Why bear fruit?

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:5 kjv

I hear this type of thing from time to time. ” Why do things that I did before I got saved fail now that I am? I’m doing them the exact same way.” It is usually vailed in something like “God has his ways and we just live in them” or “life was much simpler back when… ”. But there is a reason for this and it is found in the fifteenth chapter of John while Jesus is teaching on his last free night before the cross with only the Disciples mines Judas Iscariot. And don’t even think this is not you for in Romans eleven Paul talks to the believers in Rome about this same thing and said that the genitals were graphed in(vs. 19). So let’s go through this verse line by line.

I am the vine,

This is the part that makes the fruit yet on its own cannot keep its grip on said fruit if it gets to big.

ye are the branches:

the ones that support the vine in holding and distribution the fruit the vine grows.

He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:

Working together is the way that God has set forth for Israel from the beginning of Gods covenant with Abraham.

for without me if you are in me

This is the condition that must be followed, and this requires obedience from the branch in how it positions itself.

ye can do nothing.

What can a stick do if it rejects the thing that it is attached to?

Next week sneak peek John 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. (And they wrote it down in the Book)

Passage for quick reference

John 15:1-14 KJV

(1) I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

(2) Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

(3) Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

(4) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

(5) I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

(6) If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

(7) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

(8) Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

(9) As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

(10) If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

(11) These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

(12) This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

(13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

(14) Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Here is the passage that I referenced in the introduction

Romans 11:17-25 KJV

(17) And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

(18) Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

(19) Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

(20) Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

(21) For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

(22) Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

(23) And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

(24) For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

(25) For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

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