You Are a Bad Tree; But Christ Is a Good Tree with Good Fruit

This sermon unpacks Matthew 7's imagery of healthy and diseased trees to show humanity's fallen state and Christ as the only truly Good Tree who fulfills the law. Using Psalm 26 and Peter's sermon as a lens, the preacher identifies David's words as messianic, pointing to Jesus' perfect obedience, suffering, death, and resurrection. Believers are invited to be grafted into Christ through baptism and the Lord's Supper, sharing in His merits and suffering so that their lives bear good fruit in response to Him as The Good Fruit. The message emphasizes reliance on Christ, not self, as the source of true righteousness and hopeful union with God.