Romans 11:13-25 Is your faith producing fruit?

Summary: A verse by verse examination of what the book of Romans in the Bible teaches. This message covers Romans 11:13-25 faith that produces fruit.

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Romans 11:12-25 ( KJV ) ¹²Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?  ¹³For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:  ¹⁴If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.  ¹⁵For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?  ¹⁶For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.  ¹⁷And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;  ¹⁸Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.  ¹⁹Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.  ²⁰Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:  ²¹For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.  ²²Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.  ²³And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.  ²⁴For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?  ²⁵For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

James 1:19-22 ( KJV ) ¹⁹Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:  ²⁰For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.  ²¹Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.  ²²But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 

John 15:1-6 ( KJV ) ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.  ²Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.  ³Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.  ⁴Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.  ⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.  ⁶If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 

Hebrews 10:31-39 ( KJV ) ³¹It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  ³²But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;  ³³Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.  ³⁴For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.  ³⁵Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.  ³⁶For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.  ³⁷For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.  ³⁸Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.  ³⁹But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Mark 4:3-20 ( KJV ) ³Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:  ⁴And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.  ⁵And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:  ⁶But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.  ⁷And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.  ⁸And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.  ⁹And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.  ¹⁰And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.  ¹¹And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:  ¹²That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.  ¹³And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?  ¹⁴The sower soweth the word.  ¹⁵And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.  ¹⁶And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;  ¹⁷And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.  ¹⁸And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,  ¹⁹And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.  ²⁰And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

Hebrews 3:8-13 ( KJV ) ⁸Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:  ⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.  ¹⁰Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.  ¹¹So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)  ¹²Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.  ¹³But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 

Hebrews 10:22-25 ( KJV ) ²²Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.  ²³Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)  ²⁴And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:  ²⁵Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.