What It Is To Be A Fruitful Christian

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Bro Bob

Being fruitful as a believer, having a fruitful life, bearing fruit unto God, and it comes as a suprise to many that fruit is not born out of being active like the prophets of Baal – getting all agitated, throwing themselves at that alter, cutting themselves – making a great hoohah.

Fruit is born not in doing but in dying, it’s as we take up our cross that the Lord Jesus Christ bears His fruit in and through us.

But it’s God who must do the cutting. That tree – the axe is at the root of it, and alot of professing Christians are going to be surprised when all their life – what they’ve built, what they’ve trusted in comes tumbling down. They thought it was fruit but it’s been works, it’s been them.

Now the key to bearing fruit – let’s have a look in Hebrews – we’ll get to the Parable Of The Sower in a moment. Whatever God requires of us He will provide because it’s for His glory and because it’s the fruit of the Spirit.

It’s not the fruit of the self life, it’s not the fruit of religious works – fleshly works, but it’s the Holy Spirit who must do the cutting – when we talk about the cross and it’s the Holy Spirit who bears the fruit in our lives.

Hebrews chapter 12 and starting with verse 25

25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, 26 whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” 27 Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

28 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may[c] serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. 29 For our God is a consuming fire.

Dear freinds God has got hold of our lives and He is going to shake, why? so that all that we have trusted in, all that is of flesh, all that is emotion, all that is man made, all those things that cannot stand – they will fall… Only what He had established in our lives will remain….

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