Episode 454 - How are you doing in bearing mature fruit?

<p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1timothy/6?13">1 Tm 6:13-16</a></p> <p>Beloved:<br> I charge you before God, who gives life to all things,<br> and before Christ Jesus,<br> who gave testimony under Pontius Pilate<br> for the noble confession,<br> to keep the commandment without stain or reproach<br> until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ<br> that the blessed and only ruler<br> will make manifest at the proper time,<br> the King of kings and Lord of lords,<br> who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light,<br> and whom no human being has seen or can see.<br> To him be honor and eternal power. Amen.<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/psalms/100?1"><br> Ps 100:1b-2, 3, 4, 5</a></p> <p>R. (2) <strong>Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.</strong><br> Sing joyfully to the LORD all you lands;<br> serve the LORD with gladness;<br> come before him with joyful song.<br> R. <strong>Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.</strong><br> Know that the LORD is God;<br> he made us, his we are;<br> his people, the flock he tends.<br> R. <strong>Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.</strong><br> Enter his gates with thanksgiving,<br> his courts with praise;<br> Give thanks to him; bless his name.<br> R. <strong>Come with joy into the presence of the Lord.</strong><br> For he is good:<br> the LORD, whose kindness endures forever,<br> and his faithfulness, to all generations.<a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/luke/8?4"><br> Lk 8:4-15</a></p> <p>When a large crowd gathered, with people from one town after another<br> journeying to Jesus, he spoke in a parable.&nbsp;<br> “A sower went out to sow his seed.<br> And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path and was trampled,<br> and the birds of the sky ate it up.<br> Some seed fell on rocky ground, and when it grew,<br> it withered for lack of moisture.<br> Some seed fell among thorns,<br> and the thorns grew with it and choked it.<br> And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew,<br> it produced fruit a hundredfold.”<br> Afte