Abiding in Christ — Brings a Fruitful Life Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Abiding in Christ — Brings a Fruitful Life------------------------- Date: 2/24/2002 Keywords: "abide" "fruit” “life” “remain" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: John 15:4-5* 4. "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5. "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. Questions 1. Where does fruit grow?   2. What is required for fruit to be produced?   Practical help Of course fruit comes from living branches, and branches are not living unless they are connected to the trunk and root system. To abide in Christ means to remain in Him. That produces spiritual fruit in our lives — things like love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). Jesus was absolutely sure that remaining close to Him would mean that our lives would become fruitful, producing very tangible evidence of His life flowing through us. You may have had some experience with the exciting reality of this in your own life. Web porn use blocks the flow of life giving nutrients from the vine to the branches. That’s what sin does to us as Christians. It gets in the way of our experiencing a close, fruit producing relationship with Jesus. It brings us into a fruitless existence — a place of spiritual barrenness. The good news is that a fruit-filled life is still available to us by God’s grace. If we choose to confess the sin of our porn involvement and turn to abide in Christ, once again life-giving fellowship with Jesus will bring fruit to our lives. It will never happen apart from Him. What will you do today? eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2002 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."