Secret 3 More Fruit To Much Fruit

Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance Secret no. 3 – From More Fruit to Much Fruit July 26, 2006 Recap: I.

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Fruit-Bearing a. The Vine is Jesus Christ b. Vindresser is God the Father c. Branch is the Believer d. Fruit is a good work done with a God-honoring motive. Secret no. 1: No Fruit to Fruit (The Discipline Principles) a. Principle 1: God gets involved with believers making fruitlessness their ongoing choice. b. Principle 2: God intervenes in the life of the “no fruit branch” with discipline. c. Principle 3: God disciplines progressively through 3 stages; rebuke, chasening, scourging Secret no. 2: Fruit to More Fruit (The Pruning Principles) a. Principle 1: Pruning puts pressure on you to change your major priorities. b. Principle 2: Pruning increases your productivity by clarifying your life purpose. c. Principle 3: Pruning transforms and intensifies your heart passion.

Secret no. 3: More Fruit to Much Fruit (The Abiding Principles)

Principle 1: Abiding in Christ in an ongoing relationship is the secret to bearing much fruit. • Much fruit cannot be achieved by working harder or longer. • Much fruit requires less work for Christ and more time with Christ. Principle 2: Abiding in Christ is directly related to your attitude toward Christ. Principle 3: Abiding in Christ enables you to experience Christ’s greatest promises. Love is the measuring rod of our Christian growth: [Philippians 1] 9And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. [Ephesians 3] 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. The Story of Abiding At the Home of Martha and Mary 38As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" 41"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed.[f] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." Discussion Questions: I. What did Mary chose? 1 of 2 Thursday, October 16, 2008 /var/www/apps/pdfcoke/pdfcoke/tmp/scratch2/8979688.doc

Secrets of the Vine: Breaking Through to Abundance

Secret no. 3 – From More Fruit to Much Fruit July 26, 2006 II. What did Mary chose? III. Why is it better? IV. Why can’t it be taken from her? V. Personal application: a) Am I a Mary or a Martha? b) How can I become more and more like Martha?

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