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Beautiful, healthy trees
As we celebrate Harvest Sunday and thank God for all he gives us, much of our focus is on the natural world.
For some people, one of the best things about the natural world is trees.
Are you a tree hugger?
Mum loved trees - all the different shades of green.
I’ve come to love trees.
They do so much:
Provide shade.
Often bear fruit or nuts.
Add oxygen to the air.
Wood can be used as fuel for fire or lumber for shelter.
Protection from the wind.
Foliage/roots prevent erosion.
Beautiful in shape and variety.
Bible often mentions trees:
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Which tree are you?
A farmer once planted two fruit trees on opposite sides of his property.
A farmer once planted two fruit trees on opposite sides of his property.
The one he planted to provide a hedge to hide the unsightly view of an old landfill;
the other to provide shade to rest under near a cool mountain stream which ran down beside his fields.
As the two trees grew, both produced began to flower and bear fruit.
One day the farmer decided to gather the fruit from the tree nearest his house - the one used to provide a hedge from the landfill.
fruit from the tree nearest his house - the one
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used to provide a hedge from the landfill.
As he brought the fruit inside the house, he noticed that it was a little deformed - the symmetry of the fruit was not very good, but still the fruit looked edible.
Later that evening, while sitting on his porch the farmer took one of the pieces of fruit for a snack.
Biting into the fruit, he found it to be extremely bitter, and completely inedible.
Casting the fruit aside he looked across the field to the other tree over by the mountain stream.
After walking across the field, the farmer took a piece of the fruit from the other tree and bit into it.
The fruit of this tree was sweet and delicious so he gathered several more pieces of fruit and took them to the house.
and took them to the house.
Question arises from today’s passage: which tree are you?
Candidates Sunday Message Outline: Rooted - Hednesford
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The fruit of each tree was greatly affected by the nutrition of the root.
What Does it Take to be a Good Leader?
Good nutrition
The fruit of each tree was greatly affected by the nutrition of the root.
It’s the root that bears the fruit.
Just as the tree grew by the landfill to be bitter,
and the tree by the stream produced sweet fruit,
the psalmist says we have a choice:
We can either put down our roots into the soil of the landfill of sin and wickedness,
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of the landfill of earthly pursuits,
or into the cool refreshing stream of the law of the Lord.
The fruit of the Christian leader is the outward evidence of the inward motivation:
What choice do you make today?
An Either/Or Choice
It’s one or the other.
It’s one or the other.
Black or white.
No shades of grey here.
We can either follow God’s teaching and prosper or we can follow the ways of the wicked and be driven away like chaff in the wind.
Just to make sure we get the point, the whole psalm is full of pictures of this either/or choice:
Streams of water/driving wind.
Fruity and leafy trees/discarded chaff.
Prospering/perishing.
Belonging/not belonging.
The whole point of the psalm is: choose your path.
Which one will you take?
It’s Not as Simple as That
We don’t live in an either/or world!
We experience doubt, grief and fear.
We meditate on God’s teaching, but we also face pressure from the world around us.
Sometimes, the wicked win!
And sometimes, the righteous lose.
They face tragedy and wrong.
And none of us are perfect.
Are we?
We seek righteousness, but we are all sinners.
We want to be in right relationship with God and those around us, but sometimes we get it wrong.
A Psalm of Instruction, Not Ideology
So what is trying to teach us?
It’s a Wisdom psalm, and as such it is teaching and instructing us.
The purpose of this psalm is to encourage and challenge us to meditate on the teaching of God throughout our lives, so he can give us guidance about how to live.
This psalm challenges us to be planted.
Allow ourselves to be planted by the master gardener for a specific purpose, and through the Word of God to live that purpose out every day.
Understand that nothing in your life is haphazard.
Don’t drift through life
There is a purpose and a plan to everything in your life.
Second, the psalmist encourages us that we have been planted by streams of water.
God provides us with life-giving nourishment.
He gives us his Holy Spirit of life.
Rather than trying to nourish and support ourselves, we can drink from his spiritual power.
We can meditate on his Word.
We can communicate with God through prayer.
We can support each other in fellowship.
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Give the fruit of goodness
And we can choose to focus on the goodness of God and being a child of that goodness.
Nan C. Merrill’s paraphrase of this psalm in her book, Psalms for Praying, uses the beautiful line, “And in all that they do, they give life”.
Wouldn’t you like people to say that about you?
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