The Gospel of JOHN
“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 continues to bear fruit, He [repeatedly] prunes, so that it will bear more fruit [even richer and finer fruit].
You are already clean because of the word which I have given you [the teachings which I have discussed with you].
Remain in Me, and I [will remain] in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself without remaining in the vine, neither can you [bear fruit, producing evidence of your faith] unless you remain in Me.
I am the Vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in Me and I in him bears much fruit, for [otherwise] apart from Me [that is, cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken off] branch, and withers and dies; and they gather such branches and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
If you remain in Me and My words remain in you [that is, if we are vitally united and My message lives in your heart], ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you.
My Father is glorified and honored by this, when you bear much fruit, and prove yourselves to be My [true] disciples.
I have loved you just as the Father has loved Me; remain in My love [and do not doubt My love for you].
If you keep My commandments and obey My teaching, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.
“This is My commandment, that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another, just as I have loved you.
No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends.
You are my friends if you keep on doing what I command you.
I do not call you servants any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you [My] friends, because I have revealed to you everything that I have heard from My Father.
You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed and placed and purposefully planted you, so that you would go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit will remain and be lasting, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name [as My representative] He may give to you.
This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.
“If the world hates you [and it does], know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
If you belonged to the world, the world would love [you as] its own and would treat you with affection. But you are not of the world [you no longer belong to it], but I have chosen you out of the world. And because of this the world hates you.
Remember [and continue to remember] that I told you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
But they will do all these [hurtful] things to you for My name’s sake [because you bear My name and are identified with Me], for they do not know the One who sent Me.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have [the guilt of their] sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
The one who hates Me also hates My Father.
If I had not done among them the works (attesting miracles) which no one else [ever] did, they would not have [the guilt of their] sin; but now [the fact is that] they have both seen [these works] and have hated Me [and continue to hate Me] and My Father as well.
But [this is so] that the word which has been written in their Law would be fulfilled, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’
“But when the Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor—Counselor, Strengthener, Standby) comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of Truth who comes from the Father, He will testify and bear witness about Me.
But you will testify also and be My witnesses, because you have been with Me from the beginning.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!
Content source: Amplified version of the Holy Bible by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631
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vs 3 says
I can summarize it by saying
The farther you are from the Word of God, the filthier your life becomes.
My point can be buttressed with Psalm. 119:11 which says
So if you stay away from God's word, you will find it very difficult to live a righteous life.
May God grant us sustainable hunger for His word, amen.
If we remain in Christ, we will be alive, without Him our life is dead and a dead life has no fruit and God does not like life without fruit!
we must be united in a single body where Jesus is the head, because apart from him we can do nothing.
All of us who remain in Christ, are vivified and greened, while what does not remain in him, are people, dry, empty, noo they see meaning in their lives ... Christ came to put an end to that drought, with that emptiness. .. He offers life in abundance...
Jesus is the vine and we are the branches, if we are to bear fruit we have to stay connected to the vine and that is Jesus
After one believes in Christ and is forgiven, he receives eternal life and the power to remain in Him.
This phrase that Jesus uses "I am" is the last self-designation that He makes in this gospel, and describes the relationship between Him and his disciples, his background is Isaiah 5.1-7, where Israel is compared to a vineyard lovingly cared for by God , but unlike Israel, Jesus is the true vine; that is, real, genuine.
The branch that does not bear fruit is destroyed, the immediate reference was probably to Judas, but the idea applies to all the pseudo-believers.
The fruit that the farmer desires for his people is the similarity with Christ. For a branch to be productive it has to be pruned; that is, subject to the beneficent discipline of the Father, and must be kept tightly bound to the vine. When we remain in Christ, our prayers are effective, we glorify God by bearing fruit, we show our condition as disciples, and we experience the fullness of joy as we receive in our hearts the joy of Christ.
It is one thing to be a child of God and it is another to be a fruitful one. No one enjoys unfruitfulness, so does God. Lets work towards bearing good fruits so as to enlarge the kingdom of God.
God will not continue wasting His resources on you if you are not fruitful. To avoid being cut off from God, bear fruits and let it good ones.
we believe because we have the helper.