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Clarity and Peace
1 Co 14:33a
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
If we’re willing to read the Word of God in context, there’s no confusion with the Lord.

"Context" from Oxford Dictionary:
The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. The parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning.

The Deception of Arrogant Self-Righteousness
Those that think they have no need of repentance, who are relying on self-righteousness, are willfully living in deception and will not be saved in the end. This is a major theme of Luke 13.

Don't Remain Arrogant!
We are all sinners and guilty before God, period. So, we’re all in the same sinking boat. Is 64:6, Ro 3:9-20

Is 64:6
We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Don't Compare and Be Deceived!
Jesus directly challenged our fleshly notions that we are morally superior to those who suffer in some type of tragedy. Lk 13:1-5

Pr 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.

Sharing the Gospel
Quoting Jesus’ sayings and parables takes the pressure off of us and puts it on others to accept or reject His own words.

The Barren Fig Tree (Person)
This parable about producing fruit is a continuation on the need for repentance... otherwise the tree, analogous to a person here, proves worthless and of no good value. There's NOTHING good in it (him)! Lk 13:1-9

Don't Compare and Be Deceived!
If you SAY you repent or believe, but you have no good fruit in your life for God and you totally live for yourself, don't be deceived! Lk 3:7-9,13:1-9, Ac 26:19-20

Repentance and Fruit
It's genuine repentance, which only God can produce in a person, that saves a soul from death and changes him from the inside out.

Don't Compare and Be Deceived!
If you SAY you repent or believe, but you have no good fruit in your life for God and you totally live for yourself, don't be deceived! Lk 3:7-9,13:1-9, Ac 26:19-20

"Keeping With Repentance"
Repentance and faith come first, and if granted by God, they result in true goodness in our hearts and lives.
Jn 6:65, Gal 5:22-23

True good can ONLY be performed by the grace of God.

Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

"Keeping With Repentance"
True faith has good works simply because God is now at work in the heart and life of a believer. Php 1:6,2:13

How Can We Explain It???
One of the most baffling things in this life is God's patience.

Trust in the Lord
Let's zealously spread the Gospel and plant the seeds, knowing full well the Lord will sort it all out in the end.

Supernatural Growth
Only God can cause this type of growth. It's actually not only miraculous, but unseen and invisible on how it happens from within.

Jn 3:8
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Supernatural Growth
The kingdom of God is not stagnant in any way, but it's full of life and growth... growth caused by the supernatural intervention and working of God Almighty.

True evil is supposing human good is righteous.