Fruit-Bearing Branch

 Fruit-Bearing Branch

"I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.

 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;

 and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

 "Abide in Me, and I in you. 

As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine,

 neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

 "I am the vine, you are the branches.

 He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit;

 for without Me you can do nothing.

 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered;

 and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. 

"If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you,

 you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

 "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit;

 so you will be My disciples.

 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you;

 abide in My love.

 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love,

 just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.

 "These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you,

 and that your joy may be full.

 "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

 "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

 "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.

 "No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends,

 for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

 "You did not choose Me,

 but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit,

 and that your fruit should remain,

 that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 

John 15:1-16 

The branch that is connected to the vine bears fruit.

The branch that is not connected, falls and withers.

This vital connection is Faith.

JESUS is the true vine - He is the Truth.

 Father GOD is the gardener Who planted the vine on this earth and takes responsibility for the tree.

The purpose of the branch is to bear the fruit of the vine. It is the branch that bears fruit for the vine. Therefore GOD takes away the person who is in CHRIST but does not bear fruit. He is useless on this earth.

Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. - James 2:17 

The vinedresser prunes the branch that bears fruit. He cuts off things, activities and people from our lives that hinder our fruitfulness. Then we bear more fruit.

The word of GOD brings conviction and enables us to put away any hindrance to bearing fruit.

We abide in Him when we live in right relationships with GOD’S people in obedience to the LORD.

He abides in us when we meditate on His word, obey and commune with Him.