🗓 June 4, 2025 | Fruit Reveals Heart | HEART ANCHOR
🌱 What you live springs from what lives within you
📖 Luke 6:44

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📖 Bible Text

“For each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.”
– Luke 6:44

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✨ Introduction

You can’t control everything on Instagram.
Filters? Yes.
Exposure? Yes.
But real fruit? That shows up in real life.
Jesus says: What comes out of your life reveals what’s living inside you.

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👟 Story: Paul & the “School Influencer”

Paul was 17—and something like an “influencer” at his school.
Athletic, popular, always looking good.
But if you’d looked honestly into his life, you would have seen a lot of emptiness:
Constant comparisons, insecurity, anger at himself.

One evening at youth group, someone read Luke 6:44.
That verse stuck with him:
“Each tree is known by its own fruit…”

The next day, a classmate was being harshly bullied at school.
Everyone was laughing. Paul laughed, too—at first.
Then he looked at the boy.
No anger. Just hurt.

Suddenly, that verse came back to him:
“What fruit is coming from me right now?”

At lunch, Paul walked up to the boy.
No big drama. Just one sentence:
“Sorry. That wasn’t okay. I was part of it.”

The boy was silent. Then he smiled.
And Paul knew: That was fruit.
Not cool, not celebrated—but real.

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🌱 What Does This Mean for You?

Jesus cares not only about what you do—but about what comes from you.

Words. How you treat others. Choices you make when nobody’s watching.
Fruit springs from the heart.

“Only those who remain connected to Jesus can bear fruit that has eternal value.”
— Ellen White, The Desire of Ages, p. 673

You don’t have to be a perfect “tree.”
But you are called to grow genuinely,
with roots in Christ—not in applause.

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🧠 Questions for Reflection

• What “fruit” does my life currently display?
• What is growing inside me—and what is nourishing it?
• Am I more concerned with how I appear—or with who I really am?

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🙏 Prayer

Jesus, I don’t want to just look good—I want to live genuinely.
Give me roots in You,
so that fruit springs from my life
that comes from You.
Purify my heart—and fill it with Your Spirit.
Amen.