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\\ */Only one life, twill soon be past-- Only what's done for Christ will last./*
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/““/*/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, and I will 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 a man remains in me and I in him, *he will bear much fruit*; apart from me you can do nothing.//
/*/If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned/*/.//
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*/If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you./*/
/*/This is to my Father’s glory/**/, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples./*/
//“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
Now remain in my love.//
//If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.//
/*/I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete/*/.//
//My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.//
//Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.//
//You are my friends if you do what I command.//
//I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.
Instead, *I have called you friends*, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.// /*/You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last./*/
Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.//
//This is my command: Love each other.//"
/(John 15:1-17, NIV) [1]
What did you do yesterday?
Not many of us would respond with a minute by minute recital of our activities for the day.
That’s a good thing too.
Usually, when I am asked the question, I look for something that represented the most important or significant part of my day.
There are days that go by when I discover that I have been extremely busy or distracted with things that don’t really matter or at least are secondary.
I have a designation on my Palm Pilot to assign a priority number to the things that I put on my “To Do List”.
To my shame I rarely use it.
Everything that I put on there becomes a number one priority when in truth it is not.
It’s not that they represent time wasted but time spent in ways that don’t match what I consider to be the priorities of my life and calling.
I have discovered that the more I give myself to the things that are of primary importance, the more fulfilled I am and the greater degree of peace I experience in my life.
/Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass.
The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities -- what we do with and how we manage our time.
The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction -- what we feel is important and how we lead our lives./
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/The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass -- when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives./
It is easy to lose consciousness of the Christian calling.
One day melts into another and we look back on another week past to ask ourselves what we did for the sake of the kingdom of God.
Important things get lost in the shuffle and we inadvertently miss the wonderful opportunity to change our world as we live our lives in step with the Spirit, by God’s priorities
Jesus addresses his disciples in John 15 on the necessity of “fruitfulness”.
I’d like to look at His words today and evaluate our own commitment to “*/First Things/*”, the things that really matter.
*1.
**God is displeased with spiritual “/barrenness”/.*
/ /
/“//He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit . .
.”/
There is an expectation that God has for us to bear fruit.
*/Biblical Review of Fruitfulness/*
· */Parable of the Talents/* – We need to have something top show for what God has given us.
(*Matt.
25:14-30*)
· */Quality of Each Man’s Work/* – Some of our good will not stand the test.
*(1 Cor.
3:13)*
· */Witness of Works -- /*Let your light so shine.
Causes *people* to glorify God.
Everything points to Christ.
*/(Matt.
5:16)/*
· */Make Every Effort/* – “possess these qualities in increasing measure” */(2 Peter 1:5)/*
· */Fruit of the Spirit/* – */(Gal.
5:22)/*
· */Quiet Life/* – */(1 Thess.
4:11)/*
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**God is determined to make fruitful followers, /“maximally”/ fruitful.*
/“ . . .
while *every branch that does bear fruit he prunes* so that it will be even *more fruitful.”*/
You do not have to be perfect to bear fruit.
A life surrendered to God in all its imperfections is immediately usable for kingdom purposes.
I think it is a lie of the devil himself to make us think that unless we can do it perfectly we should not come to him.
In that state of surrender God is free to prune away the parts of us that limit our fruitfulness.
*3.
**Fruitfulness is related to our “/connection/” with Christ.
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/“You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.// //Remain in me, and I will 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 a man remains in me and I in him, *he will bear much fruit*; apart from me you can do nothing.”/
We forget that we cannot produce fruit – we can only bear it.
We can be the one who is involved in the process of another person coming to embrace Christ but their salvation does not rest on our shoulders.
We can’t do it on our own.
A greater depth of relationship with God will make my life more fruitful.
The more I pursue that relationship, the more fruitful it will become.
I believe that as I draw close to God I am drawn close to men.
Not just brothers in Christ but those who need to find Him.
As my love for God increases, so does my love for the lost and the found.
Therefore the depth of spiritual understanding is related to my ability to relate to the condition of men.
*It is impossible to be unfruitful if we are connected to Christ*.
The clear conclusion that we draw when there is no obvious fruit in a person’s life is that there is no connection – no relationship.
Bad fruit and barrenness tell the same tale.
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**Our fruitfulness creates a /“privileged” relationship/.*
*/“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.”/*
I am going to have to tell you that I don’t understand this promise.
I don’t believe that God gives us everything that we ask Him for.
Some of the things that we want will cause us spiritual harm or shipwreck.
He will not give us that which may harm us.
Some of the things that we want, we are not ready to receive.
There is a further work that He wishes to do in us before we are able to receive.
Some of our requests are purely self-centered and these He denies.
*/(James 4:3)/*
I think that He gives those things to us that serve the primary purpose of kingdom interests and that will cause further growth and development in us.
As a Christian matures they learn to leave their requests with an eternal Father whose pleasure is to “give”.
When he says “no” it is for our best.
*5.
**Our fruitfulness is a means of bringing “/glory”/* *to God.*
*/“This is to my Father’s glory, /*that you*/ bear much fruit/*, showing yourselves to be my disciples.”
I think that God loves to make us win.
He loves it when, against the odds, we prevail.
When a long time critic is won to Christ by the consistent witness of a co-worker, this is incredibly glorifying to God.
He does these things through people who “abide” in Him.
People who are willing to suffer in the short term for victory in the long run.
Not all of our victories are immediate.
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