Introduction: Are you PRODUCING GOOD FRUIT? The key to living out the CHRISTian life is to stay ATTACHED to the Vine, which is JESUS CHRIST. Do you agree? But how does that work? What makes it possible? What is our Lord’s method of making us more FRUITFUL? Producing GOOD FRUIT comes through ABIDING in the Vine!

“1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every 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. 3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide 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. 5I 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. 6If 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. 7If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” (John 15:1-7)

The TRUE VINE is Jesus! Jesus gives His disciples, and us today, an everyday illustration concerning the CHRISTian life.

1. The BRANCHES job is to bear – produce FRUIT!

“2Every 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.” (John 15:2)

Without the VINE, the branch will wither and die. Likewise, as a believer in Christ Jesus if we fail to continually DEVELOP our RELATIONSHIP with Him we become FRUITLESS. That is what has happened to many believers today.
How is your intimacy with the soon coming BRIDEGROOM?

2. The BRANCHES will need to be PRUNED in order to PRODUCE more fruit!

“2Every 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.” (John 15:2)

The word “purgeth” is αἴρω (ah’-ee-ro), which means raise, lift up, take away, remove. This word connotes either cutting back the branch, or picking it up when it drops on the ground.

If you have ever pruned a fruit tree, it almost looks like you kill it! But new shoots, branches, and much more fruit is the result! Howbeit, it can be a PAINFUL PROCESS!

3. The BRANCHES need to stay ATTACHED to the VINE!

“4Abide 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. 5I 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 15:4,5)

Apart from Jesus, we are left to STRIVING in the FLESH, which results in No fruit, or Corrupt fruit.

Conclusion: Notice in the context of ABIDING in the VINE, Jesus mentions being “CLEAN” through the WORD.
That indicates, the WORD of God washes the FRUIT, and keeps us CLEAN! As His WORD gets IN US, it FLOWS THROUGH US creating luscious FRUIT.

People can TASTE it, and see the LORD is GOOD!