Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, August 25th.

Are you frustrated with failed attempts to live like a good Christian?

Our series continues with a reminder that your ability to live a faithful life

comes only through the power of the Holy Spirit.

What is it in your life that separates from the unbeliever?

What is it about your lifestyle that makes you very evidently different from the average person?

Is there anything about you that makes you different? Or are you one of those who just sort of fits

in with the world runs with a crowd does what the other folks do because you do not want to be

isolated and pointed out as one of those Christians well god has a great deal to say about all of this,

very important to him because he says so much about it. And the title of this message is the

Holy Spirit reproducing Christ-like character. And I want you to turn to John Chapter 15,

if you will. And in this passage, it'll be very evident that fruit is very very important

to our lord jesus christ because of what he says he says i am the true vine and my father is the

vineyard dresser or the vine dresser every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away, and every branch

that bears fruit, he prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. You're already clean because of the

word which I've spoken to you. Abide in me and I and you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,

unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me

i am the vine you are the branches he who abides in me and i in him he bears much fruit for apart from me

you can do nothing if anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away as a branch and dries up, and they gather them and cast them

into the fire and they're burned. If you abide in me, in my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish,

and it shall be done for you. By this is my father glorified that you bear much fruit and so prove to be

my disciples. Now, you recall that Jesus spoke

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