Fruit of Faith

 Fruit of Faith

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There are two similar legal actions that can happen to one caught in a crime.  The first is a parole.  This allows the prisoner to go free under certain conditions and without all rights being restored.  The second is a pardon which grants the prisoner all rights and erases his crime from the record. A parole is an incomplete action, where the pardon is complete in its scope.  Neither action denies that the prisoner is guilty of the crime, but one forgives so completely that the penalty of the crime is wiped out thoroughly.

When we are grafted into the Vine, we are pardoned offenders.  A correct sense of God’s love toward us makes us not ashamed of our hope and our sufferings in Him.  Our hope gives us enough to rejoice in the here and now.

What it Says

What it Means

How Can I Apply This

Romans 5:1-5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John 15:5, 16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we look at a vine, we expect fruit consistent with that vine—grapes from a grape vine, etc. When we look at a Christian, we look for Christ-like behavior.  Any interruption of our faith diminishes our holy affections. We need to live in the fullness of Christ.  We are weak on our own.  Being grafted into God’s Vine strengthens us as He cares for us.  One of our primary desires should be to know whether we are bearing all the fruit Christ is willing to produce through us as living branches in close, living union with Himself.

Colossians 1:3-14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faith allows us to enjoy the redemption through the blood of Christ.  Faith is what grafts us into the Vine.  Abiding in the Vine lets the Vine produce through us and allows us to grow. 

To bear good fruit, the Gardener must tend the branches:  fertilize, water, sunshine, pruning.  We have to allow the Gardener to nourish our souls to strengthen our faith so that God’s work shines in us.

Ephesians 2:8-10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We cannot graft ourselves into the Vine—God does that.  The fruit of our faith is obedience. By receiving the nourishment from God through Christ we are enabled to bear the fruit faith produces.

NOTHING we ever do in the Christian life is done under our own steam.  It all comes from the Vine in whom we abide.  

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