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 PASTOR'S WEEKLY PONDERING

I have been thinking seed catalogs and fruit trees. Since my two peach trees died, I miss the fruit. Jesus asked a question: "What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed?" Romans 6:21. There was fruit all right - misdeeds, rotten thoughts, sinful works and the like - but no good things like love, joy, peace, gentleness, faith, self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). These fruit of the Holy Spirit come from His presence and working within us. We are told that we are now united to another, a new Master, Jesus, instead of our old one, Satan, and should "bear fruit to God," now. The old passions which were aroused were the cause for those bad fruits, according to Romans 7:4-5.  God wants HIS fruit to abound in us, as it  did in the church at Philippe in their missionary giving to Paul Philippians 4:17. He also reminds us that to produce spiritual fruit, like the kernel of grain, we must die to ourselves, John 12:24. 
I seeded down a ditch that I backfilled to my barn, after I had dug in water and electric lines. That autumn, the rye seeds had grown a harvest. One particular seed grew on an old rotting stump and had several ears of grain out of that one seed. So I counted, and there was well over 100 seeds of new grain from that one kernel which gave up its life.
So look forward to growing good fruit for Jesus this Easter season. 
Pastor Al Hartwig

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