KEY SCRIPTURE: John 15:8 KJV” Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples”.

God seeks adoration from men. He created us, so we would bring Him pleasure by adoring Him. One terrible thing that a man can do against Himself is not to honour God; that is, to spite Him by the wrong ways He may live. When a man pleases God, he allows everything in him to receive life, because God blesses him. When he opposes God his system or body loses that approval from God, and so lacks the peace that his body or being desires (Rom 2:8-14). In our key scripture, the Lord said He is glorified when His disciples bear much fruit. Bearing fruits makes men adore and praise the Lord for His great works through us. It is the honour and admiration of His works men give Him, because of us, that brings glory to His name.

Fruits are an outward revelation of what a thing or who a man is. Everything is known by its fruits. When children of God bear fruit, they reveal the one who is at work in them. The Lord Jesus said, Let your light so shine, that men would see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. The Lord also said, the Father is glorified when we bear much fruit and it also demonstrates that we are His disciples or His children.

What kind of fruit are we to bear? Apostle Paul said in Gal 1:15 that God separated him from his mother’s womb, to reveal His Son, through him. To reveal the Son is to manifest what the Lord stood for. He fully demonstrated the fruits of the Spirit. We must show it in an increasing measure. It is the fruit or works of God when we manifest the power of God, to heal, deliver and bless mankind. All these will cause men to praise and therefore glorify God.

The cream of all these fruits is winning the lost. Winning a soul is the greatest joy you may bring the Father. I said earlier in this study that, God created us to bring Him pleasure. Rev 4:11 KJV” Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created”. When a soul is won from the kingdom of darkness, that soul would live to glorify God. This fulfils God’s purpose in creating men. Winning more men is indeed the delight of God. Winning men is more than evangelizing them. Evangelism is introducing the Saviour to them, as well as inviting the sinner to come to partake of Christ. Winning the soul is helping him, become a follower of Jesus.

THOUGHT: WINNING SOULS IS LIKE BRINGING GOD’S LOST PEARLS OF PRICELESS VALUE HOME.

FURTHER STUDIES

John 15:16 KJV “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”

Luke 14:23 KJV “And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”