Jesus told us to be as “wise as serpents but gentle as doves.” Meaning, be on your toes and aware spiritually, but as you live, to be gentle and harmless. As we get into today’s passage, we will see what we have already noted earlier in 1st John and that is we, as believers, are not to ever wrongfully or un-biblically judge one another. However, there is a time for biblical discernment, and “fruit inspection”.