Produce His Fruit

 2 Samuel 8-9; 1 Chronicles 18-19; Matthew 21 

“…the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”

Matthew 21:43-44

There is no room for entitlement or presumption in the kingdom of God. Jesus requires fruit from every person in his kingdom - fruit that testifies we are growing and that his life is flowing through us like the life-giving sap of a tree. There is a relationship between brokenness and fruit production. It’s in the surrender of our will and the yielding of our way to God’s will and God’s way, that his Spirit fills us and produces fruit in our lives to God’s glory. Any branch that doesn’t bear fruit is cut off and burned, Jesus said in John 15. We must surrender and yield to the life-giving, fruit-producing Spirit of God, or we will not produce fruit and not remain “effective and productive in our knowledge of Christ.”

“Lord Jesus, I humble myself before you and invite your Spirit to fill me and live your life through me, for your glory.”