I will tell you this from a POV you have not considered perhaps.
Jesus tells us a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
They simply CAN'T.
If a tree is a bad tree, it bears BAD fruit, and its end is to be cut down and thrown into hell fire.
So since God makes the tree either good or bad, Matthew 12:33, and the good tree always bears good fruit and never bears bad fruit, then that means the good tree never becomes a bad tree which is cut down and thrown into the fire of eternal destruction. And people may be a poor judge of good and bad fruit to God, people are imperfect and especially those who bear bad fruit will persecute those who truly do bear good fruit. What some might be considering good and bad fruit might not be what God is thinking at all regarding good and bad fruit bearing, because your messed up doctrine gets in the way of your understanding and your minds are darkened by lack of knowledge due to your evil judgement.
Those who bear the bad fruit, Christ tells them, He NEVER knew them, so they never had salvation from God. They were never born of God.
God knows all His children as they are part of the family of God, and none of the wicked who bear bad fruit are ever part of the family of God, UNLESS God adopts them into His family because He loves them so much that He makes them alive who were dead giving them a new spirit, a new destiny with Him as new creations in Christ. Then everything is new for them with God, and they have then become the good tree and bear the good fruit to God.
And such transformed people will not bear bad fruit, As Christ has so said. So then God has not destined them for wrath, but to obtain eternal everlasting salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
Matthew 7
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
John the baptist also said about not bearing good fruit this,
Luke 3:8-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 9 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
10 So the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?”
Jesus tells us a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
They simply CAN'T.
If a tree is a bad tree, it bears BAD fruit, and its end is to be cut down and thrown into hell fire.
So since God makes the tree either good or bad, Matthew 12:33, and the good tree always bears good fruit and never bears bad fruit, then that means the good tree never becomes a bad tree which is cut down and thrown into the fire of eternal destruction. And people may be a poor judge of good and bad fruit to God, people are imperfect and especially those who bear bad fruit will persecute those who truly do bear good fruit. What some might be considering good and bad fruit might not be what God is thinking at all regarding good and bad fruit bearing, because your messed up doctrine gets in the way of your understanding and your minds are darkened by lack of knowledge due to your evil judgement.
Those who bear the bad fruit, Christ tells them, He NEVER knew them, so they never had salvation from God. They were never born of God.
God knows all His children as they are part of the family of God, and none of the wicked who bear bad fruit are ever part of the family of God, UNLESS God adopts them into His family because He loves them so much that He makes them alive who were dead giving them a new spirit, a new destiny with Him as new creations in Christ. Then everything is new for them with God, and they have then become the good tree and bear the good fruit to God.
And such transformed people will not bear bad fruit, As Christ has so said. So then God has not destined them for wrath, but to obtain eternal everlasting salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
Matthew 7
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
I Never Knew You
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
John the baptist also said about not bearing good fruit this,
Luke 3:8-10 New King James Version (NKJV)
8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 9 And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
10 So the people asked him, saying, “What shall we do then?”
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