
Fruit: Final Week
November 17, 2019
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! —Galatians 5:22-23
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EVERYONE BENEFITS FROM YOUR FRUIT.
“I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener.” —John 15:1
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God does the heavy lifting in our hearts.
But if we try to CONTROL our growth, we mess up the conditions.
The fruitlessness of productivity often leads to busyness or arrogance.
Following Jesus becomes the budding of fruit in your life.
He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. —John 15:2
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The goal of Jesus’s action in us is to CREATE MORE FRUIT.
“MORE” vision for you!
“MORE” vision for 2020
There can be no PRODUCING without PRUNING.
“You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you.” —John 15:3
Bible App4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. —John 15:4
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Remain, that’s it.
Outline of Biblical Usage:
● To sojourn.
● To continue to be present.
● Over time: to continue to be, to last, endure.
● Not to become another or different
5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing… —John 15:5
Bible App8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.” —John 15:8
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