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Take your copy of God’s word this morning and turn in your Bibles to John 15:8:
Today’s message is entitled “Witness to the World”
We have been looking closely at the Disciples Cross.
I hope you’re seeing this enough that you’re starting to memorize it.
(Show Disciple’s Cross Graphic)
This is the Disciple’s Cross.
It’s a teaching tool developed by a man named Avery T. Willis.
He developed this as a teaching tool.
His goal was for people to visually see these elements of the Disciples life as they live out the faith in Christ and His work Jesus accomplished on the cross.
As your Pastor my hope, goal and aim is to make Disciples of Jesus who make more Disciples of Jesus.
Our goal is to raise up people who follow Jesus in such a way that others want to follow Jesus.
And so we’ve been concentrating on this topic for two months.
What is a Disciple?
And how do I become a Disciple?
And we’ve used this teaching device, this Disciple’s Cross, to answer those questions
A Disciple has to have Jesus as the center of their life.
Jesus has to be number 1.
The rest of our lives have to flow around the fact that Jesus is our priority.
He is at the center of the Disciple’s Cross.
He has to be at the center of the Disciple’s life.
(Abide in Him)
Once Jesus is center, we move to the bottom vertical axis.
It represents the need for a Disciple to be grounded in the Word of God.
And that Word is the Bible.
The Bible is not an accessory in the life of a disciple, it’s a necessity.
We have to spend time daily with the Lord in His Word.
When we do that, there’s four things that happen.
We get to know the Lord.
We get guidance and direction from the Lord.
We bring our needs and desires to the Lord.
We see God make a difference in our lives.
Then we move to the upper vertical axis of the Disciple’s Cross.
And that part of the Cross represents prayer.
Prayer is also a necessity of a disciple of Jesus.
It’s the Disciple coming into the holy, awe-inspiring presence of God.
We need to pray and we need to know how to pray.
We begin with thanksgiving.
Then we move from thanksgiving to praise.
We move from praise to confession.
We follow up with asking, which involves petition and intercession.
Last week we moved to the right horizontal axis.
(And I want to publicly thank Rick Corely for bring last weeks message)
That part of the cross represents fellowship.
Jesus didn’t save us to exist in a vacuum, by ourselves.
To be a Christian means to be part of Christ’s body—the Church.
It’s means to be part of a loving relationship with Jesus and with each other.
Today we move to the left horizontal axis of the Disciple’s Cross.
And that section represents a Disciple’s WITNESS.
Witness
Martin Luther once said, “Every Christian must become Christ to his neighbor.”
Was he suggesting that each Christian should die on a cross to atone for the sins of his neighbors?
No, he was saying that Christ is invisible to our unbelieving neighbors.
They don’t see the cross, the empty tomb, or the transfigured Jesus.
They don’t see Him in His ascended glory, and they don’t see Him at the right hand of the Father.
All they see is you—and in seeing you, they must see Christ.
What does it mean to be a witness?
To witness means that you show people something they don’t see
There are many ways to do this, according to Scripture.
When we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, we’re doing something visible that shows forth the Lord’s death until He comes.
Jesus spoke of another way to witness which Rick talked about last week: “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35).
The way Christians relate to each other—which is something that people can see—bears witness to Christ.
And yet there is something else people will see that is being produced in you.
Lets look at what that is as read John 15:8.
Read John 15:8
Fruit bearing is visible of Christ in a disciples life.
Our fruit proves that we’re a Disciple.
The world knows we’re Disciples by our love for one another.
And we prove we’re a Disciple by the fruit that’s produced in our lives.
Fruit shows up in the life of a Disciple.
Fruit is not something we strive to produce.
We don’t try real hard and out pops fruit.
It’s not something we can do on our own.
It’s something God does through us.
When Christ is the center of our life, we have that seed for fruit in our lives.
When we’re grounded in His Word, that seed is fertilized.
We put ourselves in position where the Holy Spirit can produce fruit in us!
What does this Holy Spirit produced fruit look like?
1. Read Galatians 5:22–23
When Christ is the center of our lives, and we’re in the word, praying, and in fellowship with other Disciples, these things start popping up in our lives.
We start learning to love and to be loved.
There’s joy and peace.
Believe it or not, our patience starts growing.
We treat people better, trust God more, act more like Jesus.
This is the fruit that pops out of us.
And there’s something that starts happening then.
People notice we’re different.
They see something in us they haven’t seen before.
And it attracts them.
They’re looking for everything they see in you.
And they want to know what it is that is giving you what they are seeking.
And that leads to the best fruit of all.
Really its the root of the fruit.
That that is Jesus Christ.
Read again John 15:8
“By this My Faith is glorified” it is the fruit you bear that points people to the source, or the center of it all.
Jesus!
He is glorified when His fruit is visible.
If someone tomorrow comes up to you and says, “What’s going on in your life?” how will you respond?
You may say, “It’s Jesus in me!”
And then what if they say, “Cool, how do I get what you have?”
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