This is Chapter 13 from my book: Societal Customs VS The Creators Diet Design
How do we overcome obstacles and be victorious?
We need to overcome the obstacles in our life by abiding in the vine. Jesus Christ is the vine! Our goal, according to scripture, is to abide in the vine and bear much fruit for the kingdom of God. Some people believe that bearing fruit is their imprint left behind for mankind or the belongings they acquire is their fruit, but nothing could be further from the truth. Let’s consider Johns writings in chapter 15 and focus first on John 15:5.
John 15:5 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.
John explains that our lives are only productive after we receive salvation. Through the teaching of John it becomes perfectly clear how much we need Jesus. Curiously, John echoes what Jesus also taught us in John 6. Jesus taught us that He was also the bread of life. Remarkably, the lecture on The Bread of Life occurred fairly early in the ministry of Jesus; while, this writing by John occurred at the end of Jesus’s ministry. Jesus’s seminar, here in John, occurred while speaking to His disciples, after His final Passover observance. Jesus explained that our vines cannot produce fruit apart from Christ. This segment of scripture leaves the impression that we are to make every effort to remain “in” Him, not permitting what just transpired with Judas happen to us. Juda betrayed His Savior. Judas deserted his accountability enforced by the New Covenant.
What is the fruit that comes from the vines of Jesus? (We are the vines of Jesus)
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In the language of the Greek, the word fruit is described as, “karpos.” Obviously, Karpos denotes that the fruit comes from vines or trees. In the Old Testament, the fruit referred to the children which were born in the family. However, in the New Testament, bearing fruit for the Christians, specifically means producing similar attributes of the tree. For example, God created a grape vine to produce grapes; therefore, the vine produces grapes and not lemons. As for the Christian, the fruit that is born is similar to the nature and quality of the plant from which it came from and some of that fruit is found in, Galatians 5:22-25.
Galatians 5 reads: “22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.”
The key to Jesus’s teaching is that the fruit we bear is a type, a quality, and a substance of which is becoming of Christ. The spiritual fruit does not come from the flesh. The fruit is produced through our flesh by the Holy Spirit!
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