The Secret Life of Seeds Part III: Freed to be Fruitful

Micaiah Irmler

John 15:1-8 NKJV

Question: Does your life continue to fail to have fruit?

John 15:1-8 NKJV

1 I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

Note: John 15 lays out a formula for fruit.

Operating System of the . Operating System of the Fruit. When people see your fruit we want others to want that. Fruit is a sign of freshness. The proof is in the .

Note: Pruning takes you past your last test to prove you’ve grown even more. Hes taking me past what is previously proven otherwise its not a test.

There needs to be pruning before producing.

Failing to be Fruitful. You don’t have to say when instead you can show it. Why tell people when you can show people. I would rather have a display than a description. The fact is do you or do you not have fruit.

Fruit . Fruit .

You have heard of a food fight I want to talk about a fruit fight. Prove something or produce something.

Quote: A good tree cannot bear bad fruit. A bad tree cannot bear good fruit. ~Michael Todd.

God is either transforming you or training you.

Are you aware of who you are attached too?

Crown cleaning - Dead dying or diseased branches need to be cleaned out.

Is he cutting you or cutting off what you are connected too?

Note: We want the harvest without having to do anything hard.

Definition: Greek word takes away is airo meaning to lift up.

Train the vine to hang on the trellis.

Lifted to be Useful Fruitful.

Remember: Elevates you even though you are empty.

Remember: God doesn’t leave you He you. God doesn’t remove you but you up.

Note: The branch is barren, then beautiful, and finally fruitful so that we can fill up the basket.

Remember: Before God cuts off he cuts in.

God Intervenes. Don’t ignore His interventions. Abundance is Just Ahead.

Question: Do you have some good things that aren’t God things blocking you from receiving the nutrients you need?

God is not saving you from pruning but saving you for pruning.

Confused by Consequences. Misunderstood Process Leads to .

Discipline is about sin while pruning is about self. Bruce Wilkerson

God’s heart is for the . is to increase capacity. There is no expansion without some .

Cutting is about . Connection Cutting Cleaning. Cooperating with the cutting and cleaning. The connection is not extra but .

Note: Jesus calls himself the TRUE vine not THE vine or the ONLY vine. We are prone to find our nourishment and life from places outside of Him.

Note: Christ is the Correct Connection.

Touch Your Neighbor: Do you have any connections? We are to have a connection with the TRUE vine.

Remember: Choose your connections correctly.

Note: There are now only 11 disciples… pruning had already been seen.

Remember: We love comfort so much we look at cutting as punishment and not pruning.

Note: It’s a later comfort.

Be concerned if God is not correcting you. Stay still while the farmer prunes the stray areas of our life. It won’t flow until you let it go. Production is not up to us Planting is. Pruning is Not up to us Patiance is. Produce is not for us but for other People. Gods will is for you to be fruitful.

God work in .

Question: Do people want what you have?

Note: If you want my fruit you need to learn how to farm. If you want this fruit you need to know it comes with a fight.

A fruit tree can’t fake different kinds of fruit. An apple tree won’t give you oranges.

Remember: God doesn’t want you to do more for him. He wants you to be with Him more.

If you are cary fruit of patience.

Note: The more cutting He does the more He is increasing my capacity.

Definition: The word more in the Greek is the word “pleon,” which means more in quality and quantity.

Quote: Men throw broken things away; but it seems God won’t use anything until he first breaks it. -Adrian Rogers.

Galatians 5:17-26 NKJV

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.