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“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 does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
I am the vine; you are the branches.
Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.
By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
As the Father has loved me, so have I 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 be in you, and that your joy may be full.”[1]
Christians are saved to serve.
The question could legitimately be asked of each Christian, “What are you doing for Christ’s sake?”
The Master saved you that He might be glorified in you.
This is made evident during the High Priestly prayer of the Master.
Jesus prayed, “I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world.
Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.
For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
I am praying for them.
I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.
All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them” [*John 17:6-10*].
Indeed, we may be confident that He will be glorified in His saints and marvelled at among all who have believed at His return [see *2 Thessalonians 1:10*].
What is important for believers to note is that at His return He will be “glorified */in His saints/*”; and even now He is being glorified in all who believe.
This raises the question of how the Saviour is being glorified in believers at this time.
According to the Word, God is glorified through */answering the prayer of His people/* when they ask according to His will [*John 14:13*].
Believers glorify the Son of God when they are */united/* in heart and soul [*Romans 15:6*].
When our actions */reflect the righteousness of God/*, we glorify Him [*1 Corinthians 6:20*].
God is glorified through */generosity toward His people/* and through */submission to His will/* [*2 Corinthians 9:13*].
Christians glorify God through */conscientious exercise of the gifts He has entrusted/* for the building up of His holy people [*1 Peter 4:10, 11*].
In the text before us, we see that the Father is glorified as we “bear much fruit.”
Whenever you have heard a message referring to this passage, it is likely that the preacher spoke of the fruit sought as souls saved.
To be certain, the fruit resulting from the preached message is transformed lives; however, Jesus makes no mention of winning the lost in the passage before us!
I do not want anyone to draw the conclusion that soul winning is optional, that testifying to the grace of God is something that we can do if we feel like it or ignore if it is inconvenient.
Witnessing to the grace of God is expected behaviour from each believer.
Candidly, you are testifying in one way or another by how you live, what you tolerate and how you speak.
According to this text, however, Christ the Master says that the Father is glorified as His people abide in Him, asking and receiving according to His will.
Vitally connected to Christ the Lord, we will of necessity bear fruit.
After all, He is “the True Vine.”
*Looking for Fruit* — “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 does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit… Abide in me, and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.”
Producing fruit is the emphasis of the text.
However, it is distressingly easy for us to overlook a vital truth—bearing fruit is */the/* identifying mark of a true believer!
It is fair to say that if an individual is not bearing fruit, he has no vital relationship to the True Vine.
What an individual claims is of small moment; bearing fruit is expected of the connected life.
Understanding Jesus’ words demands that we attempt to grasp what the disciples heard when the Master spoke.
Indeed, the Master presents emphatically Himself as “the True Vine.”
Clearly, He anticipated that the disciples would be thinking of some particular vine, and He wanted to stress that the vine they envisioned was not “the True Vine.”
The imagery of the vine was deliberately chosen to shake up the disciples.
The vine is one of the most prominent images used of Israel in the Old Testament.
Israel is frequently portrayed as God’s choice vine or as God’s vineyard.
One prominent prophecy has Isaiah speaking for God and saying of Israel:
“Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
“For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting!”
[*Isaiah 5:1, 2, 7*]
Likewise, Jeremiah compares Israel to a choice vine of pure seed.
“I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.”
[*Jeremiah 2:**21a*]
Ezekiel, also, compares Israel to a vine in *Ezekiel 15:1-8*, and again, when he writes:
“Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard
planted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
by reason of abundant water.”
[*Ezekiel 19:10*]
The comparison of Israel to a vine is a theme also found in the Psalms:
“You brought a vine out of Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.
You cleared the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches.”
[*Psalm 80:8-10*]
This same theme is witnessed in Hosea’s prophecy:
“Israel is a luxuriant vine
that yields its fruit.
The more his fruit increased,
the more altars he built;
as his country improved,
he improved his pillars.”
[*Hosea 10:1*]
I have pursued this line of reasoning to emphasise the point that the disciples would have been trained from earliest childhood to believe that Israel is the vine—because they were Jewish they were God’s delight.
Suddenly, here is the Master saying, “I am the True Vine”; all other vines are, by implication, imperfect.
The Master is not saying that He is the true vine and every other vine is false; rather, He is saying that He is “the one perfect, essential and enduring vine before which all other vines are but shadows.”[2]
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