It’s called a Sermon Companion. It’s helpful to me for connecting even more with Dr. Stanley’s messages. male announcer: “In Touch,” the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley. Next on “In Touch,” “The Holy Spirit: Reproducing Christlike Character.” Dr. Stanley: If someone unfamiliar with the Christian faith should ask you, “Now, how will I be able to identify a Christian when I see one?” What would you say? Could you say, “Well, you’re looking at one”? And let me ask you this, could one of your unbelieving friends
point to you and say to another unbeliever, “If you really wanna meet a Christian, there’s one”? What is it in your life that separates you from the unbeliever? What is it about your lifestyle that makes you very evidently different from the average person? Is there anything about you that makes you different? Or are you one of those who just sort of fits in with the world, runs with the crowd, does what the other folks do, because you do not want to be isolated and pointed out as one of those Christians?
Well, God has a great deal to say about all of this, very important to him, because he says so much about it. And this is in our series on the power of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, and the title of this message is “The Holy Spirit: Reproducing Christlike Character.” And I want you to turn to John chapter 15, if you will.
And in this passage, it’ll be very evident that fruit is very, very important to our Lord Jesus Christ because of what he says. And I want to turn to another passage shortly, but let’s look at these first 8 verses of John chapter 15. He says, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the,” vineyard dresser, or the “vinedresser.
