Fruit Inspection

[Verse 1]

Yo it's so strange how so many folks claim

They're born again when their lives are showing no change

Listen while I'm spitting

If you go about your sinning without conviction

You should doubt your christian

The devil tricks people that they're saved

When they're sleepin in their grave still to evil they're a slave

So examine yourself

Are you in the Faith or are you just a slave to sin's glamour and wealth

'Cause you seek finer things and seem fond of sin

But please read 1 John 3: 9, 10

'Cause it's a warning dog-It shows if you're a fraud

And that this is impossible if you've been born of God

To live habitually sinful

At least hear it from Christ if you don't wanna listen to Brindle

Please understand this-Jesus demands it

Those who really love him will keep his commandments

[Chorus]

Killing Sin is not a prescription of how to be forgiven/

It's a description of the Christian who is forgiven

By trusting in the risen Christ who took our wrath and affliction/

Killing Sin is not a prescription of how to be forgiven/

But it's a description of the Christian who is forgiven/

And the Spirit now convicts them to put off and kill their sick sin

[Verse 2]

I'm a make this as basic as can be

They say a saved saint is like a tree

Since their faith is in Christ, their root's in the soil

So they're saved for life and their fruit isn't spoil

So it makes since that if the root is alive

The dead branches fall off but their fruits gonna thrive

But if there's no evidence of a changed life

Sin's a claimed price so you're still dead in sin

So, "Jesus is Lord", your lips confess

But Killing Sin is that confession's litmus test

If perhaps the truth is that you're lacking proof

With absent fruit, the axe is at the root

So, let's be specific

You say, "But God knows my heart." Yeah, He knows that it's desperately wicked

So, you can repent and accept the truth dude

Or else when you meet Christ hear, "I never knew you."

So let's start from the top-Your heart is a rock

You must trust Christ's death for your charges to drop

No repent pretenders and present your members

To Him who does contenders like fender benders

I ain't saying that I'm flawless from sin

I'm saying when I fall I go to the cross and repent

And just �cause we believe in eternal security

Don't mean we're not concerned with personal purity

'Cause those who've been elected, chosen and predestined

Won't rest till the day our souls have been perfected

So we'll work out our salvation with fear and trembling

But give God the glory knowing it's His spirit's rendering