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Dwayne Lemon

A Grand Opportunity

We thank you again for the privilege to come together as a family to study your words of truth.

We pray that you'll please take our lives and let it be consecrated, Lord, to thee.

We ask, Father, that you would do something special, give us a glimpse of what your heart's desire is for each and every 1 of us as gospel medical missionary evangelists.

I pray that you might make your words plain to us, and may it minister to our hearts and open our eyes and help us behold wondrous things out of your law.

And we ask these blessings in Jesus' name, amen.

We were studying earlier about the importance of looking at what Christ is really waiting for.

What did we learn that Jesus is waiting for, that he might come?

And he doesn't just want to see the fruit.

We understood that that fruit represented what?

It was the very character of Christ himself.

The purpose of that fruit is so that it could provide seed to the sower and also it can benefit those who eat from the branch.

And so it is that God wants us to reflect the image of Jesus.

And again, there are many ways that we can talk about the reflection of the image of Jesus.

We're going to do that in just a moment, in fact.

But we looked at a very important way to reflect the image of Christ.

We saw that if there's ever a need for a demonstration of the character of Christ, it is especially in not how we deal with our friends, but how we deal with our what?

And we saw the risk that heaven was willing to take to minister to God's enemies with the hope that they would become his friends.

And so it is that God tells us that when we enter into this work, it's going to require a risk as well.

We're going to have to be willing to make ourselves vulnerable.

And the first place that we demonstrate this vulnerability, this love and joy and peace, where's the first place we are to represent that?

Give that wonderful gospel message, both by precept and example.

When you begin to bear fruit, when you begin to bear fruit, what do you think God wants from you after that?

When you begin to bear fruit, What do you think God wants from you after that?

When you begin to bear fruit, what do you think God wants from you after that?

What do you think he wants from you after you start bearing fruit?

In John the 15th chapter, I'm going to show you what God wants when you begin to bear fruit.

This is going to be a very important study, and it's going to give some perspective to all of us.

John the 15th chapter, and when you get there, just let me know by saying amen.

I heard it being said from the back, even though his soft voice was probably not projecting as much as I wanted him to.

But let's look at John 15, and notice what it says in verse 1.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away.

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, what does God do with it?

Now, after every branch that does not bear fruit, he gets rid of it.

Every branch that bears fruit, what does God do?

So when you begin bearing fruit, what does God want?

When we begin bearing fruit, the answer was correct.

When we begin to bear fruit, what God wants is he wants more fruit.

But What's the process that he gets more fruit?

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