Disciple: “Bearing Good Fruit”

Disciple
“Bearing Good Fruit”
5/18/25
Pastor Mark England

Matthew 28:19-20 (CSB) Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Disciple
There Is More
Love One Another
Spiritual Gifts
Bearing Good Fruit

Genesis 1:28 (NKJV) Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

John 15:8 (CSB) My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be my disciples.

: What my life .

1. Bearing fruit .

Matthew 7:16-20 (CSB) You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree can’t produce bad fruit; neither can a bad tree produce good fruit. ¹⁹ Every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.²⁰ So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.

Fruit is .

Galatians 5:16-23 (NLT) So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. ¹⁷ The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions. ¹⁸ But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses. ¹⁹ When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division,²¹ envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. ²² But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,²³ gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!

You got good fruit, but is it fruit?

2. Bearing fruit .

John 15:16 (CSB) You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain…

Fruit is .
We don’t grow it to at it.
We grow it to it.

Who is taking a out of your life?
How are from your life?

generously.

The happiest people aren’t those with no .
The happiest people are the ones to it, it around, and it for good by blessing someone around them.

The happiest people know they exist to other people.

2 Corinthians 9:11 (NLT) Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God.

willingly.

Real aren’t looking to be , but to .

Mark 10:41-45 (NIV) When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. ⁴² Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. ⁴³ Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,⁴⁴ and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

urgently.

Proverbs 11:30 (NKJV) The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life,
And he who wins souls is wise.

How Do I Bear More Good Fruit?

You can’t just it, it, or for it.

You have to work on the the tree is planted in.
Water it. Fertilize it. Nurture it. Prune it. Enrich it.

John 15:1-5 (CSB) “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. ² Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

This isn’t and .
If you’ve accepted , you have all you need to get to .
You’re not saved by and works. You are saved by .

But God doesn’t want you to stay there.
You’re already , you just aren’t .

⁴ Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. ⁵ I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him produces much fruit, because you can do nothing without me.

If you pray and spend time in God’s Word a week… It will have to in your life.

If you pray and spend time in God’s Word or more a week…
decreases.
decreases.
Feelings of down 33%
in down 40%
issues down 60%

Discipleship isn’t an , it’s a .