If you're a Christian, people around you will start to see it in your life.

Here's how Nancy DeMas Walgamuth explains it.

The expectation of Jesus is that those who are in him, those who belong to him, those who've

believed on him, will produce fruit, good fruit, spiritual fruit, the fruit of Jesus.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast for December 1st, 2023.

I'm Dana Gresh, and our host is the author of Surrender, The Heart God Controls, Nancy DeMoss, Welcome.

This past fall, we had a landscaper come over to our house and just to walk through our property and assess what things need to be done.

I've been in that home for over 30 years and there were just some things that needed to be

trimmed back and some plants that started out small but had grown gargantuan.

And I just said, Dan, can you come over and take a look and let us know what needs to be done?

So I wasn't there when he left.

He texted me back his report and he said, quote, there are a number of older pines, pine trees that are dead standing. I am planning to fell them when I return.

That text kind of made me smile. I know what he's talking about. There's some old trees in the woods

next to our house that are dead standing, as Dan said. And then I just thought it was so quaint for him to

say, I am planning to fell them when I return. What's he saying?

They're getting out. We don't need those anymore. They're coming out. Well, things and people that have life in them are fruitful. And things that don't have life cannot possibly bear fruit

and end up just taking up space. They're worthless. There's no reason to

hang on to them. And we see this concept illustrated in a poignant passage in Isaiah 5 that has

sometimes been called the Song of the Vineyard. So I want you to see it with your own eyes,

open if you would, to Isaiah chapter 5, and let me read

the beginning of that passage.

Isaiah says, I will sing about the one I love, a song about my loved one's vineyard.

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