The Point is to Produce

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • Jan 4, 2009
  • Series: Vineyard Vision

VINEYARD VISION

"The Point is to Produce"

Pastor Duane Cross |  1.04.09

 

 

"... Israel is the vineyard of the Lord..."

                                                                        (Isaiah 5:7 NLT)

 

"In that day, sing about the fruitful vineyard. I, the Lord, will watch over it,

watering it carefully.  Day and night I will watch so no one can harm it.

                                                                        (Isaiah 27:2-3 NLT)

 

   "I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me."Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father."                                                      (John 15:1-8 NLT)

 

 

I. OUR PARTNERSHIP

 

          • God the father is the Gardener

 

          • Jesus is the True Vine

 

          • Believers are the branches

 

II. OUR PURPOSE

 

"I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels-a plentiful harvest of new lives."                                         (John 12:24 NLT)

 

III. OUR PRODUCE

 

          • The Internal Fruit of the Spirit

 

          • The External Fruit of Eternal Life

 

"You know the saying, ‘Four months between planting and harvest.' But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest. The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike."

                                                                        (John 4:35-36 NLT)

 

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