1. A Crucial Factor in Producing Fruit.

2.  You didn’t plan them, they just
showed up.Weeds have been a
universal problem since Adam and
Eve rebelled and God cursed the
ground with thorns and thistles.

3. 17. “And to the man he said ,
“Since you listened to your wife and eat
from the tree whose fruit I commanded
you not to eat, the ground is cursed
because of you . All your life you’ll
struggle to scratch a living from it.”

4. 18 it will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
19 by the sweat of your brow will you have
food to eat until you return to the ground
from which you were made. For you were
made from dust and to dust you will
return.”

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6. Destructive
 Competitive
 Difficult to control
 It aggressively displace and crowd out
desirable plants

7.  Their roots rob their neighboring plants of vital
water and nutrients
 They block out needed sunshine
 They spread invasively and Rapidly

8. A garden that is neglected will produce weeds
rather than fruits and vegetables. Likewise,
human nature has a tendency to produce
weeds of evil rather than a good fruit.
…and those weeds are continuing threat to our
spiritual survival.

9. God tells us to aggressively
fight our human nature.

10. "Because we have these promises
dear friends, let us cleanse
ourselves from everything that
can defile our body or spirit. And
let us work for complete holiness
because we fear God.”

11. We must replace bad habits
with good habits or the
bad habits will return, like
weeds returning when soil
is left bare.

12. REPLACE SINS OF FLESHWITH FRUIT OFTHE
SPIRIT.

13.  Human nature must be replaced with God’s
nature, which is defined by love, which is
further defined by God’s commandments.

14.  But anyone who does not love, does not
know God for God is love.
 Loving God is about keeping His
commandments and His commandments are
not burdensome

15.  But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit
in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self control.There is no law against these
things!

16.  Victory requires understanding the enemy. In
our spiritual warfare, the enemy is US!
 We must eradicate the weeds and replace
with God’s Spirit,

17.  As you go along and have a quite time with
the Lord, let Him lead you to recognize the
weeds you have in your life and pursue on
eradicating it . Bear fruit and be blessed.