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Bearing Fruit
Bearing Fruit• Parable of the sower (Luke 8:4-15)• Important fruit-bearing plants– Fig trees (eaten fresh, dried, jams)– Grapevines (beverage, disinfectant)– Olive trees (cooking oil, lamp oil, sacrifices,
medicines, anointings, soaps)• Three kinds of fruit trees:
1. No fruit2. Bad fruit3. Good fruit
Bearing Fruit• “Bear fruit” (Matt. 3:1-10)• Doing your job (Eph. 2:10; Titus 3:15)• The gospel bears fruit (Col. 1:3-8)• Christians bear fruit (Col. 1:9-12; Gal. 5:22)– Study (II Tim. 2:15)– Encouragement (I Thess. 5:11)– Teaching (II Tim. 2:24-26)– Example (I Tim. 4:15)– Evident (Matt. 5:14-16)
Bearing Fruit• The vine (John 15:1-10)– Fruitless branches removed– Good branches pruned (Heb. 12:5-11)– Abide in Christ, the source of life for the branches• Keep his commandments
• Actions reveal (Luke 6:43-45)• Father’s patience (Luke 13:6-9)– Use the time wisely (II Peter 3:9-10)
• Hypocrisy (James 3:9-12; Gen. 1:11-12)• Don’t fall away (Heb. 6:4-8)
Bearing FruitPsalm 92:12-15