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 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 Danagresh.

Our host is the author of Surrender The Heart God Controls Nancy Demas Welcomers. DeMise, welcome. This past fall, we're going to.

This past fall we had a landscaper to 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 got to 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 that 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

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