12/29/24 - Pastor Kelly Baker - Bear Fruit

Bear Fruit!

John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

1. We are chosen and appointed (given the job) to go and bear fruit, but not bear just any fruit, but fruit that will last.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,  gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. Jeremiah 17:8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.

2. When we are planted by the water, with our roots stable, we don’t fear, and we will bear fruit.

Trees need water to live to bear fruit

1. The roots take in what is needed from the water source.
2. The roots also give the tree a way to hold fast to the ground.
3. The roots keep us grounded. We all know how hard life is and we can count on hard storms and circumstances to come and take us down. And literally knock the breath out of us.

In the most desolate of times we shouldn’t worry or stress but be confident because he is the source. And always bear fruit.

Sometimes people depend on you to flourish and grow.