I am an unprofitable servant.
What do you hear there? Consider: They asked for Him to increase their “faith”. This was before the very thing your thread is speaking of: fruit of the Spirit. Faith without the works of God is dead. His response to their wanting Him to increase their faith was not...wait and see the boldness you will received to testify of My name after the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It was Luke 17:10 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
You meantioned goats/sheep. Matthew 25:30 And cast ye the
unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. — even if you say this is yet future and another says different...the unprofitable servant goes into outer darkness. That is what your thread is on, yeah? We are not unprofitable servants. That would be works of the flesh which are unprofitable. Not the born again of God, Spirit.
Hebrews 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them:
but the word preached did not profit them,
not being
mixed with faith in them that heard it . —remember they asked Him “increase our faith” and how many times He said “Where is your faith?” (Luke 8:25) O ye of little faith. (Matthew 6:30)
Hebrews 12:9-10 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us , and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be
in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? [10] For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure;
but he for our profit, that we might be
partakers of his holiness.
John 6:63
[63] It is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
The children born from above profit Life.
Hebrews 9:14
[14] How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God? (dead works) same as “unprofitable” but unprofitable servants are before “born again” of the Spirit.
Hebrews 13:9-10 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which
have not profited them that have been occupied therein. [10] We have an altar, whereof they have no right to
eat which serve the tabernacle.
John 4:23-24
[23] But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. [24] God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The spirit(the born again) hidden man renewed in the heart serves God, profitable unto all. The outward man perishes (the unprofitable servant)
Philippians 3:3-4
[3] For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have
no confidence in the flesh. [4] Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
“Increase our faith”... the change after they walked in the Spirit. Lord, help us to be profitable, no longer of dead works but free to serve the living God. lastly, it is not our “duty” as the carnal Law commanded but of the Spirit which is: “For I delight in the law of God after the inward man” (Romans 7:22). Without Charity ...it profits nothing.