Unleashing God’s Word in Your Life, Part 14: The Word Produces Fruit
Unleashing God’s Word In Your Life
Lesson 14—The Word Produces Fruit
Text: John 15:1-8
What is Christian fruit? How much fruit are you producing?
- He is the vine; we are the branches
- Jesus is the vine; the Father is the vinedresser; we (individual Christians) are the branches
- The people could relate to this illustration because of similar OT analogies and the abundance of vineyards in Palestine
- Jesus says, “I an the true vine” (1)
- The work of the vinedresser
- The vinedresser had two tasks: to cut off branches that bear no fruit, and to prune the fruit-bearing branches to bear more fruit
- There are two kinds of Christians: those who bear no fruit (who will be cut away), and those who bear fruit (who will be pruned)
- What is not Christian fruit
- Important notice: fruit bearing is a requirement, not an option!
- God does not want “plastic fruit” – success, sensationalism, simulation, etc.
- What real Christian fruit is
- A Christ-like character (Gal. 5:22,23)
- Praising the Lord in worship (Heb. 13:15)
- Good works (Eph. 2:8-10)
- Winning others to Christ (John 4:35,36)
- Do God’s words control your life?
- We must let the words of God be the infallible, inerrant author-ity in our lives
- He is the vine—only by being in Him can we bear Christian fruit
