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As we come to the study of God’s word, I want to share a principle
that is absolutely indispensable. You can’t live without it. You can’t
take it for granted. I’m talking about total reliance on God’s Holy
Spirit. Many things will help you study the Bible. There are many
books, commentaries, word studies, atlases and all kinds of help but
at the end of the day we need to come as little children before the
Lord. Only God can reveal God. No man and no ministry can
reveal God. We’ve come to hear the Lord. The Lord told us that
every word that comes out of His mouth will not return void. He
never said that every word that comes out of Ed Miller’s mouth will
not return void. I’ll pray that He’ll protect you from what I say, so
that you can hear what He says. With that in mind, I’d like to take
a look at John 15:4, “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can
you, unless you abide in Me.”

Our heavenly Father, we thank You for this revelation, that You are
the vine and we are the branches and when we draw life from You
we get fruit. When we produce fruit, you get glory. Work that in
our hearts. We ask in Jesus’ name. Amen

As we gather for these studies, we’re stressing great foundations of
our faith. I’d like to stress today the truth of what it means to bring
forth fruit. When we have real fruit, He’s glorified. Our Lord Jesus
spoke of two houses that looked very much alike. If you look with
our physical eyes you couldn’t tell the difference but He explained
that one had a foundation on sand and one had a foundation on rock.
With these eyes you couldn’t see the foundation. So, they look like
they are the same, until the storm came. And when the rain came
the house on the sand fell down.

There are two words that look very much the same. The first word
is the word “works”. The other word is the word “fruit”. Sometimes
works and fruit look very much the same. In Galatians 5:19, God
describes the works of the flesh, “Now the deeds of the flesh are
evident, which are; immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry,
sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,