{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dialog","title":"1.13 / Judge the fruit, not the motive","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3108,"description":"\"Only God can judge me.\" It's a popular tattoo. Nick Surface's take: that's true about your heart, and it's not true about your life.\nJosh Craft puts it simply. Jesus didn't say to judge people's motives. He said to judge their fruit (Matthew 7:15-20).\nThis one starts with Christian movies and music: the animated David, Angel Studios, Forrest Frank and the CCM we grew up on. Then it turns into a bigger question. Why are Christians so quick to tell a story about someone else's heart?\nCan you know someone's motives?\nNo. \"I wouldn't charge that much for a concert\" is a preference. \"He charges that much because he's lost his way\" is assigning motive. The heart is deceitful above all things, and it's the Lord who searches it (Jeremiah 17:9-10).\nWhat did Jesus mean by \"you will know them by their fruit\"?\nA false prophet teaches lies as if they're true, on purpose or out of ignorance. Jesus's test isn't what they say or why. It's the fruit, the sustained evidence of their teaching over a long period of time (Luke 6:43-45).\nWhat counts as good fruit?\nNot money, muscles or a screenshot of a bank balance. Our number one test: does this person have close relationships with the people who have been with them the longest?\nShould you judge someone you don't know?\nFirst ask: are you in relationship with this person? If the answer is no, just be quiet. Before you make a judgment, be around the person long enough to know if they actually have fruit.\nScriptures\nMatthew 7:15-20 · Luke 6:43-45 · Jeremiah 17:9-10 · Galatians 5:22-23 · 1 Timothy 3:2-5 · John 12:4-6\nPeople and ideas\nT.D. Jakes · Theodore Roosevelt's man in the arena · the Harvard Study of Adult Development · Angel Studios · Forrest Frank\nChapters\n0:00 Cold open and show intro\n0:52 Is the movie David a 9 or a 6?\n6:04 The subculture of Christian media\n9:30 Why Christians feel qualified to judge\n11:51 Constituents, comrades and confidants\n15:43 The problem with assigning motive\n19:45 Building a castle vs. fighting a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7YsfA4gq5VzjhvmKvDET1pQqT0OM6yxv1laklKclR7g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWZh/MTRmZDEzOWRjZGQz/Y2M2NThkNzYwOTJj/ODA4MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}