Sermonette: Born Wild, Trained Upright <\/p>\n
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description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh, drawing from an analogy of a wisteria plant, suggests that to God, as the gardener, we also are high maintenance plants. Like wisteria and grapevines, we need to be trained and pruned in order to produce quality fruit. As the vine of Israel, we need to cooperate with the Husbandman, and with all our being, resist reverting to our wild (carnal) state. If unattended, isolated systems tend to break down, tending to wildness and disorder. Entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, suggests that all things tend to revert to a chaotic or a wild state. If we are left unattended, untrained, or uncultivated, we will tend to base carnal behavior, bearing detestable or no fruit. God is cultivating a vine, of which we are the branches. If we don’t yield to or respond to His cultivating, pruning (or discipline), we will be lopped off and destroyed. If we yield to His correction, we will be productive branches, bearing fruits of righteousness. <\/p>\n
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Sermonette: Born Wild, Trained Upright Submitting to God’s Cultivation of Us #729s Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 16-Jul-05; 16 minutes listen: description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh, drawing from an analogy of a wisteria plant, suggests that to God, as the gardener, we also are high maintenance plants. Like wisteria and grapevines, we need to be trained and … Continue reading “Sermonette: Born Wild, Trained Upright”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}