Check your Fruit | John Giftah | Christian Sermon #Throwback

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0:43 Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. I want to ask you this question today, how is your fruit? One of the scriptures I want to start off by sharing with you today is Matthew Chapter seven, verse nineteen, which really caught my attention. Well, I was just going through this, which a lot of times I've heard, and I just miss miss one of the words in this A lot of times I always thought it was saying a tree that does not bear fruit is cut down. So the emphasis is on just bear some fruit. Right.

1:25 That's how I've heard a lot of preaching and sermons, and that's what was engraved in me thinking, you know, you need to just bear some fruit. But as I was just reading through the scripture, if you look at the NIV version, for example, it says every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. And even if you look at the NLT version, it says, so every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down. So it doesn't just say if you don't bear a fruit, you'll be cut off.

1:58 It's saying that if you don't bear good fruit, you'll be cut off. Right. That really caught my attention because I want to tell you guys, this is actually talking about us where we are called to produce fruit for the Lord. We are not here to just evaluate time. We're not here to just make it through life. We're not just living and then die and then be buried. That's not our goal. We are here to build the Kingdom of God. We are here for a higher purpose, a higher calling. We are here by the divine plan of God, for such a time as this, so that we will accomplish the task for which God has created us and placed us in this world.

2:38 But as part of that, the thing is we have to produce fruit we have to produce fruit, and it's not enough to just produce fruit. The Bible says you need to produce good fruit because if you don't produce good fruit, you will be cut off. There's no use, there's no point. Anybody here says, you know what, even if the mango is spoiled, I don't mind going and eating it, Or even if this fruit does not taste good, I don't mind eating it. Do you ever say that? No? Right, you always say I want the fruit which tastes the best, the way it's supposed to.

3:16 I want a fruit that looks really good. I want it really nutritious way as possible. So what you're saying is you want the fruit to be in its best. Then how can you say that or think that? You know what, if I just produce some fruit for God, If I just do something for the Lord, maybe some you know, when I get some time, just do some ministry or go to church or something something like that, that's enough. That fruit is enough. How can you say that? Because God is saying, if you don't bear good fruit, you will be cut off.

3:53 Doing ministry. As much as you want to, it is not enough. You have to be somebody who bears good fruit. I want to ask you this question today. Are you bearing good fruit? It's not enough to just bear some fruit? Are you bearing good fruit?

4:15 And you may say, John, but that's too much. I'm doing so much. Listen. You know one of the things I always say, Ministry is not what you do for God. Ministry is what God wants to do through you. I say that again. Ministry is not what you do for God. Ministry is what God wants to do through you. And how would you bear that fruit? Is not by you trying to make it happen, by you trying to produce the fruit. You have to get to that place. Yes, John fifteen, verse five, where Jesus says, I'm the wine, You're the branches.

4:53 If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit. Part from me, you can do nothing. If you remain in me and I remain in you, you will bear much fruit. You want to bear good fruit. You want to bear much fruit. I want to ask you this question. Are you just trying to produce with your own strength? Are you just trying? Because the Bible says, apart from Jesus, you can do nothing if you're trying to do this on your own, it's not going to work out. You can bear some fruit, but it's not going to be much, and it's not going to be good.

5:31 You know, a lot of times one of the reasons I take a break or sometimes I post old messages on the podcast. You know, I'm honest in saying that. Sometimes I do that. Not all the time, but very rarely I do that. I post old messages on the podcast because I don't want to, you know, do something in the flesh. I don't want to do something when I'm not in my best I don't want to really an episode that either to do it, you know, with my own or produce on my own. I want the Lord's leading. And I'm telling you guys, you need to get to that place where you're saying, you know what, I don't.

6:14 I don't want to depend on myself. I don't want to just produce on my own. I depend on God. I want to be in him. I want to remain in Him and I want Him to remain in me so that I will bear much fruit. Today, I want to ask you this question. Are you abiding in God and the He abiding in you? How is your relationship with the Lord, is it something like what of a ritual in the morning, you just for the sake of it, you just read some scriptures, or you just pray and then continue the rest of the day on your own.

6:52 Or are you constantly abiding in Him? Are you constantly in you know when you say, for example, in the atmosphere, right, like what happens, You're You're literally in the atmosphere in the end. Uh, there's air and whatever it is, right, the particles and all of that stuff. It's it's it's all around you. You're surrounded by it. And when you open my mouth, your mouth, maybe some other particles get into your mouth. It's like it's like you're in it. You're you're in it completely, and it's in you completely.

7:24 I just want you to picture like that. You need to be surrounded and in God completely and in His presence, always aware of His presence, always with Him, constantly fellowship with Him. And I'm telling you, from that place you will produce much fruit. From that place, when you operate, you will produce good fruit. And I pray that you will do that so that you won't be cut off in Jesus name, I pray, Amen, God bless you've been listening to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta, we hope you were blessed and inspired to live the life that God has for you.

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