Purpose of Fruit

 

"For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Pet. 1:8

 

          Nor unfruitful in vs. 8 is the third key to this paragraph. Possessing the divine nature with its potentialities for life and godliness and supplying these potentialities through normal and personal activity, the believer will not be unfruitful in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. This means that the believer will not only realize the divine ideal in the present life, thus being safeguarded from pitfalls and any fatal falls along the way, but will at last arrive in that heavenly haven, ushered into that everlasting kingdom with the same abun­dance which characterized his fruitfulness along the way.