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    Every Branch in Me That Beareth Not Fruit

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    This document discusses the importance of Christians bearing spiritual fruit. It makes three key points: 1) The sole purpose of a branch connected to the vine is to bear fruit, and if it does not bear fruit it will be cut off. Likewise, the sole purpose of Christians as branches of Christ is to bear spiritual fruit. 2) Spiritual fruit is something that benefits others by bringing them to salvation, not something for the branch's own benefit. Christians often fail to bear fruit because they do not understand that fruit-bearing is their main purpose. 3) Rather than prioritizing their own salvation or worldly concerns, Christians must see fruit-bearing for others as the primary goal, in order

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    This document discusses the importance of Christians bearing spiritual fruit. It makes three key points: 1) The sole purpose of a branch connected to the vine is to bear fruit, and if it does not bear fruit it will be cut off. Likewise, the sole purpose of Christians as branches of Christ is to bear spiritual fruit. 2) Spiritual fruit is something that benefits others by bringing them to salvation, not something for the branch's own benefit. Christians often fail to bear fruit because they do not understand that fruit-bearing is their main purpose. 3) Rather than prioritizing their own salvation or worldly concerns, Christians must see fruit-bearing for others as the primary goal, in order

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    This document discusses the importance of Christians bearing spiritual fruit. It makes three key points: 1) The sole purpose of a branch connected to the vine is to bear fruit, and if it does not bear fruit it will be cut off. Likewise, the sole purpose of Christians as branches of Christ is to bear spiritual fruit. 2) Spiritual fruit is something that benefits others by bringing them to salvation, not something for the branch's own benefit. Christians often fail to bear fruit because they do not understand that fruit-bearing is their main purpose. 3) Rather than prioritizing their own salvation or worldly concerns, Christians must see fruit-bearing for others as the primary goal, in order

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    Every Branch in Me That Beareth Not Fruit

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    “ Every Branch in me that Beareth Not

    Fruit, He taketh It away ”


    - Joh_15:2
    Fruit.—This is the next great word we have: the
    Vine, the Husbandman, the branch, the fruit.
    What has our Lord to say to us of fruit? Simply
    this—that fruit is the one thing the branch is for,
    and that if it bear not fruit, the husbandman takes
    it away. The vine is the glory of the husbandman;
    the branch is the glory of the vine; the fruit is the
    glory of the branch; if the branch bring not forth
    fruit, there is no glory or worth in it; it is an
    offense and a hindrance; the husbandman takes it
    away. The one reason for the existence of a
    branch, the one mark of being a true branch of
    the heavenly Vine, the one condition of being
    allowed by the divine Husbandman to share the
    life the Vine is—bearing fruit.

    And what is fruit? Something that the branch


    bears, not for itself, but for its owner; something
    that is to be gathered, and taken away. The
    branch does indeed receive it from the vine sap
    for its own life, by which it grows thicker and
    stronger. But this supply for its own maintenance
    is entirely subordinate to its fulfillment of the
    purpose of its existence—bearing fruit. It is
    because Christians do not understand or accept of
    this truth, that they so fail in their efforts and
    prayers to live the branch life. They often desire it
    very earnestly; they read and meditate and pray,
    and yet they fail, they wonder why? The reason is
    very simple: they do not know that fruit-bearing
    is the one thing they have been saved for. Just as
    entirely as Christ became the true Vine with the
    one object, you have been made a branch too,
    with the one object of bearing fruit for the
    salvation of men. The Vine and the branch are
    equally under the unchangeable law of fruit-
    bearing as the one reason of their being. Christ
    and the believer, the heavenly Vine and the
    branch, have equally their place in the world
    exclusively for one purpose, to carry God’s saving
    love to men. Hence the solemn word: Every
    branch that beareth not fruit, He taketh it away.

    Let us specially beware of one great mistake.


    Many Christians think their own salvation is the
    first thing; their temporal life and prosperity, with
    the care of their family, the second; and what of
    time and interest is left may be devoted to fruit-
    bearing, to the saving of men. No wonder that in
    most cases very little time or interest can be
    found. No, Christian, the one object with which
    you have been made a member of Christ’s Body is
    that the Head may have you to carry out His
    saving work. The one object God had in making
    you a branch is that Christ may through you bring
    life to men. Your personal salvation, your
    business and care for your family, are entirely
    subordinate to this. Your first aim in life, your
    first aim every day, should be to know how Christ
    desires to carry out His purpose in you.

    Let us begin to think as God thinks. Let us accept


    Christ’s teaching and respond to it. The one object
    of my being a branch, the one mark of my being a
    true branch, the one condition of my abiding and
    growing strong, is that I bear the fruit of the
    heavenly Vine for dying men to eat and live. And
    the one thing of which I can have the most perfect
    assurance is that, with Christ as my Vine, and the
    Father as my Husbandman, I can indeed be a
    fruitful branch.

    Our Father, Thou comest seeking fruit. Teach us,


    we pray Thee, to realize how truly this is the one
    object of our existence, and of our union to Christ.
    Make it the one desire of our hearts to be
    branches, so filled with the Spirit of the Vine, as
    to bring forth fruit abundantly.

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