All right, turn your vibles to John 15. John 15 and then if you want to go to another

passage you can put a marker at Matthew 21. So we'll begin in John 15. We're going to finish the

message in Matthew 21 and if you want a bonus scripture, if you're a

professional and can do three scriptures in one message we're going to stop at Isaiah 5 in the

middle there all right so John 15 the title of this message is Roots and Fruit.

Roots and Fruit.

And I began thinking about desiring to bear good fruit in my life.

That caused me to begin to think about roots,

because the root bears the fruit.

And so the title of the whole series, we get a new series is called Root Cause.

In other words, what is the root cause of what I'm going through or what I'm experiencing,

whether it's success or failure in an area.

There are some areas of my life where I see a lot of fruit.

I mean, I just, in those those areas I seem to be extremely blessed. There are other

areas of my life and you can probably relate to this where I don't see good free. Sometimes I see bad

free. And so I started thinking, I want to produce good fruit,

and as I began to study just for me personally,

it took me to the root.

It's like we focus on the fruit instead of the root.

It's the root that causes the fruit. In

John 15, verse 8 says, by this my father is glorified that you bear much fruit.

So I know God wants me to bear fruit.

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