1. Be Fruitful

2. Be Fruitful
John 15:1-8, 16
I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean through the word which I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, as I also remain in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, neither can you, unless you remain in Me.

3. Be Fruitful
John 15:1-8, 16
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without Me you can do nothing. If a man does not remain in Me, he is thrown out as a branch and withers. And they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you remain in Me, and My words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you.

4. Be Fruitful
John 15:1-8, 16
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples…You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain.

5. 1. Created to be Fruitful God’s Pattern: Forms – Fills – Fruitful
Sky – Birds – Multiply
Sea – Fish – Multiply
Land – Animals – Multiply
Land – People – Multiply

6. Chosen to Bear Fruit that Remains
1. Created to be Fruitful
Chosen to Bear Fruit that Remains
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain…
Chosen
Colossians 1:9-10
…we pray for you…that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord…being fruitful in every good work.

7. Chosen to Bear Fruit that Remains
1. Created to be Fruitful
Chosen to Bear Fruit that Remains
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain…
Remain
John 6:27
Do not work for food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you.

8. Chosen to Bear Fruit that Remains
1. Created to be Fruitful
Chosen to Bear Fruit that Remains
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain…
Remain
Mark 8:36
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?.

9. God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
Isaiah 5:1-4
My beloved had a vineyard on a rich and fertile hill. He…planted it with the best vines…Then he waited for a harvest of sweet grapes, but the grapes that grew were bitter…What more could I have done for my vineyard that I have not already done? When I expected sweet grapes, why did my vineyard give me bitter grapes?

10. God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
Why Expect?
God Owns the Vineyard!
Psalm 24:1
The earth belongs to the Lord, and its fullness, the world, and those who dwell in it.

11. God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
Why Expect?
God Owns the Vineyard!
Colossians 1:16
For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and on earth…All things were created by Him and for Him.

12. God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
Why Inspect?
Glorifies God
John 15:8
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

13. God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
God Expects Fruit & Inspects for Fruit
Why Inspect?
Our Identity Confirmed
Matthew 7:16-20
You will know them by their fruits…every good tree bears good fruit. So then, you will know them by their fruits.
John 15:8
My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

14. Consequence for a Lack of Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
Consequence for a Lack of Fruit
Takes Away
John 15:2
Every branch in Me that bears no fruit, He takes away.

15. Consequence for a Lack of Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
Consequence for a Lack of Fruit
Takes Away
Luke 13:6-7
Then He told a parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard. He came and looked for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the vinedresser of his vineyard, ‘Now these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it deplete the soil?”

16. Consequence for a Lack of Fruit
1. Created to be Fruitful
Consequence for a Lack of Fruit
Takes Away
Luke 3:9
Every tree therefore which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

17. Fruit Involves Every Area of Life for Life!
1. Created to be Fruitful
Fruit Involves Every Area of Life for Life!
2 Corinthians 5:17
…if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away. Look, all things have become new.

18. Fruit Involves Every Area of Life
1. Created to be Fruitful
Fruit Involves Every Area of Life
Personal
Romans 6:22
…having been freed from sin and having become slaves of God, you have fruit unto holiness.
Galatians 5:22-23
…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control

19. Fruit Involves Every Area of Life
1. Created to be Fruitful
Fruit Involves Every Area of Life
Personal
Ephesians 2:10
…we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works…
Others
1 Peter 4:10
As everyone has received a gift, even so serve one another with it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

20. Fruit Involves Every Area of Life
1. Created to be Fruitful
Fruit Involves Every Area of Life
Personal
John 14:23-24
Jesus answered…“If a man loves Me, he will keep My word…He who does not love Me does not keep My words.”
Others
God
John 4:23
…true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father seeks such to worship Him.

21. Next Sunday: Flow of Fruitfulness
Be Fruitful
Next Sunday: Flow of Fruitfulness