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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