God’s Word must take root in our hearts to bear fruit. When we hear, receive, and abide in His Word, the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, and goodness—begins to grow in us.
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If the word does not abide and take root in our heart, we cannot bear any fruit for God. “But those that were sown upon the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” The fruit Jesus has in mind here is probably what Paul called the fruit of the Spirit-love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, etc. Only the abiding Word of God taking root in the heart of the believer can give rise to these spiritual traits.
JOHN PIPER is founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. For 33 years he served as pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is author of Desiring God, Don’t Waste Your Life, and What Jesus Demands from the World.
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