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Look at somebody and say bad fruit.

Be like a tree part four.

Y'all enjoying this, the be like a tree.

Okay, okay. This is about bad fruit. Okay.

Fruit in the eyes of God is your character. See, look at all the fruit of the spirit. It has nothing to do with your abilities. It has nothing to do with your talented talents. It has nothing to do with what you can do, but it's really about who you are. And that's the one thing that God is looking for in his people. He's not looking for your talents, although that's good.

He's not looking for your intellect, although that's good.

But first and foremost, he's looking at, do you look more like my son, Jesus Christ?

That's fruit in the eyes of God.

So bearing fruit is bearing character.

You call yourself a follower of Christ, but you're not bearing any fruit, and this is why.

Check this out.

And John, Jesus says that you are the branches.

He is divine, right?

And without being connected to the vine, a branch cannot bear any fruit.

Your life isn't bearing fruit.

Why?

Because just like this little branch that I found today, it was connected earlier today, but it got disconnected. It got cut off. But check this out. It could still fool people into thinking that it's alive. Like check this out. If I put it right here, it looks like it might be connected to something, but it's not. It looks like it has life, but it doesn't. You are fooling the whole

world into thinking that you're a Christian, but you're not, you haven't been connected to the

source. You haven't been connected to the vine himself. You're not reading it anymore. You're not

praying anymore. You're not burning for Jesus like you used to. You don't do the things that you

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