Have you begun to bear heavenly fruit?

Those who labor for your souls, whether they be ministers or friends — don't let them look in vain for fruit in your life.

Be warned, God can say to a person, as He once did to a tree, “No one will ever eat fruit from you again!”

Could anyone bear the prospect of never being a blessing throughout all the ages of eternity?

Many who are now useless and hurting, hope that they shall one day be different. But opportunities are quickly passing away.

The trees, that are now bearing the lovely fruits of praise and holiness in heaven above, began to produce such fruits for God when on earth.

Even that criminal whose Christian course lasted only an hour or two, produced good fruit in his trustful request to Jesus, and in his faithful reproof of his fellow sufferer; while the aged apostle Paul was like a tree whose boughs are bent to the ground under the weight of a fragrant and delicious load.

Have you begun to bear heavenly fruit? If not, when will you begin? Delay no more; you do not know how soon God may fix your state forever.

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