Legalistic Saints and self-appointed fruit inspectors

 

Legalistic Saints are the most self-focused, self-centered, self-expressing people on the face of this planet. Sadly, it is not so much that they are trying to be good Christians… it is that they have to be. All the rest of the legalistic Saints are self-appointed fruit inspectors checking for the fruit in each other!

The favorite verses of legalistic Saints are Matthew 7:16 10, Ye shall know them by their fruits… Two verses that have nothing to do with Saints, but are speaking of false prophets.

Ask any fruit inspector what fruit they are looking for, and they typically say, Well, you know. If they name any, it will be some works they say the Scriptures tells us to do. But here is the kicker: not one mention of Galatians 5:22-23, where God tells us explicitly what fruit of the Holy Spirit is.

Beware of legalistic Saints and self-appointed fruit inspectors.