What Is Fruit?

Have you ever heard anyone talk about "Spiritual Fruit?" Or have you heard people say that Christians are supposed to "bear fruit for God?" It is interesting that the Bible uses a metaphor of something we can all understand to describe the kind of life that God wants us to live. In this sermon series we will learn about the "fruit" God wants His people to bear, and how we go about producing it.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

- John 15:1-8