Philippians 1:11 | May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God.
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Matthew 3:8 | Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.
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John 15:8 | When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.
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1st John 2:15-17 | Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.
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1st Corinthians 15:33b-34 | “Bad company corrupts good character.” Think carefully about what is right, and stop sinning. For to your shame I say that some of you don’t know God at all.
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Romans 2:4-5 | Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? But because you are stubborn and refuse to turn from your sin, you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
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Sitting beside a lake, Jesus is surrounded by a crowd of people, presumably full of men and women who want to follow Him. They will all hear His message, but Jesus knows that not all of them will truly believe. He tells a parable that explains the differences in the hearts in front of Him that day.
Beginning in Matthew 13:3, Jesus story begins with a farmer who is scattering seed. The seed lands on four different types of ground or soil:
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1 Peter 1:18-19 | For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And it was not paid with mere gold or silver, which lose their value. It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God.
Romans 12:1 | And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.
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