So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. The positive statement of the diagnostic principle: the tree's internal health determines its external fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit; a diseased tree cannot bear good fruit (verse 18). The consistency of the relationship between internal health and external fruit is the basis for the diagnostic confidence: if you examine the fruit carefully and consistently, you will know the tree. 2 Corinthians 11:14–15 warns that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light and his servants as servants of righteousness — the disguise does not hold up under the fruit examination.

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