Fruit is the mark of discipleship

1. Created and commanded to bear the fruit that lasts 2. Bearing fruit defeats selfishness as we serve others 3. Seed has been deposited into all of us to bear fruit 4. The fruit we bear is testimony of God’s seed in us 5. Jesus came & we still benefit of the fruit of His life John 15:8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. - (NIV) Proverbs 11: 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and the one who is wise saves lives. - (NIV) John 15: 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other. - (NIV)