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<div class="SSN_title">"HIS GARDEN"</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. AS A CHRISTIAN, MY LIFE IS "GOD'S GARDEN."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. His work within my life has one general purpose - fruit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. God first broke the soil to prepare it for the seed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. He watched the developing plant.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Cultivating, weeding.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Watering.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Blossom time is always beautiful.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Beautiful to see young Christians begin to blossom in His love.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Purpose not yet fulfilled.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Blossoms presage the fruit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. The fruit itself takes time to develop and ripen.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Days of interest and anticipation.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Cheryl and my walks through garden.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. What glorious days when you can come into the garden and eat its fruits.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Days of fulfilled purpose.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Days of reward as you partake of the fruit of your labor.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. How disappointing when a fruit tree does not bear fruit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. It cannot abide.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Jesus and fig tree.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "Every branch that bears not fruit He takes away."</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "LET MY BELOVED COME INTO HIS GARDEN AND EAT HIS PLEASANT FRUITS."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Our lives exist primarily for God. "His garden."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. The fruit of our lives for His enjoyment.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "The husbandman must first be partaker."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "My Father is the Husbandman."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Try to alter this fact and you are destined to disappointment and emptiness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. If you put yourself first.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Life totally wasted.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Put others first (superior).</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. You will become disappointed.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Some who will take and take till you have no more to give, then curse you for not giving more.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. Why the proverb, "don't bite the hand that is feeding you."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Put God first. Full, rich, rewarding.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. What is done for others is done in His name. He will reward you.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. How beautiful when God can come into the garden of your life to eat His pleasant fruits.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. When you can share in that rich fellowship and communion of love.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Oh, what joys, how full the peace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. What bliss, glory.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Have you invited your beloved into His garden lately?</div>
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