserved anything good from God; but because He needed to manifest the fruit of goodness in order to glorify God’s name. If Jesus healed the sick, cast out demons, fed thousands of people and raised the dead in order to manifest the fruit of goodness; how are you, His follower manifesting the fruit of goodness today?
“That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God." Col 1:10.
Manifesting the fruit of goodness is what makes you worthy to be called a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ. The reason is because it is the goodness of God that leads sinners to repentance.
“Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid”. 1 Tim 5:25.
The verse you just read above is talking about manifesting the fruit of goodness. Brother Paul says that some believers are manifesting the fruit of goodness that was in them and those other believers who are not manifesting theirs cannot hide the fact that they are unfruitful.
So how can you manifest the fruit of goodness that is sleeping inside of you, when you throw away all the opportunities God provides for you to do so?
Now the bible says in Psalm 16:2:
“You are my Lord: my goodness extends not to you”.
This verse wants you to understand that your manifesting the fruit of goodness is ultimately for your own good.
"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves. And said unto them, it is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves”. Mat 21:12-13.
What would make the humble Saviour to do this kind of thing?
The answer is that the honour of God was at stake. Jesus was jealous for the honour of His Father’s name because the temple at Jerusalem is the place God had chosen to put His name. What goes on inside the church is a way to measure or ascertain the spiritual condition of a people or nation. The Israelites of Jesus day had backslidden from following the Lord and had begun to see the temple as a mere symbol of their religious heritage.
In this fallen spiritual state, they failed to recognize that the temple was a holy place and therefore only activities that bring glory to God ought to be carried out there.
This attitude attracted people lacking in heavenly attitude to capitalize on the crowds that entered the temple to make quick money, buying and selling every imaginable article.
This shows that if believers fail to put the church in the order God has prescribed, unbelievers will come in and help us put it in disorder their own way.
Jesus' action in the temple restored order to the church of His day and also restored God’s honour and instilled the fear of God within men.
The modern day church has been turned into a den of thieves where many Judases deep their fingers into the offering box anyhow; witches, occultists and herbalists use familiar spirits and magic to exchange men’s souls for wealth, fame and power, while standing behind the pulpit. And men of God with PHDs in comedy and motivational speaking are busy entertaining and motivating souls to hell fire.
If the disciples of old and even the prophets of old used the pure, undiluted word of God to pull sinners and whole nations out of spiritual coma, where are these modern preachers coming from?
It must be from the pit of hell.
Jesus manifested the wonderful fruit of goodness by restoring sanity to the temple with His fiery zeal.
The church of today needs men and women of action that will forcefully awaken the church out of her spiritual coma.
Are you up for the challenge?
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